water budgetn.

1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 176 b He beareth Sanguine, a Gorge, Argent. Though this seme vnlikely to be a water budget, yet hath it long time been so taken, and so blazed.

1666 S. Morgan Armilogia 36 The Water-budget was anciently in the Family of Bourchier.

1750 F. Blomefield Collectanea Cantabrigiensia 52 On a Hatchment at the N. Corner of the Chancel Wall..3 Water Budgets of the Field.

1821 G. Oliver Hist. Exeter App. p. vii Arms—Gules, three water budgets Argent.

1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 704/1 The Water Budget or bucket is an early charge identified with the names of Ros and Rose.

1948 Sc. Hist. Rev. 27 138 A shield of arms, couché. 1st and 4th: three water budgets.

1980 T. Wise Medieval Heraldry 33/2 He might choose to use only one water budget on each side of each half, or to employ his entire coat of arms on a shield.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Odre A water budget, a bottle.

1603 in P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals Index sig. Bbbbbb/1 Babylon a hot province..about it they lie upon water budgets.

1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 57 I want, said he, 2000 water-budgets.

1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Zangés, a Water-budget to carry Water in.

1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. i. 35 They empty their Water-Budgets on the Threshold, to shew their Respects.

1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Waterbudget, a kind of budget in which the soldiers formerly fetched water to the camp.

1816 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Vathek (ed. 3) 27 Is it not enough to have transformed a prince..into a water budget? [Fr. une outre; 1786 reads one of those leather barrels, which etc.] Perceivest thou not, that I may perish by drinking to excess?

1835 tr. Narr. Residence Fatalla Sayeghir in tr. A. de Lamartine Pilgrimage Holy Land III. 256 We then took the necessary precaution of filling our water budgets, having a march of twelve hours to make over burning sands.

1962 W. O. Hassell How they Lived 53 Such budgets, used in balancing pairs, were used for carrying water..and such water budgets are sometimes represented on Coats of Arms.

1929 R. H. Yapp tr. N. A. Maximov Plant in Relation to Water vii. 197 The influence of these changes on the general water budget of the plant may be entirely neglected.

1934 Ecol. Monogr. 4 514 Work is performed by the gills in the regulation of the water budget in fishes.

1959 Jrnl. Glaciol. 3 522 A distinction is made between the meteorological water budget for Antarctica and the glaciological mass balance for the ice sheet.

2006 A. G. van der Valk Biol. Freshwater Wetlands ii. 30 The overall hydrology of wetlands is described by its water budget.