2. (Zoöl.) The Australian brush turkey.

Wat"tled (?), a. Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at

the chin or throat.

The wattled cocks strut to and fro.

Longfellow.

Wat"tling (?), n. The act or process of binding or platting with twigs;

also, the network so formed.

Made with a wattling of canes or sticks.

Dampier.

Watt"me`ter (?), n. [Watt + meter.] (Physics) An instrument for

measuring power in watts, — much used in measuring the energy of an

electric current.

{ Waucht, Waught } (?), n. [Cf. Quaff.] A large draught of any liquid.

[Scot.] Jamieson.

Waul (?), v. i. [Of imitative origin.] To cry as a cat; to squall; to

wail. [Written also wawl.]

The helpless infant, coming wauling and crying into the world.

Sir W. Scott.

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