1. (v. i.) To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.

2. (v. i.) To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.

3. (n.) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.

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