Wattle :: Wattle (n.) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile..

Wattle :: Wattle (n.) Barbel of a fish.

Wattle :: Wattle (n.) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark..

Wattle :: Wattle (n.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna..

Wattle :: Wattle (v. t.) To bind with twigs.

Wattle :: Wattle (v. t.) To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches..

Wattle :: Wattle (v. t.) To form, by interweaving or platting twigs..

Wattlebird :: Wattlebird (n.) Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochaera and allied genera of the family Meliphagidae. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.

Wattlebird :: Wattlebird (n.) The Australian brush turkey.

Wattled :: Wattled (imp. & p. p.) of Wattl.

Wattled :: Wattled (a.) Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat..

Wattling :: Wattling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wattl.

Wattling :: Wattling (n.) The act or process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed..

Wattmeter :: Wattmeter (n.) An instrument for measuring power in watts, -- much used in measuring the energy of an electric current..

Widmanstatten Figures :: Widmanstatten figures () Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstatten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite..

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