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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A mark showing the greatest height to which water has risen.
  2. n. A line indicating the heights of high and low tide.
  3. n. A translucent design impressed on paper during manufacture and visible when the paper is held to the light.
  4. n. The metal pattern that produces this design.
  5. v. To mark (paper) with a watermark.
  6. v. To impress (a pattern or design) as a watermark.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The mark, line, or limit of the rise or height of water, as in a well, a river, the sea, etc.; a water-line; especially, a tide-mark.
  2. n. A faintly marked letter, figure, or design in the fabric of paper, that denotes its size or its manufacturer, usually barely noticeable except when the sheet is held against strong light. It is made in the process of manufacture by the pressure of wires on the moist pulp. The water-marks used by the earlier paper-makers have given names to several of the present standard sizes of paper, as pot, foolscap, crown, elephant, and post, the last being so called from the dcvice of a postman's horn as water-mark.
  3. To mark or stamp with water-lines: as, to water-mark paper; a.water-marked page.
  4. To mark, inscribe, or embody in water-lines.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A translucent design impressed on the surface of paper and visible when the paper is held to the light.
  2. n. computing Auxiliary data embedded in a datafile for subsequent identification and verification of the file.
  3. v. transitive To mark paper with a watermark.
  4. v. transitive To mark a datafile with a watermark.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water.
  2. n. A letter, device, or the like, wrought into paper during the process of manufacture.
  3. n. (Naut.), rare See Water line, 2.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a line marking the level reached by a body of water
  2. n. a distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture; visible when paper is held up to the light

Etymologies

  1. water + mark (Wiktionary)

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  • thesaraheffect one of the most lovely-sounding words in the english language Feb 23, 2009

  • reesetee In the rare/antique book field, a figure or design impressed in paper during its manufacture that's visible when the paper is held to the light. It was created by impressing a water-coated metal stamp, or dandy roll, onto the paper during manufacture. Watermarks may denote the papermaker or may carry a heraldic crest or other distinguishing symbol Feb 22, 2007

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