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/wˈɔtərmˌɑrk/ Listen

Watermark

noun

A line marking the level reached by a body of water. Synonym: water line.

A distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture; visible when paper is held up to the light.

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"Watermark" Quotes from Famous Books

... so now they damn a man on a technicality. You must be baptized by immersion, sprinkling or pouring. If you come to the day of judgment and can't show the watermark, you're damned! ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll

... soil of inexhaustible depth, run off from thence splintering into sharp ridges, which in Jamaica become veritable knife edges, sustaining a soil comparatively thin. The character of the island is that of a mountain mass, which, as the ancient watermark on the northern coast shows, has at some remote period been tilted over, and has shot out an immense amount of detritus on its southern side, forming thus the plains which extend along a good part of that ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. IV. October, 1863, No. IV. - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various

... supervisor's scrutiny. Any certificates can be obtained from the receivers of the spirit and compared with the blocks. Forged permits are very risky things to work with, as all genuine ones bear the government watermark, which is not easy to reproduce. In fact, I may say about this whole question of liquor distribution generally, that fraud has been made so difficult that the only hope of those committing it is to avoid arousing suspicion. Once ...

— The Pit Prop Syndicate • Freeman Wills Crofts

... the English hand-made paper used at the Press has been described by William Morris in the foregoing article. It was at first supplied in sheets of which the dimensions were sixteen inches by eleven. Each sheet had as a watermark a conventional primrose between the initials W. M. As stated above, The Golden Legend was to have been the first book put in hand, but as only two pages could have been printed at a time, and this would have made ...

— The Art and Craft of Printing • William Morris

Words linked to "Watermark" : marker, water line, line, high-water mark, marking, mark, low-water mark