Bewater

A piece of brass may as easily melt, or a flint bewater itself, as the heart of man, by any innate power of its own, resolve itself into a penitential humiliation.

For ten days my wife and I fed this mile, every two hours by day, and three by night, wi'h drops of cow's milk, sugared and bewatered.

[...] unto my chamber aloft now will I go And lie on the bed that knoweth the wailing of my woe, With many a tear bewatered since the day Odysseus fared With Atreus' sons to Ilios.