= WATER BOUGET. † a. gen. Obs. b. Her. rare.

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  a.  1591.  Percivall, Sp. Dict., Odre, a water budget, a bottle.

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1706.  J. Stevens, Span. Eng. Dict., Zangés, a Water-budget to carry Water in.

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1836.  Beckford’s Vathek, 12. Is it not enough to have transformed a prince … into a water budget? [F. une outre; 1786 reads one of those leather barrels, which etc.] Perceivest thou not, that I may perish by drinking to excess?

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  b.  1562.  Legh, Armory, 176 b. He beareth Sanguine, a Gorge, Argent. Though this seme vnlikely to be a water budget, yet hath it long time been so taken, and so blazed.

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1880.  Encycl. Brit., XI. 704/1. The Water Budget or bucket is an early charge identified with the names of Ros and Rose.

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