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adjective

Wet adj. (compar. wetter; superl. wettest)

Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table. "Wet cheeks."

Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season. "Wet October's torrent flood."

(Chem.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.

Refreshed with liquor; drunk. (Slang)

Wet blanket, Wet dock, etc. See under Blanket, Dock, etc.

Wet goods, intoxicating liquors. (Slang)

Synonyms: Nasty; humid; damp; moist. See Nasty.

verb

Wet v. t. (past & past part. wet, rarely wetted; pres. part. wetting) To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth. "(The scene) did draw tears from me and wetted my paper." "Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise... Whether to deck with clouds the uncolored sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers."

To wet one's whistle, to moisten one's throat; to drink a dram of liquor. (Colloq.) "Let us drink the other cup to wet our whistles."

noun

Wet n.

Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree. "Have here a cloth and wipe away the wet." "Now the sun, with more effectual beams, Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet From drooping plant."

Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.

A dram; a drink. (Slang)

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Etymology of 'Wet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... upheaved of old from the abyss, and composed chiefly of granitic gneiss and a red splintery horn-stone. It contains also numerous veins and beds of hornblend rock and chlorite-schist, and of a peculiar-looking granite, of which the quartz is white as milk, and the feldspar red as blood. When still wet by the receding tide, these veins and beds seem as if highly polished, and present a beautiful aspect; and it was always with great delight that I used to pick my way among them, hammer in hand, and fill my ...

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... flooded country, their sovereign, on foot, at the head of his legions, shared their fatigues and animated their diligence. In every useful labor, the hand of Julian was prompt and strenuous; and the Imperial purple was wet and dirty as the coarse garment of the meanest soldier. The two sieges allowed him some remarkable opportunities of signalizing his personal valor, which, in the improved state of the military art, can seldom be exerted by a prudent general. The emperor stood before the citadel before ...

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