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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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"Wet" Quotes from Famous Books

... came slowly into the room, blinking at the light after the darkness of the woods outside. He was wet to the skin and shaking with cold. He gave a grunt of delight at the sight of the fire, then crossed and stood before it, warming his outstretched hands. As though frightened, the lad looked furtively from one young woman ...

— Madge Morton's Secret • Amy D. V. Chalmers

... feet away. He made for it through the driving rain and wind, stepped upon the narrow porch, discovered immediately that it gave him no protection at all, and knocked loudly upon the shut door. He got no answer. Trying it with a wet hand he perceived that it was unlocked; and without more ado, he opened it ...

— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... Providence, instead of dashing my brains out he stepped on one side, and I received no further hurt. After the roar of the battle had ceased, while the solemn stars looked down like eyes of pitying angels on the field of slaughter, I managed to crawl to the road-side and wet my parched lips with some muddy water that lay in a cattle track. In the morning Trueman found me and brought me off the field, and here I am laid up for one while. I pray God I may never see another battle. It is a sight to make ...

— Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher • William Henry Withrow

... Siens of the new Wood, growing out of the earth, euen so high as it possible may be. If the trees that you would propagate be somewhat thicke, and thereby the harder to ply, and somewhat stiffe to lay in the pit: then you may wet the stocke almost to the midst, betwixt the roote and the wreathing place, and so with gentle handling of it, bow downe into the pit the wood which the grafts haue put forth, and that in as round a compasse as you can, keeping you from breaking of it: afterward lay ouer the cut, with ...

— A New Orchard And Garden • William Lawson

... my might. Our reverses are preferable to success. The Reformation has an object to gain in being attacked; do you hear me, dolt? It cannot hurt us to be defeated, whereas Catholicism is at an end if we should win but a single battle. Ha! what are my lieutenants?—rags, wet rags instead of men! white-haired cravens! baptized apes! O God, grant me ten years more of life! If I die too soon the cause of true religion is lost in the hands of such boobies! You are as great ...

— Catherine de' Medici • Honore de Balzac

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