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   Wet (wĕt), a. [Compar. Wetter (?); superl. Wettest.] [OE. wet, weet, AS. wǣt; akin to OFries. wēt, Icel. vātr, Sw. våt, Dan. vaad, and E. water. √137.  See Water.]
   
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   1. 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.”  Shak.
   
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   2. Very damp; rainy; as, “wet weather; a wet season”.  “Wet October's torrent flood.”  Milton.
   
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   3. (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”.
   
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   4. Refreshed with liquor; drunk.  [Slang]  Prior.
   
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   Wet blanket, Wet dock, etc.  See under Blanket, Dock, etc. -- Wet goods, intoxicating liquors. [Slang]
   
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   Syn. -- Nasty; humid; damp; moist.  See Nasty.
   
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   Wet (?), n. [AS. wǣta.  See Wet, a.]
   
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   1. Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.
   
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   Have here a cloth and wipe away the wet. Chaucer.
   
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   Now the sun, with more effectual beams,
   
   Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet
   
   From drooping plant. Milton.
   
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   2. Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.
   
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   3. A dram; a drink.  [Slang]
   
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   Wet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wet (rarely Wetted); p. pr. & vb. n. Wetting.] [AS. wǣtan.] 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.”  Burke.
   
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   Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise . . .
   
   Whether to deck with clouds the uncolored sky,
   
   Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. Milton.
   
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   To wet one's whistle, to moisten one's throat; to drink a dram of liquor. [Colloq.]
   
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   Let us drink the other cup to wet our whistles. Walton.
   
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