Wet \Wet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wet (rarely Wetted); p. pr. &
   vb. n. Wetting.] [AS. w[=ae]tan.]
   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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	Wet \Wet\ (w[e^]t), a. [Compar. Wetter; superl. Wettest.]
   [OE. wet, weet, AS. w[=ae]t; akin to OFries. w[=e]t, Icel.
   v[=a]tr, Sw. v[*a]t, Dan. vaad, and E. water. [root]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 \Wet\, n. [AS. w[=ae]ta. 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
    adj 1: covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet
           bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather" [ant:
           dry]
    2: containing moisture or volatile components; "wet paint" [ant:
       dry]
    3: supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of
       alcoholic beverages; "a wet candidate running on a wet
       platform"; "a wet county" [ant: dry]
    4: producing or secreting milk; "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow";
       "lactating cows" [syn: wet, lactating] [ant: dry]
    5: consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; "a wet cargo";
       "a wet canteen"
    6: very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto,
       crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed,
       pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed,
       smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff,
       tight, wet]
    n 1: wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the
         window" [syn: moisture, wet]
    v 1: cause to become wet; "Wet your face" [ant: dry, dry
         out]
    2: make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year
       old boy still wets his bed"

	

	221 Moby Thesaurus words for "wet":
   Scotch mist, apish, asinine, asperge, batty, bedew, befooled,
   beguiled, besotted, bespatter, besprinkle, blood rain, bogginess,
   boggy, boozy, brainless, buffoonish, canned, cat-and-dog weather,
   cockeyed, crazy, credulous, dabble, daffy, daft, damp, dampen,
   dampish, dampness, dank, dash, dazed, deluge, dew, dewiness, dewy,
   dirty weather, disguised, dizzy, doting, douche, douse, draft,
   dram, drench, drenched, drink, dripping, drizzle, drop, drown,
   drunk, dumb, evening mist, exudation, fall, fatuitous, fatuous,
   fenny, fill, flaky, flurry, fogginess, fond, fool, foolheaded,
   foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, gargle, goofy, gout of rain,
   gulled, guzzle, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humectation,
   humid, humidify, humor, idiotic, imbecile, impregnate, inane,
   inebriated, inept, infatuated, insane, irrigate, jigger, jolt,
   kooky, lave, libation, loony, mad, make water, marshiness, marshy,
   maudlin, mist, mistiness, misty rain, mizzle, moist, moisten,
   moistiness, moistness, moisture, monsoon, moronic, muggy, nip,
   number one, nutty, paddle, patter, pee, pee-pee, peg, piddle, piss,
   pitter-patter, pixilated, plastered, potation, potion,
   precipitation, predominance of Aquarius, pull, pump bilge, rain,
   raindrop, rainfall, raininess, rains, rainwater, rainy, rainy day,
   rainy season, rainy weather, rinse, roric, roriferous, round,
   round of drinks, sappy, saturate, saturated, screwy, senseless,
   sentimental, sheet of rain, shot, shower, showeriness, silly, sip,
   slobber, slop, slosh, slug, snifter, snort, soak, soaked, soaking,
   sodden, soddenness, sogginess, soggy, sop, soppiness, sopping,
   soppy, souse, soused, sparge, spatter, spell of rain,
   spend a penny, splash, splatter, sponge, spot, spray, spring rains,
   sprinkle, stale, sticky, stormy weather, stupid, suck, sup,
   swampiness, swampy, swash, swig, swill, syringe, tacky,
   thoughtless, tot, undried, unfrozen hydrometeor, urinate, wacky,
   wash, water, wateriness, wee-wee, wet down, wet season,
   wet weather, wetness, wettish, wettishness, witless

	

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