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Definition of wet

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Wet (v. t.) 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..

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Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth..

Cockle :: Cockle (v. t.) To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting..

Bathe :: Bathe (v. t.) To lave; to wet.

Quicklime :: Quicklime (a.) Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2..

Ditch :: Ditch (n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse..

Wash :: Wash (v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore..

Damp :: Damp (n.) To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth..

Swale :: Swale (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen..

Drip :: Drip (v. i.) To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips..

Contract :: Contract (v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet..

Crewet :: Crewet (n.) See Cruet.

Pack :: Pack (n.) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment..

Spatter :: Spatter (v. t.) To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud..

Psychrometer :: Psychrometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer..

Soggy :: Soggy (superl.) Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber..

Foment :: Foment (v. t.) To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

Wet :: Wet (a.) A dram; a drink.

Swab :: Swab (n.) To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship..

Bellwether :: Bellwether (n.) A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck..

Marish :: Marish (n.) Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor..