Wet - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Wet :  adj
1: covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet paint"; "wet weather" [ant: dry]
2: supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county" [ant: dry]
3: producing or secreting milk; "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"; "lactating cows" [syn: lactating] [ant: dry]
4: consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; "a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen"
5: very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy] (noun)

1: wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the window" [syn: moisture] (verb)
1: cause to become wet; "Wet your face" [ant: dry]
2: make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year old boy still wets his bed"

Based on WordNet 2.0

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.] 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.

2. Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season. ``Wet October's torrent flood.'' --Milton.

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.

4. Refreshed with liquor; drunk. [Slang] --Prior.

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

Wet goods, intoxicating liquors. [Slang]

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

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Wet : \Wet\, n. [AS. w[=ae]ta. See Wet, a.] 1. Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.

Have here a cloth and wipe away the wet. --Chaucer.

Now the sun, with more effectual beams, Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet Based on drooping plant. --Milton.

2. Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.

3. A dram; a drink. [Slang]

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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.

Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise . . . Whether to deck with clouds the uncolored sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. --Milton.

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. --Walton.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Wet :  Western European Time [_0000] (TZ, WDT)





Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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