Definition of wet

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Wet (superl.) 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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Wany :: Wany (a.) Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.
Bedabble :: Bedabble (v. t.) To dabble; to sprinkle or wet.
Draggle :: Draggle (v. t.) To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail..
Swale :: Swale (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen..
Float :: Float (v. t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
Puddle :: Puddle (v. t.) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water..
Sluice :: Sluice (v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows..
Scrub :: Scrub (v. t.) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate..
Swan :: Swampy (a.) Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land..
Poachy :: Poachy (a.) Wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; -- said of lan.
Overdrown :: Overdrown (v. t.) To wet or drench to excess.
Splatter :: Splashy (a.) Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy..
Souse :: Souse (v. t.) To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly..
Water :: Water (v. t.) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6..
Sogginess :: Sogginess (n.) The quality or state of being soggy; soddenness; wetness.
Spiroylic :: Spiroscope (n.) A wet meter used to determine the breathing capacity of the lungs.
Rewet :: Rewet (n.) A gunlock.
Wettish :: Wettish (a.) Somewhat wet; moist; humid.
Crewet :: Crewet (n.) See Cruet.
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather..
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