Wet : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Wet	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Wet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wet adj covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather" Antonym(s): dry containing moisture or volatile components; "wet paint" Antonym(s): dry supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county" Antonym(s): dry producing or secreting milk; "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"; "lactating cows" Synonym(s): wet, lactating Antonym(s): dry consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; "a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen" very drunk Synonym(s): besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet n wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the window" Synonym(s): moisture, wet v cause to become wet; "Wet your face" [ant: dry, {dry out}] make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year old boy still wets his bed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wet \Wet\, n. [AS. w[aemac]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 From drooping plant. --Milton. 2. Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather. 3. A dram; a drink. [Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wet \Wet\ (w[ecr]t), a. [Compar. {Wetter}; superl. {Wettest}.] [OE. wet, weet, AS. w[aemac]t; akin to OFries. w[emac]t, Icel. v[be]tr, Sw. v[86]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. [bd]Wet cheeks.[b8] --Shak. 2. Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season. [bd]Wet October's torrent flood.[b8] --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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wet \Wet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wet} (rarely {Wetted}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Wetting}.] [AS. w[aemac]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. [bd][The scene] did draw tears from me and wetted my paper.[b8] --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.