Wet

wet, a. [wetter; wettest.] Containing, consist proprietor of a wharf. [Corrupt, ing of, soaked or drenched with, or having the sur me enger for me ager.] face moistened with water or other liquid full of What, hwot, pron. An interrogative moisture; very damp; rainy; nasty; humid: moist.— (both substantively and adjectively) n. Water or wetne moisture or humidity in contions as to things, events, sider able degree; rainy, foggy, or misty weather.— tions, etc., as who is used V. {imp. & p. p. wet (rarely wet'ted); wetting.] an exclamatory word, meaning To or moisten with water or other liquid to dip how great, or po ible or soak in liquid. [AS. wset, Ic. vatr, wet. moist, AS. pendently, and meaning tvaetan, to wet, wseta, wetne ; otter, undulate, thing.' a compound relative, hydra, hydraulic, water.'] — Wefne , n. State of tively, to that which; adjectively, being wet; moisture; humidity; a watery or moist the sort or kind of the state of the atmosphere. — Wet'nurse, n. A nurse the... on or at which —who suckles a child, esp. the child of another woman. used indefinitely in part shod, a. Having the feet wet with the shoes or tion, and followed by with. boots on. — Whatev'er, -Boev'er, S7ether, weth'Sr, n. A castrated ram. [AS. wedher, which; being this or that; Ic. vedhr, Goth, withrus, prob. orig. a yearling, and — What'-not, n. A piece veal, q. v.] having shelves for books, Whack, hwak, To strike, give a heavy or resoundabbr. phrase lohat not, ing blow — To strike anything with a smart often used at the close of blow. — n. A resounding blow. [Same as thwack, an enumeration of particularsj used substan- Whal hwal, n. A very large fish-shaped air-breathing tively, to denote a mis marine cetaceous mammal of several species the cell any, a variety.] Green land or right whale, the fin-backed whale, and Wheal, hwel, n. A mark some other species feed upon minute mollusks, etc.. raised by a stroke a live principally in northern seas, and yield train oil wale, q. v^ and whalebone; the right whale, when fully grown, Wheat, hwet, n. An annual herbaceous cereal gra , of many species its seed, which furnishes a white flour for bread. [AS. hwaste. D. weite, we it G. iveizen, Goth, hwaiteis, that which is white (q. v.), fr. the color of the meal.] — Wheafen, a. Green land or Right Whale. Made of wheat. [AS..hwseten.~\ — Wheat'-ear, n. u 50 to 65 or 70 feet in length, and 30 to 40 in nith.) A small migracircumference: the fin-backed whale, called also ratory, n s e c vorous zor-backed whale, and great northern rorqual, prob. bird common in Enthe longest animal in creation, sometimes exceeding rope, and found in Green land the fallow-chat fallow finch.