westwardly (westwardli)

[ On the 19th, the [ice-]pack was driven in by a westwardly wind, and this open space was closed. C. F. Hall , Polar Expedition, p. 259. westwardly (west'wärd-li), adv . [ westward ly, a.] In a direction bearing toward the west: as, to pa westwardly. westwards (west'wärdz), adv. [ westy2 (wes'ti), a. Dizzy; giddy. Ray; Halli well. [Prov. Eng.] Whiles he lies wallowing with a westy head, And palish carca , on his brothel bed. Bp. Hall, Satires, IV. i. 158. wet1 (wet), a. [E. dial. and Sc. also weet and wat; Ziff the Erthe were made moyst and weet with that Watre, it wolde nevere bere Fruyt. Mandeville, Travels, p. 100. I, forced to go to the office on foot, was almost wet to the skin, and spoiled my silk breeches almost. Pepys, Diary, II. 293. In the greenest growth of the May time, I rode where the woods were wet . Swinburne, An Interlude. IMG:content-2245.png:[blocks in formation] 6. In U. S. pol it. slang, opposed to prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors: as, a wet town. Compare dry, 13.- А wet blanket. See blanket. - A wet boat, a boat that is crank and ships water readily. "Why don't you go forward, sir?... she is sure to wet us abaft.". "Thank you, but (with an heroic attempt at sea-slang) I like a wet boat . C. Reade, Love me Little, xvii. A wet day. Same as a rainy day (which see, under rainy ). Ergo, saith the miser, "part with nothing, but keep all against a wet day." Fuller , General Worthies, xi. ( Davies .) Wet bargain. Same as Dutch bargain (which see, under bargain ). - Wet bob, a boy who goes in for boating in preference to cricket, foot-ball, or other land-sports. [Eton College slang.] Everything is enjoyable at Eton in the summer half. The wet -bobs on the river, in all their many trials of strength,... and the "dry-bobs" in the playing-fields, with all the excitement of their countle matches. C. E. Pascoe, Every-day Life in Our Public Schools, p. 62. Wet brain, a dropsical condition of the brain and its membranes, sometimes observed in post-mortem examinations of those who have died of delirium tremens. - Wetbulb thermometer. See psychrometer (with cut). - Wet cooper. See cooper. Wet dock, a dock or basin at a seaport furnished with gates for shutting in the tidal water, so as to float ve els berthed in it at a proper level for loading and unloading. - Wet goods, liquors: IMG:content-2246.png:[blocks in formation] act of celebrating by a convivial supper, on the first Monday in March, the ce ation of work by candle-light. Hall i well. of wit1. gill a cælebs, whose cry is thought to foretell rain. See cut under chaffinch. [Local, Eng.] wet-broke (wet'brok), n. In paper - manuf., the moist and imperfectly felted stock or pulp as it leaves the wire cylinder, and before it has been smoothed out on the forwarding-blanket. E. H. Knight. Socinians and Presbyterians, Quakers, and Wet - Quakers , or Merry-ones. T. Ward, England's Reformation, I. 213. Wet Quakerism. See Quakerism. - Wet steam. See steam and open, 13.- Wet way, in chem., the method of qualitative and quantitative analysis and a ay in which the substance to be examined is first di olved in some liquid and then treated with liquid reagents: the opposite of fire-a ay, or treatment in the dry way. In the ordinary analysis of minerals, the substance is first finely pulverized and then di olved in an acid, after which further treatment follows. If insoluble in an acid, it is fused with pota ium or sodium carbonate, after which treatment the fused ma is soluble, either wholly or in part, the silica (if the mineral is a silicate) separating out and being removed by filtering, after which the proce is continued the same way as when the substance is soluble without the nece ity of a preliminary attack by an alkali at a high temperature. Ordinary analyses of minerals are made in the wet way, a ays of ores not infrequently in the dry way. with a wet fingert, with little effort or trouble; very easily or readily: probably from the practice of wetting the finger to facilitate matters, as in turning over a leaf of a book, or rubbing out writing on a slate. Walk you here; I'll beckon; you shall see I'll fetch her with a wet finger. Dekker and Webster, Westward Ho, ii. 2. wet1 (wet), n. [E. dial. and Sc. also weet and wat; wate , wæta , m., wæte , f. (= Icel. Sw. væta = Dan. væde ), wet, moisture, wæt , wet: see wetl , a.] 1. That which makes wet, as water and other liquids; moisture; specifically, rain. I se wel how ye swete; Have heer a cloth and wype awey the wete . Chaucer , Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 176. Upon whose [a river's] weeping margent she was set; Like usury, applying wet to wet. Shak., Lover's Complaint, 1. 40. Aft ha'e I run your errands, lady, When blaw in baith wind and weet . Lady Maisry (Child's Ballads, II. 83). The gable-end of the cottage was stained with wet . T. Hardy, Three Strangers. 2. The act of wetting; specifically, a wetting of the throat with drink; a drink or dram of liquor; indulgence in drinking. [Slang.] No bargain could be completed without a wet , and no friendship or enmity forgotten without recourse to the bottle. A. C. Grant, Bush-Life in Queensland, I. 30. 3. In U. S. pol it . slang , an opponent of prohibition; one who favors the traffic in liquor.Heavy wet. See heavy1 . wet-cup (wet'kup), п. A cupping-gla when used in the operation of wet-cupping. Some times it is specially constructed with a lance or scarificator, which can be used to incise the skin after the cup has been applied.