Well

In the military art, a depth which the miner sinks under ground, with branches or galleries running out from it; either to prepare a mine, or to discover and disappoint the enemy’s mine. See Shaft. To WET . In a sense of good fellowship and hilarity, and of course in a military one, to take a cheerful gla , or, speaking popularly, to “ moisten the clay .” To Wet a Commi ion . It has always been customary in the army, for every officer, when he obtains a commi ion, gets promoted, or exchanged, to afford some mark and acknowlegement to the corps he joins.