Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wetter"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wet \Wet\ (w[e^]t), a. [Compar. {Wetter}; superl. {Wettest}.]
[OE. wet, weet, AS. w[=ae]t; akin to OFries. w[=e]t, Icel.
v[=a]tr, Sw. v[*a]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.
``Wet cheeks.'' --Shak.
2. Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season. ``Wet
October's torrent flood.'' --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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
wetter
n 1: a substance capable of reducing the surface tension of a
liquid in which it is dissolved [syn: {wetting agent}, {surfactant},
{surface-active agent}]
2: a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process
3: someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while
asleep in bed [syn: {bedwetter}]
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