Crossword clues for wetted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wet \Wet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wet (rarely Wetted); p. pr. &
vb. n. Wetting.] [AS. w[=ae]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. ``[The scene] did draw tears
from me and wetted my paper.''
--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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastwet)
WordNet
See wet
adj. covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet paint"; "wet weather" [ant: dry]
supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county" [ant: dry]
producing or secreting milk; "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"; "lactating cows" [syn: lactating] [ant: dry]
consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; "a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen"
very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy]
Usage examples of "wetted".
Every so often, he took an exaggerated breath, then held perfectly steady, for in his hands, wrapped in wetted cloth of the finest material, he held.
Drizzt's thick white hair flipped in the breeze, billowing like his green cape behind him, drying almost as fast as the water wetted it.
Dozens of corridors crisscrossed down there, but a quiet pause and a lifted and wetted finger would show the drafts of air.
Since making these trials, I have many scores of times just touched glands with the handle of my scalpel wetted with saliva, to ascertain whether a leaf was in an active condition.
A larger quantity wetted with water was next placed on the discs of three leaves.
Other particles, wetted with weak hydrochloric acid (one part to 437 of water) acted in a single day, as did some casein freshly prepared for me by Dr.
Iss' tongue wetted, and the glaze on his corneas dried in an instant, leaving a scum of salt and dust that stung his eyes.
The Sull, who were known throughout the settled world for yielding land to no one and defending their borders with cold fury, had barely wetted their blades in defense of Mount Slain.
She had read the desire in him three nights ago in Drover Jack's, when he spoke with bright eyes and a mouth wetted by saliva and ale.
Blood shot from the cavity in a fine mist that wetted the upside of Raifs face.
In a white shirt, so handsome, so neat, a longsleeved white shirt with the cuffs buttoned, but no necktie that I could see, and his hair wetted and combed, like a tamed wild animal?
We collided with one another in our hurry to run out to the street, of us rushing through the Hewsons' house, others taking the long way around the wetted grass and a prickly boxwood hedge.
Having been foiled in this attempt, and being completely wetted, he again got below and went to bed.
This person on watch was as completely wetted as if he had been drawn through the sea, which was given as a reason for his not putting on a greatcoat, that he might wet as few of his clothes as possible, and have a dry shift when he went below.
These observations were hastily made, and not without occasionally shutting the companion, to avoid being wetted by the successive seas which broke over the bows and fell upon different parts of the deck according to the impetus with which the waves struck the vessel.