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To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.

Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

Wet and dirty; slushy. [Prov. Eng.]

Wet; sloppy, as land. Shak.

A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.

making), a process of manufacture in which the brick is carried to the drying ground in a wet mold instead of on a pallet.

Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt. He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey.

To drench; to wet thoroughly. Their land shall be soaked with blood. Isa. xxiv. 7.

Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain. -- Soak"ing*ly, adv.

Full of moisture; wet; soppy.

Wet; soaky. [Prov. Eng.]

The quality or state of being soggy; soddenness; wetness.

Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.

A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer. As deer, being stuck, fly through many soils, Yet still the shaft sticks fast. Marston. To take soil, to run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or shelter. O, si…

more recent version of soppy. Used esp. in phrase sopping wet.

Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy. It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy. Dickens.

To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly. Although I be well soused in this shower. Gascoigne.

To splash or wet carelessly; as, to sozzle the feet in water. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.