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To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. Burke.

To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.

Wet; soggy; inclined to spew.

A wet meter used to determine the breathing capacity of the lungs.

To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.

Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.

, to give out, or drink, an extra allowance of spirits on occasion of special exposure to wet or cold, or to severe fatigue; hence, to take a dram.

To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth.

Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. "Spongy April." Shak.

ials; espousal; -- generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita. Dryden. Boweth your head under that blissful yoke . . . Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock. Chaucer. the spousals of the newborn year. Emerson.

; state of mind; mood. [Obs.] "The high heroic spright." Spenser. Wondrous great grief groweth in my spright. Spenser.

Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, springy land.

ture of the boiling point which corresponds to its pressure; -- sometimes also applied to wet steam. -- Superheated steam, steam heated to a temperature higher than the boiling point corresponding to its pressure. It can not exist in contact with water, nor contain water, and resembles a perfect gas; - - called also s…

Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes. [Colloq.]

Wet. [Prov. Eng.] G. Eliot.

Watered or wet beneath; well-watered. [Obs.] Blount.

ince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; -- often written suite, and pronounced swet.

Good liquor, of which not enough is left to wet one's nail. Grose.

To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship. [Spelt also swob.]

A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]