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A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.

A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.

A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep. [Prov. Eng.]

Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.

The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc. Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weathe…

See Wether. Sir W. Scott.

Wet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The Athenians . . . hurried on board and with considerable difficulty got under weigh. Jowett (Thucyd.).

A drain or vent for water, somewhat like a well or pit, serving to discharge the water of wet land. (b) A drain conducting to a well or pit. -- Well room. (a) A room where a well or spring is situated; especially, one built over a mineral spring. (b) (Naut.) A depression in the bottom of a boat, into which water may r…

; -- so called as being the organs of whistling. [Colloq.] So was her jolly whistle well ywet. Chaucer. Let's drink the other cup to wet our whistles. Walton. Whistle duck (Zoöl.), the American golden-eye.

Wet; moist; marshy. [Obs.]

ate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain. Ho winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing floor. Ruth. iii. 2.

Oozy; wet. [Obs.] Drayton.

To wrest; to distort; to pervert. The reason which he yieldeth showeth the least part of his meaning to be that whereunto his words are writhed. Hooker.

Fig.: That which connects or binds; a chain; a link; a bond connection. Boweth your neck under that blissful yoke . . . Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock. Chaucer. This yoke of marriage from us both remove. Dryden.