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r 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.

A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse.

A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after exposure it is developed and fixed.

That one of the two similar thermometers of a psychrometer the bulb of which is moistened; also, the entire instrument.

Having the feet, or the shoes on the feet, wet.

The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain. [Prov. Eng.]

A castrated ram.

The quality or state of being wet; moisture; humidity; as, the wetness of land; the wetness of a cloth.

Somewhat wet; moist; humid.

A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.

To wet or moisten. Gay.

A kind of meat pie. [Obs.]

See Cruet.

See Forewite. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Excessive wetness. [Obs.] Another ill accident is, overwet at sowing time. Bacon.

Same as Pewit.

A gunlock. [R.]

See Rowen.

A large, fat variety of the namaycusa found in Lake Superior; - - called also siskawet, siskiwit.

eous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord. That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap. Lev. xxv. 5. Of his own accord he went unto you. 2 Cor. vii. 17.