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• Wet

  ·adj A dram; a drink. II. Wet ·Impf & ·p.p. of Wet. III. Wet ·superl Refreshed with liquor; drunk....

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• Wet nurse

  ·- A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. ·cf. Dry nurse. ...

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• Wet plate

  ·add. ·- A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such p...

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• Wet-shod

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

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• wet parson

  One who moistens his clay freely, in order to make it stick together. ...

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• wet quaker

  One of that sect who has no objection to the spirit derived from wine. ...

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• wet-dock

  A term used for float (which see), and also dock. ...

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• Wet-bulb thermometer

  ·add. ·- That one of the two similar thermometers of a psychrometer the bulb of which is moistened; ...

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• wet-bulb thermometer

  One of which the bulb is kept moist by the capillary attraction of cotton fibres from an attached re...

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