Wet /(wĕt)/

Wet

a.
  1. Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table.
  2. Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.
  3. Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed. (Chem.)
  4. Refreshed with liquor; drunk. [Slang]

Phrases & Compounds

Wet blanket
See under Blanket, Dock, etc.
Wet goods
intoxicating liquors.

Wet

n.
  1. Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.
    Have here a cloth and wipe away the wet.
    Now the sun, with more effectual beams, Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet From drooping plant.
  2. Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.
  3. A dram; a drink. [Slang]

Wet

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Wet; p. pr. & vb. n. Wetting

  1. To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.
    Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise . . . Whether to deck with clouds the uncolored sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers.
    Let us drink the other cup to wet our whistles.
    — Walton.

Phrases & Compounds

To wet one's whistle
to moisten one's throat; to drink a dram of liquor.