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Westness: Definition and part of speech

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Westness

  1. n. A watery or moist state of the atmosphere; a state of being rainy, foggy, or misty; as, the wetness of weather or the season.
  2. n. The quality or state of being wet; moisture; humidity; as, the wetness of land; the wetness of a cloth.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wet: Definition and part of speech

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Wet

  1. imp. & p. p. of Wet
  2. superl. 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.
  3. superl. Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.
  4. superl. 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.
  5. superl. Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
  6. a. Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.
  7. a. Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.
  8. a. A dram; a drink.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.