Wet (wt), a. [Compar. Wetter (?); superl. Wettest.] [OE. wet, weet, AS.
wt; akin to OFries. wt, Icel. vtr, Sw. våt, Dan. vaad, and E. water.
√137. See Water.]
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. "Wet cheeks." Shak.
2. Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season. "Wet October's
torrent flood." Milton.
3. (Chem.) 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.