† Wete

Obs. [OE. wǽta wk. masc. In later ME. merged in WET sb.¹ 1.] Moisture; a liquid, liquor, drink.

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c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xi. 73. Se wæta ðara innoða [humor viscerum].

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971. Blickl. Hom., 209. Swiþe wynsum ond hluttor wæta utflowende.

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c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Luke viii. 6. Hit forscranc forþam þe hit wætan nafde.

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c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 298. Ne dranc he wines drenc, ne nan ðæra wætena þe druncennysse styriað.

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c. 1205. Lay., 19769. Vt heo droȝen sone amppullen scone ifulled mid attere, weten alre bitterest.

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a. 1225. Ancr. R., 164. Hwo þet bere a deorewurðe licur, oðer a deorewurðe wete, as is bame, in a feble uetles.

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