adv. Also 6 weatly. [f. WET a.] In a wet manner or state.

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  α.  1562.  J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr., Dd iv b. Walke thou weatly, walke thou dryly: In thy walke, walke not hyly.

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  β.  1822.  Byron, Werner, I. i. 254. Iden. How fares he? Gab. Wetly and wearily, but out of peril.

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1866.  R. Buchanan, Poems (1884), 163. For the world rolls on with air and ocean Wetly and windily round and round.

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1890.  Miss Broughton, Alas! II. vii. February has come wetly in, with rain wildly weeping against the casements.

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1893.  J. A. Barry, Steve Brown’s Bunyip, 3. The immense beast, black, shining wetly.

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