ppl. a. [f. WET v.] Made wet; moistened, damped.

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1615.  Chapman, Odyss., XXII. 561. Clense each boord & Throne With wetted Sponges.

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1719.  Phil. Trans., XXX. 1084. I touch’d the end A with a wetted Finger.

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1762.  Falconer, Shipwr., II. 249. They sound the well, and … Along the line four wetted feet appear.

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1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist., VI. 402. The eggs are covered with a tough white skin, like wetted parchment.

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1848.  Mrs. Gaskell, Mary Barton, xxxiii. He saw her sitting up in bed,… her head bound round with wetted cloths.

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1887.  R. R. Bowker, in Harper’s Mag., July, 170/1. Spreading over it a strip of wetted paper.

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