[f. WET v.] That makes wet or moist.
1661. Boyle, Physiol. Ess. (1669), 187. The distinction betwixt a fluid Body and a wetting Liquor.
a. 1668. Lassels, Voy. Italy (1698), I. 134. Here you have the Grotto of Cupid with the wetting-stools, upon which sitting down, a great spout of water comes full in your face. Ibid., 159. The great variety of water-works, grots, and wetting sports.
1718. Rowe, trans. Lucan, I. 403. The wetting winds had thaw’d the Alpine snows.
1842. Loudon, Suburban Hort., 397. The plant … is regularly drenched with heavy wetting dews.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm., vi. (1858), 120. There came on a thick, wetting drizzle.
1902. Mabel Barnes-Grundy, Thames Camp, 296. The chilly evenings and the heavy wetting mists in the morning.
