a. [f. WET a. + -ISH.] Somewhat wet.

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1648.  R. Josselin, Diary (Camden, 1903), 53. A wett night, and wettish day.

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1651.  in Hartlib’s Legacy (1655), 99. I have been with Doctor D. about Lucern, who tells me that it groweth best in wettish grounds.

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1733.  W. Ellis, Chiltern & Vale Farm., 47. This loose Earth … should be ploughed and sowed in a wettish Time.

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1764.  J. Ferguson, Lect., 59. Wettish or sandy ground.

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1788.  Ld. Auckland, Corr. (1861), II. 98. It continues wettish and windy.

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1812.  W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XXXIV. 16. Flowers are odoriferous in wettish air.

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1828.  Carlyle, in Froude, Life (1882), I. 424. She looked … eastward with wettish eyes. Ibid. (1871), in Mrs. Carlyle’s Lett., III. 192. Weather mild though dim and wettish.

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1882.  Garden, 6 May, 305/1. Particularly in deep, wettish soils.

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  Hence Wettishness.

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1727.  Bailey (vol. II.), Moistness, wettishness, dampness.

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