ppl. a. [f. WHET v. + -ED1.] Sharpened.
1563. Mirr. Mag., Hastings, lxx. The whetted tuske, and furrowed forhead hye.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, X. 365. One, who at sight of Supper open’d wide His Jaws before, and whetted Grinders try’d.
1794. Coleridge, Fall of Robespierre, I. 185. Who from a bad man’s bosom wards the blow Reserves the whetted dagger for his own.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., II. III. 391. Then light the torch, and draw the whetted sword!
1876. Miss Broughton, Joan, II. iv. Every one else … beginning to eat with the whetted appetite that going to church always seems to engender.
