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wǽt

  • adjective
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Grammar
wǽt, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§119; §426;
wet, moist, damp, consisting of moisture
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  • Ðæt wæter is wǽt and ceald,

      Bt. 33, 4; Fox 128, 35: Met. 20, 77.
  • Hyra blód byð wǽt and wearm, Anglia viii. 299, 29.
  • Ðú ðam wættere wǽtum and cealdum foldan tó flóre gesettest,

      Met. 20, 90.
  • Mid wættere rude

    roseo (purpurei cruoris) rubore

    (Ald. 61),
      Hpt. Gl. 507, 63.
  • Gecyrred on wǽtne deáw,

      Homl. Skt. ii. 30, 441.
wet, moist, having moisture
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  • Sié lyft is ǽgðer ge ceald ge wǽt ge wearm,

      Bt. 33, 4; Fox 128, 35; Anglia viii. 299, 28.
  • Se wǽta wong

    roscida tellus,

      Exon. Th. 417, 7; Rä. 36, 1.
  • In wǽtan sihtran; of ðam wǽtan síce; . . . in ðæt wǽte sícc, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 386, 10-16.

    Loca humentia,

    ðæt beóð wǽte stówa,
      Wulfst. 249, 17.
  • On sméþum landum and on wǽtum,

      Lchdm. i. 90, 4.
  • On wátum (

    v. ll.

    wǽtum) stówum,
      222, 18.
  • Wǽtum

    udis,

      Hpt. Gl. 482, 42: Wrt. Voc. ii. 82, 1.
  • Nǽfre hé his ða wǽtan hrægel and ða cealdan ásettan wolde

    nunquam ipsa vestimenta uda atque algida deponere curabat,

      Bd. 5, 12; S. 631, 24. II a.
  • Be (wambe) cealdre and wǽtre gecyndo . . . and ðæt hǽmedþing ne sceþeþ hátum líchoman ne wǽtum,

      162, 17-20: 222, 1, 2.
  • Eal ða wǽtan þing and ða smerewigan sint tó forbeódanne,

      210, 27: 246, 3.
of weather,
wet, rainy
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  • Lengtentíma ys wǽt, Anglia viii. 299, 27.
  • Of untídlícan gewideran, ðæt is, of wǽtum sumerum and of drýgum wintrum,

      Ors. 3, 3; Swt. 102, 5.
Etymology
[O. Frs. wét: Icel. vátr.]
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  • wǽt, adj.