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▪ I. † wete Obs. [OE. wǽta wk. masc. In later ME. merged in wet n.1 1.] Moisture; a liquid, liquor, drink.
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xi. 73 Se wæta ðara innoða [humor viscerum]. 971Blickl. Hom. 209 Swiþe wynsum ond hluttor wæta utflowende. c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke viii. 6 Hit forscranc forþam þe hit wætan nafde. c1000ælfric Hom. II. 298 Ne dranc he wines drenc, ne nan ðæra wætena þe druncennysse styriað. c1205Lay. 19769 Vt heo droȝen sone amppullen scone ifulled mid attere, weten alre bitterest. a1225Ancr. R. 164 Hwo þet bere a deorewurðe licur, oðer a deorewurðe wete, as is bame, in a feble uetles. ▪ II. wete obs. f. weet v.1, wet, wheat, wit. |