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unˈwet, a.
[un-1 7.]
Not wet or moistened.
1433Rolls of Parlt. IV. 451 Clothes..holdyng xiiii yerdes in lenght, and yeerde brodeunwette; or elles xii yerdes wette. c1440Pallad. on Husb. xii. 463 Cedur vnwet wol dure. 1585Jas. VI Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 27, I no wais can, vnwet my cheekes, beholde My sisters made..macquerels olde. 1594Kyd Cornelia ii. 234 When sand within a Whirl-poole lyes vnwet. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. x. (1626) 212 Their feet, vnwet, the sea might well haue borne. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋9 The un-wet upper part of..the Quire. c1746Collins Ode Liberty 69 He pass'd with unwet feet thro' all our land. 1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. 157 [To] bathe unwet their oily forms, and dwell With feet repulsive on the dimpling well. 1815Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xiii. (1816) I. 425 Their bodies being kept unwet by a coating of air. 1840N. Hawthorne Biogr. Sk. (1879) 178 It was like Gideon's fleece, unwet with dew. 1891Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 234 Emerging from it unwet as well as unharmed.
b. Of the eye: Not suffused with tears; tearless.
1601–3Daniel Certaine Epistles 58 He lookes thereon As from the shore of peace with vnwet eie. 1700Dryden Sigism. & Guisc. 673, I meant to meet My Fate with..Eyes unwet. a1743Ld. Hervey Epist. i. 82 Thy breast unruffled, and unwet thy eye. 1823S. Rogers Italy, Brides Venice 135 Eyes not unwet..with grateful tears. 1845Jerrold St. Giles v. (1851) 43 The woman, lifting her apron to her unwet eye. |