<B>westward, </B>adverb, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adv. </I> toward the west; in a westerly direction. <BR> <I>Ex. Columbus sailed westward.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> toward, facing, or at the west; westerly; west. <BR> <I>Ex. The orchard is on the westward slope of the hill.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> the direction or part which lies to the west; west. </DL>
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<B>westwardly, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>toward the west. <DD><B> 2. </B>from the west. </DL>
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<B>westwards, </B>adverb. <B>=westward.</B></DL>
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<B>wet, </B>adjective, <B>wetter,</B> <B>wettest,</B> verb, <B>wet</B> or <B>wetted,</B> <B>wetting,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>covered, soaked, or sprinkled with water or other liquid. <BR> <I>Ex. wet hands, a wet sponge.</I> (SYN) moist, damp. <DD><B> 2. </B>watery; liquid. <BR> <I>Ex. Her eyes were wet with tears.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>not yet dry. <BR> <I>Ex. Don't touch, wet paint.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>rainy; drizzly; showery. <BR> <I>Ex. wet weather, a wet day.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>using, or performed by the use or presence of, water or other fluid, as chemical analysis. <DD><B> 6. </B>preserved in syrup; bottled in a liquid. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Informal.) having or favoring laws that permit the making and selling of alcoholic drinks. <BR> <I>Ex. a wet town or district.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>(British Slang.) <DD><B> a. </B>weak-willed; spineless. <DD><B> b. </B>overly sentimental; mawkish. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to make wet, moist, or damp. <BR> <I>Ex. Wet the cloth and wipe off the window.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to pass urine in or on. <BR> <I>Ex. A child wets the bed, and no attempted medication has helped (Saturday Review).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to become wet, moist, or damp. <BR> <I>Ex. Your good suit will wet in the rain unless you take a raincoat.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to pass urine. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>water or other liquid; moisture. <BR> <I>Ex. After the flooding our basement floor was covered with wet and slime.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>wetness; rain. <BR> <I>Ex. Come in out of the wet.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S. Informal.) a person who favors laws that permit the making and selling of alcoholic drinks. <DD><B> 4. </B>(British Slang.) a spineless or mawkish person. <BR><I>expr. <B>all wet,</B> </I>(Slang.) completely wrong or mistaken. <BR> <I>Ex. The weather forecast was all wet; instead of a storm, we had a sunny day.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>wet behind the ears.</B> </I>See under <B>ear</B> (1). adv. <B>wetly.</B> noun <B>wetness.</B> </DL>
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<B>wetback, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) a Mexican who enters the United States illegally, especially by swimming or wading across the Rio Grande. </DL>
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<B>wet bargain,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a bargain agreed upon by the parties drinking together. </DL>
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<B>wet basin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a dock at which a new ship is fitted out after launching. </DL>
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<B>wet blanket,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that has a discouraging or depressing effect. (SYN) killjoy. </DL>
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<B>wet-blanket, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to throw a damper on; discourage; depress. <BR> <I>Ex. His gravity at birthday parties, surprise parties, didn't wet-blanket them (J. D. Salinger).</I> </DL>
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<B>wet bob,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British Slang.) a person who engages in water sports, such as rowing. </DL>
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<B>wet brain,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an abnormal accumulation of watery fluid in the brain tissues, associated with acute alcoholism. </DL>
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<B>wet bulb,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the one of the two thermometers of a psychrometer whose bulb is kept moistened during the period when humidity determinations are being made. </DL>
<B>wet cell,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Electricity.) a cell having a liquid electrolyte. </DL>
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<B>wet-clean, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to clean (clothes, rugs, or other objects) with water. <BR> <I>Ex. Customers send their suits back to London and ... have them wet-cleaned and pressed by hand (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>wet dock,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a dock or basin at a seaport furnished with gates, used where the withdrawal of the tide would otherwise leave a ship resting on the bottom, as in parts of England, to keep ships floating as at high tide, while loading or unloading. </DL>
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<B>wet dream,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an involuntary emission of semen occurring during sleep along with a sexually exciting dream; nocturnal emission. <BR> <I>Ex. "Wet dreams" ... are a natural way of releasing excess semen (Evelyn M. Duvall).</I> </DL>
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<B>wet fly,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an artificial fishing fly that is designed to sink below the surface of the water when cast. </DL>
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<B>wet gas,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> natural gas containing heavy hydrocarbons such as propane, butane, and pentane, that must be refined for use as gasoline. </DL>
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<B>wether, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a castrated ram. </DL>
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<B>wet lab</B> or <B>laboratory,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a laboratory in an underwater vessel or habitat, equipped with aquariums and other facilities for aquatic experiments. </DL>
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<B>wetland, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a swamp, marsh, or bog. </DL>
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<B>wet milling,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a process of milling in which the grain is soaked and treated chemically before grinding. The principal products of wet milling are starch and oil. </DL>
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<B>wet nurse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a woman employed to suckle the infant of another. </DL>
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<B>wet-nurse, </B>transitive verb, <B>-nursed,</B> <B>-nursing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to act as wet nurse to. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to treat with special care; coddle; pamper. <BR> <I>Ex. We plan to wet-nurse the most promising little men to the point where they are good customers for [our] conventional banking operations (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>wet pack,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a blanket wet and wrung out and put on the body for medical purposes. </DL>
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<B>wet plate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Photography.) a glass plate coated with wet sensitized collodion, formerly (and still occasionally) used, like the modern dry plate, for making pictures in a camera, so called because it must remain wet during the processes of sensitization, exposure, and development. </DL>
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<B>wet pleurisy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> pleurisy in which fluid from blood vessels collects in the pleural cavity, often causing compression of the lung. </DL>
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<B>wet rot,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> decay in wood or timber caused by excessive moisture. <BR> <I>Ex. Wet rot is the destructive agent at work more or less on all telegraph poles (Preece and Sivewright).</I> </DL>
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<B>wet steam,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> steam in which water particles are held in suspension. </DL>
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<B>wet strength,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the ability to hold together and not tear or break to pieces when wet, as of paper. <BR> <I>Ex. The product's wet strength is achieved through use of ... melamine resin, a chemical compound that binds paper fibers together much the way cement binds bricks (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>wet suit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a skin-tight rubber suit worn especially by skin divers. <BR> <I>Ex. In wintertime he will don a ... wet suit and go right on surfing (Peter Bart).</I> </DL>
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<B>wet sump,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a type of engine lubrication in which the oil supply is contained within the engine, in the bottom of the crankcase. </DL>
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<B>wettability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> wettable quality, property, or extent. <BR> <I>Ex. the wettability of a fabric.</I> </DL>
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<B>wettable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be wetted without damage. <BR> <I>Ex. A wettable powder, the chemical is mixed with water and sprayed onto plants (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
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<B>wetter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that wets, such as a workman who dampens paper to be used in printing. </DL>
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<B>wetting, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of a person or thing that wets; sprinkling, dabbling, or drenching with water (especially rain) or the like. <DD><B> 2. </B>something used to make a thing wet. </DL>
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<B>wetting agent,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a substance capable of reducing surface tension so that a liquid will spread more easily on a surface. </DL>
<B>wet wash,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) clothes or linens that have been washed but not dried or ironed. <BR> <I>Ex. She hung the wet wash on the line to dry.</I> </DL>
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<B>wet water,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> water to which a detergent has been added to increase its penetrating quality, used in fighting fires. </DL>
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<B>wet way,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Chemistry.) the method of analysis in which the reactions are produced mostly in solutions and by the use of liquid reagents. </DL>
<A NAME="weve">
<B>we've,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> we have. </DL>
<A NAME="wey">
<B>wey, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a British unit of weight or measure, varying widely according to commodity and locality. </DL>
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<B>wf</B> (no periods) or <B>w.f.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Printing.) wrong font. </DL>
<A NAME="wftu">
<B>WFTU</B> (no periods) or <B>W.F.T.U.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> World Federation of Trade Unions. </DL>
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<B>w.g.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> wire gauge. </DL>
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<B>W. Ger.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> West Germanic. </DL>
