▪ I. † wete Obs.
[OE. wǽta wk. masc. In later ME. merged in wet n.1 1.]
Moisture; a liquid, liquor, drink.
| c 897 ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xi. 73 Se wæta ðara innoða [humor viscerum]. 971 Blickl. Hom. 209 Swiþe wynsum ond hluttor wæta utflowende. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Luke viii. 6 Hit forscranc forþam þe hit wætan nafde. c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 298 Ne dranc he wines drenc, ne nan ðæra wætena þe druncennysse styriað. c 1205 Lay. 19769 Vt heo droȝen sone amppullen scone ifulled mid attere, weten alre bitterest. a 1225 Ancr. 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.