Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To moisten; wet; water.
- In chem., to become moist by attracting vapor of water from the atmosphere; to deliquesce.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To moisten; to wet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic to
wet ; tomoisten .
Etymologies
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See humectate.
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Examples
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I sup, I wet, I humect, I moisten my gullet, I drink, and all for fear of dying.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I sup, I wet, I humect, I moisten my gullet, I drink, and all for fear of dying.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Except in Ireland, I never heard _humour_ or _humorous_ aspirated, though in _humid_ and _humect_ the _h_ is always sounded.
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I sup, I wet, I humect, I moisten my gullet, I drink, and all for fear of dying.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
pavonine commented on the word humect
Also humectate to moisten;to wet;to become moistened
November 6, 2007