To make damp; to wet in a small degree.
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To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
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To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
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To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.
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Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet…
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of Dampen
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of Dampen
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of Moisten
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To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
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To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.
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To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or…
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