A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400
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Wet, adj. [? Erron. for Het adj. 2.] Warm in feeling, eager, full of desire. —a1400 Legends of the Saints xxviii 123.
Ay the mare he has hyre sene … The hardar wes he wet within With hyr fleschly for to syne