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Alternative form of wet, especially in the sense "rainy weather".

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Alternative form of wet, especially in the sense "rainy weather".
- ... binds with wind and weet / The vestment round his thews. - 1885, James Lumsden, Rural Rhymes and Sketches in East Lothian, page 80:
- When dingy packs on Criffel lower, Then hoose yer kye an' stuik yer duir, But if Criffel be fair an' clear, For win' or weet ye needn't fear (Cum.). - 1913, Elizabeth Mary Wright, Rustic Speech and Folk-lore, page 314:

To know.
- But Glauce, ſeeing all that chaunced there, / VVell vveeting hovv their errour to aſſoyle, / Full glad of ſo good end, to them drevv nere, / And her ſalevved vvith ſeemly belaccoyle, / Ioyous to ſee her ſafe after long...
- The nobleness of life / Is to do thus, when such a mutual pair / And such a twain can do ’t, in which I bind, / On pain of punishment, the world to weet / We stand up peerless. - c. 1606–1607 (date written), William...
- I wept for myself, but resigned my soul to the tyranny of Time and Circumstance, well weeting that Fortune is fair and constant to no man. - 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 13”, in A...

From Middle English weten, a Middle English variant of witen (“to know”). More at wit.