(verb) : ūmecto (less correctly hū-), āvi, ātum, āre, 1, and n. umectus.
* Act., to moisten, wet (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): quā niger umectat flaventia culta Galaesus,waters,Verg. G. 4, 126: et sacer umectat fluvialia rura Capenas,Sil. 13, 85: statque umectata Vomano Adria,id. 8, 439: terras veneno,id. 3, 210: effigiem,id. 5, 5: et lacrimis salsis umectent ora genasque,Lucr. 1, 919; Verg. A. 1, 465; 11, 90; Ov. M. 9, 655: dum meus umectat flaventes Lucifer agros (rore),bedews,Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 121: ejus (agni) os pressis umectare papillis,Col. 7, 3, 17.—Poet.: (mulier) tenet assuetis umectans oscula labris,Lucr. 4, 1190.
* Neutr., of the eyes, to be moist, tearful, to weep: ardent (oculi), intenduntur, umectant, conivent,Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 145; 10, 3, 3, § 10.