ūmecto (less correctly hū-), āvi, ātum, āre, 1, v. a. 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.