[telios]

A dry bar lacks water, not ethanol, and dry cleaning still uses liquids, so I'd argue even the colloquial definition is water.

[mtrees_io]

Water itself isn't wet, but it makes other things wet by sticking to surfaces and creating a layer of liquid on them. Wetness is the ability of a liquid to adhere to the surface of a solid, and since water can do that, it makes things feel wet.