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r affected by a special physical or sanitary condition; as, the atmosphere of the room; a moist or noxious atmosphere.

g a bed of tanner's bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat.

To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. And let us bathe our hands in Cæsar's blood. Shak.

To moisten with dew, or as with dew. "Falling tears his face bedew." Dryden.

Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.] Night with her bedewy wings. A. Brewer.

To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak. Shak.

To wet or moisten. Gay.

Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.

adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600º F. in a closed space, a coating containing more or less of the ferric oxide (Fe2O3) and the subsequent change of this in a reduced atmosp…

An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.

A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racems of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean.

A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice. Dunglison.

To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. [R.] Dryden

Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. [Obs.] "With cleanly powder dry their hair." Prior.

condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.

pathetic ink, the writing being nearly colorless when dried in the air, owing to absorbed moisture, and becoming bright blue when warmed.

An accumulation of any substance. "Collections of moisture." Whewell. "A purulent collection." Dunglison.

To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). McElrath.

To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying. In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate. Bacon.

To temper; to moderate. [Obs.] Moisten and contemperate the air. Sir T. Browne.