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To moisten; to wet. [Obs.] Howell.

A moistening. [Obs.] Bacon.

Tending to moisten. [Obs.]

Serving to moisten the eye; -- sometimes applied to the lachrymal ducts.

To wet or moisten; to soak; to drench, especially in blood. While Darwen stream, will blood of Scots imbrued. Milton.

The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs. [Obs.] Coxe. The medicating and insuccation of seeds. Evelyn.

To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.

To sprinkle or moisten with dew; to bedew. [Obs.]

The act of bedewing; the state of being moistened with de [Obs.] Chambers.

To moisten; to wet. [Obs.] Fuller.

Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.

To moisten. [Obs.] Shak.

That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak.

depending on the fact that the friction between a metallic point and a moving cylinder of moistened chalk, or a moving slip of paper, on which it rests is diminished by the passage of a current between the point and the moving surface. -- Mo`to*graph"ic (#), a.

A viscid fluid secreted by mucous membranes, which it serves to moisten and protect. It covers the lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc.

A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.

disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.

Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.

d origin of a large number of derivatives. So called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red.

ich, when dry, close up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to the rose of Jericho. See under Rose.