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mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.

d manners; due regard for propriety in speech or action. Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty. Shak. Modesty piece, a narrow piece of lace worn by women over the bosom. [Obs.] Addison.

Moist. [Obs.]

Molestation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The restoration of lost parts of the body.

f organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books. Harvey.

Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky.

Restoration of a part by granulation, adhesive inflammation, or autoplasty.

See Octostyle.

Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastele. See Hexastyle. -- n.

An operation or process by which the total or partial loss of a bone is remedied. Dunglison.

Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. -- O`ver*has"ti*ness, n.

Too lusty, or lively. Shak.

Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. "A pasty complexion." G. Eliot.

The crime against nature; sodomy.

Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n.

A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; -- called also pentecostys. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

The act or process of restoring an injured perineum.

he former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade.

A disproportionately rapid growth of the upper surface of dorsiventral organs, such as leaves, through the stimulus of exposure to light. Encyc. Brit.