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Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air. "Moist eyes." Shak.

To make damp; to wet in a small degree. A pipe a little moistened on the inside. Bacon.

One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson.

Full of moisture. [R.]

Without moisture; dry. [R.]

The quality or state of being moist.

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.

Without moisture.

Moist. [Obs.]

Excessively moist. Bacon.

Excess of moisture.

To deceive; to impose on. [Obs.] Their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud, and abused by a double object. Jer. Taylor.

tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.

A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees. Black alder. (a) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex ve…

Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren. "An arid waste." Thomson.

The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.

To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten. [Obs.] The blissful dew of heaven does arrose you. Two N. Kins.

act; to cause parts to draw together; to compress. Which contraction . . . astringeth the moistuBacon.

An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley.