Moist
(Moist) a. [OE. moiste, OF. moiste, F. moite, fr. L. muccidus, for mucidus, moldy, musty. Cf.
Mucus, Mucid.]
1. Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air. "Moist eyes." Shak.
2. Fresh, or new. [Obs.] "Shoes full moist and new." "A draught of moist and corny ale." Chaucer.
Moist
(Moist), v. t. To moisten. [Obs.] Shak.
Moisten
(Mois"ten) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moistened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Moistening.]
1. To make damp; to wet in a small degree.
A pipe a little moistened on the inside.
Bacon. 2. To soften by making moist; to make tender.
It moistened not his executioner's heart with any pity.
Fuller. Moistener
(Mois"ten*er) n. One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson.
Moistful
(Moist"ful) a. Full of moisture. [R.]
Moistless
(Moist"less), a. Without moisture; dry. [R.]
Moistness
(Moist"ness), n. The quality or state of being moist.
Moisture
(Mois"ture) n. [Cf. OF. moistour, F. moiteur.]
1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon.
2. 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. Moistureless
(Mois"ture*less), a. Without moisture.
Moisty
(Moist"y) a. Moist. [Obs.]
Moither
(Moi"ther) v. t. [Etymol. uncertain.] To perplex; to confuse. [Prov. Eng.] Lamb.
Moither
(Moi"ther), v. i. To toil; to labor. [Prov. Eng.]
Mokadour
(Mok"a*dour) n. [Sp. mocador handkerchief.] A handkerchief. [Obs.]
Moke
(Moke) n. A donkey. [Cant] Thackeray.
Moke
(Moke) n. A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net. Halliwell.
Moky
(Mo"ky) a. [Cf. Icel. mökkvi cloud, mist, mökkr a dense cloud, W. mwg smoke, and E. muggy,
muck.] Misty; dark; murky; muggy. [Obs.]
Mola
(Mo"la) n. (Zoöl.) See Sunfish, 1.
Molar
(Mo"lar) a. [L. moles mass.] (Mech.) Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; — said of the properties
or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms. Carpenter.
