Word Meanings - MOISTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Moist.

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• MOISTNESS
  The quality or state of being moist.
• MOISTURE
  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
  Without moisture.
• MOISTENER
  One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson.
• MOISTLESS
  Without moisture; dry.
• MOISTY
  Moist.
• MOIST
  1. Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air. "Moist eyes." Shak. 2. Fresh, or new. "Shoes full moist and new." "A draught of moist and corny ale." Chaucer.
• MOISTEN
  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.
• MOISTFUL
  Full of moisture.
• OVERMOISTURE
  Excess of moisture.
• OVERMOIST
  Excessively moist. Bacon.