moist

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Characterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp.
Will theſe moyſt Trees, That haue out-liu'd the Eagle, page thy heeles And skip when thou point'ſt out?
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moisty bewatered damp
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unmoist
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Of eyes: wet with tears; tearful; also (obsolete), watery due to some illness or to old age.
[H]aue you not a moiſt eie, a dry hand, a yelow cheeke, a white beard, a decreaſing leg, an increaſing belly? […] and will you yet call your ſelfe yong? fie, fie, fie, ſir Iohn.
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dewy-eyed misty teary
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Of a climate, the weather, etc.: damp, humid, rainy.
Ye Swains, invoke the Pow'rs who rule the Sky, For a moiſt Summer, and a Winter dry: For Winter drout rewards the Peaſant's Pain, And broods indulgent on the bury'd Grain.
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dank close heavy

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Moistness; also, moisture.
[T]hey launch'd the ship, the mast it bore Advanc'd, sails hoised, every seat his oar Gave with a leather thong. The deep moist then They further reach'd.
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A follower of the religion of Moism.

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To make (something) moist or wet; to moisten.
He calleth for a ſponge (ſaith Theodoritus) and therevvith moiſteth and vvaſsheth Simeones mouthe, and then geueth him the holy Sacrament.
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dampen

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