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noun

mist n.

Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.

Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.

Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision. "His passion cast a mist before his sense."

Mist flower (Bot.), a composite plant (Eupatorium coelestinum), having heart-shaped leaves, and corymbs of lavender-blue flowers. It is found in the Western and Southern United States.

verb

Mist v. t. (past & past part. misted; pres. part. misting) To cloud; to cover with mist; to dim.

Mist v. i. To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.

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Etymology of 'Mist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mist" Quotes from Famous Books

... halted the series of rapid passes he had been making, flexing his fingers with a grimace. The spinning egg began to drop at once, but he let out a long, keening cry, adding a slight flip of his other arm. Outside, something like a mist drew near and swirled around them. It looked huge to Dave, but must have been a small thing in fact. Now they began speeding along smoothly again. The thing was probably another sylph, strong enough to move them in their ...

— The Sky Is Falling • Lester del Rey

... a sufficient answer: A creature seventy inches long prying into the purposes of an Awful Something, whose power ranges so far that blazing suns are seen only as mist-specks! ...

— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly

... the settlement the appearance—as Captain Bunting expressed it—of being "dressed from stem to stern." The steam that arose from these habiliments, and from the soaking earth, and from the drenched forest, covered the face of nature with a sort of luminous mist that was quite cheering, by contrast with the leaden gloom that had preceded it, and filled with a romantic glow the bosoms of such miners as had any romance left ...

— The Golden Dream - Adventures in the Far West • R.M. Ballantyne

... dividing band of roof, tower and wharf, stretching from the loop of steel—that spider-web of the mighty—to the straight line of the sea, is a never-ending delight. In the early morning its broken outline is softened by a veil of silver mist embroidered with puffs of steam; at midday the glare of light flashing from the river's surface makes silhouettes of the ferry-shuttles threading back and forth weaving the city's life; at twilight the background of purple is bathed in the glory of the ...

— The Veiled Lady - and Other Men and Women • F. Hopkinson Smith

... watch-fires was most brilliant, there too the black shadows of the cliff had placed the point of intensest darkness, lightening gradually upwards right and left, between the two great jaws of the glen, into a chaos of grey mist, where the eye could discern no form of sea or cloud, but a perpetual shifting and quivering as if the whole atmosphere was writhing with agony in the clutches of ...

— MacMillan's Reading Books - Book V • Anonymous

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