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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'

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"Mist" Quotes from Famous Books

... such happenings as a birth or a death in his own household, a visit from the emissary of My Lords, an epidemic of measles, a general election, and the like. I don't say these men are unhappy, but unless they develop a hobby, torpidity is bound to settle like a mist upon their brains. Such studies as geology, botany, and gardening, are sovereign for driving off the vapours of ennui. Nor are golf, angling, and the composition of verse, specifics that the rural dominie can ...

— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes

... little blonde boy named Earnshaw, had got a few days leave from the Curragh. Their presence imposed a certain restraint upon Terry in regard to his love-making—otherwise it must have been obvious even to his father, despite that growing absent-mindedness which enfolded Shawn O'Gara like a mist. ...

— Love of Brothers • Katharine Tynan

... as his eyes cleared he beheld the big man rowing and the black sail flapping against the mast; for the wind had fallen dead and they were faring on over a long smooth swell of the sea. It was broad daylight, but round about them was a thick mist, which seemed none the less as if the sun were ready to ...

— The Story of the Glittering Plain - or the Land of Living Men • William Morris

... beating heart to those sweet, solemn words that would bind her forever to the man she loved with more than a passing love. She pictured how she would walk down the aisle, leaning on his arm—that great, strong arm that would be her support for evermore—a great mist of happy tears in her eyes as she clung ...

— Pretty Madcap Dorothy - How She Won a Lover • Laura Jean Libbey

... dry and bright. 'I shall ask God to give you a fine day for my funeral, Emma, so that you mayn't take cold,' our Army Mother had said, for she was ever thoughtful for others; and her prayer was answered, for though the white mist crept up from the river to the Embankment, where the procession was forming up, there was no rain ...

— Catherine Booth - A Sketch • Colonel Mildred Duff

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