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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

... his own power of youth grew as he looked on. The old Faust appeared, heavy with the years and with the trouble of useless thought, and Julian felt that he could sneer at him for his venerable age. As he watched the philosopher's grandiloquent pantomime of gesture, like a mist there floated over him the keen imagination of the hell of regret in which the old age, that never used to the full its irrevocable youth, must move, and a passion of desire to use his own youth rushed over him as fire rushes over a dry prairie. Even a sudden anger against Valentine ...

— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens

... Maxwell submitted the manuscript to his wife for criticism. He passed it over without comment, desiring the unprejudiced opinion of the intelligent general reader, and Mrs. Maxwell read it twice, very carefully, before she handed it back. When she did there was a mist over her ...

— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan

... of the street, the fast-falling mist which obscured the light from the meagre oil lamps, seemed to add a certain weirdness to this moving, seething multitude. No one could see his neighbour. In the blackness of the night the muttering or yelling figures ...

— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... Clarence had in the meantime deserted Warwick and joined his brother's army. The army of Warwick was composed of strangely different elements—old enemies fighting side by side as friends. The battle was lost mainly through a grievous blunder. In the heavy mist which hung around, the party of the Earl of Oxford were mistaken for the enemy and were attacked by their own friends. The cry of treachery was raised, and the whole army broke into utter rout. Warwick resisted till all hope was gone. He had fought on foot throughout ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 • Various

... of my mouth when the clamor took a deeper, shriller pitch. We all knew what it meant—the tide was turning. Through the gaping holes in the watch tower stamped against the snowy mist, we saw a dark mass rolling forward—scores ...

— The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada • William Murray Graydon

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