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moisten
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Word definitions for moisten in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from moist + -en (1). Related: Moistened ; moistening . The earlier verb was simply moist (early 14c.), from Old French moistir .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moisten \Mois"ten\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moistened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Moistening .] To make damp; to wet in a small degree. A pipe a little moistened on the inside. --Bacon. To soften by making moist; to make tender. It moistened not his executioner's ...
Usage examples of moisten.
The requisites for chewing are: a small piece of areca nut, a leaf of the Sirih or betel pepper, a little moistened lime, and, if you wish to be very luxurious, a paste made of spices.
Susan Bates, advancing straight towards Roger with moistened eyes and with a nervous tremor in her voice and body alike.
Arrange in a baking-dish with layers of seasoned crumbs, and add sufficient milk to moisten.
The minutest trace of digitalin moistened with sulphuric and treated with bromine vapour gives a rose colour, turning to mauve.
Add these chopped giblets to a dressing of stale bread crumbs seasoned and moistened with a little hot water and butter.
The blocks, however, which are used for large masses of colour, or for gradated tones, are moistened over the whole or a large part of the surface of the block, and if the wood is thin, and not well mounted across the ends, the block soon expands sufficiently to throw the register out.
He must remember this arrangement: left eyebrow raised, eyelids slightly drawn, lips moistened, parted, down at corners.
Left eyebrow up, lips moistened, slightly parted and curled, he waited while a producer approached, welcoming hand extended.
He had forgotten the casual stance, the raised eyebrows, lips moistened, slightly parted.
Mix with an equal quantity of mashed potatoes, add a heaping tablespoonful of butter, and mix thoroughly, using a little hot cream to moisten it.
Mix with an equal quantity of hot mashed potatoes, moisten with cream, and season with chopped green peppers fried in oil.
It is a white powder, and should show no alkaline reaction with moistened litmus-paper.
Silicon fluoride is evolved, and, if a moistened glass rod is held in the tube, it becomes coated with a white deposit of silica, formed by the decomposition of the silicon fluoride by the water.
On holding a rod, moistened with a drop of water, over the escaping fumes, the white crust of silica formed on the drop of water shows its presence.
She moistened her lips and nodded, but her eyes were gleaming curiously again.