mist

plural mists

1. countableuncountableWater or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)

   It was difficult to see through the morning mist.

   Synonyms: brume

2. countableA layer of fine droplets or particles.

   There was an oily mist on the lens.

3. countablefigurativelyuncountableAnything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.

   His passion cast a mist before his sense.

   1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

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   Alas, I do not have the strength to continue writing. Already, mist veils my eyes.

   2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Hooktail Castle

present singular third person mists · participle present misting · participle past misted · past misted

1. intransitiveTo form mist.

   It's misting this morning.

2. transitiveTo spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.

   I mist my tropical plants every morning.

3. intransitiveTo rain in very fine droplets.

   ... rain misting outside from thick clouds.

   2023 November 20, Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul Series: The Power of Positive: 101 Inspirational Stories about Changing Your Life through Positive Thinking, Jaico Publishing House, →ISBN, page 25

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   ... it's misting outside. When it mists outside it's half fog and half rain.

   1996, Don McCabe, Word Families in Sentence Context, AVKO Foundation, →ISBN, page 235

   On this particular early morning , with a bitter cold rain misting down, Seminov was reaching the end of his endurance.

   2013 April 2, Don Pendleton, Nuclear Intent, Gold Eagle, →ISBN, page 238

4. transitiveTo cover with a mist.

   The lens was misted.

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   her breath will mist or staine the stone

   c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]

5. transitiveTo be covered by tears.

   My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.

6. mediaTo disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.

1. obsoletepastpast of miss

   you shall be mist at Court

   1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]

present singular third person MiSTs · participle present MiSTing · participle past MiSTed · past MiSTed

1. alternativeAlternative form of MST (to mock a work by inserting annotations)

1. abbreviationacronymeconomicsAcronym of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey.