[ adj ] slightly wet <adj.all> clothes damp with perspirationa moist breeze eyes moist with tears
Moist \Moist\, a. [OE. moiste, OF. moiste, F. moite, fr. L. muccidus, for mucidus, moldy, musty. Cf. {Mucus}, {Mucid}.] 1. Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air. ``Moist eyes.'' --Shak.
2. Fresh, or new. [Obs.] ``Shoes full moist and new.'' ``A draught of moist and corny ale.'' --Chaucer.
Moist \Moist\, v. t. To moisten. [Obs.] --Shak.
The one Midwest crop that seems to have been severely hurt by the warm moist conditions is the soft red winter wheat crop, which is used as cereal, among other things.
Spider silk appears not to provoke an immune-system reaction from the body, and it contracts when moist, which could keep stitches snug during the healing process.
The families were told the worms convert food into soil in a process called composting _ if they are kept in a box with moist bedding and fed food scraps.
A cold front pushing southeastward across the central part of the nation was expected to trigger thunderstorms in the warm, moist air over the south-central states.
In prolonged dry weather, however, drainage ditches couldn't hold enough water to keep the soil moist, so some farmers began pumping water into the ditches from streams or wells.
The nematodes are despatched in a moist, inert carrier and on arrival are mixed with water and applied as a drench to the soil that is infested with vine weevil larvae.
The collision of that moist, warm air with cold air from the north set the stage for thunderstorms that developed along a cold front extending from southern New England through much of the Appalachian region and the Tennessee Valley.
These tufts should establish themselves rapidly in moist peat in an open, sunny place.
Snow fell in the upper Mississippi Valley and eastern parts of the northern Plains where cold, moist air blew counterclockwise around the low pressure area.
The deluge resulted from what forecasters call the "Pineapple Express," a fall storm track that carries warm, moist weather systems from Hawaii to the Pacific Northwest.
Those given a surrogate mother _ a warm, moist, pulsating tube _ survived.
The boxy, brick-red towers of Mexico's first nuclear power plant jut into the moist tropical air from a sandy beach flanked by palm-fringed lagoons.
The storms developed in moist, unstable air along a stationary front stretching from southwestern Kansas to northern Iowa and southern Wisconsin.
Although Illinois got half its average rain for April, and has received only one-third its average for mid-May, timely showers have kept the top few inches of soil moist enough for the seeds that have been planted to take root.
Wrap the flesh to keep it moist and chill it.
"I would be surprised if the fires made any more major runs," said fire behavior analyst Bruce Freet. "I think we're into a cooling, moist trend.
The method of covering the seed pan with glass, polythene film or cling-film can be followed and will have the added advantage of maintaining a moist compost and a humid atmosphere. Mark well, however that they need light - not scorching sunshine.
A hurricane is a heat engine fueled by warm, moist air over open oceans.
In 1763, the Rev. Edward Stone noticed that willow trees grew in the same moist areas where swamp fever, a malady marked by chills and high fever, occurred.
The warm, moist air helped thunderstorms form overnight in the lower Missouri Valley, and parts of Kansas had half-inch hail early today.
Finally, the hams are scrubbed with warm water, sandpapered to an attractive finish and kept in a moist chamber until selling time.