moist

adjective9

1. •
   a little wet, often in a pleasant way

   • Will these moyst Trees, / That haue out-liu'd the Eagle, page thy heeles / And skip when thou point'st out? — 1605
2. •
   Of a climate, the weather, etc.: damp, humid, rainy.

   • Ye Swains, invoke the Pow'rs who rule the Sky, / For a moist Summer, and a Winter dry: / For Winter drout rewards the Peasant's Pain, / And broods indulgent on the bury'd Grain. — 1697
3. •
   Of eyes: wet with tears; tearful; also (obsolete), watery due to some illness or to old age.

   • [H]aue you not a moist eie, a dry hand, a yelow cheeke, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? […] and will you yet call your selfe yong? fie, fie, fie, sir Iohn. — 1596
4. •
   wet with mucus, pus or another liquid from the body, often as a sign of illness
5. •
   (informal) wet because of sexual excitement, said of a woman or her vagina

   • He slid a finger in me, checking to make sure I was moist and ready for him. — 2008
6. •
   bubbling because air passes through liquid, used about sounds that a doctor hears in the lungs or other organs, often with a stethoscope
7. •
   (historical) Pertaining to one of the four essential qualities formerly believed to be present in all things, characterized by wetness; also, having a significant amount of this quality.

   • [T]he moist starre, / Vpon whose influence Neptunes Empier stands, / Was sicke almost to doomesday with eclipse, […] — 1599
8. •
   (no longer used) Fluid, liquid, watery.

   • O pardon me, my liege, but for my teares, / The moist impediments vnto my speech, / I had forestald this deere and deep rebuke, […] — 1596
9. •
   (no longer used) Bringing moisture or rain.

   • And the moist daughters of huge Atlas stroue / Into the Ocean deepe to driue their weary droue. — 1590

verb4

1. •
   (US) To make (something) moist or wet; to moisten.

   • He calleth for a sponge (saith Theodoritus) and therevvith moisteth and vvassheth Simeones mouthe, and then geueth him the holy Sacrament. — 1566
2. •
   (US) To rain lightly; to drizzle.
3. •
   (no longer used) To have an effect of moistening or wetting.

   • Auysing the bright bemes of these fayer Iyes / where he is that myn oft moisteth & wassheth — 1527
4. •
   (figurative, no longer used) To inspire, to refresh (someone); also, to soften (one's heart).

noun1

1. •
   Moistness; also, moisture.

   • [T]hey launch'd the ship, the mast it bore / Advanc'd, sails hoised, every seat his oar / Gave with a leather thong. The deep moist then / They further reach'd. — 1614

noun1

1. •
   A follower of the religion of Moism.