Moistening

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Moisten \Mois"ten\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Moistened}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Moistening}.]
     1. To make damp; to wet in a small degree.
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              A pipe a little moistened on the inside. --Bacon.


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     2. To soften by making moist; to make tender.
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              It moistened not his executioner's heart with any
              pity.                                 --Fuller.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  moistening
       n : the act of making something slightly wet [syn: {dampening}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "moistening":
     affusion, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, bath, bathing, bedewing,
     dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, drenching, drowning, flooding,
     hosing, hosing down, humectant, humidification, immersion,
     inundation, irrigation, irrigational, irriguous, laving, rinsing,
     soaking, sopping, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering,
     spraying, sprinkling, submersion, swashing, watering, wetting