Moisture

3 definitions found

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

  Moisture \Mois"ture\, n. [Cf. OF. moistour, F. moiteur.]
     1. A moderate degree of wetness. --Bacon.
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     2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid;
        liquid in small quantity.


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              All my body's moisture
              Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat.
                                                    --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  moisture
       n : wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the
           window" [syn: {wet}]

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

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "moisture":
     Scotch mist, blood rain, chylifaction, chylification, drizzle,
     evening mist, fall, flow, fluency, fluidity, fluidness, flurry,
     flux, fluxility, fluxion, gout of rain, juiciness, lactation,
     lactescence, liquefaction, liquidness, milkiness, mist, misty rain,
     mizzle, patter, pitter-patter, precipitation, rain, raindrop,
     rainfall, rainwater, rheuminess, sappiness, serosity,
     sheet of rain, shower, splatter, sprinkle, succulence, suppuration,
     unfrozen hydrometeor, wateriness, wet