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

  mist \mist\ (m[i^]st), n. [AS. mist; akin to D. & Sw. mist,
     Icel. mistr, G. mist dung, Goth. ma['i]hstus, AS. m[imac]gan
     to make water, Icel. m[imac]ga, Lith. migla mist, Russ. mgla,
     L. mingere, meiere, to make water, Gr. 'omichei^n to make
     water, 'omi`chlh mist, Skr. mih to make water, n., a mist
     m[=e]gha cloud. [root]102. Cf. {Misle}, {Mizzle}, {Mixen}.]


     1. Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or
        near the surface of the earth; fog.
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     2. Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible
        particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.
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     3. Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or
        intercepts vision.
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              His passion cast a mist before his sense. --Dryden.
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     {Mist flower} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Eupatorium
        coelestinum}), having heart-shaped leaves, and corymbs of
        lavender-blue flowers. It is found in the Western and
        Southern United States.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mist \Mist\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Misted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Misting}.]
     To cloud; to cover with mist; to dim. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mist \Mist\, v. i.
     To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mist
       n : a thin fog with condensation near the ground
       v 1: become covered with mist; "The windshield misted over" [syn:
             {mist over}]
       2: make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the
          clouds" [syn: {obscure}, {befog}, {becloud}, {obnubilate},
           {haze over}, {fog}, {cloud}]
       3: spray finely or cover with mist

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

  162 Moby Thesaurus words for "mist":
     London fog, London special, Scotch mist, addle, addle the wits,
     air, airy nothing, amorphousness, ball up, becloud, bedazzle,
     befog, befuddle, befuddlement, bemist, bewilder, bewilderment,
     blood rain, blur, bother, botheration, bubble, bug, chaos,
     clabber up, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, confuse, confusion, dark,
     darken, darken over, darkness, daze, dazzle, defocus, dim,
     discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture,
     discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder,
     disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, disturb,
     disturbance, drisk, drizzle, drizzling mist, embarrass,
     embarrassment, encloud, enmist, entangle, ether, evening mist,
     fall, film, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fogginess,
     frenzy, frost smoke, fuddle, fuddlement, fuss, fuzziness, gauze,
     gout of rain, haze, illusion, indeterminateness, indistinctness,
     jumble, lose resolution, maze, mess, mistiness, misty rain, mix up,
     mizzle, moider, moisture, muddle, muddlement, mumbo jumbo, murk,
     murkiness, mystification, nubilate, obfuscation, obnubilate,
     obscurantism, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, opacity, overcast,
     overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, pale, patter, pea soup,
     pea-soup fog, peasouper, perplex, perplexity, perturb,
     perturbation, phantom, pitter-patter, pother, precipitation,
     pucker, put out, rain, raindrop, rainfall, rainwater, raise hell,
     rattle, ruffle, shade, shadow, shapelessness, sheet of rain,
     shower, shuffle, smog, smoke, soften, spirit, splatter, sprinkle,
     steam up, stew, sweat, swivet, thin air, throw into confusion,
     tizzy, unclarity, unclearness, unfrozen hydrometeor, unplainness,
     unsettle, unsettlement, upset, vagueness, vapor, wet
  
  

















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