1. moist - Noun
2. moist - Adjective
3. moist - Verb
4. moist - Adjective Satellite
5. Moist - Proper noun
Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air.
Fresh, or new.
To moisten.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! Thomas Mann
Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy. Vitruvius
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window. Charles Dickens
The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened. Theodoret
Hot and cold, and moist and dry. Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak, and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones. Raymond Chandler