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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A mass of fine droplets of water in the atmosphere near or in contact with the earth.
  2. n. Water vapor condensed on and clouding the appearance of a surface.
  3. n. Fine drops of a liquid, such as water, perfume, or medication, sprayed into the air.
  4. n. A suspension of fine drops of a liquid in a gas.
  5. n. Something that dims or conceals.
  6. n. A haze before the eyes that blurs the vision.
  7. n. Something that produces or gives the impression of dimness or obscurity: the mists of the past.
  8. n. A drink consisting of a liquor served over cracked ice.
  9. v. To be or become obscured or blurred by or as if by mist.
  10. v. To rain in a fine shower.
  11. v. To conceal or veil with or as if with mist.
  12. v. To moisturize (plants or dry air, for example) with a fine spray of water.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A cloud consisting of an aggregation of a vast number of minute globules of water, and resting upon the ground; fog.
  2. n. Precipitation consisting of extremely fine droplets of water, much smaller and more closely aggregated than in rain: distinguished from fog in that the droplets are larger and have a perceptible downward motion. In a ship's logbook, abbreviated masculine
  3. n. Something which dims or darkens and obscures or intercepts physical or intellectual vision like a fog; obscurity.
  4. To cover or obscure with or as with mist; cloud; obscure.
  5. To be misty or drizzling: as, it mists.
  6. An obsolete or occasional form of missed, preterit and past participle of miss.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
  2. n. A layer of fine droplets or particles.
  3. v. To form mist.
  4. v. To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
  5. v. To cover with a mist.
  6. v. To be covered by tears.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.
  2. n. Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain.
  3. n. Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
  4. v. To cloud; to cover with mist; to dim.
  5. v. To rain in very fine drops.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. become covered with mist
  2. v. spray finely or cover with mist
  3. n. a thin fog with condensation near the ground
  4. v. make less visible or unclear

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old English; see meigh- in Indo-European roots.

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