moysture

And also whan it waxethe lytylle, it is dere tyme in that contree: for defaute of moysture.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And it is drye and nothing fructuous; because that it hathe no moysture: and therefore is there so meche desart.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And the earth at that tyme beyng but clammie and softe, through the attemperaunce of that moysture and heate, man there first to haue bene fourmed, and there to haue gladlier enhabited (as natiue and naturall vnto him) then in any other place, when all places ware as yet straunge, and vnknowen, whiche aftre men soughte.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

The South part of this Castle is lowe lande, but very fruitfull, where grow many good fruites, among which there is one called a Dynie, of a great bignesse and full of moysture, which the people do eate after meate in steade of drinke.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And it is drye and nothing fructuous; because that it hathe no moysture: and therefore is there so meche desart.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

But when the mornings dewie locks drunk vp A mistie moysture from the Oceans face, Then might he see the source of sorrowes cup,

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And also whan it waxethe lytylle, it is dere tyme in that contree: for defaute of moysture.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

"The East Indians do use to make little balls of the juice of the hearbe tobaco and the ashes of cockle-shells wrought up together, and dryed in the shadow, and in their travaile they place one of the balls between their neather lip and their teeth, sucking the same continually, and letting down the moysture, and it keepeth them both from hunger and thirst for the space of three or four days."

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Whose beames soake up the moysture of all teares, wrote Henry Petowe in his 'A Fewe Aprill Drops Showered on the Hearse of

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

"They are such candles as the Indians commonly use, having no other, and they are nothing else but the wood of the pine tree, cloven in two little slices, something thin, which are so full of the moysture of turpentine and pitch that they burne as cleere as a torch."

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881