Definition of Mist

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Definition of Mist

Mist

Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.

Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.

Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.

To cloud; to cover with mist; to dim.

To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.

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Mist Quotations

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
W. H. Auden

A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.
John Millington Synge

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.
Edvard Grieg

In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.
Robert Hass

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
Robert Motherwell

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.
Julien Green

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
Gene Wolfe

Mist Translations

mist in Afrikaans is mis
mist in Dutch is damp, floers, nevel, mist
mist in Finnish is sumu
mist in French is brouillard, brume
mist in Italian is nebbia, foschia
mist in Spanish is niebla, bruma

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