英语词汇“moisty”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

moisty

释义

moisty, a.|ˈmɔɪstɪ|
[f. moist a. + -y¹.]
†1. Of ale: New. (= moist a. 2 b.) Obs.
c1386Chaucer Manciple's Prol. 60 For were it wyn or oold or moysty Ale That he hath dronke he speketh in his nose.
2. Moist, damp, wet. Now rare.
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 219 The bloode Is hotte and moysti.1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 27 b, The Lyuerworte that groweth in moystye marishes or standinge waters.1590C'tess Pembroke Antonie 1317 Nor yet the cruell murth'ring blade Warm in the moistie bowells made Of people pell mell dieng.1603Drayton Bar. Wars ii. xxxv, Amongst the Ayre-bred moystie Vapours throwne.1632Lithgow Trav. ix. 404 The moysty and choaking heat.c1666Sir J. Lauder (Fountainhall) Jrnls. (S.H.S.) 76 Upright poddock stools..grow in humid, moisty places.1889F. R. Stockton Ardis Claverden (1890) 372 Tossed out upon the moisty air.
b. of a day, season, country, etc.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. ii. (Arb.) 156 A litle winde in a moystie day, stoppeth a shafte more than a good whiskynge wynde in a clere daye.1596Spenser F.Q. vi. ix. 13 The moystie night..Her deawy humour gan on th' earth to shed.1856Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 301 A misty, moisty morning.1861C. M. Yonge Young Step-Mother ii, It is not doing the place justice to study it on a misty, moisty morning.1894P. Collier in Forum (U.S.) Aug. 731 A misty, moisty island [sc. England].
†3. Given to drink. Obs. rare^—1.
1593‘P. Foulface’ Bacchus Bountie C 2, Which beeing once tasted, dooth maruellously encrease a moystie appetite.

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