2. Verb. (third-person singular of mist) ¹
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Definition of Mists
1. mist [v] - See also: mist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mists
Literary usage of Mists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"mists are formed by the refrigeration of moist air to below the dew-point; ...
If mists are formed in the higher atmospheric strata we speak of clouds. ..."
2. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1870)
"ACTION OP mists UPON VEGETABLES. mists must be dense enough and 'humid enough to
deposit a film of water upon plants. The action of mists upon vegetation ..."
3. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"Behind are the abandon'd baths l Mute in their meadows lone ; The leaves are on
the valley-paths, The mists are on the Rhone— The white mists rolling like a ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"But Sleep, ere Zeus espied, ensconced him there, Perch'd on a lofty fir, that
tallest grew On Ida, piercing through earth's mists to heav'n. ..."
5. The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy by Humphry Davy, John Davy (1840)
"V. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE FORMATION OF mists IN PARTICULAR SITUATIONS.* ALL
persons who have been accustomed to the observation of nature, ..."
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