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Definition of Moistest
1. moist [adj] - See also: moist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moistest
Literary usage of Moistest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"The trees which have the moistest juices in their fruit, have commonly the moistest
sap in their body ; for the vines and pears are very moist ; apples ..."
2. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1894)
"I will say that the pecan, being a native of the moistest climate in the United
States, ... It belongs to the moistest and most humid portions of the United ..."
3. Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from Their Ores by John Percy (1875)
"... the peat is moistest, the gas will remain longer in contact with the peat,
become more charged with aqueous vapour, and be thereby rendered specifically ..."
4. Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from Their Ores by John Percy (1875)
"Consequently, in those parts of the kiln where the peat is moistest, the gas will
remain longer in contact with the peat, become more charged with aqueous ..."