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Moisture definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MOIST'URE, n. A moderate degree of wetness.
Set such plants as require much moisture, on sandy, dry grounds.
1. A small quantity of any liquid; as the moisture of the body.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the window" [syn: moisture, wet]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from moiste Date: 14th century liquid diffused or condensed in relatively small quantity

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. water or other liquid diffused in a small quantity as vapour, or within a solid, or condensed on a surface. Derivatives: moistureless adj. Etymology: ME f. OF moistour (as MOIST)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Moisture Mois"ture, n. [Cf. OF. moistour, F. moiteur.] 1. A moderate degree of wetness. --Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Moisture is tiny drops of water in the air, on a surface, or in the ground. When the soil is dry, more moisture is lost from the plant...

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Dampness, humidity, wetness.

Moby Thesaurus

Scotch mist, blood rain, chylifaction, chylification, drizzle, evening mist, fall, flow, fluency, fluidity, fluidness, flurry, flux, fluxility, fluxion, gout of rain, juiciness, lactation, lactescence, liquefaction, liquidness, milkiness, mist, misty rain, mizzle, patter, pitter-patter, precipitation, rain, raindrop, rainfall, rainwater, rheuminess, sappiness, serosity, sheet of rain, shower, splatter, sprinkle, succulence, suppuration, unfrozen hydrometeor, wateriness, wet