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▪ I. moistening, vbl. n.|ˈmɔɪs(ə)nɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb moisten; also concr.
1611Bible Prov. iii. 8 It shalbe health to thy nauill, and marrow [marg. Hebr. watring, or moystning] to thy bones. 1611Cotgr., Mouillement, a wetting, or moistening. 1627Hakewill Apol. i. v. §3. 52 It pleased God to open the windowes of Heauen for the moistning and nourishing of their seedes. 1854Ronalds & Richardson Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 321 A moderate moistening of small coal has..the advantage of preventing its falling through the grate-bars and creating dust.
▪ II. ˈmoistening, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That moistens; rendering or becoming moist.
1580Sidney Ps. xxii. ix, My moistning strength is like a pottsheard dried. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 10 b/1 With moysteninge medicamentes must it be cured and helped. 1683Salmon Doron Med. i. 51 Moistning medicines. 1700Dryden Sigism. & Guiscardo 504 When the World began, One common Mass compos'd the Mould of Man; One Paste of Flesh on all Degrees bestow'd, And kneaded up alike with moistning Blood. 1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am iv, ‘God bless you, Sir Everard’, said Vargas, with moistening eyes. |