mist

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)

   “It was difficult to see through the morning mist.”

2. (countable)A layer of fine droplets or particles.

   “There was an oily mist on the lens.”

3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.

   “His passion cast a mist before his sense.”

   “Alas, I do not have the strength to continue writing. Already, mist veils my eyes.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To form mist.

   “It's misting this morning.”

2. (transitive)To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.

   “I mist my tropical plants every morning.”

3. (intransitive)To rain in very fine droplets.

   “... it's misting outside. When it mists outside it's half fog and half rain.”

   “On this particular early morning , with a bitter cold rain misting down, Seminov was reaching the end of his endurance.”

   “... rain misting outside from thick clouds.”

4. (transitive)To cover with a mist.

   “The lens was misted.”

   “her breath will mist or staine the stone”

5. (transitive)To be covered by tears.

   “My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.”

6. To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
7. (form-of, obsolete, past)past of miss

   “you shall be mist at Court”

8. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of MST (to mock a work by inserting annotations)

name

1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey.