Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not made moist or humid; not wetted; dry.

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  • adjective Not having been moistened.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ moistened

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Examples

  • Reluctantly, he led her down from the outcropping, whose grass was destined to go unmoistened by their mingled dew.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • Friends and Children flocking in among their Friends and Fathers, were to form a family assemblage, with not one manly eye therein unmoistened by emotion.

    The Chimes 2007

  • This declaration was followed by a plentiful shower of tears, which the father could not behold with unmoistened eyes, although he reviled her with marks of uncommon displeasure; and turning to the Count, “I appeal to you, sir,” said he,

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

  • The stout old Lord Huntinglen, with a haughty carriage and unmoistened eye, accompanied the funeral procession of his only son to its last abode; and perhaps the single tear which fell at length upon the coffin, was given less to the fate of the individual, than to the extinction of the last male of his ancient race.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • But the penury of their private affairs so oppresses them, being opposed by adverse fortune, that the fruitful seeds of virtue, so productive in the unexhausted field of youth, unmoistened by their wonted dews, are compelled to wither.

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • And thereupon she beheld the celestials unmoistened with perspiration, with winkless eyes, and unfading garlands, unstained with dust, and staying without touching the ground.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • And thereupon she beheld the celestials unmoistened with perspiration, with winkless eyes, and unfading garlands, unstained with dust, and staying without touching the ground.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • No one who has tried to eat unmoistened food, when thirsty, will dispute its uses as a solvent.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

  • However, the printed surface of a freshly printed sheet may be rendered luminous by dusting the sheet with powder, which will adhere to all of the inked and may be easily shaken from the unmoistened surfaces thereof.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various

  • And this theory is to be swallowed in one solid and indigestible lump, unleavened with logic, unmoistened with grammar, unsweetened with rhetoric.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

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