Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To moisten; wet.
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- verb transitive
Make moist . - verb intransitive, rare
Become moist.
Etymologies
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be- + moisten
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Examples
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He must wait the new broach and bemoisten his clay.
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript John Clare 1828
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