moistening

Nature: Most often these are called cooling or heating, but the terms moistening, relaxing and energizing are used.

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

Such use of saliva is no more to be deprecated than its application in a hundred other ways, such as moistening the fingers to turn a leaf, of "licking" one's fingers after eating candy.

Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise

Keep adding, tasting the whole time, moistening with the reserve tomato juice, until you have a mixture about the consistency of a loose tapenade.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

"A Mexican with a knife, miss," he answered, moistening his parched lips and clearing hip throat.

Chapter 1 2010

Is this moistening your hankies, PopWatchers, or are you writing “no thanks” to Dear John?

'Dear John': Is Channing Tatum enough? | EW.com 2009

"You wouldn't want to lose weight the way I did," he said, his eyes moistening.

Cometh the Ryder Cup moment, cometh captain Colin Montgomerie Richard Williams 2010

First just a moistening, but then pouring out as my whole body sobbed in a great release of pent-up emotion.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011

This moistening of the raw-hide he knew would tend to make it stretch, and, without apparent effort, he endeavored to stretch it more and more.

THE MAN WITH THE GASH 2010

First just a moistening, but then pouring out as my whole body sobbed in a great release of pent-up emotion.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011

She hesitated, moistening her frightened lips with her tongue, then braved her eyes to his and proceeded.

CHAPTER XXVIII 2010