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Meanings of moist in English

Slightly wet.

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Usage of moist in English
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One possible mechanism is that moist smokeless tobacco affects the inflammatory response.
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You also can create cold and moist conditions in a root cellar.
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3
It was moist; it was dank with the reek of decaying matter.
The Forfeit
4
No, in fact they're a good height for a base this moist.
Woken furies
5
He had not thrived in the moist air of the great valley.
The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War
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This plant grows preferably in cool and moist woods or in bogs.
Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 / Embracing the Tra...
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The larks rose a little way to sing in the moist air.
Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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His hands were infinitely repulsive; they were red and soft and moist.
The Magician
9
Monkshood likes cool growing conditions with moist, rich soil and some shade.
The Guardian
10
It was moist, when found, with the natural juices of the plant.
As It Was in the Beginning
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In moist, favorable seasons, it succeeds well in comparatively poor, thin soil.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America / Containing Full Des...
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If he stays cool, Brian thought, cool and moist, it might help.
The river
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The listener's eyes grew moist; there rose a lump in his throat.
The Town Traveller
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In November, 1879, the warm, moist weather brought them out in numbers.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
15
Without elation, without an interval of moist glory the cold was gone.
The best early stories of f. scott fitzgerald
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His nurseries were usually located in the moist land along some stream.
Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual / Issued for the ...
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