MIST, MISTINESS, MISTY
ADJECTIVES
► AND sea-mist → 1865 Eng. dial.
► BANGY of weather: drizzling, overcast; misty; stormy → 1790 Eng. dial.
► CALIGINOUS misty, dim, murky; obscure, dark → 1548 now arch.
► DAGGIE drizzling, moist, misty → 1825 Sc.
► DAGGING of the weather: wet, drizzly, misty, rainy → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DAGGLY of the weather: wet, drizzly, misty, rainy → 1869 Eng. dial.
► DAGGY of the weather: wet, drizzly, misty, rainy → 1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DAMPISH vaporous, foggy, misty → 1577 obs.
► DAMPY full of vapour or mist; foggy → 1600 obs.
► DINGY misty, rainy → 1879 Eng. dial.
► FAT of air, mist, etc.: charged with moisture or odours → 1659
► FOGGISH somewhat foggy or misty → 1686 obs.
► HAARY misty, foggy → 1818 Sc.
► HAGGY misty from the frost → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAITCHY misty → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAURY misty, foggy → 1818 Sc.
► MISTERFUL misty → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MISTY-MOISTY of the weather: misty, foggy; threatening rain → 1856 Amer. dial.
► MIZZLETY misty, drizzling → 1909 Amer. dial.
► MIZZLING drizzling; rainy; misty → 1838 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► MIZZLY misty, drizzling → 1899 Amer. dial.
► MOOTH misty; damp and warm → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MUZZY misty, foggy; muggy → 1754
► NEBULOSE resembling a cloud or mist; inclined to be foggy or misty → c1420 obs.
► NEBULOUS cloudy, foggy, misty, dank → 1386
► RAFTY misty, wet, cold, draughty → 19C Eng. dial.
► RAGGLIE wet and misty → 1955 Sc.
► RAGGY misty, stormy and cold, with drizzling rain → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RAWK misty, foggy → 19C Sc.
► RAWKY misty, foggy, damp, raw and cold → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RAWMY misty → 19C Eng. dial.
► ROKY foggy, misty → LME obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCAUMY misty, hazy; of an imperfect or disagreeable colour → 1824 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCUDDY misty, showery, foggy → 19C Eng. dial.
► SMOKY foggy, misty → 1769 US
► STRUNTY misty, foggy → 1879 Sc.& Eng. dial.
► THAGGY thick and misty → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► THICK of the weather: cloudy, misty, foggy → 1895 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► THONKY dank, misty, rainy → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TROUBLY of air, etc.: misty, murky, cloudy, not clear → c1380 obs.
NOUNS
► DAG a wet fog, a mist → 1808 Eng. dial.
► DAMP visible vapour; fog, mist → 1601 obs.
► GUM mist, vapour → 1513 Sc. obs.
► HAAR a wet mist or fog; esp. applied on the east coast of England and Scotland, from Lincolnshire northwards, to a cold sea-fog → 1671 Eng. dial.
► HADDER a heavy mist or bank of fog → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAG a thick white mist or fog → 1794 Eng. dial.
► HARL ► HARLE a mist, a fog or drizzle coming up with the tide from the sea → 1721 Eng. dial.
► HAZE-FIRE brilliantly luminous mist → 1842
► JERRY a fog, or mist → 1819 thieves’ sl.
► LIDDISDALE DROW a thick drizzle, a Scotch mist → 1825 Sc.
► MAIDS-O’-MIST drifting wisps of mist, believed to be supernatural beings → 1932 Sc.
► MIRK-DRIFE a fine driving snow or mist → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MISK a mist, a fog → 1881 Eng. dial.
► MIST-FAWN mist resembling a white spot of ground → 1822 Sc. obs.
► MIZLEEN misty weather → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIZ-WET a mist → 1882 Eng. dial.
► MIZZLING a very fine rain, drizzle, mist → 1899 Amer. dial.
► MOKE a mist, a fog; thick, close, foggy weather → 1866 Eng. dial.
► MUG a mist, a fog; a light rain or drizzle; a dull, damp, or gloomy atmosphere → a1728 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MURK thick mist or fog → a1400
► NEBULA fog, mist → 1894
► NEBULE a cloud; a mist or fog → c1420
► NEBULOUSNESS cloudiness, mistiness → 1653
► OOTHER a light morning mist or haze; the flickering haze that rises from the ground on a warm day → 1818 Sc.
► OREGON DEW a light rain or mist; used ironically, a prolonged rain → 1967 Amer. dial.
► OREGON MIST a light rain or mist; used ironically, a prolonged rain → 1965 Amer. dial.
► OTTER-DRIZZLE a fine mist → 1933 Amer. dial.
► PAN a heavy pall of mist → 1908 Sc.
► PARL ► PARLE a thick mist, a fog → 1818 Sc.
► RABBIT DEW mist; the low mist that arises after a quick cool rain shower during very hot weather → 1987 Amer. dial.
► RACK driving mist or fog → a1300 obs.
► RAFT a damp mist → 19C Eng. dial.
► RAG fog, mist, accompanied by drizzling rain → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RAGGER a light drifting mist; a drizzle → 1908 Sc.
► RAGGLE a light drifting mist; a drizzle → 1908 Sc.
► RAWK a mist, a sea fog → 1854 Eng. dial.
► REEK a smoke-like vapour; steam, fog, mist; also, dust → 1691 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ROKE mist, fog; drizzle → ME now Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RUG drizzling rain; wet mist; also, wet weather → c1540 Sc.
► SCAM ► SCAUM a film of vapour, a haze, mist, or shadow → 1824 Sc.
► SCOTCH DEW a mist → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCOTCH DRIZZLE a mist → 1896 Eng. dial.
► SKEW a drizzling rain; a driving mist → 1839 Eng. dial.
► SMIRR a drizzle or wet mist; a fog almost as heavy as a rain → 1914 Amer. dial.
► SMOKE a mist or fog; damp rising out of the earth → 1648
► SMOOR ► SMUR ► SMURR a drizzle or wet mist → 1808 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
► SOP a cloud of mist or smoke → 1513 obs.
► THICKNESS fog, mist → 1898 Sc.
► ULE a sultry heat, warm vapour, esp. mist rising from the ground or the sea on a warm day; heat from a fire → 1866 Sc.
VERBS
► BEMIST to overtake with mist → 1609
► DAMP to envelop in a fog or mist → 1629 obs.
► NEBULIZE to reduce to a mist or spray → 1872
► RAWK to grow misty; to become foggy → 19C Eng. dial.
► REEK to emit vapour; to steam; to perspire; to be misty → 1786 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ROKE to be foggy or misty; to drizzle → E17 now Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCAUM to envelope in a mist or haze; to shade → 1871 Sc.
► SKEW to have the vision obstructed by mist → 1842