Middle English Dictionary Entry
moistī adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | moistī adj. Also mosti. |
| Etymology | From moiste adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Humid, damp, wet; of fruit: moist and juicy; (b) of a humor, part of the body, or season: dominated by the quality of moistness; (c) ~ ale, new ale.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)230a/b : Þe lenger tyme þey [stalks of flax] beþ in suche moysty place, þe more hard þey beþ.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)234b/a : Þe more rype he [berries] wexeþ, þe more hoot he wexeþ and also þe more swete and moysty.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.164 : Yf thow sette a plaunte..Putte in a lytel moysty molde.
b
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)219/35-36 : The bloode Is hotte and moysti to the lyckenesse of the heiere; ffleme is colde and moysti aftyr the kynde of the watyr.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)231/27 : Tho that bene moche and haue moisti flesh and lytill hette, bene slow and of slow vndyrstondynge.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)243/28 : The tyme of weere is hote and moisti, like as the eyre is.
c
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mcp.(Manly-Rickert)H.60 : For were it wyn or old or moisty ale That he hath dronke, he speketh in his nose And fneseth faste.
- c1440 Chaucer CT.Pard.(Cmb Ii.3.26)C.315 : Or elles a draught of corny, moysty [vrr. mosty; moyste] ale.