mist \mist\ mi^st, n. as. mist; akin to d.  sw. mist,
   icel. mistr, g. mist dung, goth. ma'ihstus, as. mimacgan
   to make water, icel. mimacga, lith. migla mist, russ. mgla,
   l. mingere, meiere, to make water, gr. 'omichei^n to make
   water, 'omi`chlh mist, skr. mih to make water, n., a mist
   m=egha cloud. root102. cf. misle, mizzle, mixen.
   1. visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or
      near the surface of the earth; fog.
      1913 webster

   2. coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible
      particles, approaching the form of rain; as, scotch mist.
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   3. hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or
      intercepts vision.
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            his passion cast a mist before his sense. --dryden.
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   mist flower bot., a composite plant eupatorium
      coelestinum, having heart-shaped leaves, and corymbs of
      lavender-blue flowers. it is found in the western and
      southern united states.
      1913 webster
see also:
misle mizzle mixen mist flower eupatorium coelestinum 

mist \mist\, v. t. imp.  p. p. misted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   misting.
   to cloud; to cover with mist; to dim. --shak.
   1913 webster
see also:
misted misting 

mist \mist\, v. i.
   to rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.
   1913 webster

mist
     n : a thin fog with condensation near the ground
     v 1: become covered with mist; "the windshield misted over" syn:
           mist over
     2: make less visible or unclear; "the stars are obscured by the
        clouds" syn: obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate,
         haze over, fog, cloud
     3: spray finely or cover with mist
see also:
mist over obscure befog becloud obnubilate haze over 
fog cloud 

162 moby thesaurus words for "mist":
   london fog, london special, scotch mist, addle, addle the wits,
   air, airy nothing, amorphousness, ball up, becloud, bedazzle,
   befog, befuddle, befuddlement, bemist, bewilder, bewilderment,
   blood rain, blur, bother, botheration, bubble, bug, chaos,
   clabber up, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, confuse, confusion, dark,
   darken, darken over, darkness, daze, dazzle, defocus, dim,
   discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture,
   discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder,
   disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, disturb,
   disturbance, drisk, drizzle, drizzling mist, embarrass,
   embarrassment, encloud, enmist, entangle, ether, evening mist,
   fall, film, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fogginess,
   frenzy, frost smoke, fuddle, fuddlement, fuss, fuzziness, gauze,
   gout of rain, haze, illusion, indeterminateness, indistinctness,
   jumble, lose resolution, maze, mess, mistiness, misty rain, mix up,
   mizzle, moider, moisture, muddle, muddlement, mumbo jumbo, murk,
   murkiness, mystification, nubilate, obfuscation, obnubilate,
   obscurantism, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, opacity, overcast,
   overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, pale, patter, pea soup,
   pea-soup fog, peasouper, perplex, perplexity, perturb,
   perturbation, phantom, pitter-patter, pother, precipitation,
   pucker, put out, rain, raindrop, rainfall, rainwater, raise hell,
   rattle, ruffle, shade, shadow, shapelessness, sheet of rain,
   shower, shuffle, smog, smoke, soften, spirit, splatter, sprinkle,
   steam up, stew, sweat, swivet, thin air, throw into confusion,
   tizzy, unclarity, unclearness, unfrozen hydrometeor, unplainness,
   unsettle, unsettlement, upset, vagueness, vapor, wet