moisten

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MOISTEN, verb transitive mois'n. To make damp; to wet in a small degree. A pipe a little moistened on the inside. His bones are moistened with marrow. Job 21:24. MOIST, as a verb, is obsolete.
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