mist : Idioms & Phrases


frost mist

  • noun small crystals of ice
    diamond dust; frost snow; ice needle; frost mist; ice crystal; poudrin.
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Love-in-a-mist

  • noun tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed
    Passiflora foetida; wild water lemon; running pop.
  • noun chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers
    snow-in-summer; Cerastium tomentosum.
  • noun European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers
    Nigella damascena.
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  • . (Bot.) (a) An herb of the Buttercup family (Nigella Damascena) having the flowers hidden in a maze of finely cut bracts . (b) The West Indian Passiflora foetida, which has similar bracts.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

mist over

  • verb become covered with mist
    mist.
    • The windshield misted over
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mist-flower

  • noun rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium
    mistflower; Conoclinium coelestinum; Eupatorium coelestinum; ageratum.
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Scotch mist

  • a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain.
Webster 1913

snow mist

  • noun small crystals of ice
    diamond dust; frost snow; ice needle; frost mist; ice crystal; poudrin.
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