mist : Idioms & Phrases
frost mist
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noun small crystals of ice
diamond dust; frost snow; ice needle; frost mist; ice crystal; poudrin.
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Love-in-a-mist
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noun tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed
Passiflora foetida; wild water lemon; running pop.
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noun chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers
snow-in-summer; Cerastium tomentosum.
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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 IndianPassiflora 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
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verb become covered with mist
mist.
- The windshield misted over
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mist-flower
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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
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noun small crystals of ice
diamond dust; frost snow; ice needle; frost mist; ice crystal; poudrin.