Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Moist

Moist , adjective

[Old English moiste, Old French moiste, French moite, from Latin muccidus, for mucidus, moldy, musty. Compare Mucus, Mucid.]

1.
Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air.
Moist eyes. — Shakespeare
2.
Fresh, or new. [Obsolete]
Shoes full moist and new. — Chaucer
A draught of moist and corny ale.

Moist , transitive verb

To moisten. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare