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Mist vs Bemist - What's the difference?

mist | bemist |

As verbs the difference between mist and bemist

is that mist is (to mock a work by inserting annotations) while bemist is to cover or envelop with mist, or as with mist.

mist

English

(wikipedia mist)

Noun

  • (uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
    • It was difficult to see through the morning mist .
  • (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
    • There was an oily mist on the lens .
  • (figurative) Anything that dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
  • * Dryden
    • His passion cast a mist before his sense.

    Derived terms

    * misty * mists of time * red mist

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form mist.
    • It's misting this morning.
  • To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
    • I mist my tropical plants every morning.
  • To cover with a mist.
    • The lens was misted .
    (Shakespeare)
  • (of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
    • My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.

    Derived terms

    * mist over

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    bemist

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or envelop with mist, or as with mist.
  • *1959 , International Agricultural Aviation Centre, European Agricultural Aviation Centre, The Hague, Agricultural aviation: Volumes 1-6 :
    • For destroying Gypsy Moth caterpillars in the forests of Yugoslavia, the method of bemisting' from the aeroplane with DDT preparations has been applied so far... In the first place, among other defects, the residual effect of the poison in ' bemisting is very short [...]
  • *2001 , James Ferguson, Exposition of Paul's Epistles :
    • There are usually some within the visible church, who, being bemisted with error , do not come up to give thorough assent unto all divine truths...