Sist vs Mist - What's the difference?

sist | mist |

As an adverb sist

is least, worst.

(to mock a work by inserting annotations).

(en verb)

; to delay or suspend; to stop

to cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court

* Sir W. Hamilton

Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle.

(en noun)

a stay or suspension of proceedings

(Burrill)

(Webster 1913) ----

(wikipedia mist)

(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.

* misty * mists of time * red mist

(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.

* mist over

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