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mister | misted |

As a noun mister

is mister (title conferred on an adult male), especially when referring to anglophones.

As a verb misted is

(mist).

mister

English

Etymology 1

Unaccented variant of

Noun

(en noun)
  • Title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also (often parent to young child) referring to a man whose name is unknown.
    • You may sit here, mister .
    Go and ask that mister if you can get your ball out of his garden.
  • * 1855 , George Musalas Colvocoresses, Four Years in the Government Exploring Expedition , J. M. Fairchild & co., page 358:
    • Fine day to see sights, gentlemen. Well, misters , here's the railing round the ground, and there's the paling round the tomb, eight feet deep, six feet long, and three feet wide.
  • * 1908 , Jack Brand, By Wild Waves Tossed: An Ocean Love Story , The McClure Company, page 90:
    • There's only three misters aboard this ship, or, rather, there's only two.
    Coordinate terms
    * (title of adult male) master, mistress, , Doctor

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To address by the title of "mister".

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mester, (meister) (et al.), from (etyl) misterium, a medieval conflation of (etyl) .David Wallace, Chaucerian polity: absolutist lineages and associational forms in England and Italy , Stanford University Press, 1997

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
  • A kind, type of.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
    • The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast, / To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd.
  • (obsolete) Need (of something).
  • * :
    • And thenne the grene knyghte kneled doune / and dyd hym homage with his swerd / thenne said the damoisel me repenteth grene knyghte of your dommage / and of youre broders dethe the black knyghte / for of your helpe I had grete myster / For I drede me sore to passe this forest / Nay drede you not sayd the grene knyghte / for ye shal lodge with me this nyghte / and to morne I shalle helpe you thorou this forest
  • (obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.
  • * :
    • It was by Merlyns auyse said the knyghte / As for hym sayd kynge Carados / I wylle encountre with kynge bors / and ye wil rescowe me whan myster is / go on said they al / we wil do all that we may

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
    • As for my name, it mistreth not to tell; / Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well.

    Etymology 3

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device that makes or sprays mist.
    • Odessa D. uses a mister Sunday to fight the 106-degree heat at a NASCAR race in Fontana, California.
    Derived terms
    * demister

    References

    Anagrams

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    misted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mist)

    • Anagrams

    * * *

    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

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