Synonyms:
moisten, wash, dampen
Meaning: make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows"
Usage examples
Moisten with beef-stock and let bake in the oven.
Cover with fried bread-crumbs and bits of butter, and moisten with cream.
Mix with 1 tablespoonful of butter; season with salt and pepper, a pinch each of mustard, cayenne, nutmeg and curry-powder and moisten with lemon-juice.
Then mix 1 cup of chopped fish with 3 sweet pickles minced fine, and 2 tablespoonfuls of Madras chutney; moisten with 2 tablespoonfuls of Hollandaise sauce.
"That," said the Lad who fiddled when the Jew was in the bramble-bush, "may be as you please, Sir Knight; and, to tell the truth, I will be mightily glad for a drop to moisten my throat withal."