Mist

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

mist

Add: I. a cloud of minute particles of water, vapour of water, cloud :-- Hé hét his cnapan háwian tó ðǽre sǽ gif ǽnig mist árise of ðám mycclum brymme. Hml. S. 18, 146. Ðá brǽðas ðæs flǽsces stigon upp on ǽlce healfe geond þá byrig eall swá hit mist wǽre, 23, 38. I a. a fog, steam, haze :-- Of þǽre eá wǽre reócende se mist unáræfnedlicre fýlnesse and unswétes stences foetoris intolerabilis nebulam exhalans fluvius, Gr. D. 318, 28. Mid þý miste (nebula) þæs fúlan stences. . . seó fýlnes þæs reócendan mistes, 319, 10-11. II. dimness of eyesight :-- Wiþ eágna miste . . . ꝥ bið lyb wiþ eágena dimnesse, Lch. ii. 30, 11-15, Wurdon his eágan yfele gehefegode mid tóswollenum breáwum and swíðlicum myste, swá ꝥ his seón swýðe þeóstrodon. Hml. S. 31, 587. III. what obscures mental vision :-- Hé bið áblend mid ðǽm miste ðára leásunga aspersae falsitatis nebulis seductus, Past. 340, 3. Gif þú ðone wísdóm selfne geseón wilt, þú ne scealt nénne myst betweón lǽtan þínum eágum and hym. Solil. H. 43, 17. mist