| 单词 |
humect |
| 释义 |
humect, v. Now rare.|hjuːˈmɛkt|
[ad. L. hūmectāre (more correctly ūm-), f. (h)ūmectus moist, wet, f. (h)ūmē-re to be moist: see humid, humour. Cf. F. humecter (16th c., Rabelais).]
1. trans. To moisten, wet.
1531Elyot Gov. i. xi, It humecteth the body, or maketh it moyster and hotter. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 48/1 Humect an other peece of clothe in rayne water. 1670–98R. Lassels Voy. Italy I. 94 Many springs humect it from the Apennine hills. 1765Nat. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 107/2 On the falling of rain that humects the earth, there arises a grateful smell. 1853A. Soyer Pantroph. 139 The other half of this seasoning serves to humect the quenelles which you have taken beforehand. 1923E. Pound Let. 16 Jan. (1971) 184 Jock Hielandman..ran Unto the river Liffey, Peeled off his breeches and jumped in, Humecting thus his hairy skin.
2. intr. To become humid or moist.
1686W. Harris tr. Lemery's Chym. (ed. 3) 613 This Salt..easily humects, and dissolves into a liquor.
Hence huˈmecting ppl. a., moistening.
1612Ench. Med. 57 Neither oile nor any other humecting thing. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 42 By its general humecting quality, water is distinguished from aqua philosophorum. |
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