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Definition of Mist over
1. Verb. Become covered with mist. "The windshield misted over"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mist Over
Literary usage of Mist over
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John C. Calhoun by John Caldwell Calhoun, Richard Kenner Crallé (1851)
"... to cast a mist over our system of government, and to confound and lead astray
the minds of the community as to a true conception of its real character, ..."
2. Sermons and discourses on several subjects and occasions by Francis Atterbury (1820)
"... have been so far from reaching the end aimed at, the dissipating all doubts
and difficulties, that they have cast a mist over many places, ..."
3. A Disquisition on Government by John Caldwell Calhoun (1851)
"... to cast a mist over our system of government, and to confound and lead astray
the minds of the community as to a true conception of its real character, ..."
4. The Making of Herbert Hoover by Rose Wilder Lane (1920)
"A gray mist over gray water; that was the edge of Suisun Straits, an arm of San
Francisco Bay. Fishermen's huts among the tules; long weed-tangled piers ..."
5. The Path on the Rainbow: An Anthology of Songs and Chants from the Indians by George William Cronyn, Mary Hunter Austin (1918)
"With the far darkness made of the dark cloud over your head, come to us soaring,
With the far darkness made of the rain and the mist over your head, ..."
6. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... 4, л mist over ONE'S EYES from the sun, the ' sun in one's eyes ' ; also '
heat mist ' ; the mist over the horizon when the grass is burning. ..."
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