mist

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A mass of fine droplets of water in the atmosphere near or in contact with the earth.
• noun Water vapor condensed on and clouding the appearance of a surface.
• noun Fine drops of a liquid, such as water, perfume, or medication, sprayed into the air.
• noun A suspension of fine drops of a liquid in a gas.
• noun Something that dims or conceals.
• noun A haze before the eyes that blurs the vision.
• noun Something that produces or gives the impression of dimness or obscurity.
• noun A drink consisting of a liquor served over cracked ice.
• intransitive verb To be or become obscured or blurred by or as if by mist.
• intransitive verb To rain in a fine shower.
• intransitive verb To conceal or veil with or as if with mist.
• intransitive verb To moisturize (plants or dry air, for example) with a fine spray of water.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To cover or obscure with or as with mist; cloud; obscure.
• To be misty or drizzling: as, it mists.
• noun A cloud consisting of an aggregation of a vast number of minute globules of water, and resting upon the ground; fog.
• noun Precipitation consisting of extremely fine droplets of water, much smaller and more closely aggregated than in rain: distinguished from fog in that the droplets are larger and have a perceptible downward motion. In a ship's logbook, abbreviated masculine
• noun Something which dims or darkens and obscures or intercepts physical or intellectual vision like a fog; obscurity.
• An obsolete or occasional form of missed, preterit and past participle of miss.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To cloud; to cover with mist; to dim.
• intransitive verb To rain in very fine drops.
• noun Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.
• noun Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain.
• noun Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
• noun (Bot.) a composite plant (Eupatorium cœlestinum), having heart-shaped leaves, and corymbs of lavender-blue flowers. It is found in the Western and Southern United States.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun uncountable Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
• noun countable A layer of fine droplets or particles.
• verb To form mist.
• verb To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
• verb To cover with a mist.
• verb of the eyes To be covered by tears.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb become covered with mist
• verb spray finely or cover with mist
• noun a thin fog with condensation near the ground
• verb make less visible or unclear