Definition of "moistening" []

• Present participle of moisten. (verb)

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• "Nature: Most often these are called cooling or heating, but the terms moistening, relaxing and energizing are used."
• "Such use of saliva is no more to be deprecated than its application in a hundred other ways, such as moistening the fingers to turn a leaf, of "licking" one's fingers after eating candy."
• "First just a moistening, but then pouring out as my whole body sobbed in a great release of pent-up emotion."