umesco

Latin > English

umesco umescere, -, - V :: become moist or wet

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ūmesco: (less correctly hū-), no
I perf. nor sup., ĕre, 3, v. inch. n. umeo, to grow moist or wet (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): (equi) umescunt spumis, Verg. G. 3, 111: cortex non umescit, Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 107: terra umescens rore occulto, id. 18, 34, 77, § 339: solum, Pall. Sept. 10, 3: vidimus umescentes oculos tuos, Plin. Pan. 73, 4.

Latin > German (Georges)

ūmēsco (hūmēsco), ere (umeo), feucht-, naß werden, Verg. georg. 3, 111. Plin. 17, 107. Plin. pan. 73, 4. Claud. b. Gild. 497: Ggstz. siccesco, Plin. 18, 339.