Слово "moisten". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

"A Mexican with a knife, miss," he answered, moistening his parched lips and clearing hip throat. "It was just a fight.

His tongue even strayed out to moisten them.

I had moistened his temples, and had given him some water to drink.

"We had won the town and it was still early in the morning and no one had eaten nor had any one drunk coffee and we looked at each other and we were all powdered with dust from the blowing up of the barracks, as powdered as men are at a threshing, and I stood holding the pistol and it was heavy in my hand and I felt weak in the stomach when I looked at the guards dead there against the wall; they all as gray and as dusty as we were, but each one was now moistening with his blood the dry dirt by the wall where they lay.