dew

[dew]

Dew is moisture caused by condensation of water vapor in the air. Dew is what gets your feet wet when you walk across the grass on a summer morning.

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Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.

Noun
water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air; "in the morning the grass was wet with dew"


n.
Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.

n.
Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.

n.
An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor.

v. t.
To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew.

a. & n.
Same as Due, or Duty.


Dew

Dew , n. [AS. de'a0w; akin to D. dauw, G. thau, tau, Icel. d'94gg, Sw. dagg, Dan. dug; cf. Skr. dhav, dh'bev, to flow. . Cf. Dag dew.] 1. Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.
Her tears fell with the dews at even.
2. Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner. "The golden dew of sleep." Shak. 3. An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor. "The dew of his youth." Longfellow. &hand; Dew is used in combination; as, dew-bespangled, dew-drenched, dewdrop, etc.

Dew

Dew, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dewed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dewing.] To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew.
The grasses grew A little ranker since they dewed them so.

Dew

Dew, a. & n. Same as Due, or Duty. [Obs.] Spenser.

Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.

To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew.

Same as Due, or Duty.

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Usage Examples

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

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