Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Water droplets condensed from the air, usually at night, onto cool surfaces.
- noun Something moist, fresh, pure, or renewing.
- noun Moisture, as in the form of tears or perspiration, that appears in small drops.
- transitive verb To wet with or as if with dew.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To wet with or as if with dew; moisten; bedew.
- An obsolete spelling of
due . - noun The aqueous vapor which is deposited from the atmosphere by condensation, especially during the night, in the form of small drops on the surface of bodies.
- noun Something likened to dew: As falling lightly, or as serving to refresh.
- noun As suggestive of the morning, and hence of freshness and youth.
- noun Moisture standing in little drops on anything.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew.
- noun Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.
- noun Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
- noun An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor.
- obsolete Same as
due , orduty .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable
moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting indrops . - noun countable an instance of a such moisture settling on plants, etc.
- verb To
wet with, or as if with, dew; tomoisten .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This has not prevented many beauty products perpetuating ancient beliefs by using the word dew in their descriptions and labels.
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The light vapour floating around the surface so cooled is condensed upon it, and there accumulates to form the little pearly globe which we call a dew-drop.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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Christ fell to the ground as a corn of wheat (ch.xii. 24), and therefore was sown in a garden among the seeds, for his dew is as the dew of herbs, Isa. xxvi.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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For, see you, it was our custom to lick the dew from the oar-blades, the gunwales, the thwarts, and the inside planking.
CHAPTER X 2010
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Yes she does, right down to making sure he changes his soiled underwear and keeping his basement lair well stocked with mountain dew and cheetos.
Think Progress » Mother of man arrested for threatening Pelosi blames ‘really radical’ Fox News. 2010
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The said leaves, collected while the sunrise dew is upon them, as great as brought in to the cover troubled with fleas, will gather them thereunto, that being unexpected expel out, will rid the cover of those troublesome bedfellows.
Islamic Healing A-Z A's admin 2009
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The said leaves, collected while the sunrise dew is upon them, as great as brought in to the cover troubled with fleas, will gather them thereunto, that being unexpected expel out, will rid the cover of those troublesome bedfellows.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Yes | No | Report from huskerguy wrote 48 weeks 2 days ago mountain dew all the way on the lake
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Filed under Food · Tagged with mountain dew, pepsi
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While he collected the morning dew from the lotus leaves, I would hunt for tea that was hidden deep inside the blossoms.
Kien Nguyen talks about his grandfather, the inspiration for his first novel, The Tapestries 2010
bilby commented on the word dew
For etymological connection see sundog and fogdog.
July 30, 2021