dew
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dew, from Old English dēaw (“dew”), from Proto-West Germanic *dauw, from Proto-Germanic *dawwaz, *dawwą (“dew, moisture”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, haze”).
Cognate with German Tau, Dutch dauw and Afrikaans dou. Doublet of dag.
Inflected forms:
form: dews
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dews
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dewing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dewed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dewed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: And Gideon said vnto God, If thou wilt saue Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,
Beholde, I will put a fleece of wooll in the floore: and if the deaw be on the fleece onely, and it bee drie vpon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt saue Israel by my hande, as thou hast said.
And it was so: for he rose vp early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the deaw out of the fleece, a bowle full of water.
And Gideon said vnto God, Let not thine anger be hote against me, and I will speake but this once: Let mee prooue, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece. Let it now be drie onely vpon the fleece, and vpon all the ground let there be deaw.
And God did so that night: for it was drie vpon the fleece onely, and there was deaw on all the ground.
As therefore the morning devv, is a pavvne of the evenings fatneſſe, ſo, O Lord, let this daies comfort be the earneſt of to morrowes, […]
Tree don't care what the little bird sings / We go down with the dew in the morning light / The tree don't know what the little bird brings / We go down with the dew in the morning
gloss: An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: There was a heavy dew this morning.
On their entrance, Aylmer was greeted by a new surprise—his daughter Lucy, whom he very naturally supposed was quietly in her bed, lay on the window-seat, the casement open, and herself asleep; but the traces of tears were upon her cheek, and her long fair hair loose, and yet saturated with the dews of the night.
gloss: Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: the golden dew of sleep
gloss: An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Thy people ſhalbe willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holineſſe from the wombe of the morning: thou haſt the dew of thy youth.
the dew of his youth
gloss: To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The grasses grew / A little ranker since they dewed them so.
gloss: To deposit dew.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The former [substances extremely attentuated, or in a filamentous and downly state] collect dew copiously, while the latter [solids] so rarely indicate its presence, even when it is dewing freely on contiguous substances, that some observers have doubted whether it ever happened, and have been disposed to believe that they repel it.
Yesterday she tied Kenneth to a tree and left him there for hours when it was dewing.
Withdraw heat from a gas, and it will dew into a liquid. Subtract more heat, and a solid forms.
Related words: bedew
Derived words: dew-beater
dewberry
dewcap
dewclaw
dewclawed
dew computing
dew-drink
dewdrop
dew-eyed
dewfall
dew-fall
dewless
dewlike
dew point
dew poison
dewret
dewretting
dewshine
dew water
dewworm
honeydew
mountain dew
peppadew
sundew
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