dew

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.

2. 2

   Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in…

   Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.

   • 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
3. 3

   An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc.

   • There was a heavy dew this morning.
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   1. 4

      Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.

      • the golden dew of sleep
   2. 5

      An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.

      • 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
   3. 6

      To wet with, or as if with, dew

      To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.

      • The grasses grew / A little ranker since they dewed them so.
   4. 7

      To deposit dew.

      • 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.
   5. 8

      Acronym of Distant Early Warning.

   6. 9

      Initialism of directed-energy weapon.

   7. 10

      A surname.

   8. 11

      An unincorporated community in Freestone County, Texas, United States.

The neighborhood

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