Dew
['djuː] or [du]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(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.
Edited by Amber
Definition
n. an obsolete spelling of due.
n. moisture deposited from the air on cooling esp. at night in minute specks upon the surface of objects: early freshness (esp. in Dew of his youth).—v.t. to wet with dew: to moisten.—ns. Dew′berr′y a kind of bramble or blackberry having a bluish dew-like bloom on the fruit; Dew′-claw a rudimentary inner toe of a dog's hind-foot; Dew′drop; Dew′fall the falling of dew the time it falls; Dew′point the temperature at which dew begins to form; Dew′-rett′ing the process of rotting away the gummy part of hemp or flax by exposure on the grass to dew and rain; Dew′stone a Nottinghamshire limestone; Dew′-worm the common earthworm.—adj. Dew′y.—Mountain dew (slang) whisky originally illicitly distilled or smuggled spirits.
Typist: Natalie
Unserious Contents or Definition
To feel the dew falling on you in your dreams, portends that you will be attacked by fever or some malignant disease; but to see the dew sparkling through the grass in the sunlight, great honors and wealth are about to be heaped upon you. If you are single, a wealthy marriage will soon be your portion.
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Examples
- She sat down among the roots of the alder tree, dim and veiled, hearing the sound of the sluice like dew distilling audibly into the night. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What do you say to my She cal'-led to' her love' From the lat'-tice a-bove, 'O come in' from the fog-gy fog'-gy dew'. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She lured me to leave this den and follow her forth into dew, coolness, and glory. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I find on this pavement that wanderer-wooing summer night of which I mused; I see its moon over me; I feel its dew in the air. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Dew glistens on the foliage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Poverty was the cloud that veiled her excellencies, and all that was good in her seemed about to perish from want of the genial dew of affection. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Dew had fallen heavily since the wind had dropped, but, as he stood there, he thought there would be frost by morning. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The grass was lush underfoot after the pineneedle floor of the forest and the dew on the grass wet through their canvas rope-soled shoes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I drink: it is as if sweetest dew visited my lips in a full current. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Light mists arise, and the dew falls, and all the sweet scents in the garden are heavy in the air. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There must be something, too, in its dews which heals with sovereign balm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The dews of a summer evening are what I would not expose any body to. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The dews at this hour is unwholesome for females, observed Joe. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The dews of Hermon are falling upon us now, and the tents are almost soaked with them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When he came back by the same path it was dusk, and the dews were coating every green thing. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Checker: Sinclair