dew

6 definitions found

dew - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Dew \Dew\, a. & n.
     Same as Due, or Duty. [Obs.] --Spenser.
     [1913 Webster] Dewar vessel
     Dewar

  Dew \Dew\ (d[=u]), n. [AS. de['a]w; akin to D. dauw, G. thau,
     tau, Icel. d["o]gg, Sw. dagg, Dan. dug; cf. Skr. dhav,
     dh[=a]v, to flow. [root]72. Cf. Dag dew.]
     1. Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon
        their surfaces, particularly at night.
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              Her tears fell with the dews at even. --Tennyson.
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     2. Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a
        refreshing manner. "The golden dew of sleep." --Shak.
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     3. An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor. "The dew of his
        youth." --Longfellow.
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     Note: Dew is used in combination; as, dew-bespangled,
           dew-drenched, dewdrop, etc.
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  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.
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           The grasses grew
           A little ranker since they dewed them so. --A. B.
                                                    Saxton.
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dew - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dew
      n 1: water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from
           water vapor in the air; "in the morning the grass was wet
           with dew"

dew - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Dew
  "There is no dew properly so called in Palestine, for there is
  no moisture in the hot summer air to be chilled into dew-drops
  by the coldness of the night. From May till October rain is
  unknown, the sun shining with unclouded brightness day after
  day. The heat becomes intense, the ground hard, and vegetation
  would perish but for the moist west winds that come each night
  from the sea. The bright skies cause the heat of the day to
  radiate very quickly into space, so that the nights are as cold
  as the day is the reverse, a peculiarity of climate from which
  poor Jacob suffered thousands of years ago (Gen. 31:40). To this
  coldness of the night air the indispensable watering of all
  plant-life is due. The winds, loaded with moisture, are robbed
  of it as they pass over the land, the cold air condensing it
  into drops of water, which fall in a gracious rain of mist on
  every thirsty blade. In the morning the fog thus created rests
  like a sea over the plains, and far up the sides of the hills,
  which raise their heads above it like so many islands. At
  sunrise, however, the scene speedily changes. By the kindling
  light the mist is transformed into vast snow-white clouds, which
  presently break into separate masses and rise up the
  mountain-sides, to disappear in the blue above, dissipated by
  the increasing heat. These are 'the morning clouds and the early
  dew that go away' of which Hosea (6:4; 13:3) speaks so
  touchingly" (Geikie's The Holy Land, etc., i., p. 72). Dew is a
  source of great fertility (Gen. 27:28; Deut. 33:13; Zech. 8:12),
  and its withdrawal is regarded as a curse from God (2 Sam. 1:21;
  1 Kings 17:1). It is the symbol of a multitude (2 Sam. 17:12;
  Ps. 110:3); and from its refreshing influence it is an emblem of
  brotherly love and harmony (Ps. 133:3), and of rich spiritual
  blessings (Hos. 14:5).

dew - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "dew":
     asperge, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, dabble, damp, dampen, dash,
     dawn dew, dewdrops, douche, evening damp, false dew, fog drip,
     hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, irrigate, moisten,
     night dew, paddle, slobber, slop, slosh, sparge, spatter, splash,
     splatter, sponge, spray, sprinkle, swash, syringe, water, wet,
     wet down