dew

IPA: dˈu

noun

  • (uncountable) Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.
  • (uncountable) Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.
  • (countable, but see usage notes) An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc.
  • (figurative) Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
  • (figurative) An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.
  • A surname.
  • An unincorporated community in Freestone County, Texas, United States.
  • Acronym of distant early warning.

verb

  • To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.
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Examples of "dew" in Sentences

  • Filed under Food · Tagged with mountain dew, pepsi
  • Yes | No | Report from huskerguy wrote 48 weeks 2 days ago mountain dew all the way on the lake
  • For, see you, it was our custom to lick the dew from the oar-blades, the gunwales, the thwarts, and the inside planking.
  • While he collected the morning dew from the lotus leaves, I would hunt for tea that was hidden deep inside the blossoms.
  • This has not prevented many beauty products perpetuating ancient beliefs by using the word dew in their descriptions and labels.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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