Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.
2. (uncountable) Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.
3. (countable, but see usage notes) An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc.
4. (figurative) Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
5. (figurative) An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.
6. (transitive) To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.
7. (intransitive) To deposit dew.

Example Sentences

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

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.

the golden dew of sleep

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.

Word Forms

• dews
• dewing
• dewed

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