dew
noun
- water in the form of droplets that appears on thin, exposed objects in the morning or evening
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒuː/ / /djuː/ / /duː/
name
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Freestone County, Texas, United States.
noun
- Initialism of directed-energy weapon.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English dewe, dewen, from Old English *dēawian, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwēn, from Proto-Germanic *dawwāną. Cognates include Saterland Frisian daue, German tauen and Dutch dauwen.
- To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.
“The grasses grew / A little ranker since they dewed them so.”
- To deposit dew.
“The former [substances extremely attentuated, or in a filamentous and downly state] collect dew copiously, while the latter [solids] so rarely indicate its presence, even when it is dewing freely on contiguous substances, that some observers have doubted whether it ever happened, and have been disposed to believe that they repel it.”
“Yesterday she tied Kenneth to a tree and left him there for hours when it was dewing.”