dewy

adj

Etymology: From Middle English dewy, deuhy, from Old English dēawiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwag, *dauwīg, equivalent to dew + -y.

1. Covered by dew.

   “His mildly vivid dewy beam Of beryl to diffuse: the gleam With elf-light tiniest figures lit Of shapely moon-fair elves who sit Each on a gemmy blade's curled tip In circle.”

   “The dewy grass was too slick for football.”

2. Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.

   “In the dewy fog, it was cold and damp.”

   “At midnight, in the month of June, / I stand beneath the mystic moon. / An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, / Exhales from out her golden rim”

3. Resembling or characteristic of dew.
4. Fresh and innocent.

   “1814, 16 March, Percy Bysshe Shelley letter to Hogg, Thy Gentle Face Thy dewy looks sink in my breast Thy gentle words stir poison there;”

   “It was unusually early for him; his whole person exhaled the charm of almost dewy freshness; […]”