dew

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On every spear the dew was a-glimmer, for a lustrous moon shone from the sky.

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  1. noun Water droplets condensed from the air, usually at night, onto cool surfaces.
  2. noun Something moist, fresh, pure, or renewing: "The timely dew of sleep/. . . inclines/Our eye-lids” (John Milton).
  3. noun Moisture, as in the form of tears or perspiration, that appears in small drops.

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  • The former had by no means slept off his enthusiasm in the cause of science; and as soon as the dew was off the grass, he commenced exploring the premises, in search of any appearances that might throw new light upon the conduct of the "poor boy" during his midnight ramble. —  In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.
  • "Why, how heavy the dew is here in these tropical seas!" —  The Sign of the Spider
  • "You stayed out late last night, and the dew was awful heavy. —  The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel
  • So she just laid her flaxen head down amongst the blue-eyed grasses, and soon fell fast asleep When she woke up, the dew was all dried off, and the sun almost directly overhead. —  The Pot of Gold And Other Stories
  • The rain and the dew are all they want," said a vine, which had been running many years over an old dead oak, once the pride of the garden. —  Allegories of Life
 

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  1. Middle English deu, from Old English dēaw; see dheu-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also dewe, deaw; from Middle English dew, deu, deaw), from Anglo-Saxon deáw = OFries. daw = Dutch dauw = Middle Low German dow, douwe, dawe, dau, Low German dau = Old High German tou, tau (touw-), Middle High German tou (touw-), German tau, thau = Icelandic dögg = Swedish dagg, dew. cf. dugg, drizzling rain, = Danish dug, dew (Old Danish dugregn, drizzling rain), = Gothic (Moesogothic) *daggwus (?), not recorded. From the Scandinavian is derived English dag, dew: see dag, deg.
  2. from Middle English dewen, from Anglo-Saxon deáwian = OFries. dawa = Dutch dauwen = Low German dauen = Old High German touwōn, towōn, towēn, Middle High German touwen, German tauen, thauen = Icelandic döggva = Swedish dagga, dew, cf. dugga, drizzle, = Danish dugge, dew; from the noun. Cf. bedew.
 

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