Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night. Her tears fell with the dews at even. Tennyson.
Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner. "The golden dew of sleep." Shak.
An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor. "The dew of his youth." Longfellow.
To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew. The grasses grew A little ranker since they dewed them so. A. B. Saxton.
Same as Due, or Duty. [Obs.] Spenser.
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