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A caddice. See Caddice.

saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids.

To indue. [Obs.] Spenser.

To taint with mildew. He... mildews the white wheat. Shak.

Leaf metal of bronze; Dutch metal. See under Dutch.

A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement. [U.S.]

Toward the side; sidewise. A second refraction made sideways. Sir I. Newton. His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . . Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings. Longfellow.

A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary. [Slang.]

On or toward one side; laterally; sideways. I saw them mask their awful glance Sidewise meek in gossamer lids. Emerson.

A way along which something slides.

se leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.

A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties. Swift.

Channel in which the tide sets.

Widely; far and wide. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. "And cheeks all pale." Byron.

An unguent of the gods. His dewy locks distilled ambrosia. Milton.

Any aphid from which ants obtain honeydew.

Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. His dewy locks did drop with brine apace. Spenser. A visible triumph of the gospel drawapace. I. Taylor.

To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten. [Obs.] The blissful dew of heaven does arrose you. Two N. Kins.