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o prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according to the particular shape, Dewar bulb, Dewar tube, etc.

The plant which bears the fruit. Feed him with apricots and dewberries. Shak.

he Herbivora, a rudimentary claw or small hoof not reaching the ground. Some cut off the dewclaws [of greyhounds]. J. H. Walsh.

A drop of dew. Shak.

The falling of dew; the time when dew begins to fall.

State of being dewy.

The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing.

Furnished with a dewlap.

Having no dew. Tennyson.

To ret or rot by the process called dewretting.

Dewrotting; the process of decomposing the gummy matter of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine.

To rot, as flax or hemp, by exposure to rain, dew, and sun. See Dewretting.

See Earthworm.

Pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist with, dew. A dewy mist Went and watered all the ground. Milton. When dewy eve her curtain draws. Keble.

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A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.

Given to drink; drunken. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.

A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.

ge towards anything; in the direction of the edge. Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways. Sir W. Scott.