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densed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night. Her tears fell with the dews at even. Tennyson.

The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.

to 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.

the 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.

To moisten with dew, or as with dew. "Falling tears his face bedew." Dryden.

One who, or that which, bedews.

Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.] Night with her bedewy wings. A. Brewer.

A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.