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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.

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

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

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 signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton.

Wearing buskins. Her buskined virgins traced the dewy lawn. Pope.

, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.

State of being dewy.

Watered; watery; moist; dewy. [Obs.] The flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spreads her store. Milton.

meadow. A mede All full of freshe flowers, white and reede. Chaucer. To fertile vales and dewy meads My weary, wandering steps he leads. Addison.

the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry. From morn To noun he fell, from noon to dewy eve. Milton.

A trodden way; a footway. The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to dew; consisting of dew; dewy. [R.] M. Green.

Of or pertaining to dew; resembling dew; dewy. Roric figures (Physics), figures which appear upon a polished surface, as glass, when objects which have been near to, or in contact with, the surface are removed and the surface breathed upon; -- called also Moser's images.

Dewy; bedewed. [R.] T. Granger.

Dewy. [R.] And shook his wings with rory May-dew wet. Fairfax.

Containing, or consisting of, dew; dewy. [R.] Bacon.

e heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir. From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star. Milton.