Definition of "dew" []

• Water droplets condensed from the air, usually at night, onto cool surfaces. (noun)
• Something moist, fresh, pure, or renewing: "The timely dew of sleep/. . . inclines/Our eye-lids” ( John Milton). (noun)
• Moisture, as in the form of tears or perspiration, that appears in small drops. (noun)
• To wet with or as if with dew. (verb-transitive)

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• "This has not prevented many beauty products perpetuating ancient beliefs by using the word dew in their descriptions and labels."
• "The light vapour floating around the surface so cooled is condensed upon it, and there accumulates to form the little pearly globe which we call a dew-drop."
• "Christ fell to the ground as a corn of wheat (ch.xii. 24), and therefore was sown in a garden among the seeds, for his dew is as the dew of herbs, Isa. xxvi."