Definition of Dew

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Definition of Dew

Dew

Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.

Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.

An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor.

To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew.

Same as Due, or Duty.

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Dew Quotations

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
Hunter S. Thompson

The dew of compassion is a tear.
Lord Byron

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Marshall McLuhan

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Jean Paul

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
George Byron

Dew Translations

dew in Danish is dug
dew in Dutch is dauw
dew in German is tauen, Tau
dew in Hungarian is harmat
dew in Norwegian is dugge, dugg
dew in Portuguese is orvalho
dew in Swedish is dagg

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