Dew

Noun

 * 1)  moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops.
 * 2)  an instance of a such moisture settling on plants, etc.
 * ''there was a heavy dew this morning.

Verb

 * 1) To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.

Adjectives for Dew
drenching; fragrant; cleansing; damp; dripping; murky; lethal; sparkling; heavy melodious; filmy; glittering; glistening warm; moonlit; starry; starlight; hoary scented; gracious; moistening; quivering spangled; prodigal; fiery; melancholy ambrosial; new-dropped; fattening; ghastly; pestilent; gleaming; undried; cold; blinding; richer; unconcealing; sunlit; gathering; bitter; innocent; softest; melting; nocturnal; lingering; mellifluous; healing; falling; sickly; silvery.

Verbs for Dew
bathe in—; bedabble with—; brush away—; deck with—; dip in—; dissolve in—; dis-till—; flower in—; sip—; spray with—; steep in—; sweep away—; wash with—; wet with—; —chills; —dabbles; —drenches; —drops; —falls; —freshens; —glistens; —moistens; —pearls; —refreshes; —revives; —spangles; —strengthens; —thickens ; —twinkles.

Thesaurus
asperge, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, dabble, damp, dampen, dash, dawn dew, dewdrops, douche, evening damp, false dew, fog drip, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, irrigate, moisten, night dew, paddle, slobber, slop, slosh, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, sponge, spray, sprinkle, swash, syringe, water, wet, wet down

Etymology
From, from deaw:, from , from. Cognate with dauw:, Dutch dauw:, German Tau:, Danish dug:, Swedish dagg:,  and  dögg:,  θέω:,  undefined:.

Noun

 * Arabic: (tall),  (saqīt)
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: rosada
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, δροσιά, δρόσος
 * Gujarati: ઝાકળ (jhākala)
 * Hebrew: טל (t'al)
 * Hindi: ओस (os), शबनम (šabnam) , नम (nam)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: embun
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 露 (tsuyu)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: şevnem, şewnem, şebnem
 * Sorani: شه‌ونم


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: rasa
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old Norse:
 * Persian: (žāle),  (šabnam),  (nam),  (saqit),  (afšak),  (afšang),  (erkāk),  (bažm),  (pasagak),  (paštak),  (šahangāne)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: orvalho, riço
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: rugada
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: अवश्याय (avaśyāya)
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, , , ,
 * Urdu: (os),  (šabnam) ,  (nam) ,  (žāla)

Verb

 * Bulgarian: оросявам

Related terms

 * dew point

Anagrams

 * wed, Wed, we'd, Wed.

Etymology
From adéu:.

Interjection

 * 1)  bye

Numeral

 * 1)  two