dew /ˈdu ||ˈdju/
 露珠,露水(vt.)用露水沾溼(vi.)結露水


 Dew, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dewed p. pr. & vb. n. Dewing.] To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew.
 The grasses grew
 A little ranker since they dewed them so.   --A. B. Saxton.


 Dew, a. & n. Same as Due, or Duty. [Obs.]

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 Dew n.
 1. Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.
    Her tears fell with the dews at even.   --Tennyson.
 2. Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner. “The golden dew of sleep.”
 3. An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor. “The dew of his youth.”
 Note: ☞ Dew is used in combination; as, dew-bespangled, dew-drenched, dewdrop, etc.


 dew
      n : water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from
          water vapor in the air; "in the morning the grass was wet
          with dew"


 Dew
    "There is no dew properly so called in Palestine, for there is
    no moisture in the hot summer air to be chilled into dew-drops
    by the coldness of the night. From May till October rain is
    unknown, the sun shining with unclouded brightness day after
    day. The heat becomes intense, the ground hard, and vegetation
    would perish but for the moist west winds that come each night
    from the sea. The bright skies cause the heat of the day to
    radiate very quickly into space, so that the nights are as cold
    as the day is the reverse, a peculiarity of climate from which
    poor Jacob suffered thousands of years ago (Gen. 31:40). To this
    coldness of the night air the indispensable watering of all
    plant-life is due. The winds, loaded with moisture, are robbed
    of it as they pass over the land, the cold air condensing it
    into drops of water, which fall in a gracious rain of mist on
    every thirsty blade. In the morning the fog thus created rests
    like a sea over the plains, and far up the sides of the hills,
    which raise their heads above it like so many islands. At
    sunrise, however, the scene speedily changes. By the kindling
    light the mist is transformed into vast snow-white clouds, which
    presently break into separate masses and rise up the
    mountain-sides, to disappear in the blue above, dissipated by
    the increasing heat. These are 'the morning clouds and the early
    dew that go away' of which Hosea (6:4; 13:3) speaks so
    touchingly" (Geikie's The Holy Land, etc., i., p. 72). Dew is a
    source of great fertility (Gen. 27:28; Deut. 33:13; Zech. 8:12),
    and its withdrawal is regarded as a curse from God (2 Sam. 1:21;
    1 Kings 17:1). It is the symbol of a multitude (2 Sam. 17:12;
    Ps. 110:3); and from its refreshing influence it is an emblem of
    brotherly love and harmony (Ps. 133:3), and of rich spiritual
    blessings (Hos. 14:5).