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/d(y)o͞o/,
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Tiny drops of water that form on cool surfaces at night, when atmospheric vapor condenses,
  1. Wet (a part of someone's body) with a beaded or glistening liquid
    • - sweat dewed her lashes
Noun
  1. Tiny drops of water that form on cool surfaces at night, when atmospheric vapor condenses
    • - the grass was wet with dew
    • - a cold, heavy dew dripped from the leaves
  2. A beaded or glistening liquid resembling such drops
    • - her body had broken out in a fine dew of perspiration
  1. water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air; "in the morning the grass was wet with dew"
  2. The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the North Coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska, in addition to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. ...
  3. Dew is water in the form of droplets that appears on thin, exposed objects in the morning or evening. As the exposed surface cools by radiating its heat, atmospheric moisture condenses at a rate greater than that at which it can evaporate, resulting in the formation of water droplets.
  4. (Dewing) Latvian culture, along with Lithuanian, is among the oldest surviving Indo-European cultures. Much of its symbolism (an example is the pērkonkrusts or thunder cross) is ancient. Its seasons, festivals, and numerous deities reflect the essential agrarian nature of Latvian tribal life. ...
  5. Distant Early Warning
  6. moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops; an instance of a such moisture settling on plants, etc; To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten
  7. Any soda or beverage used during the game. A term used to honor the all venerable Mountain Dew soda, enjoyed by many gamers due to its high sugar and caffeine content.
  8. condensed moisture (water vapor), appearing as small drops on a cool surface; usually occurs after or during a very warm day.
  9. Moisture that has condensed on objects near the ground, whose temperatures have fallen to the dew point temperature.
  10. The condensation of water vapour onto a cold surface, caused by the air adjacent to the surface cooling to its dewpoint. Frost is a frozen form of dew.
  11. when liquid water from the atmosphere condenses on plants and objects near the ground.
  12. Water droplets that form on grass or other objects as a result of condensation of atmospheric moisture as the nighttime temperature falls, resulting in an increase in relative humidity.
  13. Water droplets formed by condensation of water vapor on a relatively cold surface.
  14. Water droplets condensed from the air, usually at night, onto cool surfaces.
  15. Water droplets that form upon surfaces on or near the ground when air is cooled toward its dew point.
  16. moisture from the air that has condensed as tiny drops on outdoor objects and surfaces that have cooled, especially during the night.
  17. MOIST, that is, WATER + (2h)[5^], POs up, FOs away, move down slightly twice while closing to (2h)[O^]. For a QuickTime movie of this sign, see ASL browser - dew.
  18. To feel the dew falling on you in your dreams, portends that you will be attacked by fever or some malignant disease; but to see the dew sparkling through the grass in the sunlight, great honors and wealth are about to be heaped upon you. ...
  19. If due is falling on you you need to take care of your health.
  20. When an object or the ground falls in temperature to below that at which the air becomes saturated, the atmospheric humidity condenses on it, forming dew.
  21. a demon. (Var: 'dev', Av. 'daeva', OP. 'daiva')
  22. digital editing workstation.
  23. directed energy weapon
  24. (30) wet (with blood)
  25. slang for marijuana.