Dewy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dewy \Dew"y\, a.
     1. Pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist
        with, dew.
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              A dewy mist


              Went and watered all the ground.      --Milton.
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              When dewy eve her curtain draws.      --Keble.
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     2. Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew.
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              Dewy sleep ambrosial.                 --Cowper.
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     3. (Bot.) Resembling a dew-covered surface; appearing as if
        covered with dew.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dewy
       adj : wet with dew [syn: {bedewed}]
       [also: {dewiest}, {dewier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "dewy":
     boggy, budding, callow, damp, dampish, dank, ever-new, evergreen,
     fenny, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, green, growing, humid,
     immature, impubic, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, intact,
     juicy, maiden, maidenly, marshy, minor, moist, muggy, naive,
     neoteric, nestling, new, new-fledged, original, pristine, rainy,
     raw, ripening, roric, roriferous, sappy, sempervirent, sticky,
     swampy, tacky, tender, unadult, unbeaten, underage, undeveloped,
     undried, unfledged, unformed, unhandled, unlicked, unmellowed,
     unripe, unseasoned, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, vernal,
     virgin, virginal, wet, wettish, young