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Definition of 'dews'English
Noun
(head)
(archaic|or|poetic)
* {{quote-magazine|year=1837
|author=Colonel Sykes
|coauthors=
|title=The British Assocation. Seventh Meeting: Liverpool
|date=7 January 1837
|volume=
|issue=1042
|page=606
|magazine=The Literary gazette and journal of the belles lettres, arts, sciences, &c
|publisher=W.A. Scripps
|issn=
citation
|passage=This is followed by a deluge of rain for an hour or two. Dews are very copious,– fogs little known. The climate is very salubrious.}}
* {{quote-book|year=1844
|year_published=2009
|author=Charles Augustus Murray
|title=The Prarie-Bird
|volume=3
citation
|isbn=9781113872135
|page=10
|passage=“The trail is fresh,” continued the chief; “not more than two dews have fallen on the prints of foot and hoof”}}
Usage notes
Although a countable sense of (dew) is still used, the plural form is no longer in common usage.
Anagrams
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