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”}}

Noun

(uncountable) moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops.

(countable, but see usage notes) an instance of a such moisture settling on plants, etc.

There was a heavy dew this morning.

(uncountable) Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.

(figurative) Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.

* Shakespeare

The golden dew of sleep.

An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.

* Longfellow

The dew of his youth.