dews
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːz
Noun
dews
- (archaic or poetic) plural of dew
- 1837 January 7, Colonel Sykes, “The British Assocation. Seventh Meeting: Liverpool”, in The Literary gazette and journal of the belles lettres, arts, sciences, &c, number 1042, W.A. Scripps, page 606:
- 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.
- 1844, Charles Augustus Murray, The Prarie-Bird, volume 3, published 2009, →ISBN, page 10:
- “The trail is fresh,” continued the chief; “not more than two dews have fallen on the prints of foot and hoof”
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Usage notes
Although a countable sense of dew is still used, the plural form is no longer in common usage.
Verb
dews
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dew
Anagrams
- Swed., Weds, weds
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Arabic دوس.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛws/
Noun
dews f (Arabic spelling دەوس)
- place, stead
- trace, trail, footprint
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “dews”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press