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English
Pronunciation
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”
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 of dew
Anagrams
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Arabic دوس.
Pronunciation
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, page 145