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Definition of Bedew
1. Verb. Cover with drops of dew or as with dew.
Definition of Bedew
1. v. t. To moisten with dew, or as with dew.
Definition of Bedew
1. Verb. (transitive) To make wet with or as if with dew. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bedew
1. to wet with dew [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedew
Literary usage of Bedew
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes by Robert Dodsley (1782)
"... and with her tears bedew'd> Its ripen'd feeds from bank to bank convey'd, And
with her lover whiten'd half the ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1851)
"Play-mat« of my early yean, Still beside tby grave I linger, And bedew its turf
with tears. Spring has come, with balmy sweetness, Nature's beauties to ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1861)
"... some of those illusions of the eye or of the brain which have sometimes
disturbed the tranquillity of science. — North British bedew. ..."
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