dews

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːz

Noun

dews

1. (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^[1], 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^[2], 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

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dew

Anagrams

• Swed., Weds, weds

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic دوس.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛws/

Noun

dews f (Arabic spelling دەوس)

1. place, stead
2. trace, trail, footprint

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “dews”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[3], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 145