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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dewdrop
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Dewdrops sparkled in the morning sunlight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf.
▪ He started to sing: Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me; starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee.
▪ The essential difference from dewdrops is that new dewdrops are not begotten by old dewdrops.
▪ The moment was eternity, trembling like a dewdrop on a rose, endlessly about to fall.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dewdrop

Dewdrop \Dew"drop`\, n. A drop of dew.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dewdrop

early 14c. (as two words); see dew + drop (n.).

Wiktionary
dewdrop

alt. A droplet of water formed as dew. n. A droplet of water formed as dew.

WordNet
dewdrop

n. a drop of dew

Wikipedia
Dewdrop

Dewdrop may refer to:

  • Dew
  • Dewdrop, Kentucky
  • Dewdrop Glacier
  • Daddy Dewdrop

Usage examples of "dewdrop".

Eight days, A minimum of fourteen days for the round trip, even if the faster Dewdrop was available.

Corwin asked as he and Justin stood together a little way from the Dewdrop, watching the last load of equipment disappear into the cargo hatch.

Qasaman, please, Commander-as I told the Dewdrop, my companions need to hear all this, too.

Daulo nodded, and for a moment they watched the Dewdrop dropping through the sky toward them.

Over the plain behind him, the Dewdrop was sweeping down toward Mangus.

He elbowed his son and nodded his head so vigorously that it seemed that the dewdrop must leave his nose for ever, but it stuck like gum, swinging backwards and forwards clanging against his nostrils.

But in this strange and unknown part of London, below Rumbledom, Dewdrop had made his lair.

Look what had happened to Dewdrop, he had been a Borrible and then he had been caught and turned into something normal.

They stole and they burgled, returning to Dewdrop after each sortie to find him sitting on the seat of his cart with Sam munching in the nosebag, shaking his head up at the sky to get to the hay.

Then Dewdrop would settle back in his seat, flap the reins and the old horse would lean into the traces and take them home.

Borribles should simply disappear when Dewdrop sent them thieving, seemed more and more attractive.

All that stopped them taking up the subject again was the bleak thought of being left behind, alone with Dewdrop and Erbie.

Knocker and Adolf, Chalotte, Bingo and Torreycanyon were taken out by Dewdrop and driven in the cart almost halfway up the hill beyond Southfields.

And when that was done Dewdrop cracked the whip and old Sam leant into the traces, turned the cart round and took them home again.

It was approached from the road that ran behind and parallel to Engadine and it was always this entrance that Dewdrop used after one of his forays.