dews

• Rhymes: -uːz

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, 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”

Although a countable sense of dew is still used, the plural form is no longer in common usage.

dews

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dew

• Swed., Weds, weds