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Definition of Bedews
1. bedew [v] - See also: bedew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedews
Literary usage of Bedews
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Present State of the Empire of Morocco: Its Animals, Products, Climate by Louis de Chénier (1788)
"... and bedews her plantations with the tears and blood of men to obtain fugar
and coffee. ... bedews ..."
2. The Beauties of Henry Kirke White, Consisting of Selections from His Poetry by Henry Kirke White, Alfred Howard (1827)
"His wakeful task, he oft bethinks him sad Of wife and little home, and chubby
lad, And the half-strangled tear bedews his eyes; I, on the deck, ..."
3. Psalms and Hymns: For the Use of the German Reformed Church in the United (1865)
"... Shades and bedews the whole: { 'Tis like the oil divinely sweet, And heav'nly
peace with balmy wing And o'er his garments spread. ..."
4. The Bulwark, Or, Reformation Journal: In Defence of the True Interests of by Scottish Reformation Society (1881)
"... no tear ever bedews the bier of Pope—and carried him to the vaults, in the
dimness and silence of which his predecessors repose, of whom few had reigned ..."
5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"Most of them, however, are inclined to believe that there is no intercourse,
since they say that the male bedews the eggs with the seminal fluid when they ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1752)
"... effluvium which penetrates every part, until it reaches and bedews fuch ova
as are mature enough for ..."
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