dewfall

Related to dewfall: Hippomenes

dew·fall

 (do͞o′fôl′, dyo͞o′-)
n.
1. The formation of dew.
2. The time of evening when dew begins to form.
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dewfall

(ˈdjuːˌfɔːl)
n
1. the formation or settling of dew; the dew which is deposited
2. literary the time of evening at which dew forms
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Go you to a brook hollow where they grow some late summer twilight at dewfall; and on the still air that rises suddenly to meet you will come a waft of faint, aromatic fragrance, wondrously sweet and evasive, the distillation of that despised thistle bloom.
Maybe it's a smug, internal sense of satisfaction--a good boy doing the right thing--but maybe it's something from outside, something received unseen, like the dewfall.
Granting bishops' conferences throughout the world a determinative role in liturgical translations is part of that vision, but it goes beyond who gets to decide about "consubstantial" and "dewfall."
GETTING his feet wet in the heavy dewfall, a familiar figure was waiting for Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink when he clocked on for training.
Dewfall, blindlight, shouts breaking like stars in the rout to the river, tumult of thundering horsethegns." The compounding, stress pattern, and alliteration are deeply rooted in English poetry.
comparable amount of water as dewfall to a short grass surface (Hughes
by dark, dewfall like fear settling, sky of no stars.
Then I heard her say, in a voice that was gentler than the glow-worm's light among rose-trees in a forgotten garden between dewfall and moonrise: Be content.
In his autobiography, Mackay Brown argues that Hopkins exclaimed that "poetry is for gladness, dewfall and childhood, 'innocent Maytime in girl and boy,' it celebrates the ever-springing freshness of nature.
Steinberger Y, Loboda 1, Garner W (1989) The influence of autumn dewfall on spatial and temporal distribution of nematodes in the desert ecosystem.