See Also: pleumato-(medicine)

dew(2) (iou) and pleumato- (medicine)


dew(2) (iou)



dew verb. [dju:] ME.

verb intrans. Give or produce dew; impers. in it dews, it is dewing, etc., dew falls, dew is falling, etc. ME-E18.
verb trans. Wet with or as with dew; moisten; steep. ME.
Sir W. Scott Fairy strains of Music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing. J. G. Cozzens Heat and whisky had dewed his face with sweat.

pleumato- (medicine)


pleumato-
<prefix> A combining form from Gr, wind, air, breath, respiration; as, pneumatograph, pneumatology.