rorid

English

Etymology

From Latin roridus, from ros, roris (“dew”).

Adjective

rorid (comparative more rorid, superlative most rorid)

  1. Dewy; bedewed.
    • 1598, George Chapman, The Third Sestiad, Hero and Leander (completion of the poem begun by Christopher Marlowe),
      […] as Phœbus throws
      His beams abroad, though he in clouds be clos’d,
      Still glancing by them till he find oppos’d
      A loose and rorid vapour that is fit
      T’ event his searching beams, and useth it
      To form a tender twenty-colour’d eye,
      Cast in a circle round about the sky […]
    • Sir Thomas Browne
      That the lentous drops upon it are not extraneous, and rather an exudation from itself, than a rorid concretion from without […]
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rorid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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