dewing
The formation of dew.
Noun
- The formation of dew.
- […] the dewing of a metal plate when breathed upon, the dewing of the outside of a glass when very cold water is poured into it, […] - 1852, Francis Bacon, An Explanatory Version of Lord Bacon's Novum Organum, page 26:
- Other condensation (of water vapor or other gases) physically analogous to dew formation.
- The fact remains that, for a given gas composition, it is the metal temperature that determines whether or not dewing (and hence corrosion) takes place. - 1960 February, “Letters to the Editor”, in Trains Illustrated,...
Related
Verb form of, gerund
- present participle and gerund of dew
Verb Entry 3
- To remove wings or a wing from.
- the seed with wings attached withstood storage very significantly better than dewinged seed. - 1954, Philip Carman Wakeley, Planting the Southern Pines, page 53:
- The birds were then dewinged, debeaked, and skinned for tissue sample removal. - 1974, Russell F. Reidinger, Jr. and D. Glen Crabtree, “Organochlorine Residues in Golden Eagles, United States—March 1964-July 1971”, in...
- 1. An apparatus for dewinging a bird […] - 1991 March 12, “4,998,322 / SYSTEM FOR DEWINGING FOWL”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 581:
Coordinate Terms: clip the wings of de-tail debeak
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English wing English dewing From de- + wing.