Rorid

//ˈɹɔːɹɪd// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Dewy; containing dew. obsolete

    "[…] 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 […]"

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"[…] 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 […]"

Etymology

From Latin rōridus, from rōs, rōris (“dew”).

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