Rorid
//ˈɹɔːɹɪd// adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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 […]"
Example
More examples"[…] 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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