"bedew" meaning in English

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          "ref": "a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus. From the 18th Idyllium of Theocritus.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 412:",
          "text": "Balm, from a ſilver-box diſtill'd around, / Shall all bedew the roots, and ſcent the ſacred ground.",
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          "ref": "1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VIII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, pages 132–133:",
          "text": "Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me.",
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          "text": "As if their own indignant earth, / Which gave the sons of England birth, / Had felt their blood upon her brow, / And shuddering with a mother's throe, / Had turned every drop of blood, / By which her face had been bedewed / To an accent unwithstood, / As if her heart had cried aloud: […]",
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          "text": "I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare\nTo chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ?\nI've treasured it long as a sainted prize ;\nI've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs.",
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          "text": "While sympathetic tears / My cheeks bedew",
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        "To make wet with or as if with dew."
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        "(transitive) To make wet with or as if with dew."
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