dewdrop
- n a drop of dew
- The dewdrop-shaped design is mired in controversy -- it clashes with both traditional values and the nearby architecture.
- It took a discerning ear to separate the sound of an opening lotus from the purl of a fish lazily waking to his morning meal or the plip of a dewdrop on a mossy stone.
- The birth of each child precipitates a search for the proper dewdrop, containing the spirit of the appropriate ancestor, to place on its tongue.