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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dewy \Dew"y\, adjective
1. Pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist with, dew.
A dewy mist Went and watered all the ground. --Milton.
When dewy eve her curtain draws. --Keble.
2. Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew.
Dewy sleep ambrosial. --Cowper.
3. (Bot.) Resembling a dew-covered surface; appearing as if covered with dew.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dewy
adjective: wet with dew [syn: {bedewed}] [also: {dewiest}, {dewier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "dewy": boggy, budding, callow, damp, dampish, dank, ever-new, evergreen, fenny, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, green, growing, humid, immature, impubic, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, intact, juicy, maiden, maidenly, marshy, minor, moist, muggy, naive, neoteric, nestling, new, new-fledged, original, pristine, rainy, raw, ripening, roric, roriferous, sappy, sempervirent, sticky, swampy, tacky, tender, unadult, unbeaten, underage, undeveloped, undried, unfledged, unformed, unhandled, unlicked, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, vernal, virgin, virginal, wet, wettish, young
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