rorid

Adjective

rorid (comparative more rorid, superlative most rorid)

1. (obsolete) Dewy; containing dew.
   • […] 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 […]1598, George Chapman, “The Third Sestiad”, in Hero and Leander, completion of the poem begun by Christopher Marlowe
   • Or, whether it be, as Aristotle thinketh, that the waters are conuerted into liquid, or rorid ayre, which is suckt in of the earth, by her magneticall thirst, and congealed into many dispersed small droppes, as moisture attracted through the porose and supple bladder becommeth a torrent of vrine...1621, Thomas Granger, chapter 1, in A familiar exposition or commentarie on Ecclesiastes wherein the worlds vanity, and the true felicitie are plainely deciphered, page 15

   Synonyms:

   rory, roscid