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Definition of Daw
Daw Daw Daw, v. t. [Contr. fr. Adaw.]
1. To rouse. [Obs.]
2. To daunt; to terrify. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Daw Daw Daw (d[add]), n. [OE. dawe; akin to OHG. t[=a]ha, MHG.
t[=a]he, t[=a]hele, G. dohle. Cf. Caddow.] (Zo["o]l.)
A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often
nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.
The loud daw, his throat displaying, draws The whole
assembly of his fellow daws. --Waller.
Note: The daw was reckoned as a silly bird, and a daw meant a
simpleton. See in Shakespeare: -- ``Then thou dwellest
with daws too.' (--Coriolanus iv. 5, 1. 47.) --Skeat.
Daw Daw Daw, v. i. [OE. dawen. See Dawn.]
To dawn. [Obs.] See Dawn. --Drayton.
