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Webster 1913 Edition

Daw

Daw

(da̤)
,
Noun.
[OE.
dawe
; akin to OHG.
tāha
, MHG.
tāhe
,
tāhele
, G.
dohle
. Cf.
Caddow
.]
(Zool.)
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.
☞ 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

,
Verb.
I.
[OE.
dawen
. See
Dawn
.]
To dawn.
[Obs.]
See Dawn.
Drayton.

Daw

,
Verb.
T.
[Contr. fr.
Adaw
.]
1.
To rouse.
[Obs.]
2.
To daunt; to terrify.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Daw

DAW

,
Verb.
I.
To dawn.

DAW

'DLE,
Verb.
I.
To waste time; to trifle.

DAW

'DLER,
Noun.
A trifler.

DAW

K,
Verb.
T.
To cut or mark with an incision.

DAW

N, v.i.

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