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Webster 1913 Edition
Dawn
Dawn
(da̤n)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dawned
(da̤nd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dawning
.] [OE.
dawnen
, dawen
, dagen
, daien
, AS. dagian
to become day, to dawn, fr. dæg
day; akin to D. dagen
, G. tagen
, Icel. daga
, Dan. dages
, Sw. dagas
. See Day
. √71.] 1.
To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear;
as, the day
dawns
; the morning dawns
.In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to
dawn
toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene
. . . to see the sepulcher. Matt. xxviii. 1.
2.
To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
“In dawning youth.” Dryden.
When life awakes, and
dawns
at every line. Pope.
Dawn
on our darkness and lend us thine aid. Heber,
Dawn
,Noun.
1.
The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
And oft at
dawn
, deep noon, or falling eve. Thomson.
No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon,
No
No
dawn
, no dusk, no proper time of day. Hood.
2.
First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.
“The dawn of time.” Thomson.
These tender circumstances diffuse a
dawn
of serenity over the soul. Pope.