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Pronunciation : Daw
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. dawe; akin to OHG. taha, MHG. tahe, tahele, G. dohle. Cf. Caddow.] (Zo?l.)
Definition : Defn: A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw. The loud daw, his throat displaying, draw 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Daw
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. dawen. See Dawn.]
Definition : Defn: To dawn. [Obs.] See Dawn.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Daw
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Contr. fr. Adaw.]
Definition : 1. To rouse. [Obs.]

2. To daunt; to terrify. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913