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Daw   /dɔ/   Listen
noun
Daw  n.  (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." Note: The daw was reckoned as a silly bird, and a daw meant a simpleton. See in Shakespeare: "Then thou dwellest with daws too." ()


verb
Daw  v. t.  
1.
To rouse. (Obs.)
2.
To daunt; to terrify. (Obs.)


Daw  v. i.  To dawn. (Obs.) See Dawn.





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"Daw" Quotes from Famous Books



... dropped from the rookery above. Sometimes there was an overthrown nest like a sack of twigs turned out on the turf, such as the hedgers rake together after fagoting. Looking up into the trees on a summer's day not a bird could be seen, till suddenly there was a quick 'jack-jack' above, as a daw started from his hole or from where the great boughs joined the trunk. The squire's path went down the hollow till it deepened into a thinly wooded coomb, through which ran the streamlet coming from the wheat-fields under the ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies
... doth craw, the day doth daw. The channerin[125] worm doth chide; Gin we be mist out o' our place, A sair pain we ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various
... and Regulations affecting Building Operations in the administrative County of London, compiled by Ellis Marsland; Annotated By-Laws as to House Drainage, &c., by Jensen; Metropolitan Sanitation, by Herbert Daw. ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various
... him are uttered whereon many a life relies; 'Tis but one poor fool the fewer when the greedy jack-daw dies." ...
— Indian Poetry • Edwin Arnold
... the queerest collection of chunks of reading. English history from the beginning, with occasional glances at Continental affairs, European history for about a century, bits of economics, and—the Politics of Aristotle! It is not education; it is a jack-daw collection....This sort of jumble has been the essentials of the more pretentious type of "higher education" available in Great Britain ...
— What is Coming? • H. G. Wells


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