DAWING

Etymology

Verb

dawing

present participle of daw

Noun

dawing (plural dawings)

(obsolete, outside, Scotland) Dawn, daybreak.

Anagrams

• wading

Source: Wiktionary


DAW

Daw, n. Etym: [OE. dawe; akin to OHG. taha, MHG. tahe, tahele, G. dohle. Cf. Caddow.] (Zoöl.)

Definition: 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.

Daw, v. i. Etym: [OE. dawen. See Dawn.]

Definition: To dawn. [Obs.] See Dawn.

Daw, v. t. Etym: [Contr. fr. Adaw.]

1. To rouse. [Obs.]

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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