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