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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Daw \Daw\, v. t. [Contr. fr {Adaw}.] 1. To rouse. [Obs.] 2. To daunt; to terrify. [Obs.] --B. Jonson From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Daw \Daw\ (d[add]), n. [OE. dawe; akin to OHG. t[=a]ha, MHG. t[=a]he, t[=a]hele, G. dohle. Cf {Caddow}.] (Zo["o]l.) 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. --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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Daw \Daw\, v. i. [OE. dawen. See {Dawn}.] To dawn. [Obs.] See Dawn. --Drayton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: daw n : common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery [syn: {jackdaw}, {Corvus monedula}]
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