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59 words match “DAW”

DAW n. 4 definitions

ird 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.

DAWDLE v. 3 definitions

To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson. We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray.

One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.

Day. [Obs.] Chaucer.

DAWK n. 3 definitions

DAWN v. 4 definitions

in to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns. In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher. Matt. xxviii. 1.

A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.

ADAW v. 2 definitions

To subdue; to daunt. [Obs.] The sight whereof did greatly him adaw. Spenser.

The black guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]

AURORA n. 3 definitions

The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy. Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush. Longfellow.

AVE MARIA; AVE MARY n.

in Italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria. Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! Byron.

ng into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv.

BREAK v. 2 definitions

To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn. The day begins to break, and night is fied. Shak. And from the turf a fountain broke, and gurgled at our feet. Wordswoorth.

A jackdaw. [Prov. Eng.]

ting. This day learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment. John Adams's Diary [Feb. , 1763].

Coolness; coldness; a chill. Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn. Longfellow.

black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough. Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.…