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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
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| daw
(dô) Pronunciation Key
n. A jackdaw. [Middle English dawe.] |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
daw
daw
1432, from P.Gmc. *dakhwo, perhaps imitative of bird's cry.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| daw | |
noun | |
| common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery [syn: jackdaw] |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Daw
Daw\, v. i. [OE. dawen. See Dawn.] To dawn. [Obs.] See Dawn. --Drayton.
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Daw
Daw\, v. t. [Contr. fr. Adaw.]1. To rouse. [Obs.] 2. To daunt; to terrify. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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