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Entry 4 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Daw

/(da̤)/ · IPA /diː eɪ ˈdʌbəljuː/
01 n. A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.
  1. 1.
    A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.(Zool.)
    “The loud daw, his throat displaying, draws The whole assembly of his fellow daws.” Waller.
02 v. i. To dawn.
  1. 1.
    To dawn.[Obs.]
03 v. t. To rouse.
  1. 1.
    To rouse.[Obs.]
  2. 2.
    To daunt; to terrify.[Obs.]