Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Daw"
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) 1.7 (wn)
daw
n : common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery [syn:
{jackdaw}, {Corvus monedula}]
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