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(d), n.[OE. dawe; akin to OHG. tha, MHG. the, thele, G. dohle. Cf. Caddow.] (Zol.) 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. 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. Daw v. i.[OE. dawen. See Dawn.] To dawn. [Obs.] See Dawn. Drayton. Daw v. t.[Contr. fr. Adaw.] 1. To rouse. [Obs.] 2. To daunt; to terrify. [Obs.] B. Jonson. スポンサード リンク
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