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   Daw (da̤), n. [OE. dawe; akin to OHG. tāha, MHG. tāhe, tāhele, G. dohle.  Cf. Caddow.] (Zool.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.
   
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   The loud daw, his throat
   
   displaying, draws
   
   The whole assembly of his fellow daws. Waller.
   
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   ☞ 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.
   
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   Daw, v. i. [OE. dawen. See Dawn.] To dawn. [Obs.] See Dawn.  Drayton.
   
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   Daw, v. t. [Contr. fr. Adaw.]
   1. To rouse. [Obs.]
   
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   2. To daunt; to terrify. [Obs.]  B. Jonson.
   
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