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Daw [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To dawn.

Daw [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.

Daw [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To dawn.

Daw [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To rouse.

2. To daunt; to terrify.

Dawdle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To waste time; to trifle.

Dawdle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A dawdler.

Dawdle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.

Dawdle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.

Dawdled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Dawdle

Dawdler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A trifler.

Dawdler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.

Dawdling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Dawdle

Dawe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Day.

Dawish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Like a daw.

Dawk [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To cut or mark with an incision.

Dawk [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. See Dak.

2. A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber.

Dawk [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cut or mark with an incision; to gash.

Dawlish Encyclopedia Britannica

DAWLISH, a watering-place of England, on the south coast of Devonshire, situated a little beyond the mouth of the Exe, twelve miles south of Exeter. It lies in a cove of the English Channel formed by two projecting cliffs, and is admirably sheltered from the weather. A small stream, which flows through the town, is lined on both sides by pleasure grounds. The town is much resorted to during spring and early summer by the seekers after health. The parish contains an area of 5512 acres, and a population (1871) of 4241 persons, 2492 of whom are females.

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Dawn [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. 1. The break of day; the first appearance of light, in the morning.

2. They arose about the dawn of the day. Joshua 6:1 .

3. The word may express the whole time from the first appearance of light to sunrise.

4. First opening or expansion; first appearance of intellectual light; as the dawn of genius, intellect, or mental powers.

5. Beginning; rise; first appearance; as the dawn of time.

6. A feeble or incipient light; first beams.

7. These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of serenity over the soul. Pope.

Dawn [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

2. It began to dawn towards the first day of the

3. week. Matthew 28:1 .

4. To begin to open or expand; to begin to show intellectual light, or knowledge; as, the genius of the youth begins to dawn

5. When life awakes and dawns at every line. Pope.

6. To glimmer obscurely.

7. To begin to open or appear.

Dawn [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.

2. First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.

Dawn [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

2. To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

Dawned [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Dawn

Dawning [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The first appearance of light in the morning.

2. The first opening or appearance of the intellectual powers; beginning; as the first dawning of notions in the understanding.

Dawning [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. 1. Growing light; first appearing luminous; opening; as the dawning day.

2. Opening; expanding; beginning to show intellectual light; beginning.

Dawning [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Dawn

Dawsonite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.

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Deuteronomy 33:2

And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.

Joshua 6:15

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.

Then on the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. That was the only day they circled the city seven times.

Judges 16:2

And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

Judges 19:25

But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.

But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.

Judges 19:26

Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till it was light.

Early that morning, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, collapsed at the doorway, and lay there until it was light.

1 Samuel 9:26

And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.

They got up early in the morning, and just before dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get ready, and I will send you on your way!” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went outside together.

1 Samuel 14:36

And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.

And Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until dawn, leaving no man alive!” “Do what seems good to you,” the troops replied. But the priest said, “We must consult God here.”

2 Samuel 23:4

And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’

Nehemiah 4:21

So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

So we continued the work, while half of the men held spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.

Job 3:9

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.

Job 4:20

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

Job 7:4

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

Job 38:12

Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;

In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Job 41:18

By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

Psalms 37:6

And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.

Psalms 46:5

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.

Psalms 57:8

Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.

Psalms 65:8

They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

Those who live far away fear Your wonders; You make the dawn and sunset shout for joy.

Psalms 108:2

Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.

Psalms 110:3

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.