Part 2768

<hw>Da"vy lamp`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>See <cref>Safety lamp</cref>, under <er>Lamp</er>.</def>

<h1>Davyne</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Da"vyne</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Davyum</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A variety of nephelite from Vesuvius.</def>

<h1>Davyum</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Da"vy*um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Named after Sir Humphry <ets>Davy</ets>, the English chemist.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.</def><-- ? Europium is 152(the closest)? -->

<h1>Daw</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Daw</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>dawe</ets>; akin to OHG. <ets>t\'beha</ets>, MHG. <ets>t\'behe</ets>, <ets>t\'behele</ets>, G. <ets>dohle</ets>. Cf. <er>Caddow</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A European bird of the Crow family (<spn>Corvus monedula</spn>), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.</def>

<blockquote>The loud <b>daw</b>, his throat displaying, draw The whole assembly of his fellow <b>daws</b>. <i>Waller.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; The <i>daw</i> was reckoned as a silly bird, and a <i>daw</i> meant a simpleton. See in Shakespeare: -- "Then thou dwellest with <i>daws</i> too." (<i>Coriolanus iv. 5, 1. 47.</i>) <i>Skeat.</i></note>

<h1>Daw</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Daw</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>dawen</ets>. See <er>Dawn</er>.]</ety> <def>To dawn. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> See Dawn.</def>

<h1>Daw</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Daw</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Contr. fr. <er>Adaw</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To rouse.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To daunt; to terrify.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Dawdle</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Daw"dle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dawdled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dawdling</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. <er>Daddle</er>.]</ety> <def>To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.</def>

<blockquote>Come some evening and <b>dawdle</b> over a dish of tea with me. <i>Johnson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We . . . <b>dawdle</b> up and down Pall Mall. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dawdle</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Daw"dle</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To waste by trifling; <as>as, to <ex>dawdle</ex> away a whole morning</as>.</def>

<h1>Dawdle</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Daw"dle</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A dawdler.</def>

<i>Colman & Carrick.</i>

<h1>Dawdler</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Daw"dler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.</def>

<h1>Dawe</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Dawe</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Day</er>.]</ety> <def>Day.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>