Part 2769

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Dawish</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Daw"ish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Like a daw.</def>

<h1>Dawk</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Dawk</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Dak</er>.</def>

<h1>Dawk</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Dawk</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Prov. E. <ets>dauk</ets> to cut or pierce with a jerk; cf. OE. <ets>dalk</ets> a dimple. Cf. Ir. <ets>tolch</ets>, <ets>tollachd</ets>, <ets>tolladh</ets>, a hole, crevice, <ets>toll</ets> to bore, pierce, W. <ets>tyllu</ets>.]</ety> <def>To cut or mark with an incision; to gash.</def>

<i>Moxon.</i>

<h1>Dawk</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Dawk</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber.</def>

<i>Moxon.</i>

<h1>Dawn</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Dawn</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dawned</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dawning</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>dawnen</ets>, <ets>dawen</ets>, <ets>dagen</ets>, <ets>daien</ets>, AS. <ets>dagian</ets> to become day, to dawn, fr. <ets>d\'91g</ets> day; akin to D. <ets>dagen</ets>, G. <ets>tagen</ets>, Icel. <ets>daga</ets>, Dan. <ets>dages</ets>, Sw. <ets>dagas</ets>. See <er>Day</er>. <?/71.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; <as>as, the day <ex>dawns</ex>; the morning <ex>dawns</ex>.</as></def>

<blockquote>In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to <b>dawn</b> toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher. <i>Matt. xxviii. 1.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.</def> "In <i>dawning</i> youth."

<i>Dryden.</i>

<blockquote>When life awakes, and <b>dawns</b> at every line. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Dawn</b> on our darkness and lend us thine aid. <i>Heber,</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dawn</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Dawn</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The break of day; the first appeareance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.</def>

<blockquote>And oft at <b>dawn</b>, deep noon, or falling eve. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No <b>dawn</b>, no dusk, no proper time of day. <i>Hood.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.</def> "The <i>dawn</i> of time."

<i>Thomson.</i>

<blockquote>These tender circumstances diffuse a <b>dawn</b> of serenity over the soul. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dawsonite</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Daw"son*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Named after J. W. <ets>Dawson</ets> of Montreal.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.</def>

<h1>Day</h1> <Xpage=370>