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Daw
() A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.
Daw
() To dawn.
Daw
() To rouse.
Daw
() To daunt; to terrify.
Dawdled
() of Dawdle
Dawdling
() of Dawdle
Dawdle
() To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
Dawdle
() To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
Dawdle
() A dawdler.
Dawdler
() One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.
Dawe
() Day.
Dawish
() Like a daw.
Dawk
() See Dak.
Dawk
() To cut or mark with an incision; to gash.
Dawk
() A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber.
Dawned
() of Dawn
Dawning
() of Dawn
Dawn
() To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
Dawn
() To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
Dawn
() The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
Dawn
() First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.
Dawsonite
() A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.
Day
() The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.
Day
() The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.
Day
() Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.
Day
() A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
Day
() (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc.
Dayaks
() See Dyaks.
Daybook
() A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.
Daybreak
() The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.
Day-coal
() The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface.
Daydream
() A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope.
Daydreamer
() One given to daydreams.
Dayflower
() A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.
Dayfly
() A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
Day-labor
() Labor hired or performed by the day.
Day-laborer
() One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade.
Daylight
() The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.
Daylight
() The eyes.
Day lily
() A genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers.
Day lily
() A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers.
Daymaid
() A dairymaid.
Daymare
() A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.
Day-net
() A net for catching small birds.
Day-peep
() The dawn.
Daysman
() An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.
Dayspring
() The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning.
Day-star
() The morning star; the star which ushers in the day.
Day-star
() The sun, as the orb of day.
Daytime
() The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.