daw

v. i. [ OE. dawen. See Dawn. ] To dawn. [ Obs. ] See Dawn. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The loud daw, his throat
displaying, draws
The whole assembly of his fellow daws. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dawdler. Colman & Carrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dawdled p. pr. & vb. n. Dawdling ] [ Cf. Daddle. ] To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Day. ] Day. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a daw. [ 1913 Webster ]