Daw
Daw (da) , noun
[Old English dawe; akin to Old High German tāha, Middle High German tāhe, tāhele, German dohle. Compare Caddow.]
(Zoology) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.
The loud daw, his throat
displaying, draws
The whole assembly of his fellow daws.
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.
Daw , intransitive verb
[Old English dawen. See Dawn.]
To dawn. [Obsolete] — Drayton
Daw , transitive verb
[Contr. from Adaw.]
1.
To rouse. [Obsolete]
2.
To daunt; to terrify. [Obsolete] — B. Jonson