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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Daw n.  Zool. 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.   --Waller.
 Note: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.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Corvus monedula
      n : common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery [syn:
           jackdaw, daw]