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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 daw /ˈdɔ, ˈdɑ/
 穴鳥

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: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Daw, v. i.  To dawn. [Obs.] See Dawn.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Daw, v. t.
 1. To rouse. [Obs.]
 2. To daunt; to terrify. [Obs.]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

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