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daw

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Daw \Daw\, v. t. [Contr. fr. Adaw .] To rouse. [Obs.] To daunt; to terrify. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

Usage examples of daw.

Do you two entertain sir John Daw with discourse, while I send her away with instructions.

DAUP: And your favour, lady: but we stay to speak with a knight, sir John Daw, who is here come.

CLER: Will you speak so kindly to sir John Daw, that has done you such an affront?

CLER: Ay, if we can hold up the emulation betwixt Foole and Daw, and never bring them to expostulate.

Now you shall have the bear, cousin, and sir John Daw the horse, and I will have the bull still.

TRUE: Well then, if I make them not wrangle out this case to his no comfort, let me be thought a Jack Daw or La-Foole or anything worse.

Nay, sir Daw, and sir La-Foole, you see the gentlewoman that has done you the favours!

Alfred Daws, Robert Stewart, Allan Beckensdale, Sydney Myers, all fellows he knew well.

I can guarantee you that Lady Daws sees that in Papa, and the fact that she is Lady Daws does not mean that she is not in need of support.

The son, Byron Daws, goes to university with your young swain, you know.

That Lord Daws himself was nearly cast out of the family when he married her.

Lady Daws stated, her voice low and ever cultured, but carrying with it such malice that Kat was chilled.

She had been glad to see Isabella Daws discomfited, but something dark seemed to have fallen over her beautiful afternoon.

He was somewhere with Lady Daws, something to do with the sale of his art.

Ah, with all the good fortune, Lady Daws is still about, playing the grand dame!