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▪ I. dawing, vbl. n. Obs. exc. Sc.|ˈdɔːɪŋ|
Forms: 1 daᵹung, 3 dawung, 4 daghyng(e, 3–6 dawyng, 4– dawing, (5 dayng, 7 dauing, 8 dawin).
[OE. daᵹung, from daᵹian to become day, to daw. After 1400, northern and chiefly Scotch, being displaced in Eng. by dawning.]
1. Dawn, daybreak; morning twilight.
c900tr. Bæda's Eccl. Hist. iii xix. (xxvii.) 242 Þa eode [he] ut in daᵹunge of þam huse. a1000O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 795 Betwux hancred and daᵹunge. a1225Ancr. R. 20 Bi nihte ine winter, ine sumer iþe dawunge. 1375Barbour Bruce vii. 318 [Thai] Com on thame in the dawyng, Richt as the day begouth to spryng. c1420Avow. Arth. lv, Erly in the dawyng Come thay home from hunting. 1513Douglas æneis iii. viii. 29 The dawing gan..wax reid, And chasit away the sterris. a1605Montgomerie Misc. Poems, Solsequium 40 The dauing of my long desyrit day. c1794Burns As I was a wandering iii, I could na get sleeping till dawin' for greetin'.
†2. Recovery from swoon, ‘coming-to’. Obs. (See daw v. 2, 3.)
1530Palsgr. 212 Dawyng, gettyng of lyfe, resuscitation.
▪ II. † ˈdawing, ppl. a. Obs. exc. Sc.
Also 4 north. dawande.
[f. daw v.1 + -ing2.]
Dawning.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. C. 445 Þe dawande day. |