dawnn.

Brit.

/dɔːn/, U.S.

/dɔn/

Etymology: Appears late in 16th cent., the earlier equivalents being dawing n., dawning n. Apparently < the verb-stem (see dawn v.); compare break in ‘break of day’ (quoted 1584). Old Norse had dagan, dögun dawn, < daga to dawn, í dagan, at dagan at dawn: but, notwithstanding the likeness of form, there is no evidence that this is the original of the English word.

a. The first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise, or the time when it appears; the beginning of daylight; daybreak. high dawn, dawn appearing above a bank of clouds on the horizon; low dawn, dawn appearing on or close to the horizon.

ΘΠ

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]

aristc825

dawingc900

dayeOE

day-rimOE

day-redOE

mornOE

lightOE

lightingOE

dawning1297

day-rowa1300

grekinga1300

uprista1300

dayninga1325

uprisingc1330

sun arisingc1350

springc1380

springingc1380

day-springa1382

morrowingc1384

dayingc1400

daylighta1425

upspring1471

aurora1483

sky1515

orienta1522

breaking of the day1523

daybreak1530

day-peep1530

morrow dayc1530

peep of the morning1530

prick of the day?1533

morning1535

day-breaking1565

creek1567

sunup1572

breach of the day1579

break of day or morn1584

peep of day1587

uprise1594

dawna1616

day-dawn1616

peep of dawn1751

strike of day1790

skreigh1802

sunbreak1822

day-daw1823

screech1829

dayclean1835

sun dawn1835

first light1838

morning-red1843

piccaninny sun1846

piccaninny daylightc1860

gloaming1873

glooming1877

sparrow-fart1886

crack1887

sun-spring1900

piccaninny dawn1936

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. i. 271 Next day after dawne .

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. ii. 209 Come away, it is almost cleere dawne .

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xviii. 498 With such dark black Clouds near the Horizon, that the first glimpse of the Dawn appeared 30 or 40 degrees high..it is a common saying among Sea-men..that a high dawn will have high winds, and a low dawn, small winds.

1778 R. Lowth Isaiah xxvi. 19 Thy dew is as the dew of the dawn.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Death of Old Year in Poems (new ed.) 155 He will not see the dawn of day.

1859 C. M. Yonge Cameos liii, in Monthly Packet Sept. 229 The assault had begun at early dawn.

b. An opalescent colour resembling that seen in the sky at dawn.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > iridescence > [noun] > iridescent colour

opal1576

nacrine1852

dawn1894

1894 Daily News 11 Apr. 3/1 Palest pink and blue shot silk, called by the poetic name of ‘Dawn’, because it suggests the union of those colours in the early morning sky.

1927 Daily Express 21 Mar. 2 Colours include cedar, green, silver, new blue, dawn or bois de rose.

c. came the dawn: a cliché used to announce the break of day; hence figurative, used to indicate relief after a time of trouble, the dawning of understanding, etc.

1927 P. G. Wodehouse Meet Mr. Mulliner v. 169 A benevolent glow irradiated the other's spectacles. ‘Came the Dawn!’ he murmured. ‘Came the Dawn.’

1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. iii. v. 582 For her sake alone he..renounced wealth and fame. Love was his guiding star. Came the dawn. Yeogh!.. What do you think you are—a little hero from Hollywood?

1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident iii. 29 As for Nick, you never saw such a ‘Came-the-dawn’ expression as he had on his face.

1967 ‘A. Garve’ Very Quiet Place i. iv. 60 It was fun staying up half the night..but, came the dawn, I was the one who had to..earn the rent.

1967 Guardian 18 Oct. 1 ‘Came the dawn.’ In the days of silent films this caption introduced the sequence where the young lovers were united after a night of tropical storm.

2. figurative. The beginning, commencement, rise, first gleam or appearance (of something compared to light); an incipient gleam (of anything).

ΘΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun]

ordeOE

thresholdeOE

frumthc950

anginOE

frumeOE

worthOE

beginninga1225

springc1225

commencementc1250

ginninga1300

comsingc1325

entryc1330

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incomea1400

formec1400

ingressc1420

birtha1425

principlea1449

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resultancec1450

inition1463

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throw-off1828

go-off1830

outstart1844

start1857

incipience1864

oncome1865

kick-off1875

off-go1886

off1896

get-go1960

lift-off1967

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xii. xlvi. 170 So spring some dawns of joy, so sets the night of sorrow.

1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 196. ⁋2 From the dawn of manhood to its decline.

1767 Babler II. 100 If he possesses but a dawn of spirit.

1823 C. Lamb On Some of Old Actors (new ed.) in Elia 312 You could see the first dawn of an idea stealing slowly over his countenance.

1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe ii. §50. 69 From the earliest dawn of history to the present day.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

dawn animal n.

1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man ii. 23 Eozoon Canadense..its name of ‘Dawn-animal’ having reference to its great antiquity and possible connection with the dawn of life on our planet.

dawn-animalcule n. (see quots.)

1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) x. 189 The organism, Eozoön Canadense, or Dawn-animalcule of Canada.

dawn-chill n.

1899 A. Werner Captain of Locusts 152 Holcroft shivered involuntarily in the dawn-chill.

dawn-cloud n.

1901 R. Kipling Kim xv, in McClure's Mag. Oct. 567/2 Thence he vanished like a dawn-cloud on Jakko.

dawn-dew n.

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 21 A dash of dawn-dew from the honeysuckle.

dawn-flush n.

1906 Daily Chron. 30 June 4/6 A painter..saw a sunrise and put the dawn-flush into a picture.

dawn-goddess n.

1877 J. E. Carpenter tr. C. P. Tiele Outl. Hist. Relig. 107 The Sun-god..and the dawn-goddess.

dawn-light n.

1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 326 I oft had seen the dawnlight run As red wine, through the hills.

dawn-mist n.

1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia xvi. 151 Across the broad landscape the dawn-mist lies in heavy, floating wreaths.

dawn-streak n.

1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 221 The dawn-streaks of a new day.

dawn-wind n.

1887 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1888) 35 The dawn-wind, softly, slowly, Brought to burning eyelids sleep.

1916 E. Blunden Pastorals 35 And through green sprigs a little dawn-wind plains.

dawn-woman n.

1944 H. G. Wells '42 to '44 190 The hardy steppe-bred Dawn-Woman of the early Solutrean.

dawn-illumined adj.

1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xi, in Prometheus Unbound 215 As on a dawn-illumined mountain.

dawn-lit adj.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 2/3 Rare and transparent as the dawn-lit dew.

1912 R. Brooke Grantchester in Poetry Rev. Nov. 507 Still in the dawnlit waters cool His ghostly Lordship swims his pool.

dawn-tinted adj.

1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 47 Dawn-tinted deluges of fire.

dawnward adv.

1881 W. Wilkins Songs of Study 44 In joyful praises dawnward rolled.

C2.

dawn chorus n. the early-morning bird song.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > song > time of or defined by time

matins1645

vesper1678

song period1884

dawn chorus1927

1927 E. Grey Charm of Birds i. 8 [The robin's song is worth attention..and, though he may not open the Great Chorus at Dawn in May, he is the last to cease in the evening.]

1927 E. Grey Charm of Birds iv. 70 In May..the great Dawn Chorus is at its fullest and best.

1966 Guardian 23 Mar. 3/2 The dawn chorus project which we carried out last spring produced the interesting result that skylarks apparently don't like singing in the rain.

1969 ‘G. Black’ Cold Jungle xi. 160 The birds ought to be busy on their dawn chorus out in the Hebrides, with a new day practically settled in.

dawn raid n. Stock Market slang a swift operation effected early in trading whereby a stockbroker obtains for his client a markedly increased shareholding in a company (frequently preparatory to a take-over) by clandestine buying from other substantial shareholders.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > disreputable

poison pill1653

rig1826

cornering1841

wash-sale1848

washing1849

market-rigging1851

corner1853

watering1868

wreck1876

manipulation1888

wash1891

market mongering1901

matched orders1903

grey market1933

bond washing1937

warehousing1971

bed-and-breakfasting1974

dawn raid1980

1980 Times 28 May 17/6 ‘Dawn raids’, in which a stock-market raider suddenly buys a substantial stake in a company and possibly denies non-professional shareholders the opportunity to sell at a price above that in the market, were causing a ‘great deal of anxiety’.

1980 Times 22 July 17 De Beers went into the market on the morning of February 12 and bought another 11·6 per cent in a ‘dawn raid’.

1981 Bookseller 21 Feb. 568/3 Following his ‘dawn raid’ last July, which gained him 29·4 per cent of BPC, Robert Maxwell..clearly plans to secure and consolidate his control of the group.

Draft additions December 2016

dawn patrol n. (a) Military a patrol sent out at dawn; (b) Surfing an early morning surfing session.

ΚΠ

1905 Jrnl. United Service Inst. India Apr. 335 Patrolling by mounted men should of course go on throughout the day, but the dusk and dawn patrols should always go out at the above hours.

1975 Surfer Feb. 56 Dawn patrol: it's about 5:30 and very, very quiet except for outside you can hear the rumble on the reef.

1994 T. Clancy Debt of Honor xiv. 240 Captain Sanchez watched the dawn patrol—a term beloved of all fighter pilots—shoot off the cats to establish an outer Combat Air Patrol.

2002 Adrenalin No. 13. 78 I was carbo-loading after a blissful dawn patrol where I had scored crisp, clean, shoulder-high waves.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

dawnv.

Brit.

/dɔːn/, U.S.

/dɔn/

Forms: Also 1500s daune, dawne.

Etymology: Known only from end of 15th cent., since which it has displaced the earlier verb daw v.¹ Apparently deduced < dawning n. Compare also dayn v.

I. To become bright, as at dawn.

a. intransitive. To begin to grow daylight: said of the day, morning, light; also simply with it.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > become daylight

lightOE

dawc1200

dayc1275

shinec1384

dawn1499

break1535

unnight1594

dayn?c1600

1499 Promptorium Parvulorum (Pynson) sig. ev/2 Dawnyn or dayen [c1440 dawyn], auroro.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxviii. 1 The Sabboth daye at even which dauneth the morowe after the Sabboth [ Wyclif bigynneth to schyne, Geneva & 1611 began to dawne].

1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Pet. i. 19 Vntill the daye dawne.

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Giii ^v To dawne [printed dawed in all editions], aiourner.

1611 Bible (King James) Matt. xxviii. 1 In the ende of the Sabbath, as it began to dawne towards the first day of the weeke.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 142. ⁋5 Before the Light this Morning dawned upon the Earth.

1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 23 As soon as ever the Morning dawn'd.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxi. 150 Day at length dawned and gradually brightened.

b. transferred. To begin to shine, as the sun or any luminary.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > begin to shine

dawn1702

1702 N. Rowe Tamerlane v. i. 2017 Women, like Summer Storms are Cloudy..But strait the Sun of Beauty dawns abroad.

1811 R. Heber in Christian Observer Nov. 697 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Margaret v Look down, and let your blue eyes dawn Upon me thro' the jasmine-leaves.

2. figurative. To begin to develop, expand, or brighten, like the daylight at dawn.

ΘΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > begin [verb (intransitive)]

beginc1000

comsea1225

gin?c1225

becomsea1375

commencec1380

to take beginninga1400

enterc1425

to start up1568

initiatea1618

inchoate1654

dawn1716

to take in1845

to take up1846

to set in1848

1716 A. Pope Epist. Jervas in J. Dryden tr. C. A. du Fresnoy Art of Painting (ed. 2) sig. A6 Where Life awakes, and dawns at every Line.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 412 In the year 1685 his fame..was only dawning.

1854 C. M. Yonge Cameos xxxi, in Monthly Packet Nov. 334 When prosperity dawned on the elder brother.

a. To begin to brighten, with or as with the light of dawn.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > become daylight > be brightened by or as by the light of dawn

adawc1425

lightenc1450

dawn1648

1648 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple (ed. 2) 55 When the dark world dawn'd into Christian day.

1651 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 390 Zanchius..became such a light..that many parts in Christendome dawned with the luster of his writings.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Œnone (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 120 I waited underneath the dawning hills.

b. transferred. To begin to appear, become visible.

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible

ariseOE

to come in (also to, on, etc.) placec1225

'peara1382

appear1382

kithea1400

to show out?a1425

muster?1435

to come forthc1449

to look outa1470

apparish1483

to show forth1487

come1531

to come out?1548

peer1568

to look through1573

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rise1615

emicate1657

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present1664

opena1691

emerge1700

dawn1744

to come down the pike1812

to open out1813

to crop out1849

unmask1858

to come through1868

to show up1879

to come (etc.) out of thin air1932

surface1961

1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 146 I see them dawn! I see the radiant visions, where they rise.

1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms iii. 307 Its porch and roof of roses dawn Through arching trees.

4. figurative. Of ideas, facts, etc.: To begin to become evident to the mind; to begin to be understood, felt, or perceived. Const. on, upon.

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > be intelligible [verb (intransitive)] > become

dawn1852

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (U.K. ed.) xv. 129 The idea that they had either feelings or rights had never dawned upon her.

1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood ix. 137 It dawned on my recollection that I had heard Judy mention her Uncle.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 59 The distinction between ethics and politics has not yet dawned upon Plato's mind.

II. To bring to life.

†5. transferred. To bring to life; to arouse or awake from a swoon, resuscitate; = daw v.¹ 3.

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > wake or rouse [verb (transitive)]

wecchec897

aweccheeOE

wakenc1175

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ruthec1400

daw1470

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to stir up1526

dawn1530

to call up1548

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abraid1590

amove1591

arousea1616

dissleep1616

expergefy1623

start?1624

to rouse out1825

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [verb (transitive)] > restore to consciousness > from a faint or swoon

aweccheeOE

adawc1405

daw1470

dawn1530

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 507/2 I dawne or get life in one that is fallen in a swoune, je reuigore..I can nat dawne him.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Hvj^v Yf Alexander dawned a weake souldiour when he was almost frosen for colde.

1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries sig. k4 After he had dawned him to remembrance, by the helpe of vinager and colde water.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dawn
释义	dawnn. Brit. /dɔːn/, U.S. /dɔn/ Etymology: Appears late in 16th cent., the earlier equivalents being dawing n., dawning n. Apparently < the verb-stem (see dawn v.); compare break in ‘break of day’ (quoted 1584). Old Norse had dagan, dögun dawn, < daga to dawn, í dagan, at dagan at dawn: but, notwithstanding the likeness of form, there is no evidence that this is the original of the English word. 1. a. The first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise, or the time when it appears; the beginning of daylight; daybreak. high dawn, dawn appearing above a bank of clouds on the horizon; low dawn, dawn appearing on or close to the horizon. ΘΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun] aristc825 dawingc900 dayeOE day-rimOE day-redOE mornOE lightOE lightingOE dawning1297 day-rowa1300 grekinga1300 uprista1300 dayninga1325 uprisingc1330 sun arisingc1350 springc1380 springingc1380 day-springa1382 morrowingc1384 dayingc1400 daylighta1425 upspring1471 aurora1483 sky1515 orienta1522 breaking of the day1523 daybreak1530 day-peep1530 morrow dayc1530 peep of the morning1530 prick of the day?1533 morning1535 day-breaking1565 creek1567 sunup1572 breach of the day1579 break of day or morn1584 peep of day1587 uprise1594 dawna1616 day-dawn1616 peep of dawn1751 strike of day1790 skreigh1802 sunbreak1822 day-daw1823 screech1829 dayclean1835 sun dawn1835 first light1838 morning-red1843 piccaninny sun1846 piccaninny daylightc1860 gloaming1873 glooming1877 sparrow-fart1886 crack1887 sun-spring1900 piccaninny dawn1936 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. i. 271 Next day after dawne . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. ii. 209 Come away, it is almost cleere dawne . View more context for this quotation 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xviii. 498 With such dark black Clouds near the Horizon, that the first glimpse of the Dawn appeared 30 or 40 degrees high..it is a common saying among Sea-men..that a high dawn will have high winds, and a low dawn, small winds. 1778 R. Lowth Isaiah xxvi. 19 Thy dew is as the dew of the dawn. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Death of Old Year in Poems (new ed.) 155 He will not see the dawn of day. 1859 C. M. Yonge Cameos liii, in Monthly Packet Sept. 229 The assault had begun at early dawn. b. An opalescent colour resembling that seen in the sky at dawn. ΘΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > iridescence > [noun] > iridescent colour opal1576 nacrine1852 dawn1894 1894 Daily News 11 Apr. 3/1 Palest pink and blue shot silk, called by the poetic name of ‘Dawn’, because it suggests the union of those colours in the early morning sky. 1927 Daily Express 21 Mar. 2 Colours include cedar, green, silver, new blue, dawn or bois de rose. c. came the dawn: a cliché used to announce the break of day; hence figurative, used to indicate relief after a time of trouble, the dawning of understanding, etc. Π 1927 P. G. Wodehouse Meet Mr. Mulliner v. 169 A benevolent glow irradiated the other's spectacles. ‘Came the Dawn!’ he murmured. ‘Came the Dawn.’ 1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. iii. v. 582 For her sake alone he..renounced wealth and fame. Love was his guiding star. Came the dawn. Yeogh!.. What do you think you are—a little hero from Hollywood? 1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident iii. 29 As for Nick, you never saw such a ‘Came-the-dawn’ expression as he had on his face. 1967 ‘A. Garve’ Very Quiet Place i. iv. 60 It was fun staying up half the night..but, came the dawn, I was the one who had to..earn the rent. 1967 Guardian 18 Oct. 1 ‘Came the dawn.’ In the days of silent films this caption introduced the sequence where the young lovers were united after a night of tropical storm. 2. figurative. The beginning, commencement, rise, first gleam or appearance (of something compared to light); an incipient gleam (of anything). ΘΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] ordeOE thresholdeOE frumthc950 anginOE frumeOE worthOE beginninga1225 springc1225 springc1225 commencementc1250 ginninga1300 comsingc1325 entryc1330 aginning1340 alphac1384 incomea1400 formec1400 ingressc1420 birtha1425 principlea1449 comsementa1450 resultancec1450 inition1463 inceptiona1483 entering1526 originala1529 inchoation1530 opening1531 starting1541 principium1550 entrance1553 onset1561 rise1589 begin1590 ingate1591 overture1595 budding1601 initiationa1607 starting off1616 dawninga1631 dawn1633 impriminga1639 start1644 fall1647 initial1656 outset1664 outsettinga1698 going off1714 offsetting1782 offset1791 commence1794 aurora1806 incipiency1817 set-out1821 set-in1826 throw-off1828 go-off1830 outstart1844 start1857 incipience1864 oncome1865 kick-off1875 off-go1886 off1896 get-go1960 lift-off1967 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xii. xlvi. 170 So spring some dawns of joy, so sets the night of sorrow. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 196. ⁋2 From the dawn of manhood to its decline. 1767 Babler II. 100 If he possesses but a dawn of spirit. 1823 C. Lamb On Some of Old Actors (new ed.) in Elia 312 You could see the first dawn of an idea stealing slowly over his countenance. 1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe ii. §50. 69 From the earliest dawn of history to the present day. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. dawn animal n. Π 1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man ii. 23 Eozoon Canadense..its name of ‘Dawn-animal’ having reference to its great antiquity and possible connection with the dawn of life on our planet. dawn-animalcule n. (see quots.) Π 1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) x. 189 The organism, Eozoön Canadense, or Dawn-animalcule of Canada. dawn-chill n. Π 1899 A. Werner Captain of Locusts 152 Holcroft shivered involuntarily in the dawn-chill. dawn-cloud n. Π 1901 R. Kipling Kim xv, in McClure's Mag. Oct. 567/2 Thence he vanished like a dawn-cloud on Jakko. dawn-dew n. Π 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 21 A dash of dawn-dew from the honeysuckle. dawn-flush n. Π 1906 Daily Chron. 30 June 4/6 A painter..saw a sunrise and put the dawn-flush into a picture. dawn-goddess n. Π 1877 J. E. Carpenter tr. C. P. Tiele Outl. Hist. Relig. 107 The Sun-god..and the dawn-goddess. dawn-light n. Π 1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 326 I oft had seen the dawnlight run As red wine, through the hills. dawn-mist n. Π 1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia xvi. 151 Across the broad landscape the dawn-mist lies in heavy, floating wreaths. dawn-streak n. Π 1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 221 The dawn-streaks of a new day. dawn-wind n. Π 1887 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1888) 35 The dawn-wind, softly, slowly, Brought to burning eyelids sleep. 1916 E. Blunden Pastorals 35 And through green sprigs a little dawn-wind plains. dawn-woman n. Π 1944 H. G. Wells '42 to '44 190 The hardy steppe-bred Dawn-Woman of the early Solutrean. b. dawn-illumined adj. Π 1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xi, in Prometheus Unbound 215 As on a dawn-illumined mountain. dawn-lit adj. Π 1906 Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 2/3 Rare and transparent as the dawn-lit dew. 1912 R. Brooke Grantchester in Poetry Rev. Nov. 507 Still in the dawnlit waters cool His ghostly Lordship swims his pool. dawn-tinted adj. Π 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 47 Dawn-tinted deluges of fire. c. dawnward adv. Π 1881 W. Wilkins Songs of Study 44 In joyful praises dawnward rolled. C2. dawn chorus n. the early-morning bird song. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > song > time of or defined by time matins1645 vesper1678 song period1884 dawn chorus1927 1927 E. Grey Charm of Birds i. 8 [The robin's song is worth attention..and, though he may not open the Great Chorus at Dawn in May, he is the last to cease in the evening.] 1927 E. Grey Charm of Birds iv. 70 In May..the great Dawn Chorus is at its fullest and best. 1966 Guardian 23 Mar. 3/2 The dawn chorus project which we carried out last spring produced the interesting result that skylarks apparently don't like singing in the rain. 1969 ‘G. Black’ Cold Jungle xi. 160 The birds ought to be busy on their dawn chorus out in the Hebrides, with a new day practically settled in. dawn raid n. Stock Market slang a swift operation effected early in trading whereby a stockbroker obtains for his client a markedly increased shareholding in a company (frequently preparatory to a take-over) by clandestine buying from other substantial shareholders. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > disreputable poison pill1653 rig1826 cornering1841 wash-sale1848 washing1849 market-rigging1851 corner1853 watering1868 wreck1876 manipulation1888 wash1891 market mongering1901 matched orders1903 grey market1933 bond washing1937 warehousing1971 bed-and-breakfasting1974 dawn raid1980 1980 Times 28 May 17/6 ‘Dawn raids’, in which a stock-market raider suddenly buys a substantial stake in a company and possibly denies non-professional shareholders the opportunity to sell at a price above that in the market, were causing a ‘great deal of anxiety’. 1980 Times 22 July 17 De Beers went into the market on the morning of February 12 and bought another 11·6 per cent in a ‘dawn raid’. 1981 Bookseller 21 Feb. 568/3 Following his ‘dawn raid’ last July, which gained him 29·4 per cent of BPC, Robert Maxwell..clearly plans to secure and consolidate his control of the group. Draft additions December 2016 dawn patrol n. (a) Military a patrol sent out at dawn; (b) Surfing an early morning surfing session. ΚΠ 1905 Jrnl. United Service Inst. India Apr. 335 Patrolling by mounted men should of course go on throughout the day, but the dusk and dawn patrols should always go out at the above hours. 1975 Surfer Feb. 56 Dawn patrol: it's about 5:30 and very, very quiet except for outside you can hear the rumble on the reef. 1994 T. Clancy Debt of Honor xiv. 240 Captain Sanchez watched the dawn patrol—a term beloved of all fighter pilots—shoot off the cats to establish an outer Combat Air Patrol. 2002 Adrenalin No. 13. 78 I was carbo-loading after a blissful dawn patrol where I had scored crisp, clean, shoulder-high waves. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dawnv. Brit. /dɔːn/, U.S. /dɔn/ Forms: Also 1500s daune, dawne. Etymology: Known only from end of 15th cent., since which it has displaced the earlier verb daw v.¹ Apparently deduced < dawning n. Compare also dayn v. I. To become bright, as at dawn. 1. a. intransitive. To begin to grow daylight: said of the day, morning, light; also simply with it. ΘΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > become daylight lightOE dawc1200 dayc1275 shinec1384 dawn1499 break1535 unnight1594 dayn?c1600 1499 Promptorium Parvulorum (Pynson) sig. ev/2 Dawnyn or dayen [c1440 dawyn], auroro. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxviii. 1 The Sabboth daye at even which dauneth the morowe after the Sabboth [ Wyclif bigynneth to schyne, Geneva & 1611 began to dawne]. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Pet. i. 19 Vntill the daye dawne. ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Giii ^v To dawne [printed dawed in all editions], aiourner. 1611 Bible (King James) Matt. xxviii. 1 In the ende of the Sabbath, as it began to dawne towards the first day of the weeke. View more context for this quotation 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 142. ⁋5 Before the Light this Morning dawned upon the Earth. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 23 As soon as ever the Morning dawn'd. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxi. 150 Day at length dawned and gradually brightened. b. transferred. To begin to shine, as the sun or any luminary. ΘΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > begin to shine dawn1702 1702 N. Rowe Tamerlane v. i. 2017 Women, like Summer Storms are Cloudy..But strait the Sun of Beauty dawns abroad. 1811 R. Heber in Christian Observer Nov. 697 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Margaret v Look down, and let your blue eyes dawn Upon me thro' the jasmine-leaves. 2. figurative. To begin to develop, expand, or brighten, like the daylight at dawn. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > begin [verb (intransitive)] beginc1000 comsea1225 gin?c1225 becomsea1375 commencec1380 to take beginninga1400 enterc1425 to start up1568 initiatea1618 inchoate1654 dawn1716 to take in1845 to take up1846 to set in1848 1716 A. Pope Epist. Jervas in J. Dryden tr. C. A. du Fresnoy Art of Painting (ed. 2) sig. A6 Where Life awakes, and dawns at every Line. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 412 In the year 1685 his fame..was only dawning. 1854 C. M. Yonge Cameos xxxi, in Monthly Packet Nov. 334 When prosperity dawned on the elder brother. 3. a. To begin to brighten, with or as with the light of dawn. ΘΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > become daylight > be brightened by or as by the light of dawn adawc1425 lightenc1450 dawn1648 1648 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple (ed. 2) 55 When the dark world dawn'd into Christian day. 1651 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 390 Zanchius..became such a light..that many parts in Christendome dawned with the luster of his writings. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Œnone (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 120 I waited underneath the dawning hills. b. transferred. To begin to appear, become visible. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible ariseOE to come in (also to, on, etc.) placec1225 'peara1382 appear1382 kithea1400 to show out?a1425 muster?1435 to come forthc1449 to look outa1470 apparish1483 to show forth1487 come1531 to come out?1548 peer1568 to look through1573 glimpse1596 loom1605 rise1615 emicate1657 emike1657 present1664 opena1691 emerge1700 dawn1744 to come down the pike1812 to open out1813 to crop out1849 unmask1858 to come through1868 to show up1879 to come (etc.) out of thin air1932 surface1961 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 146 I see them dawn! I see the radiant visions, where they rise. 1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms iii. 307 Its porch and roof of roses dawn Through arching trees. 4. figurative. Of ideas, facts, etc.: To begin to become evident to the mind; to begin to be understood, felt, or perceived. Const. on, upon. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > be intelligible [verb (intransitive)] > become dawn1852 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (U.K. ed.) xv. 129 The idea that they had either feelings or rights had never dawned upon her. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood ix. 137 It dawned on my recollection that I had heard Judy mention her Uncle. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 59 The distinction between ethics and politics has not yet dawned upon Plato's mind. II. To bring to life. †5. transferred. To bring to life; to arouse or awake from a swoon, resuscitate; = daw v.¹ 3. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > wake or rouse [verb (transitive)] wecchec897 aweccheeOE wakenc1175 awake?c1225 upwakea1325 wakec1369 ruthec1400 daw1470 awaken1513 to stir up1526 dawn1530 to call up1548 unsleep1555 rouse1563 abraid1590 amove1591 arousea1616 dissleep1616 expergefy1623 start?1624 to rouse out1825 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [verb (transitive)] > restore to consciousness > from a faint or swoon aweccheeOE adawc1405 daw1470 dawn1530 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 507/2 I dawne or get life in one that is fallen in a swoune, je reuigore..I can nat dawne him. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Hvj^v Yf Alexander dawned a weake souldiour when he was almost frosen for colde. 1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries sig. k4 After he had dawned him to remembrance, by the helpe of vinager and colde water. 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