Definition of "dawing" []

• Present participle of daw. (verb)
• Dawn, daybreak (noun)

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• "Weel, there’s ane abune a’—but we’ll see if the red cock craw not in his bonnie barn-yard ae morning before day-dawing."
• "We killed an ox, in Burgie, about the dawing of the day, and we brought the ox with us home to Aulderne, and did eat all amongst us in an house in"
• "She led to the dawing-room: on the way, Tarrant felt a surprise that in so small a house the drawing-room should be correctly situated on the upper floor."