▪ 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.
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Eccl. Hist. iii xix. (xxvii.) 242 Þa eode [he] ut in daᵹunge of þam huse. a 1000 O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 795 Betwux hancred and daᵹunge. a 1225 Ancr. R. 20 Bi nihte ine winter, ine sumer iþe dawunge. 1375 Barbour Bruce vii. 318 [Thai] Com on thame in the dawyng, Richt as the day begouth to spryng. c 1420 Avow. Arth. lv, Erly in the dawyng Come thay home from hunting. 1513 Douglas æneis iii. viii. 29 The dawing gan..wax reid, And chasit away the sterris. a 1605 Montgomerie Misc. Poems, Solsequium 40 The dauing of my long desyrit day. c 1794 Burns 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.)
| 1530 Palsgr. 212 Dawyng, gettyng of lyfe, resuscitation. |
▪ II. † ˈdawing, ppl. a. Obs. exc. Sc.
Also 4 north. dawande.
[f. daw v.1 + -ing2.]
Dawning.
| c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. C. 445 Þe dawande day. |