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Dawn \Dawn\, n.
1. The break of day; the first appearance of light in the
morning; show of approaching sunrise.
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And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve.
--Thomson.
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No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon,
No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day. --Hood.
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2. First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning;
rise. "The dawn of time." --Thomson.
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These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of
serenity over the soul. --Pope.
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Dawn \Dawn\ (d[add]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dawned} (d[add]nd);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Dawning}.] [OE. dawnen, dawen, dagen, daien,
AS. dagian to become day, to dawn, fr. d[ae]g day; akin to D.
dagen, G. tagen, Icel. daga, Dan. dages, Sw. dagas. See
{Day}. [root]71.]
1. To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to
break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning
dawns.
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In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn
toward the first day of the week, came Mary
Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher. --Matt.
xxviii. 1.
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2. To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
"In dawning youth." --Dryden.
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When life awakes, and dawns at every line. --Pope.
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Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid. --Heber,
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