Dawdler

A person who wastes his time heedle ly; a trifler; an idler; a poco-curante. Daw'ish, a. After the manner of a daw; like a daw. Dawk, n. [Hind. dak.] See DAK. Dawk, n. ( Carp.) A cant word used by carpenters to derte a hollow, rupture, or incision in boards or thick stut. -v. a. To cut or distinguish with a groove or incision. Daw'lish, a town of England, co. Devon; pop . 12,236. Dawm, n. In India, a copper coin equivalent to 3 annas, and 5 pie, or 1-40th of a rupee. Dawn, v . n. [A.S. dagain , to become day, from dag, day; L. Sax. dagen; Ger.tagen.] To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to glimmer luminously, as the daybreak. "Dawning day new comfort hath inspired."-Shaks. -To begin to open, blo om, or expand; to glimmer obscurely; to begin to open or appear; as, a truth dawns upon the mind. "Life awakes, and dawns at every line."-Pope. -n. The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; cock-crow; the TWILIGHT, q. v. -First opening or expansion; beginning; rise; first appearance or promise; first incipient beams of light or perception; as, the dawn of life. Dawn, in Mi ouri, a post-village of Livings ton co., abt. 42 m. N.N.E. of Lexington. Dawn, in Ohio, a post-office of Darke co. Daw's on, in Georgia , a N. co.; area , about 200 sq. m. It is intersected by the Etowah River. Surface , uneven; soil, generally good. Cap . Dawsonville. P. (1890) 5,612-A town, cap. of Terrell co., about 70 m. S.S.E. of Columbus. Has car factory and is the seat of the South Georgia Male Institute. Pop . (1897) abt. 2,500. Daw's on, in Nebraska , a central co.; area , abt. 1,450 sq. m. The Platte River washes its S. border, and it is also drained by the S. Branch of the Loup Fork. Surface , generally level; soil , fertile. Pop . (1897) abt. 12,500. Cap . Lexington. Daw's on, in Pennsylvania , a post-village of Fayette co., abt. 50 m. S.E. of Pittsburg. Daw's on, in Texas , a S.W. co.; area, abt. 900 sq. m. It is traversed by the Nueces river. Daw's on Island, a considerable island of Terra del year; as, to celebrate a birth- day. - An appointed or fixed time; as, a seven days ' bill. (Astron.) In its most common acceptation, day denotes the interval of time during which the sun remains above the horizon; and is opposed to night , which denotes the time the sun is below the horizon. In this sense it is sometimes called the artificial day. But the term day is also generally used to denote the time in which the earth makes a complete revolution with respect to the celestial bodies; and consequently expre es different intervals, according as the body with which the earth's rotation is compared is fixed or movable. - The Astro nomical or Solar day, called also the Apparent day , is the time that elapses between two consecutive returns of the same terrestrial meridian to the centre of the sun. Astronomical days are not of equal length, for two reasons: 1st, the unequal velocity of the earth in its orbit, in consequence of which the apparent daily motion of the sun is greater in winter than in summer; and 2d, the obliquity of the ecliptic, in consequence of which the sun's apparent daily motion in right ascension (that is, in the plane of the earth's equator) is le at the equinoxes than at the tropics. The astronomical day commences at noon, and is counted on through the twenty four hours. The Civil day, or Mean solar day , is the time employed by the earth in revolving on its axis, as compared with the sun, supposed to move at a mean rate in its orbit, and to make 365-2425 revolutions in a mean Greg or i an year. In this mode of reckoning time, the days are all of the same length; and noon, or any given hour of the civil day, sometimes precedes and sometimes comes after apparent noon, or the corresponding hour of the astronomical day. Most nations, at least in modern times, have agreed in placing the commencement and termination of the civil day at mean midnight. - The Sidereal day is the time that elapses between two succe ive culminations of the same star. This interval of time has always within historical memory remained of the same invariable length, as is proved by the most ancient astronomical observations. It is divided into 24 sidereal hours; and these are again subdivided into sidereal minutes and seconds. This mode of reckoning time, during the day, is now universally adopted by astronomers in their observatories. See TIME. ( Law .) A day in law includes the whole twenty-four hours, without reference to light or darkne . Unle there is some agreement stating otherwise, an obligation to pay on a certain day is discharged if the money is paid before twelve o'clock at night. A lawful day is a day on which a writ can be executed without legal impediment. All days, except Sun days and fast-days appointed by government, are lawful days. Criminal warrants, however, can be granted and executed both on Sun days and fast days. All contracts entered into by persons in their ordinary calling are void if made on a Sunday.- Days of grace. When a bill becomes due, in general three days are allowed for its payment beyond the time marked on the face of it. These additional days are allowed by mercantile custom, and protected by the laws in all the States; they are called days of grace. When the third day of grace falls on a Sunday or fast-day, the bill is considered due the day before. From day to day , without certainty of continuance. Day by day, daily; every day. - Day's - work . ( Naut .) The daily reckoning of the distance traversed by a ship, taken from noon to noon. One day, or one of these days, on any particular day to come;-generally implying an early date.- To - day , this day; on the day of the time being. Day, in New York, a post-village and township of Saratoga co., abt. 50 m. N. by W. of Albany.