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