DAWN (the 16th-

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• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century

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• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the earlier " Jawing " or " dawning," from an old verb " daw," O. Eng. dagian, to become

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• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day; cf. Dutch dagen, and Ger. tagen)  , the time when light appears (daws) in the sky in the morning . The dawn colours appear in the reverse order of the sunset colours and are due to the same cause . When the sun is lowest in both cases the colour is deep red; this gradually changes through orange to gold and brilliant yellow as the sun approaches the horizon . These colours follow each other in order of refrangibility, reproducing all the colours of the spectrum in order except the blue rays which are scattered in the sky . The colours of the dawn are purer and colder than the sunset colours since there is less dust and moisture in the atmosphere and less consequent sifting of light rays .