Dawfyd, "the one-eyed" freebooter chief.—Sir W. Scott, The Betrothed (time, Henry II.).
Dawkins (Jack), known by the sobriquet of the "Artful Dodger." He is one of Fagin's tools. Jack Dawkins is a young scamp of unmitigated villainy, and full of artifices, but of a cheery, buoyant temper.—C. Dickens, Oliver Twist, viii. (1837).
Dawson (Bully), a London sharper, bully, and debauchee of the seventeenth century.—See Spectator, No. 2.
Bully Dawson kicked by half the town, and half the town kicked by Bully Dawson.—Charles Lamb.
Dawson (Jemmy). Captain James Dawson was one of the eight officers belonging to the Manchester volunteers in the service of Charles Edward, the young pretender. He was a very amiable young man, engaged to a young lady of family and fortune, who went in her carriage to witness his execution for treason. When the body was drawn, i.e. embowelled, and the heart thrown into the fire, she exclaimed, "James Dawson!" and expired. Shenstone has made this the subject of a tragic ballad.
Young Dawson was a gallant youth,
A brighter never trod the plain;
And well he loved one charming maid,
And dearly was he loved again.
Shenstone, Jemmy Dawson.