Rising, rise from a seat or from bed; sunrise.

Dawn, daybreak; morning twilight.

The time when daylight first appears; daybreak, dawn. Chiefly in phrases, as before day, at day, etc.

The first light of day; dawn. Also figurative.

Dawn, daybreak.

Chiefly (from lME onwards) poetic. The beginning of the day; dawn, sunrise. Frequently personified. Also figurative.

The illumination which proceeds from the sun in daytime; daylight. Also: the time of daylight; daytime, daybreak, first light. Now frequently with the…

The action of casting light on something; the action of illuminating something; †dawn (obsolete).

The beginning of daylight; dawn, daybreak. In reference to time, now poetic or rhetorical.

The first light of day; dawn. Also in plural: the rays of dawn. Cf. row, n.1 2a.

Break (of day), dawn.

The rising of the sun.

Dawn, daybreak.

The rising of the sun; †also (quot. 1535), the quarter in which the sun rises.

(a) the region or direction in which the sun rises, the east; (b) the rising of the sun or the time at which this occurs, sunrise.

The appearance or first sign of morning, day, daylight, etc.; dawn. Also: the beginning of a season. Chiefly poetic from the 18th cent. (now rare)…

The first appearance of day, dawn, morning, etc. With of. Cf. spring, v.1 10. Now rare (literary in later use).

Dawn, daybreak.

Morning; dawning.

= dawning, n.

The time during which there is daylight; daytime; spec. the time when daylight appears; dawn, daybreak (as in at daylight, until daylight, etc.).

Rising of the sun; dawn of day. Obsolete.

The rising light of the morning; the dawn.

Scottish. Daylight or sunlight, esp. at dawn or dusk; dawn or dusk. Now rare.

The rising of the sun; daybreak, dawn. Also figurative. Obsolete.

breaking of the day: daybreak, dawn.

The time in the morning when daylight first appears; dawn. Also figurative.

The first appearance of daylight; the earliest dawn.

(a) the next day, the morrow (now rare); †(b) daybreak (obsolete).

The first appearance of daylight or of the sun; esp. in peep of dawn, peep of the morning. Also (occasionally): a tiny speck of light.

The precise instant of time at which anything happens; the critical moment. prick of the day: daybreak. Obsolete.

Chiefly poetic. The dawn, daybreak; the light of dawn. Often personified. Also figurative.

= daybreak, n. 1.

The break (of day); dawn.

The time in the morning when the sun appears or full daylight arrives; sunrise. Often in from sunup to sundown. Also: the region in which the sun…

breach of the day: ‘break’ of day. Obsolete.

break of dayor morn: the first appearance of light, the dawn. So break of June: the beginning or opening days of June.

The first appearance of daylight, the earliest dawn. Also figurative. Now chiefly literary.

Rising (of the sun, etc.); dawn (of day).

The first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise, or the time when it appears; the beginning of daylight; daybreak.

Dawn, daybreak. Also figurative.

The first appearance of daylight or of the sun; esp. in peep of dawn, peep of the morning. Also (occasionally): a tiny speck of light.

An act of striking. daybreak. Obsolete or spurious.

The break of day.

Sunrise. Cf. daybreak, n.

= day-dawn, n.

Break of day, dawn, etc. Cf. screak, n. 3, skreigh, n.2, skrike, n. 2.

dawn; daybreak.

dawn, daybreak.

the time when light first appears in the morning.

Chiefly poetic. The dawn.

= piccaninny dawn n.

= piccaninny dawn n.

Said occasionally of morning twilight.

poetic. Twilight, gloaming; also, early dawn, morning twilight.

(a) dialect and slang, break of day, very early morning; also plural; (b) rare a person of no consequence.

The break (of dawn, of day). colloquial (originally dialect and U.S.).

†(a) the region or direction in which the sun rises, the east (obsolete); (b) the rising of the sun or the time at which this occurs, sunrise; also…

the approach of dawn, first light.