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dayn.

Brit. /deɪ/, U.S. /deɪ/
Forms: 1. Singular.

α. early Old English dag (see note below), early Old English dig (Mercian, transmission error), Old English daeg (rare), Old English daege (Northumbrian), Old English dæge- (in compounds), Old English dæge (Northumbrian), Old English dægi (rare), Old English dag- (inflected form, rare), Old English dęg (rare), Old English deih (rare), Old English ðaeg (Northumbrian, probably transmission error), Old English ðæg (Northumbrian, probably transmission error), Old English–early Middle English dæg, Old English (rare)–early Middle English (in copy of Old English charter) dægg- (inflected form), Old English (rare)–early Middle English dæi, Old English (rare)–early Middle English dæig, Old English (rare)–early Middle English daig, Old English (chiefly non-West Saxon)–early Middle English deg, Old English (rare)–early Middle English dei, Old English (rare)–early Middle English deig, late Old English , late Old English degg- (Kentish, inflected form), late Old English degye (dative), late Old English dieg (Kentish), late Old English–early Middle English deag, late Old English–1600s dai, early Middle English dæȝ, early Middle English dæiæg (in copy of Old English charter, transmission error), early Middle English dæiȝ, early Middle English daȝ, early Middle English daȝen (dative), early Middle English daȝȝ ( Ormulum), early Middle English dagh- (inflected form, in copy of Old English charter), early Middle English daiȝ, early Middle English daiþe (dative), early Middle English dayg, early Middle English deai, early Middle English deeȝ, early Middle English deȝ, early Middle English deȝi- (inflected form), early Middle English deie, early Middle English deiȝ, Middle English da, Middle English dægan (dative, in copy of Old English charter), Middle English de, Middle English deghe (dative, in copy of Old English charter), Middle English deye, Middle English die (northern), Middle English tai (northern, after t), Middle English–1600s daie, Middle English–1600s daye, Middle English–1700s dey, Middle English– day, 1500s dae, 1600s daij; English regional 1700s dai, 1800s– daay (Isle of Wight), 1800s– de, 1800s– dee (northern and midlands), 1800s– dei (Sussex), 1800s– dey, 1900s– da (Lincolnshire); Scottish pre-1700 da, pre-1700 dai, pre-1700 deay, pre-1700 1700s daye, pre-1700 1700s– day, pre-1700 1900s– dey; also Irish English 1800s dei (Wexford), 1800s– die, 1900s– da (Wexford). The early Old English form dag is attested only once (as a rune name) in a continental copy of an English runic futhark; it is unclear to what extent it should be taken as an authentic form of the English word.OE Blickling Homilies 21 Ne biþ he Godes leof on þæm nehstan dæge.lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1122 On þet dæi xi kalendae Aprilis.a1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 46 Wenne þen latemeste day deit hauit ibrout,..þenne is ure blisse al iturnit to nout.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 23341 Als we haf here on sunni dai.c1500 King & Hermit in M. M. Furrow Ten 15th-cent. Comic Poems (1985) 268 Ather betauȝt oþer gode dey.1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. B6v Boughs bedarkning all the daie.a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 68 Ere crowing Heraulds summon up the daye.1725 ‘C. Comb-Brush’ Every Man mind his Own Business 13 Labourers work'd for a Penny a Day.1842 J. D. Schomberg Theocratic Philos. of Eng. Hist. iii. ii. 320 The day of chivalry was gone.1996 M. Fitt Pure Radge 6 It's haein the dey in bed.

β. Old English doeg (Northumbrian), Old English doege (Northumbrian), Old English ðoege (Northumbrian, probably transmission error). OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xxvii. 64 Iube ergo custodiri sepulchrum usque in diem tertium : gehat forðon gehalda uel þætte sie gehalden byrgenn oð ðone ðirde doege.OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John v. 1 Post haec erat dies festus iudaeorum : æfter ðas..uæs doeg halig uel symbeldoeg.

γ. early Middle English daiwe (south-western, dative), Middle English dau (northern), Middle English dawe. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 12337 Þis ilaste þreo daȝes soch game and soch playes. Þo in þan feorþe daiwe þe king ȝaf his cnihtes. seoluer and read gold.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22673 O þat sorful grisli dau, Þat crist sal til his scaftes scau.c1485 (c1300) Assumption of Virgin (Harl.) l. 425 Yf he on his last dawe wepe..I woll of hym haue mercy.

2. Plural. a.

α. early Old English daegas (Mercian), early Old English deagas, early Old English degas (Mercian), early Old English dęgas (Mercian), Old English dægas (chiefly Mercian), Old English dagan (accusative, rare), Old English das (accusative, transmission error), Old English (early Middle English in copy of Old English charter) dagas, late Old English dagæs (Kentish), late Old English–early Middle English dages, early Middle English dæȝas, early Middle English daȝæn (accusative), early Middle English daȝæs, early Middle English daȝas, early Middle English dage (perhaps transmission error), early Middle English daghes, early Middle English daȝhess ( Ormulum), early Middle English dahes, early Middle English deaȝes, Middle English daȝes.

β. late Old English dægæs (Kentish), late Old English dæges, early Middle English dæȝes, early Middle English dæies, early Middle English dæiȝes, early Middle English dæis, early Middle English daȝȝess ( Ormulum), early Middle English deis, Middle English daes, Middle English daȝis, Middle English daȝys, Middle English daieȝ, Middle English daiez, Middle English daiȝes, Middle English daiis, Middle English daijs, Middle English dais, Middle English daius, Middle English daiys, Middle English das (northern), Middle English dase (northern), Middle English dayees, Middle English dayeȝ, Middle English dayȝ, Middle English dayȝes, Middle English dayȝis, Middle English dayȝys, Middle English dayis, Middle English dayse, Middle English dayus (chiefly west midlands and south-western), Middle English dayys, Middle English deies, Middle English deyes, Middle English dyis (east midlands), Middle English–1700s daies, Middle English–1800s dayes, Middle English– days, Middle English– deys (now English regional), 1600s daijes; Scottish pre-1700 dais, pre-1700 daise, pre-1700 dayis, pre-1700 1700s dayes, pre-1700 1700s– days, 1800s– deys.

γ. early Middle English daues, early Middle English dauwes, early Middle English dawæs, Middle English daus, Middle English daweȝ, Middle English dawes, Middle English dawez, Middle English dawis, Middle English dawus (south-western), Middle English dawys; Scottish pre-1700 dawis, pre-1700 dawys.

eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) cviii. 8 Fiant dies eius pauci : sien dægas his fea.OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxviii. 20 Ic beo mid eow ealle dagas [c1200 Hatton dages] oð worulde geendunge.lOE tr. Alcuin De Virtutibus et Vitiis (Vesp.) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 101 Nu synden hæle dæges.c1225 Tables of Lucky & Unlucky Days (Corpus Cambr. 391) in L. S. Chardonnens Anglo-Saxon Prognostics (2007) 341 Þreo dawes beoþ on tweolf moneþ, þet beoþ swuþe unhalewende monne oþer nutene, blod un to forletene.a1250 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 16 Her nauest tu blisse days þre, al þi lif þu drist in wowe.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4387 Fif dæiȝes [c1300 Otho dawes].c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 7856 Biuore Misselmasse he was icrouned þre dawes & namm[o].c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) i. l. 65 As it is said by elderne dawis.1560 Bible (Geneva) Dan. x. 3 Til thre weekes of daies were fulfilled.1673 J. Milton Psalm VI in Poems (new ed.) 137 Wearied I am with sighing out my dayes.1736 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. X. 100 The tyrant passed his days and nights in debauch.1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne I. i. 25 Them was the days!1992 S. Taylor Mortimer's Deep 272 Aboot three deys efter a fraucht has been brocht in. b. Genitive.

α. early Old English daega (Mercian), early Old English dega (Mercian), early Old English dęga (Mercian), early Old English (Mercian)–early Middle English dæga, Old English daga, Old English dagana, Old English dagena, Old English dagona, late Old English dagan (perhaps transmission error), late Old English dagene, early Middle English daȝa, early Middle English daȝæ, early Middle English daȝe, early Middle English daȝen, early Middle English daȝene, early Middle English dagne, early Middle English dahene, early Middle English dahne.

β. Old English dægena (rare), early Middle English dæȝen, early Middle English dæie, early Middle English daiȝene, Middle English dayen.

γ. early Middle English dawene, Middle English dawen.

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxii. 354 Ða þæs ymbe fiftig daga sette god þam folce æ.OE Hymns (Durh. B.iii.32) xxvi. 19 in I. Milfull Hymns of Anglo-Saxon Church (1996) 166 Dierum circulis : dægena embrynum.OE Paris Psalter (1932) ci. 21 Þæt þu me meaht on midle minra dagena sona gecigean.c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) 1139 Heo deide twenti dahene ȝong.a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 136 Iudit schrudde hire mid heli-dawene weaden.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2299 Vnder fif dawene [c1300 Otho daiȝene] ȝeong heo comen to þisse londe.c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 5622 Þe wynde ȝou may þider blawen Jn lesse þan in twenty dawen.a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 200 A thre dayen Iornay. c. Dative.

α. early Old English daegum (Mercian), early Old English degum (Mercian), early Old English dęgum (Mercian), Old English dægum (rare), Old English dægun (rare), Old English dagon, Old English dagu (Northumbrian, perhaps transmission error), Old English dagum, Old English dagun, Old English (early Middle English in copy of Old English charter) dagan, late Old English dahum, late Old English–early Middle English dagen, early Middle English dæȝum, early Middle English daȝan, early Middle English dage, early Middle English daȝe, early Middle English daȝen, early Middle English daghen, early Middle English daȝum, Middle English daghe (northern).

β. early Middle English dæȝen, early Middle English dæiȝum, early Middle English daiȝe, early Middle English daiȝen, early Middle English dayen, Middle English dayn.

γ. early Middle English dæwen, early Middle English dawene, Middle English dau, Middle English daue, Middle English daw, Middle English dawe, Middle English dawen; Scottish pre-1700 daw, pre-1700 dawe.

OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxvi. 61 Ic mæg towurpan godes templ & æfter þrym dagum [c1200 Hatton dagen] hyt eft getimbrigean.?a1200 ( tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Harl. 6258B) xix. 65 Æfter þrim dæȝen [OE Vitell. dagum] ga eft þarto.c1250 in Stud. Philol. (1931) 28 596 It was a king bi olde dawene þat wel leuede on godes lawe.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2973 Bi heore ældre dæwen [c1300 Otho dawes].c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2480 Etenes bi old dayn Had wrouȝt it.?a1425 in D. Knoop & G. P. Jones Mediæval Mason (1933) 268 After the lawe That was yfownded by olde dawe.a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. ii. l. 62 Fra he was slane..and brocht of daw.?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) iii. l. 1675 in Shorter Poems (1967) 106 Tullus seruilius dowchty in his daw.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian deg-, dēg-, dei, , Old Dutch dag, dach (Middle Dutch dagh-, dach, Dutch dag), Old Saxon dag (Middle Low German dāg-, dach), Old High German tag, tac (Middle High German tag-, tac, German Tag), Old Icelandic dagr, Old Swedish dagher (Swedish dag), Old Danish dagh (Danish dag), Gothic dags, further etymology uncertain.Further cognates. Compare also, showing a different ablaut grade (lengthened grade), and with differences in stem class: (i) Old English dōēg , dōgor , Old Icelandic dœgr , Old Swedish dögher , Old Danish døger , and also (ii) Old Icelandic dœgn , Old Swedish döghn , dyghn (Swedish dygn ), Old Danish, døgn , dyghæn (Danish døgn ). This ablaut grade is shown also by Gothic -dogs , in e.g. fidurdogs (adjective) for four days (compare Old English (Northumbrian) fiþerdōgor with reference to the same biblical passage). Further etymology. The Germanic forms may ultimately be from the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit ahar- , ahan- day, and Avestan asn- (*azan- ) day. However, if so, the initial consonant in Germanic is difficult to account for (and has been explained in a number of different ways), and there is not an exact correspondence with the pattern of ablaut grades and stem types shown by the various Germanic forms. It has alternatively been suggested that the Germanic words are related to the Indo-European base of Sanskrit dah - to burn, dāha conflagration, glow (in the sky), Early Irish daig flame, classical Latin fovēre to heat, ancient Greek τέϕρα ash (see tephra n.), Old Prussian dagis summer, etc., but this also presents difficulties. Form history. In Old English usually a strong masculine; weak forms are occasionally attested (especially in the genitive plural). In the Old English paradigm the word shows regular restoration of a before the back vowel of the inflectional ending in the plural, resulting in different stem forms: (singular) dæg- , (plural) dag- . Because of this difference in stem vowel, the stem-final voiced fricative g is palatalized in the singular, but not in the plural (not usually reflected in the spelling in Old English, but compare rare singular dæi at Forms 1α. ). This variation becomes more pronounced in Middle English after regular phonological development gives singular dai (the antecedent of modern standard English day /deɪ/) and the plural stem daw- (compare also derivatives such as daw v.1, dawn n., etc.), although eventually the singular form was analogically extended to form the plural stem as well. The plural stem daw- survives longest in set phrases, in which its identity may sometimes have become obscured; compare examples at 14a(a) γ and also of dawe at Phrases 1c, adawe adv. Old English dōēg (inflected dōgor- ) is in origin a distinct word, with different ablaut and stem class (see discussion in R. M. Hogg & R. D. Fulk Gram. Old Eng. (2011) II. §2.96). However, in Northumbrian the paradigm appears to be partly merged with that of day n. For this reason, forms of the monosyllabic stem (dōēg ), which only occur in Northumbrian and cannot with certainty be distinguished in spelling from Northumbrian forms of day n., have been listed at Forms 1β. . (In other Old English sources the r -reflex of the formative element was levelled to all cases giving rise to a new nominative and accusative form dōgor .) Use as rune name. In Old English, dæg is also the name of a rune, which is occasionally used in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts as a logogram for the word. Adverbial use and adverbial phrases. For adverbial use of an original genitive singular form, which was later probably apprehended as a plural, see days adv. In prepositional phrases of the noun which occur in adverbial use, it is not always clear to what extent variants with final -s simply show the plural of the noun and how far they reflect the influence of days adv. (especially in early use); compare by days at Phrases 1b(b), on days at Phrases 1d(b), adays adv., nowadays adv. Beside the regular dative, an endingless dative form also occurs in Old English, especially in adverbial use; compare e.g. forms of today adv. Notes on specific senses. In use with reference to Christian eschatology (see sense 11a) after various biblical phrases, for example: in final day after post-classical Latin novissimus dies (Vulgate, after Hellenistic Greek ἐσχάτη ἡμέρα (New Testament); compare last day n.); in day of judgement after post-classical Latin dies iudicii (Vulgate; late 2nd cent. in Tertullian; after Hellenistic Greek ἡμέρα κρίσεως (New Testament); compare doomsday n. and Judgement Day n.); in day of the Lord after post-classical Latin dies Domini (Vulgate, after Hellenistic Greek ἡμέρα Κυρίου , ἡ ἡμέρα τοῦ Κυρίου (New Testament) and its apparent model Hebrew yōm 'ădōnāy ); in day of wrath and wrathful day after post-classical Latin dies irae (Vulgate, rendering Hebrew yōm ṣārāh day of distress (Zephaniah 1:15)). Compare also Great Day n. and the phrases cited at that entry. In man's day at sense 11b after post-classical Latin humanus dies (Vulgate; compare quot. c1384) and its model Hellenistic Greek ἀνθρωπίνη ἡμέρα (New Testament; compare quot. 1526), reflecting specific uses of classical Latin diēs and ancient Greek ἡμέρα (both lit. ‘day’) in post-classical Latin and Hellenistic Greek with reference to the Judgement Day (ultimately after concepts like day of the Lord). With use in legal contexts with reference to an appointed day (see sense 12a) compare similar uses of the cognates in Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, Middle High German, and Old Swedish, all denoting a day set for an assembly or a judicial hearing; in several of these languages, this developed to denote the event itself (compare e.g. day v.2 3 and daying n.2). Compare also Middle French journee , in the same sense (1332: see journey n.). Compare further diet n.2 and the discussion at that entry. With use with reference to the time allowed or allotted to do something in judicial contexts (see sense 19) compare similar uses of the cognates in Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, and Middle High German, all denoting a deadline and hence a period of time allowed to meet an obligation. With both these senses compare also Middle Dutch dagedinc , dadinge day set for a judicial hearing, the hearing itself (Dutch †dading ), Old Saxon dagthingi fixed appointment, period allowed to meet an obligation (Middle Low German dachdinc in the same senses, also ‘judicial hearing’), Middle High German tagedinc day set for a judicial hearing, the hearing itself (for the second element of these compounds see thing n.1 I.). With use with reference to daybreak (see sense 20b) compare day-rim n., day-red n., and day-row n.; compare also daw v.1 and day v.1 With before day compare Middle Low German vȫr dāge , Middle High German vor tage (also vor tages ). With architectural use with reference to windows in sense 22 compare post-classical Latin dies one of the divisions of a mullioned window (1367, 1409 in British sources), French jour aperture in a door or window (1334). With the specific use in mining (see sense 23) compare German Tag the earth's surface and everything on or above it, as opposed to underground, especially in a mine (16th cent., frequent in phrases and compounds).
Signification.
I. A natural interval or division of time; a similar interval or division reflecting patterns of human activity.
1. The interval of daylight between two periods of night. Strictly: the period of time between sunrise and sunset, during which the sun is above the horizon. More generally: the whole period of daylight, including that part of morning and evening twilight when there is sufficient light for normal activity to take place. Also: a corresponding period on another planet. Frequently contrasted with night. Cf. break of day at break n.1 2, daybreak n.This is the artificial day (artificial day n. at artificial adj. and n. Compounds 2). It is sometimes called the natural day, which however is usually used in sense 2 (see natural day n. at natural adj. and adv. Compounds 2).
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [noun]
day tideOE
dayOE
daytimeOE
daylightOE
artificial daya1398
open day?a1430
lightmans1567
open daylight?1585
morning1749
OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) i. 76 We hatað ænne dæg fram sunnan upgange oð æfen.
OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. iii. 104 Vulgaris uel artificales [read artificalis] dies est (þæt byð ceorlisc dæg oððe cræftlic) fram þære sunnan anginne þæt heo to setle ga.
c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 137 Þa fæste he feowertiȝ daȝa and nihte togædere.
a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 115 (MED) Þu ȝifst þe sunne to the daiȝ, þe mone to þe nichte.
c1300 St. Katherine (Laud) 173 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 97 (MED) In þat prison þat Maide lai twelf dawes and twelf niȝt.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 41 Ofte tymes in þe dai & in þe nyȝt.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 390 To parte þe day fro þe nyȝt.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxxiii. l. 414 Tyl that the day was Al Ispente.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxxviii. 155 It was then nyne of the day.
1557 T. Paynell tr. St. Augustine Certaine Serm. sig. B.ii One lytle moment of the daye, shoulde be deputed and suffyse to the seruice of God, and the reste of the daye and the nyght to theyr voluptuousnes plesurs.
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. v. 106 The longest day is equall to the longest night.
1687 W. D. tr. B. Le Bovier de Fontenelle Disc. Plurality of Worlds 61 The years of Iupiter are twelve of ours, and there ought to be in that Planet two opposite extremities, where the days & nights are of six years continuance.
1736 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. X. 100 In the midst of the publick misery, the tyrant passed his days and nights in debauch.
1741 J. Hewitt Universal Pocket Compan. i. 18 The longest Day [in Peru] is twelve Hours and a Quarter, and the shortest Day ten Hours and a Half.
1761 J. Ferguson Anal. Course Lect. ix. 32 The time in which any planet goes round the sun, is the length of its year; and the time in which it turns round its axis, is the length of its day and night taken together.
1838 W. Burton District School as it Was 105 When the drifts soften in mid-winter thaw, or begin to settle beneath the lengthened and sunny days of March, then is the season for the power and glory of a snow-ball fight.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 326/1 At North Cape..the longest day lasts from the 15th of May to the 29th of July, which is two months and a fortnight.
1901 Nature 30 May 107/1 A belief that the Martian sky is cloudless during the day and that the surface of the planet is protected by cloud at night.
1939 War Illustr. 9 Dec. p. ii/2 We are approaching the shortest day, and the weather has been thoroughly Novemberish, in London especially.
2009 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 Dec. 5 Physical activity during the day and sleep onset at night were closely linked.
2.
a. In early use: the period of time between one sunrise and the next. Later: a period of 24 hours, as reckoned from a definite or given point (conventionally midnight); a period corresponding to one complete revolution of the earth on its axis.Several kinds of day are defined according to the reference points chosen. The period of 24 hours corresponds to the mean solar day, which is the average period between successive transits of the sun over a given meridian. The time between such transits varies by up to 30 seconds at different times of the year, because the apparent motion of the sun is not exactly uniform. The sidereal day, the time between successive meridional transits of a star (or, conventionally, the First Point of Aries), is 4 minutes shorter than the mean solar day because of precession.The civil day (cf. civil adj. 14b) is generally taken as the period of 24 hours beginning at midnight. The astronomical day (see astronomical day n. at astronomical adj. and n. Compounds) has since 1924 been taken to begin at midnight; previously it was reckoned from noon. The day according to Jewish and Islamic tradition is reckoned from sunset to sunset.apparent solar day, mean solar day, natural day, sidereal day, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun]
dayOE
journeyc1305
joura1500
dog day1669
nycthemeron1682
lunar day1686
political day1706
twenty-four1735
nycthemer1837
mail-day1844
Tag1914
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxii. 354 Fram þam halgan easterlican dæge sind getealde fiftig daga to þysum dæge.
OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. iii. 104 Þæt ys þæs dæges gecynd þæt he hæbbe feower and twentig tida fram þære sunnan upspringe þæt he eft up hyre leoman ætywe.
c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 143 On twelf monþe beoð þreo hundred daȝæ & fif & sixtiȝ daȝe.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9589 Þreo dæies [c1300 Otho daȝes] wes þe king wuniende þere.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 3025 After viftene dawes..To londone he wende.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds ix. 9 He was thre daies not seynge.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 108 In the space of o day naturel This is to seyn, in .xxiiij. houres.
c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 18 The feste dured thre days.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. lxiii. 84 This siege endured a long season, the space of a xi. wekes, thre dayes lesse.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. 1. f. 10v Symonides..desired to haue a daies respite graunted him to study vpon it.
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 6 Hours, daies, months, which are the rags of time.
1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World Ep. to Rdr. That from the evening ushering in the first day of the World, to that midnight which began the first day of the Christian æra, there was 4003 years, seventy dayes, and six temporarie howers.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1658 (1955) III. 206 The prettiest, and dearest Child, that ever parents had, being but 5 yeares & 3 days old..but even at that tender age, a prodigie for Witt, & understanding.
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 20 Aug. 2/1 Androcles..lived many Days in this frightful Solitude, the Lion Catering for him with great Assiduity.
1793 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 193 I have, throughout, reckoned according to sea time; that is, the day commences at noon.
1822 Ld. Byron Werner i. i. 377 Twenty years Of age, if 't is a day.
1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) I. xiii. 365 We may regard the length of the day as one of the most unchangeable elements in the system of the world.
1906 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 71 359 One rotary kiln..has produced an average of 75 to 90 tons of..pyrites cinder per day of twenty-four hours.
1957 S. Schoeman Strike! vii. 186 It is hardly ever necessary to preserve fish bait or chokker for longer than three or four days.
2002 K. S. Robinson Years of Rice & Salt 754 The Earth rolls around the sun, three hundred and sixty-five and a quarter days a year.
b. A corresponding period on another planet.
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1698 tr. C. Huygens Celestial Worlds Discover'd i. 26 Mars..has been observ'd to turn round his own Axis in 24 hours and 40 minutes; the length of his day [no direct equivalent in L. original].
1738 tr. Voltaire Elements Sir I. Newton's Philos. xxiii. 255 After Mercury is Venus... We do not yet know the Length of its Day, that is, of its Revolution on its own Axis.
1850 A. C. Lowell Elements Astron. 78 Since the day of the outer planets is much shorter than ours, its year contains many more of its own days than it would of ours. Jupiter's year contains 10,000 of his own days. Saturn's years 30,000 of his days.
1974 J. Haldeman Forever War (1997) 204 The troops..got two days of shipboard rest for every ‘day’ planetside—which wasn't overly generous..since ship days were 24 hours long, and a day on the planet was 38.5 hours from dawn to dawn.
2004 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Oct. 20/1 ‘Martian sol 149’—the 149th day on the Red Planet since the start of the rover missions.
3. Chiefly with specifying adjective. A day characterized by the prevalent conditions or dominant mood experienced; esp. a day described in terms of the weather or its impact. Cf. have a nice day at have v. 19b.
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OE Crist III 1064 Ðonne sio byman stefen..ond se egsan þrea, ond se hearda dæg ond seo hea rod..folcdryht wera biforan bonnað.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1131 On fif & twenti wintre ne biden hi næfre an god dæi.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 2081 (MED) The day was merie and fair ynowh.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 23341 (MED) Bot suld þai haf a gret delite, To se þam [sc. the wicked] seclid [read setlid] in þair site, Als we haf here on sunni [a1400 Coll. Phys. suni; a1400 Trin. Cambr. somer] dai To se fixs in a water plai.
c1450 Treat. Fishing in J. McDonald et al. Origins of Angling (1963) 165 (MED) Yf hyt be a colde westeling wynde and a darke lowryng day þan wyl þe fysche commynly bite all day.
1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados xiii. Prol. 182 As menstralis playis, the Joly day now dawis.
1615 J. Sylvester tr. P. Matthieu Memorials of Mortalitie in 2nd Session Parl. Vertues Reall 136 Death's as the Dawning of that happy Day, Where without Setting shines the eternall Sun, Where-in who walk, can neuer neuer stray: Nor Feare they Night who to the Day-ward run.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xviii. 133 It was a Snowy day.
1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xv. 872 This happy Day with Acclamations greet.
a1767 N. Evans Poems on Several Occasions (1772) 74 Joyous we join thee in the choral lay, To add new transports to this blissful day.
a1836 C. Simeon in W. Carus Mem. C. Simeon (1847) i. 12 The day was hot;..I drank a great deal of cool tankard.
1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass i. 24 O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
a1930 N. Munro Burial of Big Macphee in B. D. Osborne & R. Armstrong Erchie & Jimmy Swan (1993) i. iv. 15 ‘It's been a nesty, wat, mochy, melancholy day for a burial’, said Duffy at the second helping of Jinnet's cold boiled ham.
1963 Times 29 May 3/7 Hosen..had a singularly unhappy day in both goalkicking, in which he failed with half a dozen attempts, and also in fielding.
2012 M. A. Bethke Constant Heart viii. 53 The day was hot and sultry and not conducive to strenuous activity.
4. A day's journey; the distance that may be travelled in one day.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > a day's journey
a day's gangOE
journeyc1290
dayc1390
day ganga1400
day journey?a1425
dietc1440
journal1617
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. x. l. 1 (MED) Sire Dowel dwelleþ..not a day hennes.
1607 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Serres in tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. 188 He runnes to Pontoise (for he was but ten dayes away) and giuing the Duke of Yorke no leasure to releeue the beseeged, he resolues to take it by force.
1693 N. Staphorst tr. L. Rauwolf Trav. Eastern Countries ii. i, in J. Ray Coll. Curious Trav. I. 127 The Famous Town of Carahmet, which lyeth Six Days further towards the East, on the Borders of Assyria and Media.
1793 Bee 4 Sept. 25 In another territory sixteen days distant from, and to the north of Nepaul a great number of arsenic mines are to be found.
1803 W. Mavor Hist. Acct. Celebrated Voy. XXI. 92 Ril is distant about three days farther, in a south southeasterly direction.
1827 Australian 27 Mar. 2/4 There exists in the western country, many days off, a vast interior sea, where the water is salt, and where whales are seen to spout!
1868 W. Collins Moonstone III. Epil. 305 I was (as nearly as I could calculate it) some three days distant, journeying on foot, from the sacred city.
1923 Boys' Life Aug. 9/1 What I think he meant to tell me is that he'll be waiting four days further down the river.
2004 Indianapolis Star 9 Jan. a11/1 The moon is just three days away while Mars is at least six months away.
5. The active part of the day; that portion of a 24-hour period when people are typically awake and engaged in activity. Also: a period of this sort devoted to a particular activity or spent in a particular place (see also day out n. at Phrases 3d).Frequently coinciding with, but not necessarily implying, the period of daylight, and consequently sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 1, esp. in early use.
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a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. cx. f. cxxxvv/2 He had spende the day wtout to haue done ony mercyfull dede.
?1550 R. Weaver Lusty Iuventus sig. a.ii What shal I do now to passe away the day?
1650 Andrewes's Pattern Catechistical Doctr. (new ed.) iv. v. 284 Such [people] as..passed the day in playing at Cards, and in revelling.
?1697 J. Lewis Mem. Duke of Glocester (1789) 51 Mrs. Atkinson invited Lady Harriot and Lady Anne Churchill one day to dine with her, in her chamber, and spend the day.
1708 J. Barecroft Advice to Son in University 21 Your Tutor will in the Evening call you to give some account how you have spent the Day.
1841 S. S. Ellis Family Secrets II. ix. 224 She came down for a day in the country.
1859 C. Darwin Let. 23 Oct. in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 175 Now I am so completely a gentleman, that I have sometimes a little difficulty to pass the day.
1867 Fun 25 May 111 Folks from all places Are turning their faces To Epsom—all bent.., Upon having a day at the Races.
1919 M. S. Wallace Mem. W. Wallace x. 136 The day ended with a short Evensong..which left us time to walk through the corn-fields to Benfleet Station, and catch the last train.
1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl iii. 83 She had taken to walking into town early while it was still cool and frittering away the day in two or three tavernas, drinking Greek coffee and learning her lines from As You Like It.
2008 Independent (Nexis) 4 Oct. 40 You mean you hadn't realised Liverpool was the place to go for a day at the beach?
6. The portion of a day allotted by law or convention to a specific activity, esp. work or learning.See also eight-hour day at eight hours n., schoolday n. 1b, working day n. 2.
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society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [noun] > portion of day allotted to work
day1637
working hour1698
work hour1786
business day1796
working day1796
business end1828
eight hours1845
core time1972
1637 G. Ironside Seven Questions Sabbath xv. 131 Our Resting day must be proportionable to our working day.
1789 Lett. Philo-Xylon Postscr. Wages of a first Gang Labourer, for a Day of ten Hours.
1850 Working Man's Friend & Family Instructor 14 Dec. 300/1 Being at the rate of 4s. 2d. per day of ten hours.
1880 C. Marvin Our Public Offices (ed. 2) 121 [They] worked hard the whole of the seven hours of their official day.
1898 Literature (Amer. ed.) 29 Jan. 101/2 At Killarney, where Mr. McCabe was trained, the day lasted from 5 a.m. till 9.30 pm.
1926 R. H. Mottram Crime at Vanderlynden's 29 She carried the day's takings clasped to her breast, in a solid little leather dolly-bag.
1939 I. M. Tarbell All in Day's Work iv. 55 She was as loyal as they to the old teacher, but she..announced herself my champion by appearing at the door of the seminary as I was making my weary way out at the end of the day.
1960 Rev. Econ. & Statistics 42 129/2 Several participants observed that the eight-hour college day gives the students more leisure time than is usual for students and professors.
2000 Irish Times (Nexis) 22 Feb. 51 A full day is six hours' instruction at second level, or five hours and 40 minutes at primary.
7. colloquial. A day noteworthy for its eventfulness, exertion, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > worthy of notice
notabilityc1390
notables1484
bumming sound1598
grandee1622
observable1639
remarkable1639
observanda1663
remark1675
observation1736
crowning glory1780
attentiona1806
notabilia1849
day1918
one for the (end) books (also book)1922
1918 ‘K. Mansfield’ Prelude iii. 19 Ever since mother came she has worked like a horse, too. We have never sat down for a moment. We have had a day.
1926 E. Hemingway Fiesta (1927) vii. 65 I say. We have had a day... I must have been blind [sc. drunk].
1963 ‘W. Haggard’ High Wire xii. 127 I expect you've had a day—I know I have. But there's one small thing still.
1993 J. Meredith Hunter's Moon 31 These legs have had a day.
2000 Independent 18 Apr. 4/3 ‘Bloody hell,’ sighed the young man... ‘That was quite a day.’ On his desk, the bank of screens showed exactly what kind of day.
II. A particular day specified or distinguished in some way as distinct from others.
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a. A particular day distinguished from all others; a specific period of twenty-four hours considered (without reference to its length) as a point in time.Frequently used adverbially with definite article in the sense ‘on the day’; cf. quot. 1984.
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the world > time > particular time > [noun] > time of occurrence > day or night of time of occurrence
dayOE
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xx. 19 Þam þryddan dæge he arist.
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Corpus Cambr. 196) 29 June (2013) 126 On þone nigon and twentigoðan dæg þæs monðes byð þæra eadigra apostola þrowung Petrus and Paulus.
?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1135 Ðat oþer dei þa he lai an slep in scip, þa..uuard þe sunne suilc als it uuare thre niht ald mone.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Bodl.) (1981) l. 220 Ha ne stod neauer ear þene þes dei bute biuore dusie.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5108 (MED) For-giue it vs, lauerd, fra þis dau.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 343 Sumtyme men..weren hool in þe same dai.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 23 Sir Kay dud that day many mervaylous dedis of armys.
1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 21 §25 Before the saide .xii. daie of Marche.
1658 T. Bromhall Hist. Apparitions 229 Being exceedingly affrightned [Calpurnia]..ceased not to intreat him [sc. Julius Caesar], that the next day he would abstain from the Court.
1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts i. i. 16 The first Day of the Week called the Lord's Day.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §15. 262 You need only to know what Day of each Month the Sun enters a Sign of the Ecliptic, and compute one degree for every Day from thence.
1799 F. Leighton Let. to J. Boucher 21 Sept. (MS.) Pray treat me with a letter on an early day as parliament folks say.
1848 Yale Lit. Mag. Aug. 120 The following day, I gave her a good-bye kiss, and left to be absent for a few weeks.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 26 In next day's tourney.
1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. x. 240 She would return home on the day but one after the funeral.
1938 New Phytologist 37 267 This was a week of almost uniformly fine weather, the third day of the week, 27 June, being the only exception.
1984 B. MacLaverty Cal (new ed.) 53 We'll be lifting potatoes the day after next if you'd like to come along.
2007 C. Hitchens God is Not Great ii. 16 The archbishop..received me into his communion on the same day that he officiated at my wedding, thereby trousering two fees instead of the usual one.
b. Chiefly U.S. colloquial. Used adverbially without article, with before, after: on the day before or after a specified day (as day before yesterday, day after tomorrow, etc.).In colloquial speech similar omission of the definite article may be geographically more widespread.
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1823 S. Huntington Let. in B. B. Wisner Mem. Susan Huntington (1826) 377 Day before yesterday, I spit a little blood; and every day since, I have raised a little.
1855 ‘F. Fern’ Ruth Hall lxxx. 343 Business takes me your way day after to-morrow. Can you curb your impatience to see her till then?
1886 S. W. Mitchell Roland Blake 292 I saw a man at the Cape wharf day before yesterday, inquirin' about Mrs. Wynne.
1905 N.Y. Evening Post 26 Sept. 6 Day after election people will want to know [etc.].
1990 L. C. Stevenson Happily After All 193 How would she find out what had happened to Bill if he came and took her day after tomorrow?
c. With the (sometimes with capital initials). A day on which an important event is expected to occur; a significant or remarkable day. [Sometimes (especially when referring to a day of military conflict or victory) with conscious reference to German der Tag (14th cent. with reference to any day of specific importance; 18th cent. or earlier in military contexts).]
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > of great importance
a matter of life and (also or) deatha1631
three-decker1835
day1882
1882 Nation 9 Feb. 125/1 Have you heard? Tomorrow is the day.
1908 A. E. Thomas Her Husband's Wife (1914) iii. 124 That's it, I'm drunk. Haven't been drunk 'n years... Today's the day, though, eh, what?
1914 O. Seaman in Punch 9 Dec. 470/1 [German Crown Prince loq.] Thank Father's God that I can say My constant aim was Peace; I simply lived to see the Day (Den Tag) when wars would cease.
1936 J. Buchan Island of Sheep xiii. 256 The reconnaissance is complete, gentlemen. Tomorrow is The Day.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 13 Apr. On the day it is said he killed the teen-agers the accused woke up with the thought that Today is the day.
2003 W. Lange Intermittent Bliss 57 Last Saturday was finally The Day.
2004 Nelson (N.Z.) Mail (Nexis) 15 May 11 The Day arrived! Der Tag, as Germans would put it.
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a. Chiefly with modifying word or words: a day (sense 2a), the whole or part of which is assigned to some particular purpose or action, or which is distinguished by the carrying out of a particular activity, or the occurrence of a specific event. Cf. fast day n., market day n. 1, payday n., rest day n., schoolday n. 1.polling day, rent day, wash-day, wedding-day, etc.: see the first element.In quot. eOE probably: a day on which poultry may be eaten.
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eOE (Kentish) Charter: Oswulf & Beornðryð to Christ Church, Canterbury (Sawyer 1188) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 1 Ðonne bebeode ic ðaet mon ðas ðing selle ymb tuælf monað of Liminum,..tua flicca & v goes & x hennfuglas & x pund caeses, gif hit fuguldaeg sie.
OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) i. 236 Þis wilddeor well fremað, gif þu þinum clænsungdagum [?a1200 Harl. 6258B þine clænsungdæȝes; L. castimonialibus diebus]..hys flæsc gesoden etest.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 69 (MED) Hie nedden here synnes er bet..þe wile here bot dai laste. Ure bot dai is nu and lasteð þe wile þe god wile.
?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 372 (MED) Aged sustres and seke..On suppynge dayes..may take an egge or two, or any other thynge ordeyned for them by the officers.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xxvi. sig. hhii One dronken body on the daye of fastynge synneth somtyme more greuously than he hadde done in brekynge his faste symply wtout makynge him selfe dronken.
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Bakyng daye, Fornacalia.
1648 Speech Earle Northumberland 4 Sunday last were set a part for a day of Prayer and Humiliation for a blessing upon the Treaty.
1760 London Mag. May 258/1 In every family there are, at some times, such necessary things as short dinners, cleaning days, &c.
1790 Whitehall Evening-post 13–16 Feb. It being intimated that Wednesday fortnight was an assize day on some circuits, Mr. Fox named this day fortnight for his motion.
1848 Mass. Teacher 15 July 214 Shall he be contented if his boys sit up erect, make not too much noise with their boots, and ‘answer up’ well on examination day?
1884 Christian World 9 Oct. 764/1 Lord Bramwell..had spoken of Saturday as ‘pay-day, drink-day, and crime-day’.
1893 Atalanta Apr. 554/2 Susan says it's not laundry day, nor drawing-room day, not silver day; it's Thursday, which is nothing special.
1923 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 54/2 The whole village reeks with smoke, which tells the visitor that it is baking day.
1951 P. Larkin Let. 10 July in Sel. Lett. (1992) 172 I bounded in, gowned & hooded, from Graduation Day.
2010 C. L. McClelland Green Careers for Dummies vi. xxii. 324 Even if you can't work from home every day, you may be able to negotiate a work-from-home day or two per week.
b. Chiefly with possessive pronoun or genitive. A set day in each week, month, or other period, on which a person (typically a woman) makes him or herself available to receive visitors; a day on which a person is ‘at home’ to callers; (also) a reception of this sort. Cf. at home (see home n.1 and adj. Phrases 1a(d), at-home n.). Now chiefly historical.
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1692 T. Southerne Wives Excuse i. 4 I had rather be Master of the Ceremonies to a Visiting Lady, To Squire about her how-d's-you, and Usher in the formal Salutations Of all the Fops in Town, upon her day; Nay, tho' she kept two days a week, than live in a Family with her.
1694 W. Congreve Double-dealer iii. i. 38 You have been at my Lady Whifler's upon her day, Madam?
1752 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. 2 Dec. 37 Lady Tenace proposes to keep her day, for the remainder of the winter season, on Wednesday.
1801 J. G. Lemaistre Rough Sketch Mod. Paris iv. 59 Each of the ministers has a day, to which all foreigners may be taken by their respective ministers.
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere II. iii. xxiii. 227 We found she was in town, and went on her ‘day’.
1905 A. Bennett Tales of Five Towns i. 21 She had her ‘day’.
1918 M. E. Wilson Sherwood Manners & Social Usages (rev. ed.) ii. 23 A dinner call should be made in person and within a week, or at furthest a fortnight, on the lady's ‘day’, if she has one.
1999 S. E. Whyman Sociability & Power in Late-Stuart Eng. iv. 94 Nancy, in turn, had the right to visit Sir Richard Temple's wife on ‘her day’. Proper times for visits had to be considered.
10. Chiefly with distinguishing word or words. A specific period of twenty-four hours, which is the date of a festival, the anniversary of an event, or which has otherwise been selected for a particular celebration, commemoration, observance, etc.; (now also) one dedicated to raising awareness of, or collecting funds for, a particular cause.In early use chiefly with reference to festivals and observances of the church calendar; subsequently also widely used in secular contexts. Christmas Day, Easter Day, Independence Day, Labour Day, Lady Day, Mother's Day, New Year's Day, Remembrance Day, Valentine's Day, etc.: see the first element. Cf. also birthday n. 1a(a).
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OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 1065 Þa wel raðe þaræfter wæs mycel gemot æt Norðhamtune & swa on Oxenaforda on þon dæig Simonis & Iude.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 11 (MED) Nu beoð icumen..þa halie daȝes uppen us.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 7577 (MED) A sein nicolas day he com.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7007 Ilk ȝere..In þe day of bedis deyng.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1353/1 To put vs in mind how we violate the sabboth daie.
1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 222 Like a bookesellers shoppe on Bartholomew day.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. i. 25 Is this Ascension day ? View more context for this quotation
1713 Ladies Diary 1 A new Prize-Question to be determined by Lots..to be drawn next Candlemas-day, that every one may have time to prepare and send their Answers.
1787 J. Woodforde Diary 19 June (1926) II. 328 It was Guild-Day at Norwich—a great Feast.
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 100 In each term there is one day whereon the courts do not transact business... These are termed Grand days in the inns of court; and Gaudy days at the two universities.
1892 Homiletic Rev. July 91/2 In 1889, Chaplain Nave, in a printed circular sent to many clergymen, suggested an ‘Army and Navy Day’ near the Fourth of July.
1926 North-China Herald 24 Apr. 162/4 Members and sympathizers of the Chinese Women's Federation to the number of about 300 held a celebration in Chinese territory on March 8, International Women's Day.
1975 Science Jan. 335/3 At that point, court recessed for Martin Luther King Day.
1986 J. Fraser in J. McLeod Oxf. Bk. Canad. Polit. Anecd. (1988) 128 An old man sick unto death, sat in a Montreal public stand in his own province on St Jean Baptiste Day.
2011 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 15 Nov. 5 During Monday's annual International Diabetes Awareness Day, the National Council for Diabetes..reiterated the importance of educating the public about the dangers of the disease.
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a. Theology. With postmodifying of-clause (in Old English also with genitive). The day or time of divine evaluation of humanity, prophesied in some religions to take place at the end of the world; the Last Judgement; as day of accounts, day of judgement, day of the Lord, day of wrath, etc.; see also day of doom n. at doom n. 7a, day of reckoning n. at reckoning n. 1c, day of retribution at retribution n. 2b. Also with preceding modifying word, as final day, wrathful day, etc. Frequently with capital initials. Originally and predominantly in Christian contexts.doomsday, Great Day, Judgement Day, last day, etc.: see the first element.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse
world's endeOE
dayOE
doomsdayc975
world-endOE
'pocalypseOE
last dayc1275
judgementa1325
assize1340
Great Dayc1350
accounta1400
day of retributiona1400
latter day1533
Judgement Day1544
audit1548
after-reckoning1567
revelation-day1654
Fifth monarchy1655
long account1665
account day1671
kingdom come1858
the last (also final, great) round-up1879
eschaton1935
OE Crist III 1204 Swa þam bið grorne on þam grimman dæge domes þæs miclan.
OE Blickling Homilies 57 Seo eft onfehþ hire lichoman on þæm ytmestan dæge.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxxix. 330 Dies domini sicut fur in nocte, ita ueniet; drihtnes dæg cymð, swa swa ðeof on niht.
a1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 46 Þene latemeste dai, wenne we sulen farren vt of þisse worlde wid pine & wid care.
c1330 Roland & Vernagu (Auch.) (1882) l. 763 So schul we al arise & of þe dome agrise Atte day of iuggement.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) 2 Pet. iii. 10 Forsothe the day of the Lord [L. dies Domini] shal come as a theef.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27362 Þe dai of wreth.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) clviii. 606 Vnto the day of Iugemente.
1640 G. Abbot Whole Bk. Iob Paraphr. xxi. 139/2 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction; they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
1701 J. Winteley Serm. at Visitation 4 It will be more tolerable at the great Day of Accounts for Pagans and Idolaters..than for those who have solemnly vowed and engaged themselves to be Christians.
a1752 R. Erskine Job's Hymns (1753) 101 False hypocrites, to vengeance sore Addestin'd, haste to lay Accumulated wrath in store Against the wrathful day.
1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) iii. App. 13 The day of retribution will come in thunder and in vengeance.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 109 The Day of Judgment or vengeance.
1900 W. T. Stead Are we in Right? 22 Is it a pretext that will avail in the great day of account that we killed out brother because he believed that we dealt honestly with him in 1884?
1986 Studia Islamica 63 137 The doctrine of the Day of Judgement was central in medieval Islam.
2009 Jrnl. Relig. 89 369 Mozart..chose to heighten the liturgical descriptions of the terrors on the day of wrath.
b. Judgement. Only in man's day, day of man: human (as opposed to divine) judgement. Obsolete.Chiefly with allusion to 1 Corinthians 4:3.In later use in this context chiefly understood as sense 17a. [With man's day compare the discussion in the main etymology.]
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun]
doomc950
redeOE
lookingc1300
assizec1314
judging1357
definitionc1384
man's dayc1384
termination1395
discretiona1400
discussiona1425
decidingc1443
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decernment1586
arbitrage1601
dijudication1615
crisis1623
decidementa1640
determinatinga1640
discernment1646
syndication1650
judication1651
dijudicatinga1656
adjudicature1783
call1902
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. iv. 3 To me it is for the leeste thing, that I be demyd of ȝou, or of mannis day [L. ab humano die].
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. iv. f. ccxxi With me is it but a very smale thinge, that I shulde be iudged of you, other of mans daye [1611 King James of man's judgement; Gk. ὑπὸ ἀνθρωπίνης ἡμέρας].
1562 tr. J. Jewel Apol. Church Eng. f. 63 Howe so euer it is, the truthe of the gospell of Iesus Christe, dothe not depende upon councels, or as Paule sayth, vpon the daye of man [L. pendet..ab humano die].
1570 A. Golding tr. D. Chytræus Postil 419 The minister that doothe the partes of his duetie aryght, let hym not passe for mans day [L. humanum diem], that is too say, for mans iudgemente.
a1628 J. Preston New Covenant (1629) i. 19 He would not regard to be judged by mans day, as long as he were not judged by the Lord.
1657 D. Pointel Moses & Aaron 6 Neither dare I wholely excuse my self from this sin, though I could say much to clear my self in the day of man, and I know this mans accusations are without proof.
1752 Scots Mag. May 235/1 A right of doing what..appears to him good in the eyes of God and Christ; is not only the right of every reasonable creature of God, and disciple of Christ; but it is his indispensable duty to exercise it, without fear of being judged of man's day.
12.
a. An appointed day; esp. a day formally designated or agreed for a payment, meeting, judgement, judicial hearing, etc., to take place. Frequently in to keep (one's) day. Now rare.
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the world > time > particular time > [noun] > an appointed or fixed time, day, or date
tidea900
stemOE
stevena1225
term?c1225
dayc1300
term dayc1300
stagea1325
hourc1380
setnessa1400
tryst1488
journeyc1500
big day1827
trysting day1842
c1300 St. Nicholas (Laud) 334 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 250 Þis luþere cristine man, þo it cam to is daye, Þat gold nolde he ȝelde nouȝt, ake þouȝte þane giv bi-traye.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 189 Þe dettoures myȝte nouȝt pay here money at here day.
c1410 (c1350) Gamelyn (Harl. 7334) l. 792 (MED) He wolde..Come afore þe iustice to kepen his day.
a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 59 (MED) Diuers days wer kept be forme of lawe to preuyn wheþyr [etc.].
a1500 Merchant & Son l. 13 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 133 In cas he faylyd hys day.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 556 The king of Scottis..come thair to keip his da.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 162 If he should breake his day what should I gaine by the exaction of the forfeyture? View more context for this quotation
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xvi. 313 Or if my Debtors do not keep their day.
1758 J. Hoadly tr. Martial Epigrams in Coll. of Poems V. 286 Ah! cease your arts—death knows you're grey, And spite of all, will keep his day.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. ix. 192 Well, Edie, if I procure your freedom, you must keep your day, and appear to clear me of the bail-bond.
1872 H. Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. xvi. 318 Christ, in the interval between his resurrection and ascension, keeps day with his disciples.
1986 W. D. Paden et al. tr. B. de Born Poems v. 374 Never did a seagoing ship..ever endure worse..than I do for the lady who doesn't want to retain me, who won't keep the day, the hour, or the promises she makes me.
b. A meeting; esp. a session of a court, guild, etc.; an assembly. Obsolete.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun]
mootOE
councilc1275
mootingc1275
dayc1300
assembly1366
consistoryc1374
house1389
parliamentc1390
convention1554
synodal1573
synod1578
synedrion1581
convenement1603
gemot1643
consessus1646
legislative council1651
national assembly1702
council-general1817
concilium1834
runanga1857
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 529 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 121 Þis bischopes and þe baronie alle comen to þe daiȝe to clarindone... Heo comen to þe parlement.
1385 in D. Macpherson et al. Rotuli Scotiae (1819) II. 73/2 The day on the Est Marche sall be delaied..to be halden on the xxix day of May.
a1440 Let. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1940) 55 644 (MED) Ther was graunted, at a general day, to him & to his wyf xx s. by yer in alowance of the rent.
1464 J. Pampyng in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 298 I askyd hym if ther was any gret day at Bury; and he seid ther was but a small day, and as for any assises ther were non but old.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) viii. l. 4470 At þe Tarbart he was aqwhile Haldande dayis wiþe Iohun of þe Ile.
13. A day of contest on the battlefield; a battle, a fight; (in extended use) a contest of any kind. Frequently (now chiefly) in phrases, as to carry (also get, lose, win, etc.) the day. Cf. to save the day at save v. Phrases 8.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win
win1297
obtain1441
to go away with it1489
triumph1508
to carry (also get, lose, win, etc.) the day1557
to bear it1602
carry1602
to carry away the bucklers1608
to carry one's point1654
to carry it off1828
to ring the bell1900
society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > battle or a battle > day of battle
day1557
1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. C.iiii The battell is fought, thou hast gotten the daye.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 29v Tydinges was broughte him that his Souldiers gotte the day.
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 23 Without his aide the day would be perillous.
1641 S. Marshall Meroz Cursed 22 Canst thou make thy forces strong enough to carry the day?
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. i. xvi. 204 The Imperialists, thinking the Day was theirs.
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea iii. 40 Their small Force behaved themselves so well, that they had certainly got the Day if [etc.].
1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 139 The Silk Worm at present carries the Day before all others of the Papilionaceous Tribe.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 168 The bloody day of Seneff.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 429 The French King had..said that the last piece of gold would carry the day.
1884 Lisbon (Dakota Territory) Star 22 Aug. Campaign lies and mud slinging fail to carry the day.
1919 J. McCrae In Flanders Field 17 The dead men..fought their fight in time of bitter fear And died not knowing how the day had gone.
1961 Life 6 Jan. 53/2 Ginley won a Medal of Honor for heroism, an award tinged with irony for, notwithstanding his valorous action, the Federals finally lost the day.
2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) ii. 62 Clever lawyers never find it impossible to conjure up an argument with a veneer of plausibility but the real question is whether it will win the day.
III. A length or space of time; a period consisting of a number of days.
14.
a. A particular period of time distinguished from or contrasted with another, explicitly or by anaphoric reference (as this day, those days, etc.); esp. a time in the past or the future depicted as culturally or historically distinct from the present.
(a) In plural. Frequently in in (also by, on) those days: at or during a particular time in the past; cf. these days at these adj. 1f.See also it is early days (yet) at early adj. and n. Phrases 2, nowadays n., old days at old adj. 9a, olden days at olden adj.
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α.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) iii. 1 On þam dagum [c1200 Hatton on þam dagen; L. in diebus autem illis] com Iohannes se Fulluhtere; & bodude on þam westene Iudeę.
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xxvi. 231 For hwon we ne magon cweðan, þæt þæt wæron soðe martyras, þeah þe in ðam dagum nære in Cristes folces ehtnesse [prob. read nære Cristes folces ehtnys]?
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 47 (MED) Swich þeu wes bi þan dagen.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 3 (MED) Ure louerd ihesu cristes tocumes ben tweien openliche: þe fireste is gon, þo þe patriarkes and þe prophetes and oðre men þe waren bi þo dages after wisseden.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 16077 Þer heo scullen wunie þat þa daȝes beon icumene þa Merlin ine iuurn daȝen vastnede mid worden.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxxi. 29 In tho daȝes men shul seyn no more, Fadris eeten the soure grape, and the teeth of the sonus stoneȝeden.
β. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3003 Heo gunnen senden..feower fer-rædene þa we clipieð ferden. þe weoren on þan ilke dæȝen legiuns ihaten.a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 97 Þer shulleþ ȝut dayes come þat shulleþ by-sette þe ffaste, And þer ne shal nouȝt a ston vp a ston by-leue.a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) (1850) 4 Kings xx. 1 In tho dayes sijknede Ezechias vnto the deeth.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18978 (MED) Þar was a prophet treu and lele In form dais.c1480 (a1400) St. Peter l. 300 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 16 Sanct petir in þa daise full besyly wes prechand þan.a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xiii. ix. 69 Twichand the stait, quhilum be days gone, Of Latium.1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxixv Of no small authoritie in those dayes.1598 H. Jacob Treat. Sufferings & Victory Christ 9 Was it not in the dayes when he had both flesh & soule also?1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 183 An Herb of as great Use with us in these dayes.1725 ‘C. Comb-Brush’ Every Man mind his Own Business 13 We are told, that in Days of Yore, Labourers work'd for a Penny a Day.1791 Lady's Mag. May 269/1 When England's warlike kings, unrival'd shone, And gain'd, in days gone by, a deathless fame.1850 Baroness Blaze de Bury Germania I. iv. 107 The King of old days stands face to face with the youthful King (it is to be hoped) of days to come.1882 R. Chambers Bk. of Days II. 615/1 In the days before theatres were specially erected for the purpose, the yards of old inns..were particularly eligible for the representation of plays.1912 Insurance Press Dec. 52/2 The remorseful ripple of lost privileges, which will but haunt your memory in future days.1938 Sci. News Let. 19 Mar. 186/2 Long hours spent over hand-sensitized wet plates in the days when only a strong man could carry a portable camera.1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 15 Feb. 364/1 In those days a patient could cure half his ills by going to bed and the other half by getting up.2010 T. Blair Journey iv. 130 The public may conclude that politicians today are lesser people than those of days of yore.γ. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 84 Wel is us mi louerd. uor þe dawes þet tu lowudest us mide oþre monnes wouhwes.c1250 in Stud. Philol. (1931) 28 596 (MED) It was a king bi olde dawene þat wel leuede on godes lawe.c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) 200 After þan heþene lawe þat stot in þan ilke dawe.c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 3852 Hosen of iren..Non better nar bi þo dawe.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4082 Als it bi tidd mikel in þaa dauus [Fairf. be alde dawes].c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) i. 65 (MED) By elderne dawis.
(b) In singular. Frequently in to this day: up to the present time.See also this day and age at Phrases 6b, back in the day at back adv. Additions, present-day adj.
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OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xvi. 26 Seo tid cymð þænne..ic cyðe eow openlice be minum fæder. On ðam dæge ge biddað on minum naman.
OE Bidding Prayer (York) in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1912) 27 10 For Þor[f]erþes saule bidde we Pater noster.., and for ealle þa saula þe fulluht underfengan and on Crist gelyfdan fram Adames dæge to þisum dæge, Pater noster.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2747 Pride ne cuðe bi ðat dai Nogt so michel so it nu mai.
a1500 (a1450) Partonope of Blois (BL Add.) (1912) l. 10463 Meliore to þis fayne wolde haue spoke. Her herte for hete was on a smoke, That Claryn liste not better to say Of Partonope at þat day.
1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 242 Which Men at this day call Cairum.
1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxx. 9 In that day shall messengers goe foorth from me in shippes. View more context for this quotation
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. vi. §1 To this day..the Coptites and antient Egyptians call the end of the year νεισι.
1721 J. Perry Glory Christ's Visible Kingdom xviii. 299 Such Love is very rare to be seen in this Day.
1790 R. Adair Mem. 18 His frugality in the expenditure of the public money, though an old-fashioned virtue in the present day, was conspicuous and exemplary.
1825 Republican 22 Apr. 501 Religious impostors, when they come forth in some future day,..will only be considered as madmen, fools or knaves.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 403 To this day Palamon and Arcite..are the delight both of critics and of schoolboys.
1895 H. H. Peerless Diary 4 Aug. in Brief Jolly Change (2003) 25 I view with pleasure the advance that is being made in the present day, towards the opening of picture galleries, museums, etc.
1951 R. Harling Paper Palace (1952) 296 Cobb probably doesn't even know to this day why the Baron was so good to him all those years ago.
2002 J. McGahern That they may face Rising Sun (2003) 34 She was a great housekeeper who had worked for a rich family in the North. They thought a sight of her and keep in touch with her to this very day.
b. With the. The time under consideration; the period being discussed; esp. the present time. Cf. the adj. 2a.See also order of the day n. at order n. Phrases 7.
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun]
instancec1374
nowa1393
presenta1425
nowadays?c1425
the time1484
presentens1509
here1608
present tense1630
now1633
the now1720
day1766
today1831
this day and age1832
of the period1859
nowaday1886
these days1936
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xviii. 192 As I was pretty much unacquainted with the present state of the stage, I demanded who were the present theatrical writers in vogue, who the Drydens and Otways of the day.
1786 Daily Universal Reg. 10 Aug. Among the greatest evils of the day may be reckoned field-preachers, quack-doctors, and pettyfogging attornies.
1893 W. P. Courtney in Academy 13 May 413/1 The gardens were planned by the best landscape gardeners of the day.
1935 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) vi. 49 In a trice the King, holding a whisky and soda, was..talking of the events of the day as reported in the Evening News.
1963 X. Herbert Disturbing Elem. 91 He still wore the heavy clumsy British type of clothing of the day.
2005 R. Rankin Brightonomicon 37 To use the popular parlance of the day, you are doing my head in, Mister Rune.
15. In plural. With modifying word or words. A period of time distinguished as being characterized by certain qualities, attributes, experiences, etc.; a period during which certain conditions prevail.See also happy days int. at happy adj. and n. Compounds 3.
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the world > time > period > [noun]
timeOE
daysOE
sitheOE
agec1325
siecle1483
secle?1533
Iron Age1592
cycle1842
time span1880
OE Ælfric Homily: Sermo de Die Iudicii (Corpus Cambr. 178) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 601 Butan God gescyrte þa sorhfullan dagas, eall manncynn forwurde witodlice ætgædere.
OE Paris Psalter (1932) xciii. 11 Þæt bið eadig mann, þe þu..him yfele dagas ealle gebeorgest.
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1446 (MED) Vuele dayes ham shulle come on, þat hi shulleþ drede so sore.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 17v In daies of truth if Wiates frendes then waile.
1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. i. iii. 198 What son of Israell can hope for good daies, when hee heares his Fathers were so euill?
1660 H. Newcome Usurpation Defeated 45 Nay you may dye in the midst of these joyful dayes.
1752 G. Baddelley Serm. Several Subj. iv. 79 In those trying days, the religious united themselves into holy and friendly societies.
1827 R. Knight Hist. Six Princ. Baptists 68 The white chapel church..past [sic] through many trials, experiencing days of prosperity and adversity.
1906 Exponent June 13/2 In these days of strenuous effort, where every man is striving to attain a desired end.
2003 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 28 Sept. 3 Yesterday's performance will give them hope for better days to come.
16. With possessive.
a. The period of a person's life or existence; lifetime. Also in extended use. In later use only in plural. Cf. time n. 3a, year n. 11a.See also to end one's days at Phrases 5a, one's born days at born adj. Phrases 8, a person's days are numbered at number v. 2a.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life
life-dayOE
year-daysOE
timeOE
dayOE
lifeOE
life's timeOE
livelihoodOE
yearOE
lifetimea1300
life-whilea1300
for (also to) term of (a person's) lifea1325
coursec1384
livingc1390
voyage1390
agea1398
life's dayc1425
thread1447
racea1450
living daysc1450
natural life1461
lifeness1534
twist1568
leasec1595
span1599
clew1615
marcha1625
peregrination1653
clue1684
stamen1701
life term1739
innings1772
lifelong1814
pass-through1876
inning1885
natural1891
life cycle1915
puff1967
OE Will of Æðelgifu (Sawyer 1497) in D. Whitelock Will of Æthelgifu (1968) 9 Hæbbe Leofsige eal þæt oðer his dæg, & æfter his dæge sylle hit man Alfwolde, ofor heora dæg into sancte Albane.
OE Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti (Junius) 181 Swa hwylc se ðe fela yfela do..ga in mynster and a fæste oð his daga ende.
c1225 (?OE) Soul's Addr. to Body (Worcester) (Fragm. A) l. 40 His deaȝes beoþ agon.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 75 To habben..after his daye al his drihliche lond.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 3248 Þe deþ here toke, here dayys were fyllyd.
c1410 (c1350) Gamelyn (Harl. 7334) l. 65 (MED) Thus dalte þe knight his lond by his day.
1466 King Edward IV in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 549 Like as the said John Paston deceased had in any time of his daies.
c1485 (?a1400) Child Bristow l. 360 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 319 Yet dwel y stille in peyn..Tyl y haue fulfilled my day.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. giiiv They neuer feled suche before, in all their dayes.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xcv. sig. F4v That tongue that tells the story of thy daies . View more context for this quotation
1668 E. Howard Usurper i. 11 That I may now..Retreat into a private life, and spend My rest of days in Prayer.
1716 C. Johnson Cobler of Preston ii. 40 I'll retire from this vile World, like a Peace-making Minister; and pass the rest of my Days in Solitude and Sleep.
1784 Monthly Rev. June 481 An unpretending trifle..In print its days cannot be long.
1839 B. F. Thompson Hist. Long Island 285 In 1805, age and bodily infirmity made it necessary to relinquish his pastoral duties, and he spent the remainder of his days in retirement.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 480 The kingdom of Burgundy was now in its last days.
1916 C. Hamilton Sins of Children ii. x. 184 Up three flights of stairs, whose red carpet was in the autumn of its days.
1975 J. B. Keane Lett. of Matchmaker in Celebrated Lett. (1996) 280 I never heard the bate of it in all my days.
2012 M. Makary Unaccountable xi. 146 I'll be moving to the Caribbean and enjoying what's left of my days with a piña colada in hand and the sand between my toes.
b. In plural. With modifying word or words. A part of a person’s lifetime characterized by a particular experience, activity, pursuit, etc. Cf. schoolday n. 2, salad days n. at salad n. Compounds 2; see also year n. 11b.
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?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 5v Am y not he that ye bare and gaf me souke of your brestes and oft tymes kyst me that is to saye in my tendre dayes [Fr. en ces iours tendres] what tyme my membres were softe and tendre.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) f. 153 In thy yonge dayes, two yeres thou were appoynted on the see with a Pyrate.
1580 T. Churchyard Light Bondell Disc.: Churchyards Charge 1 My childishe daies ore ronne, And as I thinke, and you beleue, my boyes delites are donne.
1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. E3 Ile be looker on My dancing dayes are past.
1698 Pendragon 129 Let Friar Bacon's Brazen Head Tell thee, thy Golden Days are fled.
1735 London Mag. Sept. 489/1 In my younger Days, I took great Delight in Parties of Pleasure upon the Thames.
1786 Lounger No. 94. 375 I..in my days of prosperity had, as I mentioned above, known what it was to receive.
1845 C. G. F. Gore Self III. 237 Awakening in Lord Askham's mind..pleasant reminiscences of his days of schoolboyhood.
1880 T. Fowler Locke i. 7 During his undergraduate and bachelor days.
1946 C. Bush Case Second Chance xvi. 223 In my bachelor days it used to be hard work to keep her from mothering me.
1977 Time 8 Aug. 14/2 Henry Kissinger considers himself decompressed from his days of helping to run the world.
2005 N. Hornby Long Way Down 66 And, by the way, my Jacuzzi days are long gone.
17. Frequently with possessive or postmodifying of-phrase.
a. A period distinguished as being contemporary with the life, rule, activity, etc., of a specified person or group of people; a person's era, age, or generation. Also: a period characterized by the existence or prevalence of something, or by some distinguishing condition or circumstance; an era, an epoch.
(a) In plural.
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the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of certain character, condition, or events
dayOE
dayOE
summer day1563
tempestivity1569
set1633
stretch1689
period1712
run1714
tack1723
spell1827
dreamtime1844
time coursea1867
patch1897
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quality time1972
OE Wulfstan Sermo ad Anglos (Corpus Cambr. 201) (1957) 261 Þis wæs on Æðelredes cyninges dagum gediht, feower geara fæce ær he forðferde.
c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 173 He sceal..his martyrdom for Cristes lufæ þrowæn on Antecristes daȝum.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14352 Þa ilke laȝen þat stoden on Arðures daȝen.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. i. l. 96 Dauid, in his dayes he Dubbede knihtes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21712 Nu in vr daies.
?a1425 Constit. Masonry (Royal 17 A.i) l. 509 in J. O. Halliwell Early Hist. Freemasonry in Eng. (1844) 31 Suche mawmetys he hade yn hys dawe.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) iii. l. 1675 in Shorter Poems (1967) 106 Tullus seruilius dowchty in his daw.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne ii. 235 Hee speaketh as though Auerrois were an ancient Philosopher, that liued in the dayes of the primitiue Church.
1651 W. Dell Several Serm. 62 The first promise in this Chapter, is touching the great increase of the Church, in the days of the New-Testament.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. xxvi. 95 The Jewish State in the Days of Josephus.
1744 Educ.: Fairy Tale 9 In the Days of Fairy-hood there lived two Fairies.
1782 A. Highmore Ramble Coast Sussex (1873) 19 In the days of chivalry, when the soul of valor animated every thought.
1841 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo y Villegas Hist. Paul Spanish Sharper ii. vii. 48 I found that my intended bride would have been in danger in Herod's days of being taken in among the innocents. In short, she had not a grain of sense.
1894 Cassell's Family Mag. Dec. 73/1 The days of the ‘bun’ coiffures are over.
1951 M. M. Mathews Dict. Americanisms I. p. vii In the days of the Gold Rush, western miners, in organizing local governments, provided for the election of alcaldes rather than mayors.
1976 Indonesia 21 131 Those who had lived in their present location since their forefathers' days.
2007 Vanity Fair June 157 He stumped across India in the days of the British Raj.
(b) In singular.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of certain character, condition, or events
dayOE
dayOE
summer day1563
tempestivity1569
set1633
stretch1689
period1712
run1714
tack1723
spell1827
dreamtime1844
time coursea1867
patch1897
dreaming1932
quality time1972
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) Pref. 174 Ic..wearð asend on Æþelredes dæge cyninges fram Ælfeage biscope Aðelwoldes æftergengan to sumum mynstre.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 1066 On his [sc. Abbot Leofric's] dæg wæs ealle blisse & ealle gode on Burh, & he wæs leaf eall folc.
a1161 Royal Charter: Henry II to Certain Bishops, Earls, Sheriffs, & Thegns in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 12 Ælc þare lande..þe hi eafdon en Edwardes kinges deȝe.
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 649 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 125 Heo þat was er so heiȝ and freo bi mine Auncestres daye.
1547 A. Kelton Chronycle with Genealogie sig. d. iii Recorde I take, of that cursed man To God alway, founde contrarius Called in his day, cruell Ualerian.
1676 R. Williams George Fox digg'd out of his Burrowes 234 I had this notion from a man famous in his day (Mr. W. Perkins) who having been a deboist young man in Cambridge after the call of God to him he proved famous in Preaching and Writing.
1700 J. Lead Wars of David 164 For as in the day of the Law, many Sons of Israel..felt some Throws of the Cross.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iii. 293 Holy abbots honour'd in their day.
1842 J. D. Schomberg Theocratic Philos. of Eng. Hist. iii. ii. 320 The day of chivalry was gone.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 40 They were..more just than the men of our day.
1910 Flight 13 Aug. 648 The day of the aerial 'bus will soon be with us.
1982 R. Darnton Literary Underground of Old Regime i. 20 Before the day of the steam press and the mass reading public.
2000 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 20 July 15 In Queen Elizabeth's day, parsnips were eaten more as a sweet than a savoury.
b. In singular. A time when a person or thing is particularly powerful, significant, or active. Also (somewhat colloquial): the prime of a person's life or career.Recorded earliest in a dog has his day at Phrases 8a. See also to have had one's day at Phrases 9b(b), to have seen one's day at Phrases 9b(a).In quot. 1978: cf. note at sense 11b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > prime > [noun]
flowering agec1400
pridec1475
blooming-time1495
flower?1507
season?1507
day1546
flourishing years?1555
golden years1559
vigour1563
consistent age1574
prime1574
May moon1576
acme1579
Maya1586
flourish1597
May month1600
consistencea1613
May morna1616
constant age1620
high daya1625
blouth1643
flourishing age1737
heyday1751
floruit1843
bloom-hour1850
blossom-time1860
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Div But as euery man saieth, a dog hath a daie. Shuld you a man, dispayre than any daie? nay.
1582 R. Parsons First Bk. Christian Exercise i. viii. 99 Whyles they are in healthe and prosperitie, they will not know God, as in an other place he complaineth Marye yet as the prophet saieth: God will haue his daye, withe thes men also when he wilbe knowen.
1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible ii. 185 Let the Devill and his Angels..praunce it heere while they may.., yet withall let them knowe, that after they haue had Their Day, Iesvs & his members shal haue Their Day, what time the Devill and his Goatish Corporation shall from their mouthes receiue Iudgment.
1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 131 In fine, to succeed well, one must have his day. As all things succeed ill to some, so every thing prospers with others, and that too with less pains and care.
1706 N. Rowe Ulysses i. i. 71 Suffer the Fools to laugh..This is their Day.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ix. 77 She hoped she had tamed a high spirit or two in her day.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. I. 2 I have had vanities enough in my day.
1959 ‘M. M. Kaye’ House of Shade x. 128 Roaring Rory must have been a hell-raiser and a half in his day.
1978 W. Nee King & Kingdom of Heaven vii. 86 Today is the day of man..when man judges.
2002 I. Knight Don't you want Me? xiv. 205 I mean, in my day, when we used to go to a nightclub, we really, really glammed up—took us hours to get ready.
18. Following a word or phrase specifying a particular time period, in pleonastic expressions with the sense ‘a period of the specified length’. Cf. month day n. at month n.1 Compounds 1b, week n. Phrases 2b, year n. Phrases 6b(a). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > [noun] > of a specific period
spacea1350
daya1393
spacie1540
day length1569
run1674
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 776 (MED) He his trowthe leith to borwe To come..Ayein withinne a Monthe day.
1451 J. Fastolf in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 137 They have be fals both to the Clyffordys and to me thys vij yeere day.
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 19 Who laye afore Paris amoneth daye.
1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Eiiiv You shall..lende but for a monethes day.
1552 T. Gresham in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. App. C. 148 No man convey out any parcel of lead five years day.
1602 W. S. True Chron. Hist. Ld. Cromwell sig. A4 I promise you, I haue not seene the man, This two moneths day, his pouertie is such, As I do thinke he shames to see his friends.
a1679 T. Hobbes Dialogue Common-laws Eng. 145 in Art of Rhetoric (1681) Which Statute alloweth to these Provisors Six weeks Day to appear.
1765 J. Merrick Psalms xc. 225 If Nature yet a ten years' day Indulge us, e'er her debt we pay.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) A month's day, the space of a month; A year's day, the space of a year.
?c1901 G. M. L. Thomas in A. Phillips Newnham Anthol. (2010) 43 So undelayed By toil and strife this three-years day have I Been kept from dust and heat in which men die.
19. Time available or allowed to do something; spec. (frequently in to grant (also give) day) time allowed to make a payment, meet an obligation, etc.; delay, respite. Also in plural Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun]
longingeOE
bideOE
abodec1225
bodea1300
demura1300
dwella1300
litinga1300
delayc1300
delayingc1300
demurrancec1300
but honec1325
without ensoignec1325
abidec1330
dretchingc1330
dwellingc1330
essoinc1330
tarrying1340
litea1350
delaymenta1393
respitea1393
oversettinga1398
delayancea1400
delitea1400
lingeringa1400
stounding?a1400
sunyiea1400
targea1400
train?a1400
deferring14..
dilation14..
dayc1405
prolongingc1425
spacec1430
adjourningc1436
retardationc1437
prolongation?a1439
training1440
adjournment1445
sleuthingc1450
tarry1451
tarriance1460
prorogation1476
oversetc1485
tarriage1488
debaid1489
supersedement1492
superseding1494
off-putting1496
postponing1496
tract1503
dilating1509
sparinga1513
hafting1519
sufferance1523
tracking1524
sticking1525
stay1530
pause1532
protraction1535
tracting1535
protract of time1536
protracting1540
postposition1546
staying1546
procrastination1548
difference1559
surceasing1560
tardation1568
detract1570
detracting1572
tarryment1575
rejourning1578
detraction1579
longness1579
rejournment1579
holding1581
reprieving1583
cunctation1585
retarding1585
retardance1586
temporizing1587
by and by1591
suspensea1592
procrastinatinga1594
tardance1595
linger1597
forslacking1600
morrowing1602
recess1603
deferment1612
attendance1614
put-off1623
adjournal1627
fristing1637
hanging-up1638
retardment1640
dilatoriness1642
suspension1645
stickagea1647
tardidation1647
transtemporation1651
demurragea1656
prolatation1656
prolation1656
moration1658
perendination1658
offput1730
retardure1751
postponement1757
retard1781
traverse1799
tarrowing1832
mañana1845
temporization1888
procrastinativeness1893
deferral1895
traa dy liooar1897
stalling1927
heel-tapping1949
off-put1970
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 859 And hym bisecheth..To graunten hym dayes of the remenunt.
1428 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 82 To have ther-of resonable daies of paiement.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxiii. 263 The truce..is nat expired, but hath day to endure vnto the first day of Maye next.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) ci. sig. D*iiii I giue her daye for a moneth, & truse in the meane season.
1568 E. Tilney Brief Disc. Mariage (new ed.) sig. Cj I could recite many examples..if the time woulde suffer mee. You have yet day ynough, quoth the Lady Julia.
1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. H.iiii When drapers draw, no gaines by giuing day.
1608 Bp. J. Hall Pharisaisme & Christianity 83 Ye Merchants..make them pay deare for daies.
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (ii.6) 404 Generally men thinke..young men must settle themselues in the world, and ground their estate first, for other matters they haue day inough before them to mind them in.
a1644 F. Quarles Judgem. & Mercy (1646) 13 I'le give no day..I must have present money.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 60 He had day enough also to look about him, to enquire for able and honest Servants.
1740 G. Jacob Gen. Laws of Estates 274 The Sheriff issues his Precept to his Bailiff, to replevy the Cattle immediately; whereupon he is to give Day unto both Parties, until the next County-Court.
1787 J. Morgan Attorney's Vade Mecum I. 497 If the defendant appears, the plaintiff must assign his errors, or by rule with the clerk shall have day for it 'till another term.
IV. Daylight and related senses (extended from sense 1).
20.
a. Daylight, the light of day. Also: the state or fact of it being daylight.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > daylight
daylightOE
lightOE
dayOE
sky1515
dayshine1773
dayglow1853
OE tr. Felix St. Guthlac (Vesp.) (1909) iii. 115 Ða þæs on mergen, mid þan hit dæg wæs, þa ferde he eft to þam mynstre.
?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1135 Þa þestrede þe dæi ouer al landes.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 811 (MED) On þe morwen, hwan it was day, He stirt up sone.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. xiii. 13 As in day wandre we honestly.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 8676 I hit knew quen hit was day.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 223 Whan Reynawde sawe the day, he rose vp.
a1500 Rule Minoresses in W. W. Seton Two 15th Cent. Franciscan Rules (1914) 92 (MED) In þe mornyninge whan it is day, bi þe chayne avale bifore iii of þe sustris.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 459 Such as could see day at a litle hole.
1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 29 As soone as it was day, all set forward..imagining that by sun-set they should reach to Villages of the Babylonian Territorie.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 276 In his Conversion of the darkest Night to bright Day.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 142. ⁋1 She had now found out, that it was Day before Nine in the Morning.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 238 It was broad Day.
1840 N. P. Willis Romance of Trav. 258 The tall trees..resembled some blinding temple of the genii, whose columns of miraculous rubies, sparkling audibly, outshone the day.
1856 A. A. Morton in C. M. Sawyer Rose of Sharon 237 Every room wore a different hue, From rich colored glass that the day shone through.
1940 Prairie Schooner 14 114 The next afternoon I saw the statue in bright day.
1946 Illustr. London News 9 Nov. 536/1 He is in the house, yet it is broad day.
2001 R. Nicoll White Male Heart (2002) 177 A light drizzle fell as the bloodless day began to fade.
b. The time when daylight first appears; daybreak, dawn. Chiefly in phrases, as before day, at day, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]
aristc825
dawingc900
dayeOE
day-rimOE
day-redOE
mornOE
lightOE
lightingOE
dawning1297
day-rowa1300
grekinga1300
uprista1300
dayninga1325
uprisingc1330
sun arisingc1350
springc1380
springingc1380
day-springa1382
morrowingc1384
dayingc1400
daylighta1425
upspring1471
aurora1483
sky1515
orienta1522
breaking of the day1523
daybreak1530
day-peep1530
morrow dayc1530
peep of the morning1530
prick of the day?1533
morning1535
day-breaking1565
creek1567
sunup1572
breach of the day1579
break of day or morn1584
peep of day1587
uprise1594
dawna1616
day-dawn1616
peep of dawn1751
strike of day1790
skreigh1802
sunbreak1822
day-daw1823
screech1829
dayclean1835
sun dawn1835
first light1838
morning-red1843
piccaninny sun1846
piccaninny daylightc1860
gloaming1873
glooming1877
sparrow-fart1886
crack1887
sun-spring1900
piccaninny dawn1936
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 313 Matutinum, uhttid siue beforan dæge.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1129 Ðis ilces geares on Sancte Nicholaes messeniht litel ær dæi wæs micel eorðdine.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) l. 50 Ha..eode to chirche euche daheðes dei [Royal deis dei].
c1330 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Auch.) (1937) l. 1051 (MED) Al þat niȝt he rode til day.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 6106 Þat þai Sould vte of hous cum bi-for day.
c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 134 To ride þis forest or daye.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Sulpicius in Panoplie Epist. 39 A little before day.
1602 tr. W. C. Copie Let. from Campe before Graue 5 Some foure or fiue thousand Horse and Foote of ours marched to his Quarter at day.
1651 tr. F. de Quintana Hist. Don Fenise 41 Perplexed with the horror of this murder, and feare of Justice, he absented himselfe before day.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 52 They got up in the Morning before Day.
1793 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1844) I. 309 This morning at day we fell in with a Spanish..Ship.
1861 H. A. Jacobs Incidents Life Slave Girl iv. 23 Long before day, Benjamin was missing. He was riding over the blue billows, bound for Baltimore.
a1871 P. Cary in A. Cary & P. Cary Poet. Wks. Alice & Phoebe Cary (1882) 302 She fears no ghosts that haunt the dark, But she fears the coming dawn; And her heart grows sick when at day she hears The prison-bolts withdrawn.
1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side i. 92 And piano-men at beat-out pianos grieved—Early in the morning before day That's when my blues come fallin' down.
1996 A. R. Ammons Brink Road 123 A train rumbles through the valley before day.
21. figurative. Anything likened to daylight, esp. in terms of its clarity, purity, brightness, etc.; a light like that of day.In early use frequently in Christian contexts applied to God or Christ as ‘the light of the world’.
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OE Ælfric Homily (Corpus Cambr. 162) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 328 He is se soða dæg, and þæt soðe leoht ealles middaneardes, and se man þe him filigð, ne gæð he na on þeostrum, ac hæfð lifes leoht.
OE Homily: Apocalypse of Thomas (Corpus Cambr. 41) in Anglia (1955) 73 18 Ðær bið se torhta dæg þæs heofoncundan licoman.
c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 66 He is ure dæȝ, þe us mid ȝeileafæn onliht fram blindnesse.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16914 Nohht ne darr ȝet stiȝhenn upp..I gastliȝ lifess brihhte daȝȝ.
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 1405 Myn hertes day my lady fre So thursteth ay myn herte to biholde Youre beaute.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 8 We are in the clere day; For the helþe whiche the olde fadres sawe but dirkely..we se it fully.
a1555 J. Bradford Godlye Medytacyon (1559) sig. C5v O that this block and vaile of syn were taken away from me, yt thear might be always cleere day in my mind.
1702 N. Rowe Tamerlane v. i. 2191 They cast a Day around 'em.
a1763 T. Godfrey Prince of Parthia iv. i, in Juvenile Poems (1765) 180 Vardanes thou, our better light, shalt bring Bright day and joy to ev'ry heart.
1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xvii. 187 If he could think himself of so much use, one gleam of day might, by possibility, penetrate into the cheerless dungeon of his remaining existence.
1922 E. R. Braley Neglected Era ix. 153 When the children of Israel emerge from the dimly lighted centuries of Apocryphal history into the clear day of the New Testament.
1997 K. Cregan Fractured Community iv. 122 The state was seen as an educator leading ‘villagers’ out of the ignorant dark of backward thinking into the shining day of development.
2003 R. C. Castellanos & A. R. Becker All You need is Love 56 We will all arise from the darkness of death unto the brilliant day of eternal life.
22. Architecture. One of the perpendicular divisions or lights (light n.1 9a) of a mullioned window. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > pane > in mullioned window
day1348
pane1466
columna1697
1348 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) App. B. 437 (MED) Habebit duo diuersoria que Dayes nuncupantur.
1448 Will of Henry VI in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 354 In the est ende of the seide Quere shal be sette a grete gable windowe of .vii. daies.
1484 Will of Margaret Chocke (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/7) f. 70 A wyndow..of iij dayes.
1779 F. Peck Desiderata Curiosa (new ed.) I. viii. 296 (footnote) He should rather say, eight lights or days. [main text In this chappel is a great window, consisting of eight pailes or paines].
1826 J. Britton Archit. Antiq. Great Brit. V. 252 It is a common error to believe that the most antient windows are those composed of only a single day, or light.
1838 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 2) 38 Days, Bays, or Lights of a Window, the divisions made by mullions.
1867 A. Ashpitel Treat. Archit. 311/1 In the latter example A is the ordinary ‘day’ or light.
23. Mining. The surface of the ground above geological deposits, mine structures, etc.; (also) the entrance to a drift (drift n. 15). Now historical and rare.day-coal, day drift, day-eye, day-hole: see Compounds 3. Cf. also day-stone n., day-water n. at Compounds 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > ground > [noun] > surface of
bosomOE
fielda1400
brim1572
surface1596
day1620
1620 N. Bloy Seuerall Engines (single sheet) The Fourth, is the High periticall Assistant, a very necessary Engine at the foot of Pegasus, to send home the water to him, that he may raise it out at the day.
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 80 By letting down Shafts from the day (as Miners speak).
1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 12 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) Draw your Coals to Bank (or Day) out of the Pit.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Niijb The Ore that is found on the Tops of Veins, especially near to the Day.
1802 J. Mawe Mineral. of Derbyshire 207 Opencast, when a vein is worked open from the day.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 126 Day, the surface of the ground over a mine.
1989 S. Gates Burnhope Wheel vi. 32 That's what the miners called it outside the mine. It was always called ‘the day’.

Phrases

P1. With a preceding preposition.See also aday adv., adays adv., today adv., n., and adj.
a. U.S. colloquial. between two days: overnight, during the night; under cover of night. Now somewhat archaic.
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1821 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 31 Dec. The former Treasurer of Berkshire county,..in consequence of some crooked money transactions, went away between two days.
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxvi. 406 Some ne'er-do-well who had defrauded the State and other creditors by departing between two days.
1903 A. D. McFaul Ike Glidden in Maine ii. 12 Hadn't been't he left town 'tween two days he'd be good way on the road to the pen'tentiary now.
1934 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 179/1 He..again thought of himself going ‘between two days’, making a get-away, riding away into hiding among the hills.
2004 Amer. Cowboy July 99/1 Implicated in the murder of an adversary, he left town ‘between two days’ and assumed a false identity.
b. With by.
(a) by day: during the day; in the daytime. Cf. by night at night n. and int. Phrases 2a(b). [Compare Middle Dutch bi daghe (Dutch bij dage, bij dag), Middle Low German bī dāge, Middle High German bī tage (German bei Tage, bei Tag).]
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lOE Permission to ring Bells, Exeter in J. Earle Hand-bk. Land-charters (1888) 260 Þat yc..gef leaua ðam munche on Sancte Nicholaus minstre to hringinde hyre tyde be dage & be nihte.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 151 (MED) We habbeð niede him to bidden be daiȝ and be nihte.
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 241 (MED) Bi daie þu art stareblind.
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) cxx. 5 Brynynge of vice ne shal nouȝt brulen þe bi daie [L. per diem].
1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 372 (MED) Item, that intrailles of bestes and blode putts be clansed and caried awey by night and not by day.
?1536 R. Copland Hye Way to Spyttell Hous sig. Dj Rufflers, and masterles men, that cannot Werke And slepeth by day, and Walketh in the derke.
1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript i. vii. sig. F5v An owle-eyed buzzard, that by day is blind, And sees not things apparant.
1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 9 Be Homer's Works your Study, and Delight, Read them by Day, and meditate by Night.
1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 219 He might prosecute his voyage as well as by day.
1877 W. W. Fowler Frontier Women (1995) vi. 136 By day the half-famished soldiers in tattered regimentals wandered through their camp, and the snow showed the bloody tracks of their shoeless feet.
1904 W. B. Yeats Let. July (1994) III. 621 Peg Inerny..was beggar woman by day and Queen of Fairy by night.
2009 Time Out N.Y. 26 Feb. 23/4 The spot is a flower shop by day and a tavern by night.
(b) by days: during the day; in the daytime; esp. usually or habitually during the day. Cf. by nights at night n. and int. Phrases 2c(b).
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lOE St. Giles (Corpus Cambr. 303) (1980) 102 Soðlice, þry dagas hi wunodon togædere and geornlice andledon godes lof betweoxan heom be dæges and be nihte.
?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Þa namen hi þa men.., bathe be nihtes & be dæies, carlmen & wimmen, & diden heom in prisun.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11332 Heold crist hiss fasste..Bi daȝhess. & bi nahhtess.
c1300 St. Leonard (Laud) l. 14 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 457 Þe king of Fraunce him bi-souȝhte ȝeorne ope al is miȝhte Þat he scholde with him beo, bi dayes and bi nyȝhte.
c1390 Talkyng of Love of God (Vernon) (1950) 34 Louely Ihesu..þat al my feblesse maiȝt strengþen.., bi niȝtes and bi dayes aȝeyn my wiþerwines.
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 4 (MED) Aftir the labourous and swetyng that he had by dayes, his body with reste he wolde refresshe.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 360 (MED) Wachith me be dayes and nythis.
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos iv. sig. I.iv All night she wakes, nor slomber sweete doth take, nor neuer slepes, By daies on houses tops she sittes.
1669 G. Miege Relation of Three Embassies 37 The Advantage of Travailing by nights, as well as by days.
1700 Satyr against Marriage 11 Her Slave by Night, her very Ape by days.
1906 Friend Nov. 8/2 He is president of a prosperous steel chain company by days.
2003 J. Berardinelli Reel Views 424/2 By days, she toils as a receptionist at a travel agency.
c. of days (also day).Chiefly with the early plural form dawe (see discussion in etymology section), and frequently in rhyme; cf. adawe adv.
(a) to do (also bring) of days and variants: to deprive of life, to kill. Cf. bring v. 8c, life-day n. Obsolete.
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the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)]
swevec725
quelmeOE
slayc893
quelleOE
of-falleOE
ofslayeOE
aquellc950
ayeteeOE
spillc950
beliveOE
to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE
fordoa1000
forfarea1000
asweveOE
drepeOE
forleseOE
martyrOE
to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE
bringc1175
off-quellc1175
quenchc1175
forswelta1225
adeadc1225
to bring of daysc1225
to do to deathc1225
to draw (a person) to deathc1225
murder?c1225
aslayc1275
forferec1275
to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275
martyrc1300
strangle1303
destroya1325
misdoa1325
killc1330
tailc1330
to take the life of (also fro)c1330
enda1340
to kill to (into, unto) death1362
brittena1375
deadc1374
to ding to deathc1380
mortifya1382
perisha1387
to dight to death1393
colea1400
fella1400
kill out (away, down, up)a1400
to slay up or downa1400
swelta1400
voida1400
deliverc1400
starvec1425
jugylc1440
morta1450
to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480
to put offc1485
to-slaya1500
to make away with1502
to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503
rida1513
to put downa1525
to hang out of the way1528
dispatch?1529
strikea1535
occidea1538
to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540
to fling to deathc1540
extinct1548
to make out of the way1551
to fet offa1556
to cut offc1565
to make away?1566
occise1575
spoil1578
senda1586
to put away1588
exanimate1593
unmortalize1593
speed1594
unlive1594
execute1597
dislive1598
extinguish1598
to lay along1599
to make hence1605
conclude1606
kill off1607
disanimate1609
feeze1609
to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611
to kill dead1615
transporta1616
spatch1616
to take off1619
mactate1623
to make meat of1632
to turn up1642
inanimate1647
pop1649
enecate1657
cadaverate1658
expedite1678
to make dog's meat of1679
to make mincemeat of1709
sluice1749
finisha1753
royna1770
still1778
do1780
deaden1807
deathifyc1810
to lay out1829
cool1833
to use up1833
puckeroo1840
to rub out1840
cadaverize1841
to put under the sod1847
suicide1852
outkill1860
to fix1875
to put under1879
corpse1884
stiffen1888
tip1891
to do away with1899
to take out1900
stretch1902
red-light1906
huff1919
to knock rotten1919
skittle1919
liquidate1924
clip1927
to set over1931
creasea1935
ice1941
lose1942
to put to sleep1942
zap1942
hit1955
to take down1967
wax1968
trash1973
ace1975
c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 255 (MED) He walde don hire anan ut of dahene.
c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) 2188 This holi man was ibroȝt of dawe.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1697 (MED) Many ys þe gode cristene kniȝt þat þar haþ be don of day [rhyme aray].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 4168 Þan wil na man of vs mak saue, þat we him [sc. Joseph] suld haue done of daue [Vesp. on dau, Fairf. of daghe].
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 282 (MED) I trawed my perle don out of dawez [rhyme lawez].
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 2055 (MED) Oure soueraygne sulde be..don of dawez with dynttez of swreddez [read swerddez].
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) ii. l. 3389 Qwhen þat he was don of daw Þai tuk þe lande for outtyn aw.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. vii. 68 Thou with swerd was slaw, Byreft thi self the lyfe, and brocht of daw.
(b) to be of days: to be dead. Obsolete.
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a1350 St. Juliana (Ashm.) (1957) 86 Ne spareþ noȝt..ac heieþ uaste, þat heo of dawe be.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 2883 (MED) He made avou..That Rome scholde nevere abreide His heires, whan he were of dawe.
d. With on.
(a) on day.
(i) each day; daily. Cf. aday adv. 1. Obsolete.
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eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xxi. 318 Seldon, buton maran symbelnessum & tidum oðþe maran nydþearfe, ma þonne æne siðe on dæge [L. semel per diem] þæt heo wolde mete þycgan.
eOE Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) iii. xxxix. 332 Æfter þære beþinge adrig & smire mid þære sealfe & blaw þa sealfe on þa dolh & lege ða brembelleaf on, do swa on dæge ðriwa on sumera & on wintra twiwa.
lOE Rule St. Benet (Faust.) 6 (table of contents) Hu þa godcundan weorc on dæge sceolan beon gedon.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 67 (MED) Ete nu leinte mete, and enes o dai and euene fille.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 510 (MED) Into acorde þay con declyne For a pene on a day, and forth þay gotz.]
(ii) (also upon day) during the day; in the daytime. Cf. aday adv. 2. Obsolete.
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OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 178 Ðet hus eall scean, swa swa sunne on dæg.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16971 Nicodem..comm. O nahht till ure laferrd Forr þi þatt he ne mihhte nohht. O daȝȝ forr shame lernenn. He þatt wass haldenn þære.
c1330 St. Margaret (Auch.) l. 231 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 67 He maked þeues to stele oniȝt; o day to ligge & gouȝ.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15159 Ilk night of oliuete To þe mont he yode..And euer on dai þe folk he gaf O godds word þe fode.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 47 (MED) Þe fest watz ilyche ful fiften dayes..Dere dyn vpon day, daunsyng on nyȝtes.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 134v Noctiluca.., which is to see anyȝt & not on day.
1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest v. sig. A7 As..propensnes to sleip albeit on day, rauing and walking.
(b) on (also upon) days: during the day; in the daytime; esp. usually or habitually during the day. Cf. adays adv. 2. Obsolete.
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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 402 Þa þatt..Aȝȝ follȝhenn rihhtwisnesse. Biforenn menn. bihinndenn menn. O daȝȝess. & o nihhtess.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 244 (MED) A kowherde..is my kynde fader..& here i kepe is kyn..on dayes.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 578 (MED) Non nuyez hym, on naȝt ne never upon dayez.
?1536 R. Copland Hye Way to Spyttell Hous sig. D.ii They that do make to moche of theyr wyues..Letyng them go to feestes, daunces, and plays To euery brydale, and do nothyng on days.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 133v Wyth myche dole vppon dayes & on derke nightes..The petie & the playnt was pyn for to here.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. iv. 84 When wilt thou leaue fighting on dayes [1600 a daies], and foyning on nights, and begin to patch vp thine old Body for Heauen?
P2. Reduplicated with an intervening preposition.See also day by day adv. and adj.
a. day after day: for days in succession; on many successive occasions; repeatedly, continuously. Cf. after prep. 5b.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adverb]
daiwhomlyOE
adaya1200
day for dayc1386
day by dayc1390
daily1416
quotidianlya1438
quotidiallyc1475
per diem1485
journally1554
diurnally1599
day after day1830
day-to-day1928
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. i. f. 2 He..appeased theyr furie, and prolonged day after day [L. diem ex die].
1597 H. Arthington Prouision for Poore sig. C2v Persons, as riotously waste their goods and substance, in surfetting and drunkennesse, in banketting and bellicheare, day after day deuouring more meate and drinke into one bellie, then woulde well serue two or three persons.
1670 J. Ogilby America iii. vii. 520 News coming day after day of the extraordinary Preparations in Spain, it was judg'd convenient to strengthen the Fleet with fourteen Ships.
1795 Tomahawk! 10 Nov. 47/1 The French..attacked the Imperial troops, day after day, for twenty-two days running.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 33 A world of peace And confidence, day after day.
1924 C. J. Galpin Rural Social Probl. xvii. 276 I worked day after day, pitchforking and banking and raking, until there wasn't a twig or a root left.
1968 P. G. Hollowell Lorry Driver iv. 101 In the factory it's just repetition, the same thing day after day.
2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 29 July a15/1 Day after day they slog through the heat, dust and mud, waiting for the enemy to initiate contact.
b. day on day: for days in succession; on many successive occasions. [Compare German Tag auf Tag (17th cent.; now literary and archaic).]
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1833 G. H. Calvert Volume from Life Herbert Barclay x. 165 Day on day I've journeyed towards ye.
1902 E. W. Wilcox Kingdom of Love 55 How loud it echoed in that place, Where, day on day, no sound was heard But her own footsteps.
1999 S. S. Tepper Singer from Sea (2000) 445 Day on day they had sat in the Shah's throne room.
c. from (also fro) day to day: without interruption from one day to the next; for days in succession; continuously. Also: one day at a time without consideration for the future; on an immediate or short-term basis. Cf. day-to-day adj., adv., and n. [Compare post-classical Latin de die in diem (Vulgate), Anglo-Norman de jur en jur and Middle French de jour en jour (12th cent.; French de jour en jour), and also Old High German fone tage ze tage (Middle High German von tage ze tage, German von Tag zu Tag), and further Old Dutch fan dage an dage, Middle Dutch van daghe te daghe (Dutch †van dag te dage, now van dag tot dag).]
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OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1066 Ac swa hit æfre forðlicor beon sceolde, swa wearð hit fram dæge to dæge lætre & wyrre eallswa hit æt þam ende eall geferde.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9939 Þatt aniȝ shollde dwellenn. Ne draȝhenn nohht fra daȝȝ to daȝȝ, To betenn heore sinness.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 10386 (MED) Fram daye to daye hii dude þe mansinge.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 32v Fro Day to day, de die in diem, in dies, dietim.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. vi. f. xlviii Consider the birdes of the ayer: they sow not, they reape not, they lay not vp in barnes, carefull for tyme to come, they liue from day to day without all carefulnes.
1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. I8 From daye to daye you haue beane worse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. v. 19 To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow, Creepes in this petty pace from day to day . View more context for this quotation
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 445. ¶3 Whether I should still persist in laying my Speculations, from Day to Day, before the Publick.
1736 tr. M. Huber World Unmask'd xiv. 347 These two Propensities make Men live from day to day;..in short, in making the best of the present, without disquieting themselves about future Reckonings.
1854 Ladies' Repository Apr. 164/1 He begins the labor of life; he has put his shoulder to the wheel; he must work in the same mill-horse round from day to day.
1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. ix. 131 I scraped along from day to day, not daring to look much ahead.
1912 F. E. Matthes Sketch Yosemite National Park 3 One goes to the Yosemite region..to revel in the full enjoyment of these wonders in the pure, invigorating air and the restful calm that reigns from day to day.
1961 D. Woodward tr. G. Simenon Premier iii. 84 After the disastrous experiments made by previous governments, which had lived from day to day, robbing Peter to pay Paul, the only solution was a large-scale devaluation.
2011 P. Tucker Mission Boy from Shebar viii. 67 Then the period of waiting started. From day to day, I hovered around the Principal's office, hoping to hear news of the result of the interview.
P3. With a following adverb.
a. (day and) day about: on alternate days in rotation; each on or for a day in his or her turn. Cf. about adv. 3.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adverb] > every specific number of days
(day and) day about1708
1568 Wyf of Auchtirmwchty l. 22 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 321 Content am I To tak þe pluche my day abowt.]
1708 Duke of Rohan's Man. v. 168 Here is only one Tribune mentioned, which inclines me to believe, that the two Tribunes..commanded day and day about.
1806 4th Rep. Commissioners Civil Affairs Navy App. 165 The six junior Clerks are to take in turn (day about) to see that Vouchers, Books, &c. are put by in their proper places at the end of the day.
1810 Gentleman's Mag. July 33/1 At the siege of the Havannah, the Namur and Valiant took it day and day about to fight a sap battery.
1875 Monthly Packet June 642 They should..each take the other's work, day about, turn in turn.
1903 Engin. Mag. 25 222 One man worked day about on each wheel.
1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise x. 190 When the two women fried a rasher for their midday meal..they took it in turn to have the rasher, the other one dipping her bread in the fat, day and day about.
2005 E. J. Shelton & H. Lübcke in C. M. Hall & S. Boyd Nature-Based Tourism in Peripheral Areas xiv. 220 The adults take it in turns day-about to remain on the nest during incubation.
b. day in (and) day out: every day for an indefinite number of successive days; continuously. Occasionally attributive. [Compare Dutch dag in dag uit , (also) dag uit dag in , German tag ein tag aus , tagein tagaus , (also) tag aus tag ein , tagaus tagein (all 18th cent. or earlier); compare also year in (and) year out at year n. Phrases 3a.]
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the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > repeatedly
day and nightOE
morning, noon, and nightc1325
new and newa1425
time after time?a1425
over and overa1470
toties quoties1525
again and again1533
reiteratively1619
over and over again1637
repeatedlya1647
times without number1658
to and again1659
—— in, —— out1815
time and time again1821
day in (and) day out1824
recurringly1828
repetitiously1828
recurrently1841
repetitively1872
ever and again1880
recursively1901
twenty-four hours a day1914
serially1978
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller IV. 119 How hard that I must go on, delving and delving, day in and day out, merely to make a morsel of bread.
1887 M. E. Wilkins Humble Romance (1890) 127 Sewing as she did, day in, day out.
1927 Public Opinion Feb. 109/2 Work—day in day out—and not much money.
1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising xv. 138 Lifebuoy Toilet Soap With Puralin gives day in–day out protection against B.O.
1985 Math. Mag. 58 226 A mathematical technique [sc. double entry bookkeeping] applied, day in and day out, in the mundane world of business for over five centuries.
2003 R. Lacey Street Bible 203 What's the point? All this backbreaking, brain-aching work that people do day in day out—why?
c.
day off n. a day away from work, school, service, etc.; a day of rest or holiday.
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society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > day or night
holidaya1400
play-day1558
playing day1575
non Le1636
whole holiday1753
rest day1800
Sunday out1837
day off1853
evening out1870
stop-day1879
night off1885
night out1890
off1926
1853 Observer 4 Dec. 5/5 Johnstone, the foreman engineer, said to me the morning of the accident, ‘You have not had a day off with this engine lately’.
1859 London Express 8 Jan. 1/6 Drabble answered that it was his day off, but that he would find a cab for him.
1893 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 10 488/2 The bus-driver spends his ‘day off’ in driving on a pal's bus, on the box-seat by his pal's side.
1904 R. Kipling in Windsor Mag. Dec. 10/1 Whatever 'e's done, let us remember that 'e's given us a day off.
1971 Daily Tel. 1 July 1 (heading) Teachers' strike gives 400,000 pupils day off.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 Mar. (Styles section) 1/1 I took a real day off this weekend: computers shut down, cellphone left in my work bag, land-line ringer off.
d.
day out n. a day away from home, one's lodgings, etc.; (in early use) a servant's free day away from the household in which he or she works; (now chiefly) a day spent on an excursion or day trip. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > outing or excursion > [noun]
airing1607
tour1656
excursion1699
scheme1758
out1762
visit1800
outing1821
day out1822
day trip1838
spin1856
ta-ta1886
1822 Edinb. Advertiser 26 Apr. 270/3 She..said she would call again in a fortnight, as it was her day out.
1869 Punch 20 Mar. 111/2 Having made this a holiday with a view to having a ‘day out’, my landlady had not had notice to call me at any particular hour.
1890 Peel City Guardian 4 Jan. 5/5 It was Fayle's day out, and he made the most of the chances offered.
1943 Penguin New Writing 18 63 There was a tremendous crowd going, all flossied up for a day out.
2007 Adventure Trav. Jan. 8/1 We bang on about this show every year, but truth be told, it is a great day out.
P4. With adjectives.
a. With all.
(a) all (the) day: for the whole day; throughout the day. Cf. all adj. 1e.For Middle English and earlier use of all day (as opposed to all the day), and for forms written as one word, see alday adv.
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OE tr. Vitas Patrum in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 207 And wit wæron ealne þone dæg on þære mæstan modes fyrhto.
c1300 St. Kenelm (Laud) l. 233 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 352 (MED) Heo seien hire [sc. a cow] sitte al þe day..Stille in one stude, meteles.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 91 Syngynge he was or floytynge al the day.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iv. 3635 (MED) The peeple..Hadde al the day dronke myhti wynes.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. Prol. f. iv For thoughe I shulde all day tell Or chat with my ryme dogerell.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 3 Sept. (1971) V. 260 My blood tingles and iches all day all over my body.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 105 Untir'd at night, and chearful all the Day . View more context for this quotation
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 5 I did nothing but Work and Cry all Day.
1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide viii. ii. 52 She slav'd all the Day like a Spitalfields Weaver.
1820 J. Severn Let. 17 Dec. in J. Keats Lett. (1958) II. 363 I am obliged to wash up—cook—& read to Keats all day.
1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 Aug. 476/1 There was vomiting all the day.
1974 E. Bowen Henry & Other Heroes iii. 47 She reclined all day on a silk chaise, resolutely trying to drink all the whiskey in Philadelphia.
2003 J. Lethem Fortress of Solitude i. viii. 122 We going down to bomb some trains or we sit here all day talking 'bout this and that?
(b) all days: always, forever. Now rare (poetic in later use). Compare Middle English aldays (see etymological note at alday adv.).
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the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adverb]
always fortha700
alwayeOE
oeOE
everOE
buten endea1000
echelichec1175
till doomsdayc1175
to timea1200
perdurablyc1275
in ayea1300
without endc1330
anytimea1375
for ay and oc1374
continually1382
perpetuallyc1385
ay-forthc1390
everlastinglyc1390
perpetualc1392
eternallyc1393
endlessa1400
in (also for, to) perpetuitya1400
always?c1425
without timec1425
endlesslya1450
sempiternlyc1450
infinitivec1470
aylastinglyc1475
everlastingc1475
incessantly1481
in saecula saeculorum1481
sempiternally1509
all days1533
for altogether1542
constantly1567
interminate?1567
incorruptibly1579
perpetuously1612
in perpetuum1613
eternal1614
unterminably1631
unfadinglya1672
unendingly1674
for a constancy1710
perennially1729
tarnally1790
imperishably1795
indefectibly1837
immortally1858
fadelessly1861
1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere vii. p. cclxxxii He promysed to be wyth his chyrche all days to the worldes ende.
1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. 3rd Chorus sig. H.iii Humble bees, which fly all dayes aloft, And tast the flowers, that fairest are to see.
1605 J. Radford Directorie teaching Way to Truth 239 He is..in spirit & truth with vs all daies euen to the end of the worlde.
1674 W. Annand Dualitas 22 The Hebrews say, that God dwelt in his Tabernacle all days, since the beginning, appointing but one day for Judgement, giving all other for Clemency and Mercy.
1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. V. xx. 226 He bathes him with the witch, and sits perfumed, Drinking, all days, sweet mead, in king's high hall.
(c) for all days: always, forever. Chiefly archaic and literary in later use.For Middle English uses see etymological note at alday adv.
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1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie i. f. 21 The Sacrifice of Christes Crosse is called the daily Sacrifice, Not for that it must be renewed euery daie, but for that being once done, it standeth good for all daies and for euer.
1885 E. Fawcett New King Arthur ii. 117 'Tis sweet to dream that for all days Immortally my love shall stay, Its own best praise.
1996 C. T. R. Hayward tr. Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum in Jewish Temple viii. 166 Your rod shall be in My sight as a remembrance for all days, and it shall be likened to the rainbow by which I made My covenant with Noah.
b. With one.
(a) one day.
(i) On a certain (but unspecified) day in the past. [Compare also Old English ānes dæges in the same sense (showing adverbial use of the genitive case) and some day at Phrases 4d(a)(i).]
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OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) v. 17 Ða wæs anum dæge [L. in una dierum] geworden þæt he sæt & hig lærde.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 19458 Godess gast off heffne comm..An daȝȝ att unnderrn time.
1536 R. Morison Remedy for Sedition sig. Aiiijv Anthistenes seing the lyghtnes of the people of Athens came one day amonges theym, and gaue them counsayle.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. xi. 53 Had it not been, to revenge himself one day, upon the Spaniards.
1719 D. Defoe Robinson Crusoe 72 One Day walking with my Gun in my Hand by the Sea-side, I was very pensive upon the Subject of my present Condition.
1881 Harper's Mag. Dec. 108/1 Sam returned one day, weak, ague-shaken, demented, but still fondly, foolishly faithful.
1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara iii. in John Bull's Other Island 282 I moralized and starved until one day I swore that I would be a full-fed free man at all costs.
2013 Vanity Fair Mar. 290/1 One day, no one knows exactly when, agents stopped messengering scripts around town.
(ii) On an unspecified day in the future. Cf. some day (sense Phrases 4d(a)(ii)).
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the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > at some future time or one day
yeteOE
hereafter1154
hereafterwardc1386
sometimec1386
oncea1393
whiloma1400
rather or latera1450
one of these daysa1470
one day1477
umquhile1489
in timea1500
with time?1531
sooner or later1577
odd shortly1681
some summer's day1697
first or last1700
some of these (‥) days1831
someday1898
down the road (also track)1924
1477 Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale Prol. in Whan that Apprill with his Shouris Sote (Caxton) Parfay sayst thou one day he reken shal When that his tayl shal brenne in the glede For he not helpith the nedful in her nede.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. ccxxxiiiiv/2 I ensure you one day he wyll take so cruell vengeance on you that all the worlde shall speke therof.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. ii. 21 The King will know him one day . View more context for this quotation
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 57 I'll make you one Day sup Sorrow for this.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 2 A gracious, benevolent, and all-powerful being, who would one day redress all wrongs and recompense all pain.
1945 T. Williams 27 Wagons Cotton 217 One day I will look in the mirror and I will see that my hair is beginning to turn grey.
2001 M. Ravenhill Mother Clap's Molly House ii. viii. 85 One day I'm just gonna up and go.
(b) one of these days: on an unspecified day in the future. Cf. one of these fine days at fine adj., adv., and n.2 Phrases 3.Often implying a more proximate or immediate future than the equivalent use of one day (see sense Phrases 4b(a)(ii)).
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the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > at some future time or one day
yeteOE
hereafter1154
hereafterwardc1386
sometimec1386
oncea1393
whiloma1400
rather or latera1450
one of these daysa1470
one day1477
umquhile1489
in timea1500
with time?1531
sooner or later1577
odd shortly1681
some summer's day1697
first or last1700
some of these (‥) days1831
someday1898
down the road (also track)1924
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 117 I pray you brynge hym to the courte one of thes dayes.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xxvii. 1 One of these dayes shal I fall into the handes of Saul.
1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse i. ii. sig. Bv Your fine wit will post you into another world one of these dayes.
1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 55 Well, Well, I shall understand your Lingo one of these days, Cozen, in the mean while, I must answer in plain English.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxv. 279 You will tell me a different tale one of these days.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage (1963) xlix. 236 I tell you what, I'll try and come over to Paris again one of these days and I'll look you up. And then we won't 'alf go on the razzle.
2008 D. Lodge Deaf Sentence (2009) xix. 301 It wouldn't surprise me if we both turn up lightly disguised in a campus novel one of these days.
(c) one of those days: a day when things do not go as planned or hoped; a bad or difficult day.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > a spell of bad luck > day of
one of those days1922
1922 N.Y. Tribune 29 Sept. 15/1 For the next several innings the play of the Yanks was anything but impressive... It might have been the result of a more or less protracted rest, and then again, it might have been just one of those days.
1931 Mich. Alumnus 21 Nov. 153/2 ‘Just one of those days,’ is the most complete analysis that can be offered of the defeat of Michigan's ‘B’ team at the hands of the Wisconsin Junior Varsity... The final score was 6 to 0.
1967 ‘S. Woods’ Case is Altered xiv. 166 Old Mr. Mallory was waiting to pounce on him, and it soon became obvious that it was going to be one of those days.
2007 Times 13 Aug. (Sport section) 6/4 You need your goalkeeper to be your best player when you come here but, unfortunately, Colin had one of those days.
c. the other day: two, or a few days ago; on a day in the recent past; not long ago. Cf. other adj. 3b. [Compare French l'autre jour (15th cent. or earlier).] See also similar constructions treated at other adj. 3a, 3c.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adverb]
neweneOE
newlyeOE
unyoreeOE
noweOE
newOE
lateOE
yesterdaya1300
freshlya1387
of newa1393
anewa1425
newlingsa1425
latewardc1434
the other dayc1450
lately?c1475
erst1480
latewards1484
sith late1484
alatea1500
recently1509
even now1511
late-whiles1561
late ygo1579
formerly1590
just now1591
lastly1592
just1605
low1610
this moment1696
latewardly1721
shortsyne1768
sometime1779
latterly1821
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 112 (MED) The oþer day, I told ȝou a parcell of þe wose in sleuthe.
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. f. 71 When I first viewed thee, the other daie..loue attached me in suche wise, as neuer woman loued manne, as I dooe thee.
1663 S. Pepys Diary 16 Feb. (1971) IV. 44 A priest was taken in his vests officiating somewhere in Holborne the other day.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 552. ⁋1 I was tumbling about the town the other day in a hackney-coach.
1810 A. Argus Juvenile Spectator 43 Miss Louise run a pin hinto my fingers the other day, becaus hi did not ear when she ringed the Bell.
1890 J. Fiske Let. 9 May (1940) 578 Met Sarah Hall the other day and found it difficult to get away from her: what a bag of gabble that old woman is!
1915 J. Turner Let. 15 July in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 17 The other day we had a long march to form a guard of honour.
1979 ‘W. Allen’ & M. Brickman Manhattan in Four Films W. Allen (1982) 270 Guess what? I turned eighteen the other day.
2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 19 Feb. (Review section) 1/1 The other day it occurred to me that I needed more exercise and should take up skipping.
d. With some.
(a) some day.
(i) On a certain (but unspecified) day in the past. Cf. one day ( Phrases 4b(a)(i)). Obsolete.Only in Old English.
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OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 454 Ða sume dæg eode he swa swa he oft dyde.
OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xxxix. 11 Hit gelamp sume dæg [L. quadam die] þæt Iosep wæs ana innan his hlafordes huse.
lOE St. Neot (Vesp.) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 130 Hit gelamp sume dæige, þæt se halge were on ærnemorgen digellice ferde to his wæterseaðe.
(ii) On an unspecified day in the future. Cf. some fine day at fine adj., adv., and n.2 Phrases 3.
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OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 148 Tempore futuro, docebo ic tæce gyt to dæg oððe sume dæg.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 985 To vouche sauf, som day with hym to dyne.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. ii. sig. F.vv I knowe my lingering not likely to last long, but oute wil my snuffe sodeynly some daye within a while.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. ii. 14 Foreseeing that he, would be some day Suprem Lord, & Sovereign of the thirstie Ethrappels.
1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. vii. xiii. 196 There's no keeping him. I may be tempted else to knock his brains out some day.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. ix. xvii. 95 I hope to return some day what you then so generously pressed upon me.
1953 D. Whipple Someone at Distance xx. 176Some day’, she said to herself, ‘I shall be in a position where these little people will not dare to disrespect me.’
2002 Chicago Tribune 8 Apr. i. 2/5 He'll do just fine. The kid might even make federal judge some day.
(b) some of these days: = one of these days at Phrases 4b(b). Now chiefly U.S.Often implying a more proximate or immediate future than the equivalent use of some day (see sense Phrases 4d(a)(ii)).
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1692 T. Southerne Wives Excuse iii. 33 Some of these days, we'll be very witty together: But now I am your Servant.
1764 T. Jefferson Let. 23 Jan. in Papers (1950) I. 15 I will send you some of these days Shelton's Tachygraphical Alphabet, and directions.
?1856 F. E. Smedley Harry Coverdale's Courtship xxxv. 245 Some of these days I shall be obliged to give him a lesson.
1940 R. Wright Native Son i. 8 Some of these days you going to wish you had made something out of yourself, instead of just a tramp. But it'll be too late then.
2005 Alton (Illinois) Tel. 11 Sept. a4/2 I just wondered if some of these days somebody is going to do something about it.
e. See also everyday n. and adj. First-day n.; good day n.
P5. With verbs.
a. to end one's days: to reach the end of one's life; to die. Cf. sense 16a.See also to close one's days at close v. 8a.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 946 Her Eadmund cyning forðferde on sancte Agustinus mæssedæge; þæt wæs wide cuð hu he his dagas geendode.]
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. l. 3493 He drank the blood Off a bole, sauagyne and wood, With loue enchaufid [MS eschaufid]..Most bestiali eendid thus his daies [Fr. mourust].
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxv. 222 There myserably he shall ende his dayes.
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J. P. Camus Admirable Events 35 He seeks to end his dayes..another time by poison, againe by some steeled weapon.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 10 Being quite dispirited with Toil, and wholly overcome by Grief and Despair, I lay down between two Ridges, and heartily wished I might there end my Days.
1821 L. Deffebach Oolaita i. i. 5 Plans are laid, and divers schemes afloat, That yet may bring thee to an early grave, And end thy days when they have scarce begun.
?1870 J. Pilgrim Katty O'Sheal ii. i. 18 My dear child, that father of your's will cause me to end my days in a lunatic asylum.
1963 W. S. Howard Amer. Slavers & Federal Law iv. 90 Fourteen years later her captain, Nathaniel Gordon, unsuspected as a slave trader in 1848, ended his days on the gallows.
2002 D. Goleman et al. Business: Ultimate Resource 1097/2 He ended his days a compulsive-obsessive, drug-dependent hypochondriac.
b. to make a day of (also †on) it: to devote a whole day to a particular activity, esp. a pleasurable one; to spend the day on an excursion. Cf. make v.1 12b, to make a night of it at night n. 6a.
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1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. v. 34 in Wks. II No 'faith, Dine in Apollo with Pecunia, At braue Duke Wadloos, haue your friends about you, And make a day on 't.
1763 J. Boswell Jrnl. 28 July in London Jrnl. (1950) 327 Come..let us make a day of it. Let us go down to Greenwich and dine.
1828 C. Lamb Let. Dec. (1935) III. 198 From this paradise, making a day of it, you go to see the ruins of an old convent at March Hall.
1885 Cent. Mag. 30 393/2 Friends and neighbours also made a day of it, and then also a night of it, in honour of the departed.
1965 E. Salter Once upon Tombstone ii. xvii. 152 How about a trip up the glacier? We could take a packed lunch and make a day of it.
2003 J. Mullaney We'll be Back 7 My mates (the usual suspects) decided we'd make a day of it and go by train, have a few beers as you do, and after the match, win or lose, have a night out.
c. to see day: to achieve mental illumination or enlightenment; to understand something which was previously puzzling or unclear; (also) to perceive or anticipate a resolution to a problem, difficult situation, etc. Cf. sense 21, daylight n. 1b. Obsolete.
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1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 39 There have bin not a few since the beginning of this Parlament, both of the Presbytery and others who by their unlicen't books to the contempt of an Imprimatur first broke that triple ice clung about our hearts, and taught the people to see day.
1667 A. Marvell Let. 26 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 61 I can not yet see day in this businesse betwixt the two Houses.
1750 W. Warburton Julian ii. 133 By this time the Reader begins to see day, through the thick Confusion of Theodoret's cloud of circumstances.
1800 Crit. Rev. 29 App. 500 We began to see day only when the author investigated the question of the numerator and denominator of a fraction vanishing at the same time.
1863 in Amer. Standard (Jersey City, New Jersey) 8 July 2/1 For the first since the outbreak of the rebellion we begin to see day.
d. to take day (also days): to set a time for the transaction of business, the payment of a debt, etc.; to make an appointment. Also in later use: to put off such an appointment to another day; to delay meeting an obligation. Cf. sense 12a. Obsolete. Also figurative.
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1437 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1437 §37. m. 1 Yef þe merchandise faille and come not at þe dayes, þan þai take newe dayes, muche lenger þan þe first daies were, to paie for þe same gode redy money.
c1450 (a1375) Octavian (Calig.) (1979) l. 1499 Þey..toke day at þe monthys ende Of playn batayle.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 165 She acorded to her this request and toke daye for to do hit.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxxii. 46 Then they toke day to come agayn a thre wekes after the Feast of saynt John.
1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. v. xv. f. 171 To make quick confession of their sinfull actes and not to take dayes with God.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xix.* 126 He had rather disburse his life at the present, then to take day to fall into the hands of such remorslesse creditours.
1666 App. upon Capt. Everards Epist. 29 in M. Poole Nullity Romish Faith He need not take day to answer it.
1675 J. Collinges Weavers Pocket-bk. i. 11 Let me tell you, that God is the best Merchant you can part with a piece of Stuff to: he indeed sometimes takes day to see if his Weavers can trust him, but as he payes certainly so he payes to the best profit.
1753 C. Viner Gen. Abridgm. Law & Equity X. 30 In waste if the Tenant takes Day by Prece Partium without Essoign, and at the Day is essoigned, which is admitted without Challenge, this is not Error, but is well.
e. to do (also to be on, go on) days: to work the day shift; = to work days at days adv. Cf. to do nights at night n. 8b, on nights at night n. 8b.
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1865 Children's Employm. Comm. (1862): 4th Rep. App. 40/2 in Parl. Papers XX. 103 [I] like being on days best, because I get 6s. a week then.
1910 Amer. Mag. Dec. 198/1 ‘You're lucky to be going on days,’ said the gray-haired sergeant that night.
1966 ‘A. Sylvester’ Living with Communism iv. 96 Men and women volunteered to guard government buildings... Outside my hotel a pretty girl was sitting..for many days in succession... ‘We do days. Men do nights,’ she told me.
1985 A. Giddens in D. Gregory & J. Urry Social Relations & Spatial Structures xii. 273 The cycle of movement between wards coincides with that between day and night work, so that when someone ‘goes on days’ they also change to another sector.
2013 Daily Mail (Nexis) 10 July Those [women] who worked only nights..were 80 per cent more likely to struggle to conceive than those who did days.
f. to call it a day, to call it half a day: see call v. Phrases 2e. to give the day: see give v. 17. to make one's day: see make v.1 69d. to name the day: see name v. 8b. to win the day: see win v.1 3a.
P6. With another noun.
a. Noun phrases with of.
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Day of Atonement n. [after Hebrew Yōm Kippūr Yom Kippur n.] Judaism = Yom Kippur n.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > Yom Kippur > [noun]
Day of Atonement1617
Day of Expiation1674
Yom Kippur1735
1530 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. xxv. f. xlv Then thou shalt make an horne blowe: euen in the tenth daye of the seuenth moneth, which is the daye of attonement.]
1617 F. Johnson Christian Plea iii. xv. 293 The day of Atonement, wherein they were enjoyned to afflict their soules, and from euen to euen to celebrate their rest.
1708 P. Nourse Pract. Disc. Several Subj. I. ii. 38 The Day of Atonement, the Tenth Day of the Seventh Month, which was the only Fasting-Day appointed by Moses.
1819 L. Alexander Heb. Ritual 82 The Conclusion Prayer..concludes the service of the Day of Atonement.
1974 Ann. Reg. 1973 200 Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), when there is no public transport [in Israel] or private or public business and even non-observant Jews stay at home, fell on 6 October.
2003 L. F. Winner Mudhouse Sabbath (2007) vii. 82 On a major fast, like the Day of Atonement, you fast a full twenty-five hours, from sunset to sunset, and you abstain not only from food and drink but also from anointing yourself and from sex.
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Days of Repentance n. Judaism the period of ten days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur in the Jewish calendar, marked by personal reflection, repentance, and prayer; chiefly in Ten Days of Repentance. [Ultimately after post-biblical Hebrew ʿaśereṯ yĕmē tĕšūḇāh ten days of repentance (Jerusalem Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 57a; (also, less commonly) yĕmē tĕšūḇāh days of repentance).]
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1695 G. Hooper Disc. concerning Lent ii. ii. iv. 420 All the ten of that seventh Month, are call'd the Ten Days of Repentance, reckoning the Day of Expiation for one.
1817 Jewish Expositor Feb. 33/2 From the beginning of the year until the tenth day.., they are wont to call עשרת ימי תשובה ‘the ten days of repentance’; and on these days they mortify themselves severely by fasting, pray much, and affect great piety.
1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto III. ii. iii. 15 In holidays they [sc. the rabbis] are also very fond of ‘enthralling the audience,’ and of ‘melting them to tears’; but this is mainly during the Ten Days or Repentance, or when a boy is Bar-mitzvah.
1903 M. Joseph Judaism as Creed & Life viii. 258 The Day of Atonement..marks not only the conclusion, but the culminating point, of the Days of Repentance.
1959 Lima (Ohio) News 1 Oct. 14/9 Shortly before sunset on Oct. 12, the ‘Ten Days of Repentance’ will end as they began—with the blowing of the ram's horn.
2002 A. Weintraub in I. Abramovitch & S. Galvin Jews of Brooklyn 210/2 Since the buying of these items is a mitzvah, there is added incentive to purchase them during the Ten Days of Repentance.
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Days of Penitence n. Judaism = Days of Repentance n. at Phrases 6a(b); chiefly in Ten Days of Penitence.
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1657 A. B. tr. J. Buxtorf Jewish Synagogue xx. 223 The time between New-years-day and the tenth of the same moneth.., is called by Jews, the ten penitential dayes [L. dies decem pœnitentiales; Ger. (1603) die zehen Tage der Busse].]
a1699 I. Abendana Disc. Eccl. & Civil Polity of Jews (1706) vi. 197 Those Days betwixt New-year's Day and the Day of Expiation, because of very strict Observances, consisting in Humiliation and Confession of Sins, and Repentance of them, are called the Days of Penitence.
1748 J. P. Stehelin tr. J. Buxtorf in J. A. Eisenmenger Rabinical Lit. (new ed.) II. App. 334 The Time from the Opening of the Month Tisri..to..The Feast of Expiation, the Jews ordinarily call Ajéres jeme Teschuvah, i.e. The Ten Days of Penitence [L. dies decem pœnitentiales; Ger. (1603) die zehen Tage der Busse].
1850 Chambers' s Papers for People VII. 16 The whole of the ten days are..called the Ten Days of Penitence, and the holy days themselves the Days of Awe.
1902 Jewish Encycl. II. 289/2 By some Polish cantors this characteristic cadence is..employed in the services of the Days of Penitence.
2002 Jewish Chron. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 5 Sept. 53 We are required on Yom Kippur, and by the whole Ten Days of Penitence which it concludes, to examine ourselves.
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Day of the Dead n. All Souls' Day, 2 November, as celebrated in various European and Latin American countries; (now usually, also as Days of the Dead) the Mexican holiday honouring the dead which is observed on this day and on the surrounding days, including All Saints' Day, 1 November. [Compare French jour des morts (c1529 or earlier in Middle French), Spanish día de los difuntos (2nd half of the 16th cent. or earlier), día de los muertos (1st half of the 17th cent. or earlier), Italian giorno dei morti (2nd half of the 17th cent. or earlier), post-classical Latin dies mortuorum (1576 or earlier).]
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society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > specific
Day of the Dead1834
Columbus Day1892
Australia Day1911
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > All Souls (2 November) > [noun]
Soul-mass Day1389
All Soulsa1400
Day of the Dead1834
soul mass1876
1803 Spirit of Public Jrnls. 6 169 They met for the first time on the Jour des Morts, literally ‘the Day of the Dead’, but which, in our English Calendar, is strangely translated by ‘All Souls Day’!]
1834 Albion 8 Feb. 48/1 (heading) The Day of the Dead in Paris.
1888 Wisconsin State Reg. 21 Jan. (heading) The Day of the Dead in Mexico. Most of the candy stands have an assortment of skulls in white or cream hued sugar.
1948 B. Griffith Amer. Me ii. i. 100 On the two Days of the Dead, November 1 (Día de los Difuntas Chiquitas ) and November 2 (Día de los Difuntas Grandes ), Mexicans in California bring flowers to the graves, and lunches, and say prayers for their loved ones.
1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Nov. a15 The Day of the Dead—actually the three-day period from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2—has remained a moment of vivid remembrance of deceased family members and of renewed contact with the beliefs that underpinned indigenous American cultures.
2008 Times (Nexis) 9 Apr. 23 He is off to Guatemala to celebrate the Day of the Dead, with its mixture of Roman Catholicism and indigenous Mayan belief.
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Days of Awe n. the Jewish festivals of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, sometimes also including the intervening days; cf. high holiday n. (b) at high adj. and n.2 Compounds 4. [After post-biblical Hebrew yāmīm nōrā'īm, plural noun (late 14th or early 15th cent., apparently earliest in the works of R. Jacob ben Moses Moellin (also known as Maharil; ?1360–1427); < yāmīm , plural of biblical Hebrew yōm day (see Yom Kippur n.) + nōrā'īm, plural of biblical Hebrew nōrā' dreadful, terrible, awesome).]
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1850 Chambers' s Papers for People VII. 16 The whole of the ten days are..called the Ten Days of Penitence, and the holy days themselves the Days of Awe.
1966 H. Kemelman Sat. Rabbi went Hungry vii. 39 A reference to the New Year Reading on Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the ten Days of Awe.
2008 Forward (Nexis) 19 Sept. 17 It's a shame that so many Jews go to synagogue only on the Days of Awe.
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day of action n. a day of organized protest by workers over issues such as pay or working conditions, typically in the form of strikes and demonstrations (see action n. 21).In early use perhaps not a fixed phrase.
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1916 Internat. Socialist Rev. Jan. 392/1 Failing to obtain that [sc. an eight-hour day], we will walk out... The day of action will be set by the conference.
1989 D. Howell Politics of NUM v. 73 The resulting circular called on all members to stop work on the Day of Action.
2013 Express & Echo (Exeter) (Nexis) 5 Dec. 11 Numerous..staff members at the University of Exeter participated in the day of action..that saw classes cancelled and facilities disrupted.
b. this day and age: the current time. Originally and chiefly in in this day and age: at the present time; nowadays. Cf. sense 14a(b).
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun]
instancec1374
nowa1393
presenta1425
nowadays?c1425
the time1484
presentens1509
here1608
present tense1630
now1633
the now1720
day1766
today1831
this day and age1832
of the period1859
nowaday1886
these days1936
1832 Genesee (Rochester, N.Y.) Farmer 24 Mar. 91/2 In this day and age, no one who is blessed with health and a common share of that indispensible article, good sense, can have an excuse for ignorance.
1902 Metal Worker 18 Jan. 40/1 The numerous abuses that beset all business ventures in this day and age.
1944 H. Croome You've gone Astray xxi. 209 Do you mean to say that in this day and age..you're going to come the conventional?
1958 Spectator 18 July 116/2 The needs of this day and age.
2011 Daily Mail (Nexis) 6 Dec. ‘This was actually a private orgy,’ he said, most indignant. How reassuring, in this day and age, to find a chap so insistent on manners.
c. With night.
(a) day and night: during both day and night; continually, constantly, incessantly; (hence attributive) that lasts, takes place, or acts throughout the day and night. Cf. night n. and int. Phrases 1a(a). [Compare Middle Low German dach unde nacht , and Middle High German naht unde tac (compare German Tag und Nacht ), Gothic naht jah daga (compare night and day at night n. and int. Phrases 1a(a)) Compare also Old English dæges and nihtes , Old Saxon dages endi nahtes , Old High German tages ioh nahtes (Middle High German tages unde nahtes ); compare days adv., nights adv., and the discussion of adverbial uses in the main etymology. Compare further post-classical Latin die et nocte (Vulgate), Hellenistic Greek ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτὸς (Septuagint), νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν (New Testament).]
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the world > action or operation > continuing > continually (in action) [phrase]
night and dayeOE
day and nightOE
without(en) blina1300
morning, noon, and nightc1325
but stintc1330
by and byc1330
early and latec1330
without ceasec1330
without ceasinga1340
withouten hoc1374
without releasec1400
still opece1422
in a ranec1480
never ceasable?1518
without remorse1555
every foot (and anon)1561
round1652
year in and year out1819
twenty-four hours a day1914
the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > repeatedly
day and nightOE
morning, noon, and nightc1325
new and newa1425
time after time?a1425
over and overa1470
toties quoties1525
again and again1533
reiteratively1619
over and over again1637
repeatedlya1647
times without number1658
to and again1659
—— in, —— out1815
time and time again1821
day in (and) day out1824
recurringly1828
repetitiously1828
recurrently1841
repetitively1872
ever and again1880
recursively1901
twenty-four hours a day1914
serially1978
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Corpus Cambr. 196) 28 Nov. (2013) 220 Hig slepon dæg and nyht, swa lange swa hig on þam huse wæron.
lOE St. Nicholas (Corpus Cambr.) (1997) 96 Soðlice, hi þænceð dæg & niht ymbe þinne swicdom.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5112 Te birrþ ȝe[o]rnenn daȝȝ. & nihht.
a1250 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 4 (MED) Þet swinkeð dei & niht i ðine seruise.
?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne 100 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 147 Oþer briddes..stinteþ neuer..Miri to sing dai and niȝt.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 658 (MED) His peine day and nyht He dede, if he hire wynne myhte.
1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) i. vi. sig. av The x knyghtes were ordeyned to watche the swerd day & nyȝt.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 53/2 The pageauntes..were in making day and night at westminster.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. xviii. 199 [She] laboured his cause day and night.
1724 J. Gay Captives i. v. 9 Is still the King a stranger to this sorrow That day and night lies rankling in your breast?
1848 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1880) I. iii. 184 The bags were carried..day and night at the rate of about five miles an hour.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 16 Mar. 10/2 The work will be carried out by day and night relays of men.
1919 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 19 551 Day and night they worked.
1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxvii. 436 Unless day-and-night nursing is available it is a wise precaution with many patients to tie their hands loosely to the bed at night.
2001 J. Waterman Arctic Crossing ii. 129 Their trappers' radio—powered by nine D cell batteries and left on day and night.
(b) day or night: by day or by night; at any time. Similarly (neither) day nor (also † ne) night: neither by day nor by night; not at any time. Cf. night n. and int. Phrases 1a(b).Earliest in negative constructions.
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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) iv. 211 On ðam ne ablinð granung, & þoterung dæges oððe nihtes.
c1175 ( Homily (Cambr. Ii.1.33) in A. M. Luiselli Fadda Nuove Omelie Anglosassoni (1977) 151 Hig þonne þar nane reste nabað, dæges ne nihtes, butan on þære drihtenlican æristes tide.]
a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 57 (MED) Ne beo þu nawiht monslaht ne in hordom dei ne naht.
c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Harl.) l. 48 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 494 (MED) Noþer dai ne niȝt hi nolde hem noȝt forgo.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 3449 (MED) So harde wiþ-in hir wombe þai faȝt atte ho ne mote reste day ne naȝt.
a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (1999) II. l. 11390 To her kinde [sc. fish] it longeþ noght To slepe day or night oght.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 37 (MED) I pray to god..that he me kepe in such A plyght..I to affendyn hym day nor nyght.
?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 279 I woll sure yow be thys lyght. Neuer dystre[n] yow daye nor nyght.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. N3 Neuer exceeding a penny a quart day nor night; and this deare yeare..scarce that.
1658 S. Slater Rhetorical Rapture (single sheet) They neither Day nor Night spare any pains, But to Corpulentize ravenous Wembs Anthropophagize even Royal Stems.
1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 43 With a dreadful industry of ten days, not respiting his Souldiers day or night.
1799 Lavinia 83 She had too, a friend in the object of her affection, that felt all her pangs, and ceased not day nor night to supplicate the Divine favour in her behalf.
1871 E. S. Phelps Silent Partner xi. 224 The mercury has not been below 90°, day nor night, for a week.
1938 Amer. Home Jan. 2/1 (advt.) Modern gas water heaters assure you ample hot water—day or night.
2011 J. D'Amboise I was Dancer 225 The dancing never stopped, day or night.
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day and night shot n. Obsolete rare a disease (not identified) apparently causing pain in the day and night. [After early modern German nacht und tag schüß, (plural) denoting an unidentified illness (1515 in the passage translated in quot. 1527). With the second element compare German Schuss , denoting kinds of sharp, piercing pain (already in Middle High German, now rare as simplex in this sense; specific use of Schuss shot n.1; compare shot n.1 1b).]
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > other human disorders > [noun]
thringa1400
pip?a1425
foge?c1475
pankc1475
day and night shot1527
kindnessc1600
elf-shot1681
pseudo-syphilis1810
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Kijv The same water is good agaynste a sore named the daye and nyght shotte [Ger. nacht vnd tag schüß].
d. days in bank: see in bank at bank n.2 2. day of grace: see grace n. 10a. time of day: see time n., int., and conj. Phrases 1a.
P7. Designating things relating to, used for, or lasting for, a period of the number of days specified.
a. With a or a number, in the genitive. Cf. day's math n., day's work n.
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OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 288 Biduum twegra daga fæc, triduum þreora daga fæc, quatriduum feower daga fæc.
OE Handbk. for Use of Confessor (Corpus Cambr. 201) in Anglia (1965) 83 31 Man mæg anes dæges fæsten mid anan pænige alysan.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Luke ii. 44 Thei..camen a daies iourney [c1384 E.V. the wey of a day, L. iter diei].
1581 W. Raleigh Let. 22 Feb. (1999) 1 There was then delivered into my handes..so mutche mony as amownted to six dayes wages for myself, my leuetenante, officers and soldiers at accustomed rates.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxix. 115 The three dayes abstinence being expired, lots were cast.
1759 Universal Mag. Jan. 7/2 If the weather tends to be rainy, you must provide at least two days food.
1897 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 Jan. 20/2 Phlyctenular and simple ulcerative conjunctivitis was cured after six or seven days' treatment with sirol.
1920 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 311 For forgetting to put any oil in the crank-case, he was stopped fourteen days' pay.
2010 Sunday Tribune (Ireland) (Nexis) 1 Aug. n4 Average agreed annual leave in Ireland is 24 days..with workers in Slovakia, Romania, Cyprus and Estonia entitled to just over 20 days' leave.
b. In singular with prefixed numeral, forming an attributive phrase. Cf. ninety-day adj., one-day adj., three-day adj. at three adj. and n. Compounds 3b.
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1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) ccxi. 309 Wel a thre daye iourneye was Rages fro meletene.
1685 J. S. tr. Famous Hist. Prince Palmerin of Eng. iii. lxvi. 165 He (in the Name of his Lord) demanded a six day Truce to bury the Dead.
1763 Med. Museum II. xxxv. 227 A man that died in the military hospital of this town the twelfth of March 1760, of a seven day inflammatory distemper.
1847 Nat. Encycl. I. 413 Six-day licenses may be granted.
1894 N.E.D. at Day Mod. An eight-day clock.
1940 Daily Express 10 Sept. 1/1 In his three-day blitz on London Goering has now lost 140 planes.
2001 High Country News 19 Nov. 6/3 At a recent two-day protest rally on the Skull Valley reservation, upwards of 200 anti-nuclear activists gathered to express their opposition to the storage facility.
P8. Proverbs and proverbial phrases.
a. every (also a) dog has his day and variants: every person will experience success or recognition at some point in his or her life. Cf. sense 17a.
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society > authority > power > [noun] > period of power or influence
a dog has his day1546
innings1772
inning1885
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Div But as euery man saieth, a dog hath a daie. Shuld you a man, dispayre than any daie? nay.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 289 A Cat will meaw, a Dog will haue a day.
a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub ii. i. 4 in Wks. (1640) III A man ha' his houre, and a dog his day . View more context for this quotation
1727 W. Somervile Occas. Poems 227 The Man is young, the World is wide, And as judicious Authors say, Every Dog shall have his Day.
1792 J. Throsby Suppl. Vol. Leics. Views xiii. 159 Palaces of kings have been made the abodes of felons, and sovereigns have been humbled to a state of beggary; a vulgar adage says, ‘Every dog has its day.’
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. i. i. 5 Each dog has but his day.
a1869 R. Leighton Reuben (1875) 184 The most unlucky dog may have his day, But I, poor whelp, have given my turn away.
1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 165 You can't tell, one of our guests might become famous all of a sudden. Every dog has its day.
1993 Independent on Sunday 4 Apr. (Business section) 16/1 In a field that even by academic standards is racked with schisms and feuds..there is still a chance of every dog having its day.
b. Originally U.S. another day, another dollar and variants: used to express resignation, weariness, or cynicism about a predictable and unchanging situation (originally that of having to undertake tedious or repetitious work in order to earn a living).
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1907 Logansport (Indiana) Daily Reporter 11 Mar. 4/2 Oh hum! The same old grind. Another day, another dollar.
1956 M. Wolff Big Nickelodeon ii. 11 ‘Another Saturday under the bridge’, he said. ‘How you say, c'est la vie, another day, another dollar.’
1993 Time 18 Jan. 16/1 Another day, another deadline, and another backdown by Saddam Hussein, for what seems like the zillionth time.
2011 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 Dec. (Business section) 5 Another day, another dollar, another crisis summit about the euro.
c. an apple a day: see apple n. Phrases 7. a day after the fair: see fair n.2 Phrases 1. Rome was not built in a day: see Rome n. Phrases 1b. tomorrow is another day: see tomorrow adv. and n. Phrases 2a.
P9. Other phrases.
a. Used with another measure of time, as this day week, this day month, this day twelve months, etc.: the same day a week, month, year, etc., in the past or future. Now rare. this day eight days: (chiefly Scottish) a week today; a week ago today ( Sc. National Dict. records this as still in widespread use in 1940); cf. eight adj. 1b.
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c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 992 This day fifty wykes..Euerich of yow shal brynge an hundred knyghtes.
?1443 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 218 Your fader and myn was dys day [MS dysday] sevenyth at Bekelys.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts x. 30 This daye nowe .iiij. dayes I fasted.
1531 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 187 The same Court so adiorned to be kepte ther that day thre wekes next ensuyng.
1622 S. Rowlands Good Newes & Bad Newes sig. F2 Gilbert, this gloue I send thee from my hand, And challenge thee to meet on Callis sand, On this day moneth resolue I will be there.
1651 O. Cromwell Let. 3 Sept. in Lett. & Speeches (1859) 552 The third of September, (remarkable for a mercy vouchsafed to your forces on this day twelvemonth in Scotland).
1664 Rec. Cramond Kirk Session 31 July in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at This James Lees..is appoynted to enter this day fyfteen days to give signs of repentance before the congregatione, in regarde he is to be necessarlye absent this day eight days.
1730 in W. Cramond Church of Rathven (1885) 64 Delation given in against Janet and Margaret Simsons, in Lonhead, as having gathered partens this day eight days.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. Slawkenbergius's Tale 17 I am going forwards, said the stranger, for Franckfort——and shall be back at Strasburg this day month.
1801 E. Helme St. Margaret's Cave III. xiii. 244 On the day month that he had made the dreadful avowal.
1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. 21 Saw ye naething o' our young dinnagood this day eight days, Robin?
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xv. 280 Let Harold see how many..he holds by this day twelve months.
1935 S. Beckett Let. 23 Sept. in J. Knowlson Damned to Fame (2004) 197 I was down at Bedlam this day week.
1954 D. Thomson People of Sea iii. 62 I can get you the power of sleeping by this day week.
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(a) to have seen (also known) better days and variants: to have been formerly more prosperous or in better condition; to have fallen into a state of decline; cf. sense 14. Similarly to have seen one’s best days, to have seen one's day and variants: to be past one's prime.
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c1590 Sir Thomas More (1911) iv. v. 86 But we..Hauing seene better dayes, now know the lack Of glorie that once rearde eche high-fed back.
1625 J. Mayer Antidote Popery 80 I hope you haue seen your best dayes, & both you & your religion shall now downe as fast, as euer it came vp.
a1641 A. Munday et al. Bk. Sir Thomas More (1911) 49 But we..hauing seene better dayes, now know the lack of glorie, that once rearde eche high fed back. View more context for this quotation
1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper Prol. sig. I6 True Wit has seen its best days long ago.
1736 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 662 The Craftsman hath seen better Days; but he has wrote himself into Contempt.
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. Introd. 4 His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day.
1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 102 The whole town bears evident marks of having seen better days.
1876 F. Marryat Her Father's Name xxv The truth is, the old housekeeper had seen her day, and was thankful for the prospect of any help in her duties.
1920 Breeder's Gaz. 9 Sept. 442/1 The Gazette does not believe that the dealer henceforth will be unnecessary: it does believe that he has seen his best days.
1963 F. C. Crews Pooh Perplex 139 A plea from the heart of an ‘old-timer’ who perhaps has seen his day.
1982 P. Carter Children of Bk. xx. 184 A sniff which strongly suggested that the sniffer had known better days, and better food.
2012 Independent 7 July (Mag.) 11/1 A stripey matelot T-shirt that has seen better days.
(b) to have had one's day (and variants): to be past one's prime; to be no longer influential, successful, popular, etc.; cf. sense 17b.
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1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London ii. sig. D Falshood and Lying thus haue had their day, and like Almanackes of the last yeare, are now gon out.
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals ii. i Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete. Damns have had their day.
1841 E. Miall in Nonconformist 1 i Diplomacy has had its day, and failed.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam Prol. p. vi Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be.
1909 Isis 18 Jan. 5/1 Milton has had his day; Darwin has come to stay.
1957 I. Fleming Diamond Smugglers (1960) 55 It was rather like during the War, when private armies sprang up and had their day until they made a mistake and were disbanded.
2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 1 Nov. 68/2 By now, the protest tradition is regarded as a movement that has had its day.
(c) to have one's days: to have occasional days when one behaves in a particular (good, bad, or uncharacteristic) manner, or when one distinguishes oneself in some way. Similarly to have its days: (of an occupation, routine, etc.) to have occasional days that are different to (esp. better or worse than) the usual ones. Cf. to have one's (also its) moments at moment n. Phrases 6a.
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1884 Graphic 15 Nov. 522/1 We all have our days... What ordinary shooting man does not remember the day on which it seemed he..could not miss them if he tried?
1922 Manch. Guardian 7 July 6/2 She has her days and then she might beat anybody.
1984 Daily Herald (Chicago) 30 Aug. (Barrington ed.) i. 3/1 She got herself upset. We all have our days. I didn't take it as a bona fide resignation.
1996 G. Mathews What makes Life worth Living? iv. 62 I'm a pilot for Continental Airlines; I like my work, though it has its days.
2003 Financial Times 20 Jan. 12/2 My team will tell you I can be a bear sometimes. I prefer ‘tough but fair’—but we all have our days.
(d) not (a person's) day: used to convey that a specified person is having a day characterized by bad luck or successive misfortunes.Recorded earliest in not my day at my adj. 1e; when referring to someone other than oneself often expressing (playful) sympathy or commiseration.
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1781 M. P. Andrews Dissipation iii. ii. 35 This is not my day, positively... That aukward girl..has put me out of spirits, as well as out of countenance.
1904 F. F. Moore in Lady's Realm 16 140/2 Mr. Austin said..that it was not his day... Garnett admitted that his opponent's luck had been shocking.
1956 Corpus Christi (Texas) Times 12 Dec. 13/1 Injured woman, going to doctor, hurt in collision... It just wasn't her day!
1974 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 27 May 10/4 It was not John Kelting's day... [He] had his truck stolen, was picked up by police and spent most of Tuesday in..jail.
2005 A. Willett Amy & Edie 1 Having a bit of trouble, luv? Not your day, is it?
c. as happy (also merry, honest, etc.) as the day is long and variants: very happy (or merry, honest, etc.). Later also as happy (also merry, honest, etc.) as the day.
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1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie i. iii. sig. B2 As proud as the day is long, she wil none of him.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 44 There liue we as mery as the day is long . View more context for this quotation
1703 Divine Soul xvii. 149 Whom can I blame but my self, since were it not for my own default, I might have been as happy as the Day was long?
1716 T. Purney Pastorals after Theocritus ii. 48 O! did I Soflin hate, and Soflin Me, One had been happy as the Day!
1721 P. Doddridge Diary & Corr. (1829) I. 78 If we had any ladies here, I should be just as idle as the day is long.
1818 ‘W. H. Scott’ Brit. Field Sports 127 The Setter is as stout as the day is long—active, hardy, spirited, and fearing no ground wet or dry.
1845 Knickerbocker Sept. 222 Elkanor knew his customer, an old acquaintance, ‘miserly as the day is long when days are the longest’.
1864 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 23 Nov. (1956) IV. 168 He is as happy as the day is long—and very good—one of those creatures to whom goodness comes naturally.
1886 Army & Navy Mag. Sept. 490 True as steel, and honest as the day.
1925 R. Hall Saturday Life xi. 122 Eight weeks ago she had seemed as happy as the day.
1989 T. Kidder Among Schoolchildren vi. iii. 221 They're still going to be as obnoxious as the day is long.
2010 Viz May 20/1 Oh he's as honest as the day on Galifrey is long.
d. of a day: lasting only for one day; short-lived, ephemeral; transitory, fleeting.
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the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective]
slidinga900
scrithingOE
henwardOE
swifta1225
short livya1325
passing1340
flittingc1374
shadowy1374
temporalc1384
speedfula1400
transitory?c1400
brittlea1425
unabidingc1430
frail?c1450
indurablec1450
scrithel?c1475
caduke1483
transitorious1492
passanta1500
perishinga1500
caducea1513
fugitive?1518
caducal?1548
quick1548
delible1549
flittering1549
undurable?1555
shadowish1561
fleeting1563
vading1566
flightful1571
wanzing1571
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picaresque1959
1612 W. Shute tr. G. Du Vair Holy Medit. 181 The flower Emerocall, true beauty of a day [Fr. d'un jour], which flourisheth with a crimson dye in the morning, keepeth his coulour all day long, and in the euening becomes so pale and withered, as though it had bin bitten with the frozen teeth of winter.
1746 J. Wesley Serm. (1769) I. Pref. p. vi I am a Creature of a Day, passing thro' Life, as an Arrow thro' the Air.
a1758 J. Hervey Medit. & Comtempl. (1759) I. 46 Phantoms of a Day.
1818 J. Keats Let. 3 May (1931) I. 153 My song should die away... Rich in the simple worship of a day.
1834 Rival Sisters 14 Man—the insect of a day.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. Pref. p.xix Apparitions of a day.
1902 Trans. Iowa State Med. Soc. 20 190 The iconoclasts in the profession have with ruthless hands broken down these idols of a day.
1948 R. Horan Beginning 83 We pray against all of the glittering devils, or lie alone in loss of love, dazzled by ghosts of a day.
1991 T. Ojaide Blood of Peace v. 94 It's forbidden to kill beauty For the lust of a day.
e. Chiefly Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (north-eastern). the day: today. Cf. the now at now n.1 3, the adj. 2b.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 702 (MED) Þe sun was þat time..Seuen sith brighter þen þe dai [a1400 Gött. to-day; a1400 Trin. Cambr. now aday].
c1500 R. Henryson in G. Stevenson Makculloch & Gray MSS (1918) 16 Þe day a kyng, þe morne na thing to spend.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) l. 648 Quhair is Wymond the day?
1650 in W. M. Ogilvie Extracts Rec. Presbytery of Brechin (1876) 45 He said mirrilie, the goodwyff is holding a jubilie thie day.
1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iii. 106 I have brought him to you the day.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 52 But tell me gin ye saw twa men the day, The tane wi' yellow hair, the tither gray?
1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xix. 289 But we maun a' live the day, and have our dinner. View more context for this quotation
a1894 R. L. Stevenson Weir of Hermiston (1896) vi. 159 Wear them the day, hizzie.
1900 Pearson's Mag. May 476 Ye wrought hard in the fiel' the day.
1949 Scots Mag. July 290 Hamish is away from home the day.
1974 S. Dobson Geordie Dict. 16 Hoo are ye the day?
1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting 67 Ah git good vibes aboot this interview the day though man, ken?
2001 J. MacLeod Trotter Jarrow Lass xxxix. 256 You'll get nowt else to eat the day if you don't!
f. Following a statement about a person's age, if he's (also she's, etc.) a day and variants: at least; at the absolute minimum. Similarly if it's a day, with reference to a period of time.
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1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 42 She's on the wrong Side of Thirty, if she be a Day.
1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal ii. ii. 18 She's six and fifty if she's a day.
1829 G. Griffin Collegians II. xxiii. 169 It's a long time since you an' I met... 'Tis six years if its a day.
1839 W. M. Thackeray Catherine i, in Fraser's Mag. May 609/2 She's seventeen if she's a day, though he is the very first sweetheart she has had.
1871 All Year Round 21 Oct. 501/2 Fine fellow, and strong and hearty as Will was, he was forty if a day, while Grace was but sixteen yet.
1905 D. Gerard Improbable Idyl i. 18 It's half a year, if it's a day, since you have let us see the tip of your nose.
1957 G. Bellairs Death in High Provence xiii. 149 Madeleine's sister is a great age, too. Eighty, if a day.
2010 Liverpool Daily Echo (Nexis) 10 Apr. (Sport section) 16 Old man Hopkins, who must be 60 if he's a day.
g. any day (of the week): at all times; without exception; without doubt. Cf. every time adv. at every adj. and pron. Phrases 5.Cf. any day (also minute, moment, time, etc.) at any adj., pron., n., and adv. Phrases 3.
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the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > always or in every case
alwayeOE
aldayOE
everOE
by night and (by) daylOE
ayc1175
algatea1200
alwaysc1225
everylikec1225
stillc1297
evermorea1300
algatesa1325
alikec1330
early and latec1330
at all assaysc1360
universallya1398
likec1400
continuallyc1460
tidely1482
ay-whenc1485
from time to (formerly unto) timea1500
at all seasons1526
at once1563
at every turn1565
throughout1567
still still1592
still1594
still and anona1616
still an enda1616
every stitch-while1620
everlastingly1628
constantly1651
everywhen1655
eternally1670
allus1739
any day (of the week)1759
everly1808
allers1833
every time1854
toujours1902
all (the way) down the line1975
1759 L. Sterne Polit. Romance 18 I would have you to know I can have a better Pair at the Parson's any Day in the Week.
1773 G. A. Stevens Trip to Portsmouth i. 13 I fancy thee art as good as myself at woman's work, any day.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xxxix. 11 Why you are a good deal better-looking than her, Barbara... You are, any day.
1875 S. A. Drake Nooks & Corners N. Eng. Coast viii. 117 The boys didn't like the name [of the ship] because it sounded outlandish-like, and would have rather had an out-an'-out Yankee one any day of the week.
1906 G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens viii. 188 Susan Nipper..is more of a heroine than Florence any day of the week.
1931 A. L. Rowse Politics & Younger Generation 155 They would prefer a despotism of the civil service to a despotism of the law any day.
2000 I. Pattison Stranger here Myself (2001) i. 26 ‘Never you mind, son,’ said my mother, ‘you're as good as they are any day.’
h. those were the days! and variants: an expression of nostalgic regret for times past (sometimes ironic).
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [phrase] > expression of nostalgia
those were the days!1826
1826 M. H. Barker Greenwich Hosp. 116 Ah, them were the days! when a sailor had no trouble in getting rid of his money.
1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne I. i. 25 Them was the days! it a'nt that long ago neither.
1922 S. Lewis Babbitt xv. 193 ‘Remember how..we pinched the pants-pressing sign and took and hung it on Prof. Morrison's door? Oh, gosh, those were the days!’ Those, McKelvey agreed, were the days.
1972 A. Bennett Getting On ii. 62 Great days, Dad. Those were the days, Dad.
2011 S. Tyler & D. Dalton Does Noise in my Head bother You? iv. 120 Meanwhile, our Father Frank is in the hockey team dressing room with Father So-and-So, getting him drunk. Oh, those were the days!
i. colloquial (now chiefly British). oh my days: used as an exclamation expressing surprise, disbelief, excitement, etc. Also (and earliest) my days.This phrase was somewhat rare before the 21st century; its revival is associated particularly with black and inner-city (originally London) culture.
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the mind > emotion > passion > expression of strong feeling [interjection]
oh God1340
oh1533
good Godc1595
arrah1703
my God1812
oh my days1841
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection]
whatOE
well, wellOE
avoyc1300
ouc1300
ay1340
lorda1393
ahaa1400
hillaa1400
whannowc1450
wow1513
why?1520
heydaya1529
ah1538
ah me!a1547
fore me!a1547
o me!a1547
what the (also a) goodyear1570
precious coals1576
Lord have mercy (on us)1581
good heavens1588
whau1589
coads1590
ay me!1591
my stars!a1593
Gods me1595
law1598
Godso1600
to go out1600
coads-nigs1608
for mercy!a1616
good stars!1615
mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616
gramercy1617
goodness1623
what next?1662
mon Dieu1665
heugh1668
criminy1681
Lawd1696
the dickens1697
(God, etc.) bless my heart1704
alackaday1705
(for) mercy's sake!1707
my1707
deuce1710
gracious1712
goodly and gracious1713
my word1722
my stars and garters!1758
lawka1774
losha1779
Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784
great guns!1795
mein Gott1795
Dear me!1805
fancy1813
well, I'm sure!1815
massy1817
Dear, dear!1818
to get off1818
laws1824
Mamma mia1824
by crikey1826
wisha1826
alleleu1829
crackey1830
Madonna mia1830
indeed1834
to go on1835
snakes1839
Jerusalem1840
sapristi1840
oh my days1841
tear and ages1841
what (why, etc.) in time?1844
sakes alive!1846
gee willikers1847
to get away1847
well, to be sure!1847
gee1851
Great Scott1852
holy mackerel!1855
doggone1857
lawsy1868
my wig(s)!1871
gee whiz1872
crimes1874
yoicks1881
Christmas1882
hully gee1895
'ullo1895
my hat!1899
good (also great) grief!1900
strike me pink!1902
oo-er1909
what do you know?1909
cripes1910
coo1911
zowiec1913
can you tie that?1918
hot diggety1924
yeow1924
ziggety1924
stone (or stiffen) the crows1930
hullo1931
tiens1932
whammo1932
po po po1936
how about that?1939
hallo1942
brother1945
tie that!1948
surprise1953
wowee1963
yikes1971
never1974
to sod off1976
whee1978
mercy1986
yipes1989
1841 C. L. Gascoigne School for Wives III. xlvii. 175 The exclamation of ‘Law! my days!’..induced a hope that the utterer of this elegant expression of astonishment would at last betake herself to the task of opening the door!
1895 G. E. Gardner Treasure found—Bride Won xx. 369O, my days!’ ‘What's the matter?’ asked Nannie. Samanthy answered with a smothered groan.
1997 C. Newland Scholar (1998) xiii. 221Oh my days, dat was a crack up star, properly!’ he was saying, his round face red with glee.
2013 B. Evaristo Mr Loverman xviii. 300 Harvard? My grandson? Oh my days. Pass the smelling salts!
j. to the day: (qualifying a period of time) exactly.
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1860 M. Collins Summer Songs 176 Twenty years to the day—Man and wife were both grey.
1904 Manch. Guardian 16 May 3/3 It is twelve months almost to the day since Warwickshire were here before.
1950 J. Hersey Wall i. i. 20 The Judenrat had been formed a month earlier, to the day.
1980 W. H. Chafe Civilities & Civil Rights (1981) iii. 86 One week to the day after the demonstrations had started in Greensboro, black students in Winston-Salem and Durham held sit-ins at local lunch counters.
2007 Kerrang! 2 June 49/3 The New York quintet have returned, almost exactly two years to the day since their last record.
k. Originally Australian and New Zealand. that'll (also that will) be the day: (originally) that will be a significant day to experience, a day worth waiting for, etc. (cf. sense 8c); (now chiefly ironic) that is most unlikely; that will never happen.
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society > leisure > entertainment > [verb (intransitive)]
playeOE
glewc900
gameOE
lakec1300
solace1340
bourdc1440
dallyc1440
sporta1450
to make sportc1475
disport1480
to have a good (bad, etc.) time (of it, formerly on it)1509
toy?1521
pastime1523
recreate1589
jest1597
feast1609
deliciate1633
divert1670
carpe diem1817
hobby-horse1819
popjoy1853
that'll be the day1916
to play around1929
loon1969
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > desist from effort or exertion
restOE
to hang up one's hatcheta1350
to call it a night1912
that'll be the day1916
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > quit or give up
to give offa1616
quita1642
to tie up1760
that'll be the day1916
to turn in1918
to go through1933
to walk away1950
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > impossibility > desire the impossible [phrase] > absence of possibility
you won't catch me1698
not a cat (in hell)'s chance1796
pigs might fly1840
there is (also was, etc.) no way (that)1908
not a hope (also chance) in hell1923
it's (just) not on1935
pigs have wings1936
that'll (also that will) be the day1941
not on your Nelly1959
1916 Petersburg (S. Austral.) Times & Northern Advertiser 20 Oct. 486/4 You don't know how I am waiting to get back again: that will be the day.
1918 Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Aug. 4/1 As in Cairo town you've always got to pay your way, Just wait for leave to Aussie. Oh! that'll be the day.
1936 Austral. Women's Weekly 12 Sept. 13/3 You just wait till the Centenary comes around in about niney-nine [sic] years: that'll be the day! Won't we have some fun!
1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 50 That'll be the day!..a cant phrase expressing mild doubt following some boast or claim by a person.
1943 N. Marsh Colour Scheme vi. 101 He's a beaut. Wait till I get him. That'll be the day.
1951 N. Marsh Opening Night xi. 248 ‘If I've bungled’, Alleyn muttered, ‘I've..bungled in a big way.’.. Bailey astonished everyone by saying..‘That'll be the day.’ ‘Don't talk Australian,’ Mr. Fox chided.
1965 L. Sands Something to Hide v. 83 ‘Got any free road-maps?’ ‘That'll be the day. Bob apiece.’
2007 Guardian (Nexis) 3 Nov. 7 A hopeful headline in 1929 reads ‘Snobbery a thing of the past?’ (that'll be the day).
l. all in a day's work: see day's work n. 1b. at the end of the day: see end n. 7d. late in the day: see late adj.1 Phrases 2. plain as day: see plain adj.2 Phrases 1b.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a. With the sense ‘of or belonging to the day’.
day-beam n. chiefly poetic and literary
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1628 R. Markham Descr. I. Burgh 3 Shall I mourning runne into a shade; Through which a day beame neuer yet could skip.
1825 D. L. Richardson Sonnets 60 The day-beams fade Along the crimson west.
2001 E. Meidav Far Field 70 In the last daybeams, the temple's ivory-white makes the promise to him.
day-blush n. poetic and literary
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1813 Ld. Byron Bride Abydos ii. xxviii. 695 When the day-blush bursts from high.
1975 J. Gonda Hist. Indian Lit. I. v. 217 The Morning-Wind illuminates heaven and earth, because he brings the day-blush, and that is his glory.
day-glory n. Obsolete
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1822 European Mag. May 418/2 The calm serenity of an Italian sky, somewhat shrouded from its day glories.
1839 E. B. Barrett in T. K. Hervey Amaranth 74 The skies calm fixèd o'er me—Calm in a moonless, sunless light, As glorified by e'en the intent Of holding the day-glory!
day god n.
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1658 T. Bancroft Heroical Lover iii. 29 Like the radiant Day-God shall you shine.
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 81 Why, Day-god, why so late?
1997 A. L. Sherman Soul of Devel. v. 98 Gaspar Mendosa is ancient... He guards the secrets of the day gods of the traditional Mayan calendar.
day spirit n.
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1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. vi. 158 Thou Gaol-bird of a Knight, thou day-spirit [L. mangonem], thou everlasting scandal to thy Native-Countrey.
1850 F. S. L. Osgood Poems 137 On cloud-pillows soft but resplendent, Our day-spirit floats to his rest.
2010 L. M. DuQuette Low Magick vi. 73 It was nearly noon on Saturday when I started the evocation of the day spirits.
b.
(a) Designating things characteristic of or appropriate to the day, or existing, occurring, operating, etc., during the day (esp. as opposed to the night).
day breeze n.
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1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 94 As if the day Brises were generated from the Sea vapors during the presence of the Sun; and the Night Winds from the heat which he leaves behind him in the Earth.
1865 J. H. Bennet Winter in S. Europe (ed. 3) iv. 86 Between the subsiding of the day-breeze and the rising of the night land-breeze..there is a period of repose.
2006 L. L. Fields in A. J. Buchanan It's a Girl 233 The sun has warmed the wind to a gusty southwesterly twenty-five, just a day breeze, but enough to riffle the waters and peel their waves to white.
day clothes n.
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1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith xxi. 248 Men are close buttoned, and like day-men, when its dark night. Its fearfull to lye down with our day-clothes, Job 20.11.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits ii. 33 The master never slept but in his day-clothes whilst on board.
2004 C. Manby Girl meets Ape xxi. 124 When Guy emerged from the men's room in his day clothes, a queue of women were waiting to press their phone numbers into his hand.
day drowsiness n.
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1846 C. J. Hempel tr. E. F. Rueckert Therapeutics Homœopathy 351 Faintness. Day-drowsiness [Ger. Tagschläfrigkeit]. Sensitiveness inducing a ready flow of tears.
2003 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 27 Sept. e10 A modern sufferer of sleep apnoea, who endures restless slumber and day drowsiness.
day fishing n.
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1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 126 There is night as well as day-fishing for a Trout. View more context for this quotation
1797 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 66/2 The tackle must be strong, and need not be so fine as for day-fishing, when every thing is seen.
2006 B. Belval Primary Source Hist. Roanoke ii. 14 According to his notes, the Algonquin used a dip net and spear for day fishing and a fire in a canoe to attract fish at night.
day-journeying n. Obsolete
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1863 E. W. Lane Arabic-Eng. Lexicon I. Pref. p. x Generally speaking, in the classical poetry, the descriptions of nature, of the life of the desert, of night-journeyings and day-journeyings..are most admirable.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxiv. 274 In leisurely day-journeying from Genoa to London.
1912 E. Bignell St. Anne of Mountains viii. 138 We sight it [sc. a ship] from nearly every point of our day-journeyings, and all through the night..glows the vessel's friendly signal-light.
1929 J. N. Hall On Stream of Trav. 88 Travelling on foot and on horseback through this lonely, still inviolate land, measuring it by day journeyings over the roughest of trails, I had come to think of space as the ancients thought of it.
day reflection n. Obsolete rare
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1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 1062 The day reflection, and the midnight dream!
day-somnambulism n. now rare
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1839 J. N. Pinkerton Sleep & its Phenomena iii. 77 Dr. Dyce of Aberdeen relates the case of a servant girl, who, during similar paroxysms of day somnambulism, used to continue her usual occupations.
1853 tr. A. Brierre de Boismont Hallucinations Index 545 Case of day somnambulism, 247.
1907 L. G. Guthrie Functional Nerv. Disorders in Childhood viii. 82 The coincidence of day terrors and day-somnambulism in the sister and brother to whom reference has been made.
1933 L. G. Parsons & S. G. Barling Dis. Infancy & Childhood II. xvi. 1382 Guthrie also records a case of day somnambulism in which a boy had in the day time sleepwalking attacks at rare intervals.
day slumber n.
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1818 T. Park Morning Thoughts 86 Safe may thy day-slumbers be.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 767/2 The bat..awoke from its deep day-slumber.
1905 J. Conrad in Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 329/1 The ship's night-watchman coming sleepily on duty, after his unsatisfactory day-slumbers.
1999 S. Shaked in T. Abusch & K. van der Toorn Mesopotamian Magic 179 You should not again appear to them Not in night dreams And not in day slumbers.
day task n.
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1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 195 Our Ordinary Gentlemen, whose day-taske is this.
1838 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 127/1 There the glad lover, when day tasks are done, May seek at the hearth-stone his heart's chosen one.
1997 J. Kopstein Politics Econ. Decline E. Germany vi. 167 When taken to the extreme, shift work could actually draw workers away from necessary day tasks.
day vision n.
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1615 N. Byfield Expos. Epist. Coloss. (i. 26) 165 God hath reuealed the mistery of his Will diuers wayes: first, by Dreames: by Day-visions:..by Angels: by Prophets, and extraordinary Men.
1787 H. More Search after Happiness (ed. 9) 36 A sick man's wildest dreams less wild are found, Than the day-visions of a mind unsound.
1991 S. Parman Dream & Culture iii. 33 Constantine is said by Lactantius to have had a day vision in which a flaming cross appeared in the sky inscribed with the words, ‘By this sign thou shalt conquer’.
day wind n.
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1640 J. Shirley Coronation iii. sig. E3v At your lips, Day winds gather perfumes, proudly glide away, To disperse sweetnesse round about the world.
1834 G. Roberts Hist. Lyme Regis 190 A true southerly wind..is known by its continuing at night, which the day wind of fine weather never does.
2009 J. Wiseman Ultimate SAS Survival 47/2 A very regular pattern of day-night change in wind direction suggests a large body of water in the direction from which the day wind blows.
(b) Designating people, creatures, etc., that act, or are active, during the day (esp. as opposed to at night).
day bird n.
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1548 R. Crowley Confut. N. Shaxton sig. Eiiiv For the daye birdes can holde theym selues contente wyth thys lyght. As for the lurkinge night byrds that fle the lyghte [etc.].
1775 G. White in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 266 It does not withdraw to rest till a quarter before nine..being the latest of all day-birds.
2012 J. Young What Robin knows iv. 53 The night birds move off to their rest as the day birds start waking up.
day-devourer n. Obsolete Apparently an isolated use.
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1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 83 A day-devourer, and an ev'ning-spy!
day drudge n. Obsolete
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1825 T. Carlyle Life Schiller iii. 301 Unhappy mortal! that with science and art, the noblest of all instruments, effectest and attemptest nothing more, than the day-drudge with the meanest!
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 114 Shew him the way of doing that, the dullest daydrudge kindles into a hero.
1874 Overland Monthly July 19/1 It will not fail to profit us if we..determine if there be no possibility of such changes as will leave open to the laborer a higher destiny than that of the day-drudge.
1919 A. Chittick Social Evol. 27 A community of humans who have been underfed, day drudges from youth up.
day flyer n.
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1785 T. Holcroft in tr. Comtesse de Genlis Tales Castle I. Notes 311 We have among the birds some few that fly abroad only by night, but these bear only a small proportion in number to the day fliers.
1869 Amer. Naturalist 2 667 The insect, then, is very local in its habits, and it is a day-flier.
2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 June d2/5 Where do flies go at night?.. The kinds of flies that most people think of as flies, including houseflies and bluebottle flies, are truly day fliers.
day guest n.
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1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 33 If griefe lodges with us over night, Joy shall be our Day Guest.
1899 J. E. De Becker Nightless City 287 The number of day-guests gradually dropped off, and at length nearly everybody came to visit the Yoshiwara after dark exclusively.
2012 Middlesbrough Evening Gaz. (Nexis) 16 June 6 (caption) The happy couple..tied the knot at Staincliff Hotel in Seaton Carew with 65 day guests and an evening reception for 100 people.
day-lurker n. Obsolete Apparently an isolated use.
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1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. B2v Jugglers, Day-lurkers [L. tenebriones], and Deceivers.
day moth n.
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1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 360 (table) Tinea... Salicis... The rosy Day-moth.
1903 Agric. Gaz. New S. Wales 13 431 The Agaristidae are dark-coloured moths that fly about in the daytime, and are commonly called ‘day moths’.
1996 A. Zwinger in S. Gilbar Nat. State (1998) 65 In this wet soil, wildflowers abound, and little apricot-colored day moths flutter up against my legs as I walk.
day seller n.
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1889 Tablet 3 Aug. 167 Two classes of flower-girl—the day-sellers and the night-sellers.
2008 G. Steel Vulnerable Careers i. 11 Most of these vendors sell during the day, but around sunset a new shift of evening vendors relieve the day sellers.
day sleeper n.
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1549 J. Cheke Hurt of Sedicion sig. E4v Daiesleepers, pursepikers.
1802 tr. L. S. Mercier Paris Delineated II. cxxix. 41 Clumsy slovens, day sleepers to whom the course of time is lengthened.
2010 K. Kuhlken Biggest Liar in Los Angeles iv. 15 He..hoped somebody might notice him there and wander over, feeling the need to talk. An early riser, a day sleeper, or an insomniac.
day-thief n. [attested earlier as a surname: Richard Daythef (1246)] now rare
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John x. 1 He that cometh not in by the dore in to the fold of the scheep, but stiȝeth vp by another weye, is nyȝt thef and day thef [L. fur est et latro].
a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1644) iii. ii. §9 166 I may..call for their priviledge to kill a Day thiefe, or any man in defence of another.
1888 J. H. Knowles Folk-Tales Kashmir 297 The day-thief always left the house before daybreak, and did not return till after dark.
1930 Bull. School Oriental Stud. 6 259 The dialogue..between the Day-Thief and the Night-Thief when they first meet in the Café.
day watchman n.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > one who watches or keeps guard > day-watchman
day watcha1450
day watchman1712
1712 R. Steele Spectator 12 May You must, sure, have heard speak of an old Man, who walks about the City, and that Part of the Suburbs which lies beyond the Tower, performing the Office of a Day-Watchman.
1934 Times 11 Sept. 3/4 George Lamerton..was on duty there as day-watchman.
1993 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 28 Mar. 1/3 Settlements like Mr. Otero's..are arranged to foster security, often with a ‘day watchman’ standing guard.
c. With the sense ‘of or for the period of a day, a day's’.See also day journey n., day ticket n., day wage n. at Compounds 3.
day hire n.
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1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i. at Ajornalár To hire by the day. From jornál, day hire.
1916 C. E. Robinson Days Alkibiades ix. 104 Not that he would let out his labour for day-hire.
1994 J. Crace Signals of Distress x. 166 He only had to..pay two sovereigns for the day hire of a horse.
day pass n.
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1852 1st Rep. Commissioners Exhib. of 1851 App. iv. 39 in Parl. Papers XXVI. 1 Day passes for British exhibitors.
1943 C. Graves Black Beret vi. 104 They were all given a day pass, but scarcely anybody availed themselves of it.
2012 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 15 Oct. 201 A day pass for the regular bus routes.
day respite n. Obsolete
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1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xix. 429 A day respyte is worthe moche.
1588 W. Clowes Prooued Pract. Young Chirurgians 123 You shall take three of these pilles together, hauing a day respit betwene, according as the strength of the sick patient will serue.
day-sum n.
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1838 E. B. Barrett Seraphim & Other Poems 319 Thy day-sum of delight.
2006 M. Black et al. Encycl. Seeds 395/1 The day-sum of the mean daily minimum and maximum temperatures.
day warning n. Obsolete
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1459 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1459 §38. m. 13 A commaundement..to be redy to come..upon a day warnyng.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lxxxxiiii. sig. B*viv To be redy at a day warning.
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a. With participles, forming adjectives with the sense ‘—— during the day’.
day-appearing adj.
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1821 P. B. Shelley Fragm.: Wandering i Like a day-appearing dream.
1832 T. Medwin tr. Aeschylus Agamemnon 6 He..roams about, about, and seems As spectral, marrowless and wan, As day-appearing ghosts in dreams.
2013 A. Wroe in M. O'Neill et al. Oxf. Handbk. P. B. Shelley iii. 48 He had met himself before, a day-appearing dream walking on the narrow terrace that almost overhung the sea.
day-born adj.
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1633 J. Fisher Fuimus Troes iii. vi. sig. Fv Our day-borne obiects doe returne at night.
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 59 The Society Islanders had their day-born gods.
2002 J. O'Neill Incorporating Cultural Theory xi. 160 Dayborn nightdreams flashed in the shining word.
day-flying adj.
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1803 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica i. 82 This and some other day-flying species [of moth].
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 15 June 586/1 Probably the best-known day-flying insect frequenting the flower garden is the magpie moth.
2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees xiii. 327 Some studies have shown that day-flying bats rarely survive for more than a few hours.
day-shining adj.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. i. sig. B2v The day-shining starres.
1659 T. Porter Compend. View World 25 The Sun..is a Masculine day-shining Planet, moderately hot and dry.
2003 A. Shapiro & P. Burian tr. Aeschylus Oresteia 46 At last! Day-shining flare of night, I welcome you.
b. With participles, forming adjectives with the sense ‘—— for the period of a day’.
day-hired adj.
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1751 tr. Female Foundling II. 159 Day-hired Servants.
1810 J. Baillie Family Legend iv. i. 88 Thinkst thou I am a Lowland, day-hired minstrel, To play or stop at bidding?
2009 K. Harper Mistress Shakespeare 147 They had vowed it [sc. the elixir called ‘dragon's milk’] would tum any day-hired, walk-on actor into a well-paid performer at the royal court.
day-lasting adj.
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1612 H. Peacham Minerua Britanna i. 14 May she that day-lasting Lillie be.
a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 139 Day-lasting Ornaments.
2000 R. Trezise In & Out of Goldfish Bowl (2001) iii. 28 The phone calls, the posters, the advertisements and the long, day-lasting, health-risking searches were of no avail.
c. Objective.
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day-detesting adj. Obsolete
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?a1765 J. Bailey in Early Amer. Lit (1979) 14 5 The day-detesting bats and hooting owls Were hovering on the wing with fearful screams.
1786 R. Burns Poems 207 Some day-detesting owl.
day-dispensing adj. Obsolete
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1808 R. Cumberland & J. B. Burges Exodiad ii. v. 229 Lord of the highest Heav'n! at whose command The day-dispensing sun goes forth, array'd In borrow'd beams.
1831 J. S. Law Wrongs of Ireland 37 The day-dispensing God no radiance threw On land so eminent.
day-distracting adj. Obsolete Apparently an isolated use.
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1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 102 The day-distracting theme.
day-loving adj.
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?1780 Four Excellent Songs 8 The day-loving Lillie, is turn'd with the pose.
1928 Amer. Naturalist 62 394 The day-loving birds at one extreme and the crepuscular and night-loving birds at the other extreme.
2010 G. S. Paul Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs 36/1 Day-loving raptors can see about three times better than people.
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day-hater n.
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1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres ii. cv. sig. L3v The day-hater Mineruas bird.
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (title page) The night-adventurer, or the day-hater.
2005 D. MacEochaidh Trav. with Chinaski 125 We had our drinking in the lonely hours, those sad hours savoured by the mad, the insomniacs and day-haters.
day-prolonger n. Obsolete Apparently an isolated use.
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1824 J. Bowring & H. S. Van Dyk Batavian Anthol. 158 Day-prolonger—summer's mate.
d. Instrumental.
daylit adj.
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1843 Artist & Amateur's Mag. 1 227 There must of necessity be a short period in which the illumination of the day-lit hemisphere, and that lighted by the moon..is exactly equal in intensity.
1998 Interzone Dec. 38/2 More people were coming in through the daylit reception area, all looking enviably solid after a night in their own beds and a breakfast in their stomachs.
day-wearied adj.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. iv. 35 Feeble, and day-wearied Sunne. View more context for this quotation
1855 G. MacDonald Within & Without v. ii. 176 He sang a song, each pause of which closed up, Like a day-wearied daisy for the night.
1998 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 26 Apr. 8 You start to read. The words go in one eye and out the other as your day-wearied brain thinks about the..extra work you have to do tomorrow.
e. Similative and parasynthetic.
day-bright adj.
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1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. G.iv Now nights dark mantle gan to auaile, the day bright star.
1834 M. Howitt Sketches Nat. Hist. 99 See! where those shoals of Dolphins go,..Sporting among the day-bright woods Of a coral fairy-land.
2001 J. Collins tr. L. Havesi in C. B. Bailey Gustav Klimt 97/2 Through this crack streams the whole of the day-bright landscape beyond the wood.
day-clear adj.
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1849 J. H. Newman Let. 7 Mar. in W. Ward Life Cardinal Newman (1913) I. viii. 238 Nothing is more day-clear than this.
1974 E. M. Pope Perilous Gard 227 Beyond the forest the open vale with its scattering of trees looked almost day-clear.
day-eyed adj. Obsolete (chiefly poetic)
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1796 T. Townshend Poems 49 Day-eyed Fancy.
1813 H. Cowley Wks. III. 82 The cumbrous alps ascend, whose tops explore The regions day-eyed Eagles fear to soar!
1857 J. Woodmansee Closing Scene v. 202 Yes, Day-eyed Sun! thy glories shall be quench' d.
1921 E. M. Patch Bird Stories xi. 178 He [sc. an owl] could see better than the day-eyed birds who tried to follow him.
C3.
day-before adj. of or relating to the previous day.
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1822 W. Cobbett Serm. 46 Nobody is so dull as the day-before drunkard.
2005 B. Conord & J. Conord Coasta Rica 218 Most hotels will make your day-before arrangements for the tours listed above.
daybell n. now historical a bell rung in the morning to mark the start of the day.Sometimes also rung in the evening to mark the end of the day (see quot. 1839); cf. curfew-bell n. at curfew n. Compounds 2.
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c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 1132 On the morwen, hwan day was sprungen, And day-belle at kirke rungen.
a1500 Tale of Basin in M. M. Furrow Ten 15th-cent. Comic Poems (1985) 62 Þei daunsyd al þe nyȝt till þe son con ryse. The clerke rang þe daybell as hit was his guise.
1615 S. Ward Coal from Altar 56 With the Curfeau-bell in the euening to rake vppe his zeale by prayer, and with the day-bell in the morning to stirre vp & kindle the same.
1761 Act for Dividing & Inclosing Open & Common Fields of Wardington 2 The Trustees for repairing the Parish Church and Clock of Cropredy,..and for ringing the Curfew and Day-bell there.
1839 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. London 2 239 A bell-ringer, who should ring daily the day-bell..at 4 o'clock in the morning and at 7 o'clock at night.
2009 P. Glennie & N. Thrift Shaping Day v. 140 The tolling of daybell and curfew bells.
daybill n. (originally) a handbill or poster advertising a theatrical performance or other entertainment; (now chiefly) a poster issued exclusively in Australia, advertising the release of a film in that country (cf. bill n.3 8a).
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [noun] > placarding, postering, or billing > a placard, notice, or bill
bill1480
placard1560
ticket1567
pancart1577
affix1589
si quis1597
affiche1602
placketa1605
programme1633
programmaa1661
advertisement1692
clap-bill1699
handbill1718
daybill1731
show bill?a1750
notice1766
play-card1778
card1787
posting bill1788
poster1818
sticker1862
flyer1889
paper1896
1731 Daily Advertiser 24 Apr. Several Entertainments by Mrs. Salle and others, as will be express'd in the Day Bills.
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV lxii. 36 A single day-bill Of modern dinners.
1907 Connoisseur Aug. 223/2 The period which first saw the casts printed on the daybill was precisely the period when programmes came into vogue.
2010 Heritage Vintage Movie Posters 16 July 103 This beautiful Australian daybill is one of the only very few large posters for this film that we are aware of.
dayboat n. (a) a passenger boat or ferry which travels during the day (cf. night boat n. (a) at night n. and int. Compounds 4); (b) a small boat, typically without a sleeping cabin, designed for day trips or daysailing; cf. daysailer n., daysailor n. (a).
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1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour I. xvi. 299 In December, January, and February there is no day boat.
1819 My Old Cousin I. ix. 158 These were the day boats of our female voyagers.
1852 J. Abbott Marco Paul's Voy. & Trav. (1853) VI. i. 13 Marco decided in favor of the day boat, in order that he might see the scenery.
1908 Yachting Nov. 254/1 Of the speedy runabout type, they represent a really practical class of day boat.
1988 Sunday Times (Nexis) 7 Aug. If you take the day-boat (this is very crowded in high season) you will arrive in Den Bosch at about 10pm.
2005 Boating Dec. 77/1 Cobalt's 323 may be the best dayboat ever.
day-body n. Obsolete a person who is engrossed in, or preoccupied by, the cares of the day; cf. body n. 11.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > one who engages in an activity or occupation > one who concerns himself with > with things of the day
day-body1568
1568 Abp. M. Parker Let. 6 Feb. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 310 I trust, not so great a day-body..but can consider both reason and godliness.
day-boy n. (also dayboy) chiefly British a boy who lives at home but attends a school where other pupils board; also in extended use; cf. day girl n., day pupil n., day student n., day scholar n.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > day pupil
day scholar1699
day-boy1750
day boarder1758
day pupil1784
day student1795
home boarder1816
day girl1831
out-pupil1841
extern1848
daybug1909
1750 L. Chambaud Gram. French Tongue Pref. p. xxi A new day-boy is also to come the next week, but we are to have no holy-day for him.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvi. 507 Georgy was, like some dozen other pupils, only a day boy.
1914 Spectator 17 Oct. 516/2 We would train a portion of the men in what we may describe as ‘day-boy’ battalions... Up till the time of the Boer War..there were two battalions of London Militia who were always trained on the ‘day-boy’ system. The men lived in their own homes, and came to the depot each day for their recruit training.
1971 Brit. Jrnl. Educ. Stud. 19 163 He went to the new King William's College, Isle of Man, as a dayboy for three years.
2004 H. Holt Silent Killer (2005) i. 19 After all, there are some very good schools quite near where they can be day-boys.
daybug n. School slang (mildly depreciative) = day scholar n.; cf. bug n.2 9.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > day pupil
day scholar1699
day-boy1750
day boarder1758
day pupil1784
day student1795
home boarder1816
day girl1831
out-pupil1841
extern1848
daybug1909
1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 105/1 Don't row with that fellow, he's only a day-bug.
1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. i. vii. 103 When an older boarder called him a ‘day-bug’ Michael was discreetly silent.
2002 C. Slaughter Before Knife (2003) xii. 196 St Mary's was an Anglican girls' school that took boarders and daygirls... The daybugs were scum, of course, and we didn't give them the time of day.
day camp n. (a) a place used for temporary daytime accommodation; (b) originally and chiefly North American a daytime recreational programme offering supervised activities for children, esp. during school holidays (cf. summer camp n. at summer n.1 and adj. Compounds 3).
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1825 Gaols: Copies Rep. & Schedules (B.) 108 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 5) XXIII. 1 The removal of a wall between two of the cells in the female prisoners ward, for the purpose of forming a day camp for one of the classes of female prisoners.
1897 Outlook 4 Sept. 94/1 To get to the point you had to go in a boat; and perhaps this was the reason that it became the day camp of two little girls and their mother.
1923 Survey 15 Apr. 94/1 Plans are being touched up for the second season of the ‘day camp’. The Girl Scouts of Hartford have their Camp Merritt, at Gales Ferry.
1971 R. G. Haycock Image of Indian (1974) i. 8 Dogs and sleds, trapping skills, snow-shoeing, hidden caches and day camps were adequately described.
1989 T. B. Brazelton Families iv. 173 One day he was being surly and angry. It came out that the kids in day camp had been teasing him.
2013 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 23 Feb. i. 24 With so many kids starting off early in daycare and preschool programs, day camp is a natural progression with the added element of lots of outdoor fun.
day car n. (a) (in Ireland) a horse-drawn carriage for conveying passengers making a journey in one day; cf. day coach n. 1 (now historical and rare); (b) North American an ordinary railway passenger carriage, esp. as distinguished from a sleeping car; cf. day coach n. 2.In sense (a) apparently used only with reference to the day car service established in Ireland by Charles Bianconi (1786–1875) in the first half of the 19th cent. (see quot. 1830).
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1830 Rep. Select Comm. State of Poor in Ireland 5 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 667) VII. 1 The facilities of transport and of conveyance have been augmented; a striking example of which is given in the establishment of day cars by Mr. Bianconi in the south-east of Ireland.
1858 White River Valley (Worthington, Indiana) Times 19 Mar. The car is so arranged that..it can be changed from an open day car into a long room with three tiers of berths on each side.
1870 W. F. Rae Westward by Rail (1871) 50 This company build and run their own elegant sleeping coaches and palace day cars.
1991 Incentive Today Oct. 74/3 Each carriage now boasts the same pre-war elegance displayed in the day cars.
2002 J. Hume Derry Beyond Walls viii. 129 A day-car, established in 1836, covered the journey [from Derry to Belfast] in 10 hours.
day centre n. chiefly British a centre operating only during the day, as opposed to one run on a residential basis; (now esp.) a non-residential centre providing social, recreational, or other facilities for the help or support of a particular group of people, as the elderly, the homeless, etc.; cf. day care n. 2b.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > place of resort > [noun] > non-residential centre for elderly or disabled
day centre1888
1888 Final Rep. Commissioners Elem. Educ. Acts 275 in Parl. Papers (C. 5485) XXXV. 1 Since the day centres have been at work, there has been a marked improvement in the quality of the candidates.
1951 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 Mar. 631/1 The next development will be the establishment of residential hostels for the same purpose as the new day centre.
1976 Bridgwater Mercury 21 Dec. 1/3 Grant aid to elderly persons' clubs, luncheon clubs and day centres will be continued.
2011 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 30 Sept. 9 Queensland's biggest homeless day centre, supporting about 70,000 people each year, many of them fighting drug and alcohol addiction.
dayclean n.
Brit. /ˈdeɪkliːn/
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U.S. /ˈdeɪˌklin/
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Caribbean English /ˈdeːˌkliːn/
,
West African English /ˈdeˌklin/
[probably after an expression in a West African language] U.S. regional (chiefly South Carolina), Caribbean, and West African dawn; daybreak.In U.S. regional use, chiefly in the areas of South Carolina where Gullah is spoken.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]
aristc825
dawingc900
dayeOE
day-rimOE
day-redOE
mornOE
lightOE
lightingOE
dawning1297
day-rowa1300
grekinga1300
uprista1300
dayninga1325
uprisingc1330
sun arisingc1350
springc1380
springingc1380
day-springa1382
morrowingc1384
dayingc1400
daylighta1425
upspring1471
aurora1483
sky1515
orienta1522
breaking of the day1523
daybreak1530
day-peep1530
morrow dayc1530
peep of the morning1530
prick of the day?1533
morning1535
day-breaking1565
creek1567
sunup1572
breach of the day1579
break of day or morn1584
peep of day1587
uprise1594
dawna1616
day-dawn1616
peep of dawn1751
strike of day1790
skreigh1802
sunbreak1822
day-daw1823
screech1829
dayclean1835
sun dawn1835
first light1838
morning-red1843
piccaninny sun1846
piccaninny daylightc1860
gloaming1873
glooming1877
sparrow-fart1886
crack1887
sun-spring1900
piccaninny dawn1936
1835 Children's Friend Sept. 15 Every night, before we go to sleep, my eldest son..says a prayer; and soon in the morning, before day-clean (day-light), I wake him to say prayer again.
1867 W. F. Allen Slave Songs U.S. p. xxvi Day-clean is used for day-break.
1937 D. C. Heyward Seed from Madagascar 169 At ‘fus daa'k’, ‘middle night’, and ‘day clean’ Cudjo would emerge from the watchman's house and fire his musket.
1989 D. H. Fischer Albion's Seed 373 Their masters..decreed that a field slave must work from ‘day clean’ to ‘first dark.’
2011 Times 21 May (Saturday Review) 22 He loves the local [Guyanese] language, which calls the dawn ‘dayclean’.
day clock n. a clock which needs to be wound up every day; cf. eight-day clock n. at eight adj. and n. Compounds 3.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock
watch-clock1592
German clock1598
quarter clocka1631
wheel-clock1671
table clocka1684
month clock1712
astronomical clock1719
musical clock1721
repeater1725
Tompion1727
pulling clock1733
regulator1735
eight-day clock1741
regulator clock1750
French clock1757
repetition clock1765
day clock1766
striker1778
chiming clock1789
cuckoo-clock1789
night clock1823
telltale1827
carriage clock1828
fly-clock1830
steeple clock1830
telltale clock1832
skeleton clock1842
telegraph clock1842
star clock1850
weight-clock1850
prison clock1853
crystal clock1854
pillar scroll top clock1860
sheep's-head clock1872
presentation clock1875
pillar clock1880
stop-clock1881
Waterbury1882
calendar-clock1884
ting-tang clock1884
birdcage clock1886
sheep's head1887
perpetual calendar1892
bracket clock1894
Act of Parliament clock1899
cartel clock1899
banjo-clock1903
master clock1904
lantern clock1913
time clock1919
evolutionary clock1922
lancet clock1922
atomic clock1927
quartz clock1934
clock radio1946
real-time clock1953
organ clock1956
molecular clock1974
travelling clock2014
1766 Catal. Coll. Coins & Other Curiosities W. Stuckeley 6 A day clock, made by Dr. Cumberland, Bishop of Peterborough.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. iv. 74 The hours passed, to the loud ticking of the old day-clock.
2009 B. M. Lewis Secret 12 Downstairs the day clock began to chime, as if on cue.
day-coal n. Mining Obsolete rare the coal or seam of coal that is the most superficial in a mine or closest to its entrance; cf. sense 23.
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1676 D. L. Hodgson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 762 It [sc. fire] increaseth or decreaseth according to the subject it feedeth on; which is for the most part a Day-coal, as they call it, so that you may light a candle at it in some places, in other places it is some fathoms deep, according as the Day-coal heightens or deepens.
1839 London Encycl. VII. 81/1 Day coal, in natural history, a name given by the miners of England, and the people who live in coal countries, to that seam or stratum of the coal with lies uppermost in the earth.
day continuation school n. now chiefly historical a non-residential school providing education beyond elementary level (cf. continuation-school n. at continuation n. Compounds); spec. such a school for the education of young workers temporarily allowed time away from their employment in order to attend (cf. day release n.).
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school
writing schoola1475
rectory1536
spelling school1704
greycoat1706
rural school1734
Charter School1763
home school1770
Philanthropine1797
British school1819
side school1826
prep school1829
trade school1829
Progymnasium1833
finishing-school1836
field schoola1840
field school1846
prairie school1851
graded school1852
model school1854
Philanthropinum1856
stagiary school1861
grade school1869
middle school1870
language school1878
correspondence school1889
day continuation school1889
prep1891
Sunday school1901
farm school1903
weekend school1907
Charter School1912
folk high school1914
pre-kindergarten1922
Rabfak1924
cram-shop1926
free school1926
crammer1931
composite school1943
outward-bound1943
blackboard jungle1954
pathshala1956
Vo-Tech1956
St. Trinian's1958
juku1962
cadre school1966
telecentre1967
academy2000
academy school2000
1889 Eagle 15 91 There should be a day continuation school.
1902 School Rev. 10 128 The firm is further bound to allow the young man to attend a day continuation school.
1922 Bull. U.S. Bureau Labor Statistics No. 308 16 In Nevada..the provision for evening schools is retained besides that for the day continuation schools.
1943 Ann. Reg. 1942 68 The Council..advocated..day continuation schools for young persons up to the age of 18.
2004 Times (Nexis) 2 Oct. (Weekend Review) 29 The Homerton and South Hackney Day Continuation School, teaching teenage factory girls on day release the practical skills of cookery and dressmaking.
day cream n. a cosmetic cream applied to the face during the day to improve the complexion; cf. night cream n. at night n. and int. Compounds 4.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > unguents or moisturizers
oil of talc1582
slick1626
cold cream1709
cream1765
amandin1861
face cream1889
skin food1892
skin cream1894
orange-flower skin food1908
violet cream1912
day cream1915
vanishing cream1916
night cream1926
orange skin food1926
baby oil1930
hormone cream1938
moisture cream1957
moisturizer1957
mousse1971
1915 Bemidji (Minnesota) Daily Pioneer 20 Oct. (advt.) This cream is so rapidly absorbed by the pores of the skin that it makes a perfect base for powder, in other words a day cream.
1964 Vogue 15 Jan. 18/2 (advt.) By day protect your skin's precious look of youth with moisture-filled Day Cream.
2010 R. Campo Best in Beauty i. 10 Day cream is all about hydration and sun protection, so use one with SPF 15.
day-degree n. a number equal to degrees of temperature multiplied by the number of days when that temperature was maintained.The term was introduced in the context of Meteorology typically to express the excess above some standard or average temperature; in Agriculture and Biology it can also refer to the temperature as measured.
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1884 R. Strachey in Q. Weather Rep. 1878 (Meterol. Office) App. II. 13 The natural unit by which to reckon the accumulated excess temperature would be one degree continued for the unit of time, either one hour or one day... Such an unit..might be called the ‘hour-degree’ or ‘day-degree’.
1922 Ecology 3 133 In southern Georgia the potential thermal constant for this crop is, when computed from the accumulated day-degrees of temperature above the average.., is over 4,000°.
1951 M. A. Amerine & M. A. Joslyn Table Wines xvii. 267 (caption) Fresno—4,680 day-degrees of temperature above 50° Fahrenheit during the growing season.
2002 R. B. Kindness in S. M. Stead & L. Laird Handbk. Salmon Farming ii. 57 An egg incubated at 5°C for ten days has a development stage equivalent to 50 day-degrees, which is almost the same as an egg incubated at 10°C for five days... The day-degrees for a particular stage decrease slightly if the incubation temperature is higher.
day dress n. (a) clothing worn, or appropriate for wearing, during the day; (b) a dress or gown of a type appropriate for wearing during the day (cf. day gown n.).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > for specific purpose > for day wear
day gown1725
day dress1770
1770 W. Dodd Comm. Bks. Old & New Test. III. (Mark xiv. 51-2) It might as well then be an Apostle, in his day-dress, as an ordinary youth, wrapped up in that which he lay.
1871 Harper's Bazar 18 Feb. 110/2 Pointed waists are more used for evening than day dresses.
1922 C. E. Tyndale-Biscoe Kashmir in Sunlight & Shade xii. 143 When the Brahman clerk goes to his house in the evening he casts off his day dress and goes back to the dress of his forefathers.
2003 Independent 6 Mar. 9/2 In 1955, he [sc. Sir Hardy Amies] was appointed the Queen's dressmaker responsible for most of her wardrobe—from ballgowns to practical day dresses and walking suits.
day drift n. Mining (now rare) a horizontal or gently inclined drift (drift n. 15) that communicates directly with the surface; cf. sense 23.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > horizontal
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1859 Inst. Mech. Engineers: Proc. 16 The earliest and simplest plan of coal mining was that of a day drift or adit, along which both water and coals were brought.
1894 Gloss. Terms Evid. Royal Comm. Labour 35/2 in Parl. Papers 1893–4 (C. 7063–VC) XXXVIII. 411 Day drifts or Day holes, galleries or inclined planes driven from the surface so that men can walk underground to and from their work without descending and ascending a shaft.
1946 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 May 715/1 The mines of known risk are what are commonly called day drifts, slants, or levels, and lead direct from the surface into the mine workings.
1996 U.S. Patent 5,535,591 2 The resultant slag residue or ash and the filtrated material..of exhaust gas can stay directly underground, for instance to fill up exhausted day drifts or galleries, respectively, from where the coal is extracted.
day editor n. the editor in charge of a newspaper during the day; (now also) the editor in charge of a daytime news broadcast; cf. night editor n. at night n. and int. Compounds 3c.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > editor of journal or newspaper > [noun] > other types of journal or newspaper editor
telegraph editor1816
editor1837
managing editor1837
sporting editor1857
news editor1868
day editor1869
art editor1871
guest editor1925
1869 J. H. Browne Great Metropolis 298 The principal dailies have day editors, who..direct the affairs of the office from 9 or 10 o'clock in the morning, to 5 or 6 in the afternoon.
1910 Times 2 Dec. 3/5 He called at their office..and saw a Mr. Harris, the day editor.
1985 Telegraph (Brisbane) (Nexis) 27 Feb. ‘ABC National’ will feature State political commentary from the show's day editor, Quentin Dempster.
2008 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 30 Sept. 13 The night editor, Martha Mercer, who was later promoted to day editor, worked with a small team of copy editors and page designers to produce the paper night after night.
day eye n. Coal Mining (now historical) = day-hole n. (cf. sense 23).
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1855 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 18 82/2 The number of working pits or shafts, exclusive of those used solely for air, is 879. Besides 60 additional winnings by levels, and inclined planes called day eyes; making a total of 989 separate winnings whereby coal is now being worked.
1890 H. T. Crofton in Trans. Lancs. & Cheshire Antiquarian Soc. 7 27 Coal would probably be obtained first by ‘drifts’, ‘day-eyes’, or ‘breast-highs.’
1999 Jrnl. Appalachian Stud. 5 29 Entering a coal seam through a ‘drift’ or ‘day eye’, such mines required minimum use of machinery and, consequently, required less initial capital.
dayfall n. chiefly poetic and literary the end of the day; sunset, dusk; cf. nightfall n. 2 .
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall
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1823 London Lit. Gaz. 30 Aug. 556/1 At the end of the hall was a sunbright throne, Rich with every glorious stone; And the purple canopy over head Was like the shade o'er the day-fall shed.
a1907 F. Thompson Shelley in Dublin Rev. (1908) July 29 He [sc. Shelley] dabbles his fingers in the day-fall. He is gold-dusty with tumbling amidst the stars.
1996 Chicago Rev. 42 No. 2. 87 You..measure dawn and dayfall like the clock Of heaven till the dead clock's work is done.
day-feeder n. an animal that feeds in the daytime.
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1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. xii. 386 Insects may be divided into three great classes: the day-feeders, the night-feeders, and those which feed indifferently at all times.
2004 Roanoke (Va.) Times (Nexis) 13 May 11 Butterflies are day-feeders and are attracted to bright-colored flowers and their sweet nectars.
day gecko n. any of numerous geckos constituting the genus Phelsuma, found on islands in the Indian Ocean, and notable for being active during the day (unlike other geckos).
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Gekkonidae > miscellaneous types of
croaking lizard1693
fanfoot1832
sheathclaw1850
day gecko1957
1957 K. P. Schmidt & R. F. Inger Living Reptiles of World 75/1 Probably the most extraordinary group of Madagascar geckos are the day geckos (Phelsuma).
1986 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 13 238/1 The primary object of most of these trips was the collection and study of day-geckos (Phelsuma species).
2010 Observer 21 Mar. (Guide to Pets Suppl.) 51/1 The day gecko is an arboreal creature, living in trees when in the wild.
day girl n. a girl who lives at home but attends a school where other pupils board; cf. day-boy n., day pupil n., day student n., day scholar n.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > day pupil
day scholar1699
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day girl1831
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1831 I. Hill in Marshall's Christmas Box 49 That afternoon I got leave to walk with Grace Arnold, a day girl.
1933 Times 17 July 7/5 The school had been full throughout the year with almost equal numbers of boarders and day girls.
1987 R. Godden Time to Dance (1989) 43 In that mainly boarding school Rose and I were day girls which made us..outsiders.
2012 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 9 Jan. (Summer Herald Suppl.) 3 Gina is a day girl, who every morning brings an intoxicating whiff of normality from the outside world.
day-going n. Obsolete sunset, dusk.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall
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shut1667
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close1696
duskish1696
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setting1699
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mirkning1790
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darkening1814
bat-flying time1818
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settle1822
dayfall1823
evenfall1825
onfall1825
owl-hoot1832
glooming1842
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smokefall1936
dusk-light1937
?1552 Ld. Wharton in W. Nicolson Leges Marchiarum (1705) App. 321 The Night-Watch to be set at the Day-going, and to continue unto the Day be light.
1638 T. Jackson Treat. Consecration Sonne of God 177 Betwixt three of the clock, and the day-going.
day gown n. a gown or dress of a type appropriate for wearing during the day; cf. day dress n. (b).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > for specific purpose > for day wear
day gown1725
day dress1770
1725 Dublin Jrnl. 17 Apr. The Wardrobe presented by his Majesty to the Infanta, before her Departure, consists of the following Things, viz. Five Day Gowns of Cloth of Gold and Silver, Four Night Gowns of the same.
1875 L. Troubridge Jrnl. in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) x. 116 My old peacock cashmere evening, transformed into a day gown with long sleeves.
1914 J. W. Ballantyne Expectant Motherhood x. 178 There will be a soft flannel blanket for receiving the baby when born..long flannel gowns, nightgowns and day-gowns.
2009 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 3 Jan. (Accent section) 1 Day gowns are all the rage... They are one-size-fits-all, and they can go from the beach to the cocktail event in minutes.
day haul n. Fishing the action or an act of hauling a net for fish during the day as opposed to at night; cf. haul n. 1a.
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1882 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 24 Mar. 6/2 The skipper said ‘If there's any wind to-day we'll have a day haul and see if we can find him’.
1955 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 24 449 The first day haul, at 1 ft below chart datum, was nearly 2 ft lower than the lowest night haul.
1993 Observer (Nexis) 28 Mar. 4 The little stern trawlers of the Brixham day-haul fleet, nets stowed neatly, are landing their catch in the late afternoon sun.
1998 Crustaceana 71 482 Of the two specimens, one was from a night haul in the southwestern Bay of Bengal..and the other was from a day haul in the southeastern Indian Ocean.
day-holding n. Obsolete rare a meeting or appointment held for the purposes of arbitration or mediation; cf. daying n.2, dayment n.
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1565 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 44 Ther was diuerse daie-holdinges to get them to abide together; which they neuer cold bringe to passe.
day-hole n. Coal Mining the entrance to a day drift; (also) the day drift itself (cf. day eye n., and sense 23).
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?1794 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 5 279 There are three day holes, called Bear-mouths, where the men and horses go from the surface down a sloping cavern to the works.
1825 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 77/1 Gosforth pit, which is about eighty yards in depth, and of considerable extent, is entered by what is called a day-hole, which proceeds under a hill, on a level with the surface of the ground, for upwards of 1400 yards, to what is called the shaft.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Feb. 5/1 The coal is won by means of a day hole.
1905 R. W. Moore in J. Wilson Victoria Hist. Cumberland II. 352/2 Coal was first worked..to the rise, or along the level from ‘day-holes’ made from the outcrops.
2003 J. F. Richards Unending Frontier vi. 228 Where coal seams outcropped on the side of a hill, a tunnel, known as a day-hole or drift, could be driven horizontally into the hillside so that miners could simply walk or crawl directly into the hillside to reach the coalface.
day hospital n. a hospital which provides treatment, assessment, and care during the day, with patients returning home or to another hospital at night.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > other types of hospital
general hospital1647
private hospital1763
community hospital1843
day hospital1843
cottage hospital1849
field hospital1861
isolation hospital1891
teaching hospital1963
1843 Chambers's Jrnl. 30 Dec. 398/1 A kind of day-hospital, to keep the children from wandering idly abroad.
1958 New Statesman 10 Jan. 34/1 It has long been recognised that given adequate out-patient facilities, day hospitals, occupation centres and hostels, many persons suffering from mental disorder need not enter a mental hospital.
1994 Mental Illness (Dept. of Health) 9/2 While recovering, it may also be helpful to have somewhere special to go in the day, such as day-centres, day hospitals, clubs and drop-in centres.
day hour n. (a) an hour of the day (as opposed to the night); (b) Christian Church (in plural) (in the Western Church) those prayers or offices for the canonical hours appointed to be said during the day, as opposed to during the night (cf. hour n. 5, little hours n. 2).
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?1556 L. Digges Tectonicon xix. sig. E.iii By tables to get a true knowledge of the daye houre, and that diuers wayes, wyth the helpe of the squyre.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. 77 The upper half of the circle..is the Day-Hours, and the lower..is the Night-Hours.
1722 J. Stevens Hist. Antient Abbeys I. 359/2 He..commanded them to perform the Night as well as the Day Hours of Divine Service.
1855 P. Freeman Princ. Divine Service I. 220 There is, however, attached to each of these ‘day-hours’ a ‘mid-hour’ Office.
1997 Cathedral Music Winter 9/2 Beginning with Vespers followed by Compline, there followed the night-hours of Matins and Lauds and the day-hours of Prime, Terce, Sext and None.
2011 Econ. Times (Nexis) 9 Jan. These are faceless entities who cover their faces during the day hours and become most active at night.
day house n. Astrology the house (house n.1 11) of a planet in which it is believed to be more powerful by day.
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1640 J. Sadler Masquarade du Ciel 19 Libra, Venus' Day House: Saturns Exaltation.
1722 R. Ball Warning to Europe 7 The three Superiours Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, are in close Consultation in the fourth Angle in a Kingly and Fiery Sign; and the Day-House of Jupiter.
1825 Spirit of Partridge 286 Sagittarius (♐) is the ninth sign of the Zodiac, of long ascension, the day-house of Jupiter, and the exaltation of the Dragon's Tail.
1995 E. Daniels Astrol. Magick 98 When one planet rules two signs, it is said to have a ‘day house’ and a ‘night house’.
day journey n. now rare the distance that may be travelled in one day.The more usual form is day's journey: see Phrases 7a. Cf. also sense 4.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > a day's journey
a day's gangOE
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?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 77 Þe toure of Babilon..es fra Caldee foure day iournez.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 32v A Day Jornay, dieta.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 50 Whan they were by a day Iourneye nygh vnto vyenne.
2005 H. Bielenstein Diplomacy & Trade in Chinese World 323 Distances are given in day journeys or in Chinese miles.
day letter n. U.S. (now historical) a cheap-rate, low-priority telegram delivered on the day it is sent; cf. night letter n.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > types of
telotype1850
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cable-message1877
phonogram1880
cable1883
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Marconigram1902
radio-telegram1902
radiogram1903
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news flash1904
teleflash1904
lettergram1908
day letter1910
night letter telegram1910
night telegraph letter1912
radio1915
printergram1932
teletype1933
greeting telegram1937
telemessage1941
overnight telegram1955
telex1957
1910 H. L. Sellers in Hearing Bill 19402 (U.S. Congress. Senate Comm. on District of Columbia) 15 We naturally are very eager..to complete the line..so that the..capital may have..a real night letter that will mean something to them. It will be a day letter as well as a night letter.
1960 L. C. Nanassy & W. H. Selden Business Dict. 57 The day letter is not handled so speedily as the full-rate message.
2002 G. J. Downey Telegraph Messenger Boys 88 Day letters..were accepted in the morning with delivery attempted (but not guaranteed) sometime that very same day.
day-lived adj. Obsolete (chiefly poetic) that lives for the period of a day; lasting only one day; cf. lived adj.1
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1832 N. Michell Living Poets & Poetesses i. 33 Scarce a magazine, Or day-lived pamphlet, fluttered from the press, But there, to perish, too, her songs were seen.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 80 Things born of vice or day-lived fashion.
1921 F. W. Bourdillon Gerard & Isabel 76 Ah, poor day-lived dreamer, All thy golden treasure Pledged on this life only!
day-liver n. Obsolete a person who experiences life day by day.Apparently an isolated use.
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1623 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion 38 Day-liuers wee rememberance doe losse Of Ages worne.
daymark n. a navigational aid for sailors and pilots, which is distinctively marked to maximize its visibility in daylight.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > object on land or sea as guide
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1695 in E. Gibson tr. W. Camden Britannia 747 In the year 1684 a Day-mark was..erected, being a Beacon with a barrel on the top of it.
1756 W. Borlase Observ. Islands of Scilly 54 The late Mr. Ekines..built a round Tower..and plaistered it with Lime on the outside, that it might be a Day-mark to Ships which fall in with this dangerous Coast.
1856 Boston Daily Atlas 11 Jan. 2/7 She [sc. the lightship] has..two hoop iron day-marks (one at each masthead), painted red.
1953 H. Hubbard Shantyboat ix. 256 We could see through the mist the old daymark at the mouth of the river we were aiming at.
2011 Western Daily Press (Bristol) (Nexis) 2 Sept. 14 Trinity House..said the Beachy Head lighthouse was no longer needed as a daymark, the reason for its eyecatching appearance.
day name n.
Brit. /ˈdeɪ neɪm/
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U.S. /ˈdeɪ ˌneɪm/
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West African English /ˈde ˌnem/
(a) the name of a day in any of various calendar systems; (b) (in West African traditional naming, and that of communities of West African descent) a name given to a child reflecting the day of the week on which he or she was born.
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1826 Mirror of Lit. 8 July 11/2 Cooba! Quamina! Coobenha! Juba! Mimba! me call you by your born-day name to please you!]
1844 H. Browne Ordo Sæclorum 525 Mr. Greswell sets out with a confused fancy that these day-names are somehow so necessarily connected with the tropical year, that the Julian year has no right to them.
1905 Amer. Anthropologist 7 551/1 At birth comes the day-name,..eight days later the child is given a second name by the father.
1966 Proc. Royal Anthropol. Inst. No. 1966. 260/1 Moreover, a matricula of the town dated 1655..lists men and women with Maya day names.
2010 C. M. Cole in C. M. Canning & T. Postlewait Representing Past iv. 271 He carefully wrote down some Twi words I taught him, including his ‘day name’ in Akan, ‘Kwabena’.
day-neutral adj. [after German tagneutral (1931 or earlier)] Botany (of a plant) having a flowering period that is unaffected by day-length, and hence typically having a long flowering or fruiting season.Cf. long-day adj. (b) at long adj.1 and n.1 Compounds 4a, short-day adj. at short adj., n., and adv. Compounds 6a.
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1931 Gartenbauwissenschaft 4 482 The crossing of typical varieties of shortday lettuce (Winter and Forcing- and Spring lettuce) with day neutral [Ger. tagneutralen] lettuce or summerlettuce.
1937 Bot. Rev. 3 260 Those plants which flower readily under either a long or a short photoperiod and are designated as the indeterminate or day-neutral type, of course, have no critical photoperiod.
1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) ii. 13 It is customary to distinguish between short-day, long-day and day-neutral plants, according to their demands on the duration of the light period. However, most tropical fruit trees show only slight reactions, or none at all, to the photoperiod which is always between 11 and 13 hours in the tropics.
2012 Waterloo (Ont.) Region Rec. (Nexis) 6 June e3 There has been a learning curve among consumers when it comes to the day-neutral variety because most people are used to local strawberries coming on the market in June.
day-old adj. and n. (a) adj. (attributive) designating a person, animal, or thing that is one day old (cf. old adj. 4b(a)); (b) n. a bird, animal, etc., which is one day old (cf. old adj. 4b(b)).
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age
yearOE
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age
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day-old1831
70-year-old1832
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century-old1836
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1831 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 321/2 She left his breast—but, weak as a day-old lamb, tottered—and sank down among the snow.
1911 R. Brooke Let. Feb. (1968) 280 Every night I sit in a café near here..and read the day-old Times.
1928 Daily Tel. 11 May 19/4 Day-olds from reliable pedigree strains cost only 21s a dozen.
1959 B.S.I. News Apr. 18/2 Priority is being given to arrangements for the carriage of day-old chicks.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 5 Jan. 109/3 Year after year crops of goslings are..in big demand as day-olds or ‘growers’.
2002 D. H. Sterry Chicken (2003) v. 54 When I get home to my hovel I steamshovel a mouthful of day-old cake into my face.
day-on n. Nautical slang a person who is on duty as officer of the day.
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1914 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions iv. 27 The Day-on flopped exhaustedly on to a Wardroom settee.
1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 52 Day on, to be, to be Officer-of-the-Watch or ‘Duty-Boy’.
daypack n. a small rucksack used on one-day hikes, or for carrying personal items, books, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > carried on back or over shoulder
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snapsack1633
snap-bag1688
haversack1711
pikau1836
nunny bag1842
packsack1851
pack1853
rucksack1853
kiondo1902
backpack1914
Charley1919
Bergan1923
musette1923
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daysack1974
1969 Pop. Mech. Apr. 134/2 Once camp has been established, this cleverly designed stuff bag becomes an easy-to-carry day pack.
1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 24 May 35/3 But the daypack, which straps over the shoulders and has a waist band, is not for everyone.
1993 National Trust Mag. Spring 41/2 James had stuffed his daypack with enough provisions to fortify a team of Sumo wrestlers for a year.
2007 T. Friend Third Domain v. 129 I filled a raggedy brown day pack with notebooks, pens, a digital camera,..and plenty of granola bars just in case.
day patient n. a patient who attends hospital for treatment without staying overnight.
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the world > health and disease > healing > patient > [noun] > in hospital
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spittle-man1593
inpatient1738
day patient1754
in-case1840
hospitaller1857
1754 Dublin Jrnl. 22 Jan. Day Patients, who are supplied with Medicines, get Advice, and are dressed, according to their different Necessities.
1863 Leeds Mercury 29 Oct. 3/4 In addition to the 18 in-patients proposed to be accommodated, it had been considered necessary to make provision for 120 day-patients.
1904 F. Ashcraft in C. R. Henderson et al. Mod. Methods Charity viii. 485 Most of the sanatoriums are not provided with the equipments for caring for any but day patients.
1960 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Mar. 727/1 All grades of disability can be treated, from permanent in-patient care for the more severely disabled, to those who are fit and able to live at home and attend as day-patients.
2014 Birmingham Mail (Nexis) 4 Feb. 14 I was admitted as a day patient and from the moment I arrived was treated with concern, sympathy and respect by the staff on duty.
day pupil n. a boy or girl who lives at home but attends a school where other pupils board; cf. day scholar n., day student n.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > day pupil
day scholar1699
day-boy1750
day boarder1758
day pupil1784
day student1795
home boarder1816
day girl1831
out-pupil1841
extern1848
daybug1909
1784 Abstr. Course Educ. at Royal Mil. & Marine Acad., Dublin 11 The terms to day pupils for the attending masters, the same as to boarders.
1842 C. Brontë Let. May (1995) I. 284 This is a large school..in which there are about 40..day-pupils and 12..boarders.
1937 Discovery Jan. ii./1 Fees..from 30 guineas per annum for day-pupils.
2013 Sunday Times (Nexis) 26 May 2 Holyport will eventually take 225 boarders and 275 day pupils.
day-return n. chiefly British (more fully day return ticket) a ticket for a journey on public transport travelling out and back on the same day; frequently in cheap day-return such a ticket offered at a reduced fare, typically for off-peak travel; cf. return n. 7d.
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1863 Times 18 Mar. 11/4 He went to the defendants' station at Scarborough and asked for a day return ticket to Whitby.
1929 Times 24 Sept. 8/5 On the District Railway you cannot buy a day return after 4p.m.
1973 D. Lang Freaks 41 I went down there for a visit on a cheap day-return.
2003 A. M. Cooper Somehow they Knew xv. 398 Two day-returns to Rome on the fast train.
day-room n. a room occupied only during the day; spec. (in an institution, as a hospital, prison, army base, etc.) a room provided for use during the day, esp. for recreational activities.
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1728 R. Castell Villas of Ancients Illustr. i. 27 This [sc. Cubiculum in Aspida], as well as the Cubiculum last-mentioned, seem to have been Day-Rooms belonging to this Appartment, and made proper to be enjoyed in different Seasons.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 577 A Small County Prison..A spacious day room on the ground floor.
1942 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 220 52/1 The Service Division plans the recreational facilities to be constructed in Army camps. Standard construction calls for a day room for every company.
2003 Church Times 28 Feb. 9/2 Patients in various stages of extremis were shoved into the day-room for a couple of hours.
daysail v. transitive and intransitive to sail (a yacht) recreationally for a single day.
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1964 Motor Boating July 152/1 (advt.) Large enough for comfort at sea yet small enough to be enjoyably day sailed by a man and wife.
1985 T. Ferguson Onyx John (1988) vi. 130 The best we can do is daysail, or manage a weekend cruise.
2008 Times (Nexis) 8 Mar. (Features section) 8 Anyone with a basic level of competence can come along and daysail.
daysailer n. a small yacht designed for daysailing; cf. dayboat n. (b), daysailor n. (a).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > yacht > small
yachtling1872
daysailer1909
daysailor1939
1909 Rudder Mar. 283/2 This boat is a fine day sailer, easy to handle, able and speedy.
1989 B. Spock & M. Morgan Spock on Spock i. 9 One day he let slip to us that he'd owned a sharpie sailboat, a small day-sailer with two masts and triangular sails.
2012 Washington Post (Nexis) 25 May (Weekend section) t20 If you already know your windward from your leeward, you can rent basic Sunfish, catamaran and daysailers from the association.
daysailing n. the action or practice of sailing on short trips during the day, or sailing a yacht for a single day; (hence) sailing in small boats for pleasure; amateur or recreational sailing.
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1890 Forest & Stream 25 Sept. 200/1 She was..intended for a somewhat similar purpose as the Newport catboats, for day sailing and taking out pleasure parties.
1936 Star Jrnl. (Sandusky, Ohio) 25 Jan. 11/6 The large cockpit will accommodate a sizeable party for day sailing.
1987 Cape Cod Life Apr. 84/1 They were searching for a boat which could negotiate the shoals of Nantucket Sound and yet be comfortable enough for day sailing and short overnight cruises.
2003 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 May d4/8 (advt.) Number 1 daysailing & watersports companies now for sale.
daysailor n. (a) a small boat designed for daysailing; = daysailer n.; (b) a person who sails only during the day; (hence) an amateur recreational sailor.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > yacht > small
yachtling1872
daysailer1909
daysailor1939
1939 N.Y. Times 8 Jan. s11/7 (advt.) A new 19' Sparkman and Stephens designed class racer and day sailor.
1951 Motor Boating Nov. 24/2 Old Charley..makes a fetish of pre-preparing meals... Day sailors can practise what he preaches too whether they own a lapstrake outboard or a plastic pram with a catboat rig.
1999 Washington Post (Nexis) 8 Oct. (Weekend section) n36 The eavesdropping was dull (daysailors slapping each other on the backs of their yellow slickers saying things like ‘nice work on the foredeck out there’).
2008 C. Jacobs Around Lake Norman iv. 77 Cabin cruisers were all the rage for power boaters, but the 19-foot daysailor was perfect for inland racing.
day season n. Obsolete (rare in later use) the daytime; cf. night-season n., season n. 12a.
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xxvii. C Towarde the south foure on the daye season likewyse.
1796 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 742/1 At its greatest luminous pitch, the body may be perceived to be much increased in length, in comparison to its appearance during the day-season.
1839 H. Murray Hist. & Descr. Acct. Brit. Amer. III. v. 299 During the brightness of the day-season, the nocturnal Lepidoptera conceal themselves in tangled vegetation.
1901 Northeastern Reporter 58 573/2 If done in the night season, it [sc. forcibly breaking into a dwelling house] is burglary and punished accordingly. If in the day season it is punished otherwise, and always has been.
dayset n. (also daysett) [probably after the unattested Norn cognate of Old Icelandic dagsetr] chiefly Scottish (northern) nightfall, evening; cf. set of day n. at set n.1 1b.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset
sunsetOE
settle-gangc1000
evensongc1330
sun going downa1382
setc1386
decline14..
sun restc1405
sun gate down1440
sunsetting1440
sun sitting?a1475
falling1555
sunsetting1575
downsetting1582
sunfall1582
declining1588
sun go down1595
tramontation1599
vail1609
daylight gate1613
sundown1620
set of day1623
dayset1633
day shutting1673
sky setting1683
sun-under1865
1633 Court Bk. Bishopric of Orkney (National Archives Scotl.: SC10/1/5) f. 87, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Day He gaid to his dauchteris hous efter day sett.
1771 P. Fea Diary Feb. in Sc. National Dict. at Day I think they got Eda about day Sett.
a1899 A. Lampman Lyrics of Earth (1925) 129 Toward dayset, where the journeying sun grown old Hangs lowly westward darker now than gold.
1916 J. J. H. Burgess Rasmie's Smaa Murr 4 Aug. Dayset is da nicght blushin red at da kiss o her laad.
1993 Independent (Nexis) 24 Dec. (Weekend Travel section) 2 My favourite Shetland term is dayset, a neat alternative to ‘evening’.
2018 H. Scott in Eiks an Ens Newslet. (Scots Lang. Soc.) Apr. 1 The sun..Retirin aerlie bringin furth day-set.
dayshine n. chiefly poetic daylight; sunshine.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > daylight
daylightOE
lightOE
dayOE
sky1515
dayshine1773
dayglow1853
1773 J. Robertson Poems (rev. ed.) 40 Candles are destin'd to supply The want of day-shine in the sky.
a1849 T. L. Beddoes Poems (1851) I. 154 By moon, or lamp, or sunless day-shine white.
1997 C. Wallace-Crabbe Sel. Poems 38 'Check it in here,' he said Squinting against the dayshine.
day shirt n. (a name for) a shirt worn during the day time (as opposed to a nightshirt n.).
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1691 A. D'Anvers Academia 65 His Landress having all his Linnen, Need never Dun, or go to Spinning, Washing, because he's fain to pay for't, He seldom wears but half a Day-Shirt.
1845 Cleaning—Bathing—Ventilation 6 in Chambers's Misc. 6 A clean day shirt should..be put on twice a week, and a clean night shirt once a week.
1968 V. Nabokov King, Queen, Knave (1989) xi. 228 He had slept in his day shirt and had sweated profusely.
2015 G. Cooper Ashton-under-Lyne in Great War ii. 23 St Gabriel's sewing party was making dozens of mufflers, dayshirts, nightshirts.., handkerchiefs and pillowcases for soldiers in training.
day shutting n. Obsolete rare the end of the day, sunset.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset
sunsetOE
settle-gangc1000
evensongc1330
sun going downa1382
setc1386
decline14..
sun restc1405
sun gate down1440
sunsetting1440
sun sitting?a1475
falling1555
sunsetting1575
downsetting1582
sunfall1582
declining1588
sun go down1595
tramontation1599
vail1609
daylight gate1613
sundown1620
set of day1623
dayset1633
day shutting1673
sky setting1683
sun-under1865
1673 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 316 That every publick house hang out lanthornes..till 8 a clock at night, from day shutting.
day-stone n. English regional (northern) rare a loose stone found on or obtained from the surface of the ground; such stones collectively, esp. as distinct from those dug from a quarry (cf. day-water n. and sense 23).
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a1861 J. Hunter MS Gloss. in S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield (1888) 60 In 1732 one Henry Yates paid thirty shillings a year for the liberty of getting day stone in the manor of the Duke of Norfolk.
1876 A. H. Green Geol. for Students: Physical Geol. x. 438 They are distinguished from the stone raised in quarries by the name of ‘Day-stones’.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 305 All rocks or stones that are visible on the surface are day-stones. The common lands in Rivelin are covered with day-stones.
day-streak n. chiefly poetic a faint line of daylight visible in the sky, as at dawn or dusk; (also) dawn itself.
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1802 H. K. White in Monthly Mirror Sept. 199 Fast from the west the fading day-streaks fly.
1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich ix. 110 The chilly day streak signal.
1979 R. P. Warren in Poetry Nov. 82 At day-streak, in terror, I rose, ran through The tangle of clover, the corn balks, the creek—home to bed.
day student n. a student who lives at home but attends a school or other educational establishment where other students board; cf. day pupil n., day scholar n.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > day pupil
day scholar1699
day-boy1750
day boarder1758
day pupil1784
day student1795
home boarder1816
day girl1831
out-pupil1841
extern1848
daybug1909
1795 Times 23 May Day Students attend from 10 o'clock to 12.
1883 Durham Univ. Jrnl. 17 Dec. 141 Sorry indeed to see the day-student system becoming the rule.
1985 P. W. Cookson & C. H. Persell Preparing for Power 66 Day students, as a group, are quite similar to boarding students in terms of their family backgrounds.
2013 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 26 July 10 Both boarders and day students participate in hands-on agricultural studies on the farm.
day surgery n. minor surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [noun] > types of surgery generally
plastic surgery1837
self-surgery1863
oral surgery1866
electrosurgery1870
Listerism1880
morioplasty1880
brain surgery1881
tachytomy1898
neurosurgery1904
radiosurgery1929
psychosurgery1936
microsurgery1959
microsurgery1960
cryosurgery1962
day surgery1968
work1968
biosurgery1969
psychic surgery1975
telesurgery1976
1968 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Apr. 113/1 Beds which will be used for day surgery will also be used for emergencies at night.
1989 P. K. Hamilton in C. H. Botan & V. Hazleton Public Relations Theory xix. 330 There is a very great difference in levels of awareness between traditional hospital services..and the newer more specialized services such as day-surgery, home health services.., etc.
2012 Irish Times (Nexis) 18 Dec. (Health section) 2 The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland is conducting a study on best practice for day surgery in Ireland.
day ticket n. (a) a ticket valid for the whole of the day of issue, esp. one allowing the purchaser to make a number of separate journeys or visits during the course of that day, or to have access to a particular place for the whole of that day; (b) (chiefly British (now historical)) = day-return n.
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1780 London Courant 11 July I hired a post-chaise for the day to go beyond Hounslow, and at eight o'clock passed through Hyde-park-corner turnpike, shewing the day ticket, and paying the usual 8d.
1846 Railway Reg. 3 248 Day tickets—The charge is a fare and a half.
1972 T. J. Donaghy Liverpool & Manch. Railway Operations 1831–45 v. 113 In 1844, the return or day ticket was introduced on the L & M.
1996 Holiday Which? Mar. 87/1 Bus tours leave from the excellent visitors centre, where you can also get day tickets for the local buses.
2013 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 8 Sept. 4 Day tickets will give you access to almost all attractions and cost $S74.
day trade v. Stock Market (originally U.S.) (a) transitive to buy and sell (stocks and shares) over the period of one day's trading; (b) intransitive to engage in this, to act as a day trader.
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1972 ‘Brutus’ Confessions of Stockbroker 183 He started by day-trading 500 TWA warrants at 26½ and made $350.
1990 Top Producer Feb. 51/1 Early in 1989, Pharis day-traded five soybean contracts.
2003 U.S. News & World Rep. 16 June 51/2 The ‘pattern day trading rule’..says that any customer who frequently day trades must maintain a minimum $25,000 account.
day trader n. Stock Market (originally U.S.) a person who buys and sells shares over the period of one day's trading, with the intention of profiting from short-term price fluctuations; (now esp.) a person who trades in such a manner from home via the internet.
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1900 N.Y. Times 29 Apr. 26/4 Day-by-day traders, speculators who gamble, may be careless of the characters of men managing corporations.
1936 Times 6 Nov. 23/6 Some day-to-day traders, however, thought that the advance was too fast and were disposed to take profits.]
1953 H. Working in Amer. Econ. Rev. 43 329 Perhaps the largest class of professional traders is that of ‘day traders’—those who operate primarily on intraday price fluctuations.
1999 N.Y. Times 13 Aug. 6/5 Many former professional traders, brokers and financial services professionals are quitting their jobs to work full time as day traders or money managers from home offices.
2008 New Yorker 24 Mar. 30/2 He has since become a successful day trader, and he let me know that he owns both a Maybach (‘the best car’) and a Gulfstream (‘the best jet’).
day trading n. Stock Market (originally U.S.) the practice of buying and selling shares over the period of one day's trading, with the intention of profiting from short-term price fluctuations; (now esp.) such trading undertaken from home via the internet.
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1954 H. Working in Proc. Chicago Board of Trade Ann. Symp. Sept. 114 (title) Price effects of scalping and day trading.
1999 Daily Tel. 30 July 1/1 He was..a chemist who had been involved in day-trading, a form of share dealing in which self-taught investors buy and sell stocks and shares on the Internet.
2004 N.Y. Times 15 Feb. iii. 1/2 In the 1990's, he helped to pioneer computerized day-trading, putting a thumb in the eye of Wall Street's biggest companies.
day trip n. a short outing or excursion completed in one day, esp. one made for pleasure or recreation.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > outing or excursion > [noun]
airing1607
tour1656
excursion1699
scheme1758
out1762
visit1800
outing1821
day out1822
day trip1838
spin1856
ta-ta1886
1838 Parbury's Oriental Herald 2 10 The buggy being kept then principally for business, visits, and day trips, the riding-horse is requisite for morning and evening exercise.
1903 A. Bennett Leonora viii. 215 He had gone to London by a day-trip on the previous Thursday.
2006 Place in Sun May 61/2 The town's harbour and marina are crammed with sailing boats and traditional wooden gulets, which set off on day-trips and coastal cruises during the summer.
day tripper n. chiefly British a person who goes on a day trip.
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1851 Preston Guardian 30 Aug. 6/2 I happened to be there when there was an influx of these ‘day trippers’, and I saw sufficient to convince me that, with such a state of things, Blackpool will very soon altogether lose its attractions for the wealthy and respectable portion of visitors.
1952 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Sept. 658/1 The day tripper..is the usual victim [of food-poisoning from cockles].
2009 D. O'Briain Tickling Eng. xv. 222 My home town was built for daytrippers from Dublin.., and settled into its retirement as a suburb quite easily.
day-tripping n. and adj. (a) adj. that goes on day trips; (b) n. the action or practice of going on day trips.
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1922 Sea Breezes Feb. 259/2 The Ben-my-Chree..required nearly 400 tons [of coal] per twenty-four hours.., a greater quantity than any other day-tripping boat ever used.
1972 Field & Stream Dec. 203/3 Daytripping is one of the best ways to get started in backpacking.
1989 R. M. Wilson Ripley Bogle 179 The daytripping hickprovincials.
2012 Las Cruces (New Mexico) Sun-News (Nexis) 7 July (Lifestyle section) Passes are valid for three days, so the day-tripping fun could easily turn into an all-weekend affair.
day wage n. (frequently in plural) a wage paid by the day; the amount of money earned for one day's work; (also attributive) designating a person working for such a wage.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > of manual workers > paid by day
day wage1581
1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints i. f. 3v All things are so deere that by their day wages, they are not able to lyue.
1652 G. Winstanley Law of Freedom in Platform iv. 67 Now my health and estate is decayed, and I grow in age, I must either beg or work for day wages.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. x. 125 The daily or weekly earnings of journeymen..are, in most places, very little more than the day wages of common labourers. View more context for this quotation
1796 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVIII. 120 The day-wage-men for the whole parish reside in the village.
1834 Factories Inq. Comm.: Suppl. Rep. Employm. Children in Factories ii. D.1.181 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 167) XX. 1 We (as yet) pay the day-wage hands the same wages for sixty-nine hours as we did for seventy-two hours.
1961 M. Cole Story of Fabian Socialism iv. 31 The type of Trade Union which wished to pay its general secretary no more than the day-wage of the man at the bench.
1986 Mod. Asian Stud. 20 159 A proper class of day-wage-workers has not been established everywhere.
2007 G. Clark Farewell to Alms iii. 44 The day wage in England in 1800 would purchase 3.2 kilograms of wheat flour, while the day wage in Malawi would purchase only 2.1 kilograms of inferior maize flour.
day wait n. Obsolete rare a lookout or sentinel who watches during the day; cf. wait n. 6.
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a1450 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Douce 295) v. xi. f. 113v I haue made the a daye wayte to þe peple of israel.
day-water n. Obsolete surface water, esp. as opposed to water from a spring or aquifer (cf. day-stone n. and sense 23).
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1697 W. Gilpin Let. 6 Jan. in J. Lowther Corr. (1983) 341 There is all due care taken that he suffer not by daywater, nor any defect in the frames, etc., and I have acquainted him whenever he observs anything that wants repair, forthwith to make it known.
1698 Dr. Cay in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 369 A meer Day-Water..immediately from the Clouds.
1757 tr. J. F. Henckel Pyritologia xiv. 327 Such waters taking their rise nearer the day, when the more day-water coming to mix with them, they thus become weakened and diluted.
1808 J. C. Curwen Hints Econ. Feeding Stock 198 A poor clay..extremely retentive of day-water.
1903 G. B. Hodgson Borough of South Shields iv. 154 The Westoe Lane Well, 22 feet deep, which, in addition to its springs, collected the day water from the surface.
day wear n. (a) wear (wear n. 1a) during the daytime; (b) (usually as one word) articles of casual or practical clothing suitable for informal or everyday occasions, esp. as distinct from the more formal or elaborate styles of evening wear; cf. evening wear n. at evening n.1, adv., and int. Compounds 2, nightwear n.
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1835 True Sun 6 Aug. 1/4 A beaver hat for day wear.
1879 Liverpool Mercury 2 Aug. 8/6 The long points at the back and front, and the round bodice with waist-band, are equally in favour for ball dresses as well as day wear.
1913 Grizzly Bear Sept. 14/2 The boot that will be chosen for practical day-wear with tailored suits.
1995 Burda Aug. 18 The glitter and glamour of last summer's daywear is still en vogue.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

dayv.1

Forms: early Middle English dæȝe, early Middle English dæiȝe, early Middle English daiȝe, late Middle English daye, late Middle English–1500s day.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: daw v.1
Etymology: Variant of daw v.1 Compare earlier day n. and forms at that entry. Compare also dayning n.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To dawn. Frequently with it as subject.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > become daylight
lightOE
dawc1200
dayc1275
shinec1384
dawn1499
break1535
unnight1594
dayn?c1600
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13447 Hit agon daiȝen [c1300 Otho daȝeȝe].
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10841 Lihten hit gon dæȝen [c1300 Otho daȝeie].
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 849 Amorwe þo hit daȝede [c1275 Calig. dawede]..Brutus was abolȝe.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 112 Dayyn, or wexyn day, diesco.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 88 To Day, diere, diescere.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. vi. 63 Fare well now, the day dayes.
1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 147 It dayeth, or it is almoste brode daye.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

dayv.2

Forms: see day n.; also late Middle English dayde (past participle).
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: day n.
Etymology: < day n. Compare Middle Dutch daghen , dagen to convene, to summons, subpoena (Dutch dagen ), Middle Low German dagen to appoint a day, to convene an assembly or court, to summons, to defer, postpone, (reflexively) to reach an agreement, Middle High German tagen to appoint a day, to convene a court, to summon; compare also Middle Dutch verdagen to convene an assembly (Dutch verdagen ), Middle Low German vordāgen to convene an assembly, Middle High German vertagen to appoint a day (for someone) (German vertagen ), all also (and now usually) with sense ‘to defer, postpone, adjourn’. In sense 1a probably directly after Middle Dutch daghen, dagen. With senses 1a and 1b compare earlier day n. 12 and to take day (also days) at day n. Phrases 5d. With sense 2 compare earlier day n. 19 and to take day (also days) at day n. Phrases 5d. With sense 3 compare earlier daying n.2, day-holding n. at day n. Compounds 3, daysman n. 1, and dayment n. Perhaps compare also earlier dayless adj.
Obsolete.
1.
a. transitive. To appoint a day for (a person) to appear in court; to summon to appear on an appointed day; to bring to trial.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > summon > for an appointed day
day1481
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 19 That he shold be sente fore and dayed [Du. dagen] ernestly agayn for tabyde suche Iugement.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 258 Cayphas. The wordys he has saide Doth my hart great dere. Anna. Sir, yit may ye be dayde. Cayphas. Nay, whils I lif, nere!
b. transitive. To appoint or fix the date of (an event). rare.
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the world > time > particular time > [verb (transitive)] > time, appoint, or set a time for
seta1056
givec1320
timea1393
attermine1413
day1594
settle1596
to set down1597
momenta1661
order1669
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne v. 221 So when the tearme was present come, that dayd The Captaine had [It. che fisse il Capitano].
2. transitive. To give (a person) more time to make a payment. Also intransitive: to postpone payment. Cf. day n. 19.
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society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > be slow to pay > postpone payment
day1543
society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > pay by instalment > give (a person) time to pay
day1543
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 79 This truage was .iii. M. li. well payde Eche yere to Rome..; These princes thus accorded wer and daied In peace and reste.
1566 W. Wager Cruell Debtter sig. D2 The moste parte of my debtters haue honestly payed And they that weare not redy I haue gently dayed.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 22v Ill husbandry dayeth or letteth it lie, good husbandry payeth the cheaper to buy.
3. transitive. To submit (something) to arbitration or judgement by another party. Cf. daying n.2, dayment n. rare.
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society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > bring to peace (strife or discord) [verb (transitive)] > settle (a dispute) > settle by arbitration
moder1534
day1580
arbitrate1597
moderate1602
umpire1611
1580 T. Lupton Siuqila 117 They haue bin enforced when all their money was..spent, to haue their matter dayed, and ended by arbitrement.
1581 T. Lupton Persuasion from Papistrie 146 All other Churches ought rather be daied & iudged by the church of Rome.
4. transitive. To measure (something having temporal extent) by counting a number of days.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > reckon or measure time [verb (transitive)] > measure by the day
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1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 545 Is it nothing that their life is dayed and houred, and inched out by a fearful God and terrible?
1614 J. Budden tr. P. Ayrault Disc. Parents Honour 168 Naturall duty, can neither be dayde nor yeard, nor determined by age, or eldership.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes ii. xiii. 114 Things to be done are long to be debated; Heav'n is not day'd. Repentance is not dated.
5. transitive. poetic. To provide (the earth) with days. rare.
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1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 143 When earth was dayed—was morrowed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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