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dayn. 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 dæ, 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, dī, 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. the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [noun] OE Ælfric (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) i. 76 We hatað ænne dæg fram sunnan upgange oð æfen. OE Byrhtferð (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 (1993) 137 Þa fæste he feowertiȝ daȝa and nihte togædere. a1300 in C. Brown (1932) 115 (MED) Þu ȝifst þe sunne to the daiȝ, þe mone to þe nichte. c1300 St. Katherine (Laud) 173 in C. Horstmann (1887) 97 (MED) In þat prison þat Maide lai twelf dawes and twelf niȝt. a1400 tr. Lanfranc (Ashm.) (1894) 41 Ofte tymes in þe dai & in þe nyȝt. a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) l. 390 To parte þe day fro þe nyȝt. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich xxxiii. l. 414 Tyl that the day was Al Ispente. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. cxxviii. 155 It was then nyne of the day. 1557 T. Paynell tr. St. Augustine 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 i. v. 106 The longest day is equall to the longest night. 1687 W. D. tr. B. Le Bovier de Fontenelle 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 X. 100 In the midst of the publick misery, the tyrant passed his days and nights in debauch. 1741 J. Hewitt 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 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 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 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 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 9 Dec. p. ii/2 We are approaching the shortest day, and the weather has been thoroughly Novemberish, in London especially. 2009 (Nexis) 1 Dec. 5 Physical activity during the day and sleep onset at night were closely linked. 2. the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) xxii. 354 Fram þam halgan easterlican dæge sind getealde fiftig daga to þysum dæge. OE Byrhtferð (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 (1993) 143 On twelf monþe beoð þreo hundred daȝæ & fif & sixtiȝ daȝe. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 9589 Þreo dæies [c1300 Otho daȝes] wes þe king wuniende þere. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 3025 After viftene dawes..To londone he wende. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds ix. 9 He was thre daies not seynge. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 108 In the space of o day naturel This is to seyn, in .xxiiij. houres. c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in (1897) 12 18 The feste dured thre days. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. lxiii. 84 This siege endured a long season, the space of a xi. wekes, thre dayes lesse. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin 1. f. 10v Symonides..desired to haue a daies respite graunted him to study vpon it. a1631 J. Donne (1650) 6 Hours, daies, months, which are the rags of time. 1658 tr. J. Ussher 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 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 20 Aug. 2/1 Androcles..lived many Days in this frightful Solitude, the Lion Catering for him with great Assiduity. 1793 (Royal Soc.) 83 193 I have, throughout, reckoned according to sea time; that is, the day commences at noon. 1822 Ld. Byron i. i. 377 Twenty years Of age, if 't is a day. 1855 D. Brewster (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 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 vii. 186 It is hardly ever necessary to preserve fish bait or chokker for longer than three or four days. 2002 K. S. Robinson 754 The Earth rolls around the sun, three hundred and sixty-five and a quarter days a year. 1698 tr. C. Huygens 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 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 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 (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 (U.K. ed.) Oct. 20/1 ‘Martian sol 149’—the 149th day on the Red Planet since the start of the rover missions. OE 1064 Ðonne sio byman stefen..ond se egsan þrea, ond se hearda dæg ond seo hea rod..folcdryht wera biforan bonnað. lOE (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1131 On fif & twenti wintre ne biden hi næfre an god dæi. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) i. l. 2081 (MED) The day was merie and fair ynowh. a1400 (a1325) (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. (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 xiii. Prol. 182 As menstralis playis, the Joly day now dawis. 1615 J. Sylvester tr. P. Matthieu Memorials of Mortalitie in 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 xviii. 133 It was a Snowy day. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer IV. xv. 872 This happy Day with Acclamations greet. a1767 N. Evans (1772) 74 Joyous we join thee in the choral lay, To add new transports to this blissful day. a1836 C. Simeon in W. Carus (1847) i. 12 The day was hot;..I drank a great deal of cool tankard. 1871 ‘L. Carroll’ i. 24 O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! a1930 N. Munro Burial of Big Macphee in B. D. Osborne & R. Armstrong (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 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 viii. 53 The day was hot and sultry and not conducive to strenuous activity. society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > a day's journey c1390 (a1376) W. Langland (Vernon) (1867) A. x. l. 1 (MED) Sire Dowel dwelleþ..not a day hennes. 1607 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Serres in tr. 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 I. 127 The Famous Town of Carahmet, which lyeth Six Days further towards the East, on the Borders of Assyria and Media. 1793 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 XXI. 92 Ril is distant about three days farther, in a south southeasterly direction. 1827 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 III. Epil. 305 I was (as nearly as I could calculate it) some three days distant, journeying on foot, from the sacred city. 1923 Aug. 9/1 What I think he meant to tell me is that he'll be waiting four days further down the river. 2004 9 Jan. a11/1 The moon is just three days away while Mars is at least six months away. a1492 W. Caxton tr. (1495) i. cx. f. cxxxvv/2 He had spende the day wtout to haue done ony mercyfull dede. ?1550 R. Weaver sig. a.ii What shal I do now to passe away the day? 1650 (new ed.) iv. v. 284 Such [people] as..passed the day in playing at Cards, and in revelling. ?1697 J. Lewis (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 21 Your Tutor will in the Evening call you to give some account how you have spent the Day. 1841 S. S. Ellis II. ix. 224 She came down for a day in the country. 1859 C. Darwin Let. 23 Oct. in (1887) II. 175 Now I am so completely a gentleman, that I have sometimes a little difficulty to pass the day. 1867 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 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’ 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 (Nexis) 4 Oct. 40 You mean you hadn't realised Liverpool was the place to go for a day at the beach? society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [noun] > portion of day allotted to work 1637 G. Ironside xv. 131 Our Resting day must be proportionable to our working day. 1789 Postscr. Wages of a first Gang Labourer, for a Day of ten Hours. 1850 14 Dec. 300/1 Being at the rate of 4s. 2d. per day of ten hours. 1880 C. Marvin (ed. 2) 121 [They] worked hard the whole of the seven hours of their official day. 1898 (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 29 She carried the day's takings clasped to her breast, in a solid little leather dolly-bag. 1939 I. M. Tarbell 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 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 (Nexis) 22 Feb. 51 A full day is six hours' instruction at second level, or five hours and 40 minutes at primary. the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > worthy of notice 1918 ‘K. Mansfield’ 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 (1927) vii. 65 I say. We have had a day... I must have been blind [sc. drunk]. 1963 ‘W. Haggard’ xii. 127 I expect you've had a day—I know I have. But there's one small thing still. 1993 J. Meredith 31 These legs have had a day. 2000 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. 8. the world > time > particular time > [noun] > time of occurrence > day or night of time of occurrence OE (Corpus Cambr.) xx. 19 Þam þryddan dæge he arist. OE (Corpus Cambr. 196) 29 June (2013) 126 On þone nigon and twentigoðan dæg þæs monðes byð þæra eadigra apostola þrowung Petrus and Paulus. ?a1160 (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) (Bodl.) (1981) l. 220 Ha ne stod neauer ear þene þes dei bute biuore dusie. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 5108 (MED) For-giue it vs, lauerd, fra þis dau. a1400 tr. Lanfranc (Ashm.) (1894) 343 Sumtyme men..weren hool in þe same dai. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 23 Sir Kay dud that day many mervaylous dedis of armys. 1533–4 c. 21 §25 Before the saide .xii. daie of Marche. 1658 T. Bromhall 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 i. i. 16 The first Day of the Week called the Lord's Day. 1715 tr. D. Gregory 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 21 Sept. (MS.) Pray treat me with a letter on an early day as parliament folks say. 1848 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 26 In next day's tourney. 1866 A. Trollope I. x. 240 She would return home on the day but one after the funeral. 1938 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 (new ed.) 53 We'll be lifting potatoes the day after next if you'd like to come along. 2007 C. Hitchens 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. 1823 S. Huntington Let. in B. B. Wisner (1826) 377 Day before yesterday, I spit a little blood; and every day since, I have raised a little. 1855 ‘F. Fern’ 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 292 I saw a man at the Cape wharf day before yesterday, inquirin' about Mrs. Wynne. 1905 26 Sept. 6 Day after election people will want to know [etc.]. 1990 L. C. Stevenson 193 How would she find out what had happened to Bill if he came and took her day after tomorrow? the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > of great importance 1882 9 Feb. 125/1 Have you heard? Tomorrow is the day. 1908 A. E. Thomas (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 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 xiii. 256 The reconnaissance is complete, gentlemen. Tomorrow is The Day. 1978 (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 57 Last Saturday was finally The Day. 2004 (Nexis) 15 May 11 The Day arrived! Der Tag, as Germans would put it. 9. eOE (Kentish) Charter: Oswulf & Beornðryð to Christ Church, Canterbury (Sawyer 1188) in F. E. Harmer (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. (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 (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 (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. (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 (rev. ed.) Bakyng daye, Fornacalia. 1648 4 Sunday last were set a part for a day of Prayer and Humiliation for a blessing upon the Treaty. 1760 May 258/1 In every family there are, at some times, such necessary things as short dinners, cleaning days, &c. 1790 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 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 9 Oct. 764/1 Lord Bramwell..had spoken of Saturday as ‘pay-day, drink-day, and crime-day’. 1893 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 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 (1992) 172 I bounded in, gowned & hooded, from Graduation Day. 2010 C. L. McClelland 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. 1692 T. Southerne 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 iii. i. 38 You have been at my Lady Whifler's upon her day, Madam? 1752 A. Murphy 2 Dec. 37 Lady Tenace proposes to keep her day, for the remainder of the winter season, on Wednesday. 1801 J. G. Lemaistre iv. 59 Each of the ministers has a day, to which all foreigners may be taken by their respective ministers. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward II. iii. xxiii. 227 We found she was in town, and went on her ‘day’. 1905 A. Bennett i. 21 She had her ‘day’. 1918 M. E. Wilson Sherwood (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 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. OE (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 (1868) 1st Ser. 11 (MED) Nu beoð icumen..þa halie daȝes uppen us. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 7577 (MED) A sein nicolas day he com. ?c1450 (1891) l. 7007 Ilk ȝere..In þe day of bedis deyng. 1587 A. Fleming et al. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1353/1 To put vs in mind how we violate the sabboth daie. 1615 J. Stephens (new ed.) 222 Like a bookesellers shoppe on Bartholomew day. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. i. 25 Is this Ascension day ? View more context for this quotation 1713 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 19 June (1926) II. 328 It was Guild-Day at Norwich—a great Feast. 1825 W. Hone (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 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 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 Jan. 335/3 At that point, court recessed for Martin Luther King Day. 1986 J. Fraser in J. McLeod (1988) 128 An old man sick unto death, sat in a Montreal public stand in his own province on St Jean Baptiste Day. 2011 (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. 11. society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse OE 1204 Swa þam bið grorne on þam grimman dæge domes þæs miclan. OE 57 Seo eft onfehþ hire lichoman on þæm ytmestan dæge. OE Ælfric (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 (1932) 46 Þene latemeste dai, wenne we sulen farren vt of þisse worlde wid pine & wid care. c1330 (Auch.) (1882) l. 763 So schul we al arise & of þe dome agrise Atte day of iuggement. c1384 (Royal) (1850) 2 Pet. iii. 10 Forsothe the day of the Lord [L. dies Domini] shal come as a theef. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 27362 Þe dai of wreth. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. (1882–7) clviii. 606 Vnto the day of Iugemente. 1640 G. Abbot 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 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 (1753) 101 False hypocrites, to vengeance sore Addestin'd, haste to lay Accumulated wrath in store Against the wrathful day. 1808 Z. M. Pike (1810) iii. App. 13 The day of retribution will come in thunder and in vengeance. 1860 E. B. Pusey 109 The Day of Judgment or vengeance. 1900 W. T. Stead 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 63 137 The doctrine of the Day of Judgement was central in medieval Islam. 2009 89 369 Mozart..chose to heighten the liturgical descriptions of the terrors on the day of wrath. the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun] c1384 (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 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 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 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 (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 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 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. the world > time > particular time > [noun] > an appointed or fixed time, day, or date c1300 St. Nicholas (Laud) 334 in C. Horstmann (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 (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 189 Þe dettoures myȝte nouȝt pay here money at here day. c1410 (c1350) (Harl. 7334) l. 792 (MED) He wolde..Come afore þe iustice to kepen his day. a1438 (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 (1864) I. 133 In cas he faylyd hys day. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius (1858) I. 556 The king of Scottis..come thair to keip his da. 1600 W. Shakespeare 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 xvi. 313 Or if my Debtors do not keep their day. 1758 J. Hoadly tr. Martial Epigrams in V. 286 Ah! cease your arts—death knows you're grey, And spite of all, will keep his day. 1816 W. Scott 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 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 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. society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 529 in C. Horstmann (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. (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 (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 (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 (Nero) viii. l. 4470 At þe Tarbart he was aqwhile Haldande dayis wiþe Iohun of þe Ile. the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > battle or a battle > day of battle 1557 T. Tusser sig. C.iiii The battell is fought, thou hast gotten the daye. 1579 S. Gosson f. 29v Tydinges was broughte him that his Souldiers gotte the day. 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio 23 Without his aide the day would be perillous. 1641 S. Marshall 22 Canst thou make thy forces strong enough to carry the day? 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival ii. i. xvi. 204 The Imperialists, thinking the Day was theirs. 1705 tr. W. Bosman iii. 40 Their small Force behaved themselves so well, that they had certainly got the Day if [etc.]. 1721 R. Bradley 139 The Silk Worm at present carries the Day before all others of the Papilionaceous Tribe. 1849 T. B. Macaulay II. 168 The bloody day of Seneff. 1855 T. B. Macaulay IV. 429 The French King had..said that the last piece of gold would carry the day. 1884 22 Aug. Campaign lies and mud slinging fail to carry the day. 1919 J. McCrae 17 The dead men..fought their fight in time of bitter fear And died not knowing how the day had gone. 1961 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 (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. α. OE (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 (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 (1873) 2nd Ser. 47 (MED) Swich þeu wes bi þan dagen. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (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 (Calig.) (1978) l. 16077 Þer heo scullen wunie þat þa daȝes beon icumene þa Merlin ine iuurn daȝen vastnede mid worden. a1382 (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. OE (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 (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) (1968) l. 2747 Pride ne cuðe bi ðat dai Nogt so michel so it nu mai. a1500 (a1450) (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 242 Which Men at this day call Cairum. 1611 Ezek. xxx. 9 In that day shall messengers goe foorth from me in shippes. View more context for this quotation 1662 E. Stillingfleet i. vi. §1 To this day..the Coptites and antient Egyptians call the end of the year νεισι. 1721 J. Perry xviii. 299 Such Love is very rare to be seen in this Day. 1790 R. Adair 18 His frugality in the expenditure of the public money, though an old-fashioned virtue in the present day, was conspicuous and exemplary. 1825 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 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 (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 (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 (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. the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] 1766 O. Goldsmith 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 10 Aug. Among the greatest evils of the day may be reckoned field-preachers, quack-doctors, and pettyfogging attornies. 1893 W. P. Courtney in 13 May 413/1 The gardens were planned by the best landscape gardeners of the day. 1935 C. Beaton Diary in (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 91 He still wore the heavy clumsy British type of clothing of the day. 2005 R. Rankin 37 To use the popular parlance of the day, you are doing my head in, Mister Rune. the world > time > period > [noun] OE Ælfric Homily: Sermo de Die Iudicii (Corpus Cambr. 178) in J. C. Pope (1968) II. 601 Butan God gescyrte þa sorhfullan dagas, eall manncynn forwurde witodlice ætgædere. OE (1932) xciii. 11 Þæt bið eadig mann, þe þu..him yfele dagas ealle gebeorgest. a1325 (c1280) (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1446 (MED) Vuele dayes ham shulle come on, þat hi shulleþ drede so sore. 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. (new ed.) f. 17v In daies of truth if Wiates frendes then waile. 1612 Bp. J. Hall I. i. iii. 198 What son of Israell can hope for good daies, when hee heares his Fathers were so euill? 1660 H. Newcome 45 Nay you may dye in the midst of these joyful dayes. 1752 G. Baddelley iv. 79 In those trying days, the religious united themselves into holy and friendly societies. 1827 R. Knight 68 The white chapel church..past [sic] through many trials, experiencing days of prosperity and adversity. 1906 June 13/2 In these days of strenuous effort, where every man is striving to attain a desired end. 2003 (Nexis) 28 Sept. 3 Yesterday's performance will give them hope for better days to come. 16. With possessive. the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life OE Will of Æðelgifu (Sawyer 1497) in D. Whitelock (1968) 9 Hæbbe Leofsige eal þæt oðer his dæg, & æfter his dæge sylle hit man Alfwolde, ofor heora dæg into sancte Albane. OE (Junius) 181 Swa hwylc se ðe fela yfela do..ga in mynster and a fæste oð his daga ende. c1225 (?OE) (Worcester) (Fragm. A) l. 40 His deaȝes beoþ agon. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 75 To habben..after his daye al his drihliche lond. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) l. 3248 Þe deþ here toke, here dayys were fyllyd. c1410 (c1350) (Harl. 7334) l. 65 (MED) Thus dalte þe knight his lond by his day. 1466 King Edward IV in (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 (1881) 2nd Ser. 319 Yet dwel y stille in peyn..Tyl y haue fulfilled my day. 1526 W. Bonde iii. sig. giiiv They neuer feled suche before, in all their dayes. 1609 W. Shakespeare xcv. sig. F4v That tongue that tells the story of thy daies . View more context for this quotation 1668 E. Howard i. 11 That I may now..Retreat into a private life, and spend My rest of days in Prayer. 1716 C. Johnson 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 June 481 An unpretending trifle..In print its days cannot be long. 1839 B. F. Thompson 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 I. vi. 480 The kingdom of Burgundy was now in its last days. 1916 C. Hamilton 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 (1996) 280 I never heard the bate of it in all my days. 2012 M. Makary 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. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre (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 (1537) f. 153 In thy yonge dayes, two yeres thou were appoynted on the see with a Pyrate. 1580 T. Churchyard 1 My childishe daies ore ronne, And as I thinke, and you beleue, my boyes delites are donne. 1630 P. Massinger sig. E3 Ile be looker on My dancing dayes are past. 1698 129 Let Friar Bacon's Brazen Head Tell thee, thy Golden Days are fled. 1735 Sept. 489/1 In my younger Days, I took great Delight in Parties of Pleasure upon the Thames. 1786 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 III. 237 Awakening in Lord Askham's mind..pleasant reminiscences of his days of schoolboyhood. 1880 T. Fowler i. 7 During his undergraduate and bachelor days. 1946 C. Bush xvi. 223 In my bachelor days it used to be hard work to keep her from mothering me. 1977 8 Aug. 14/2 Henry Kissinger considers himself decompressed from his days of helping to run the world. 2005 N. Hornby 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. the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of certain character, condition, or events OE Wulfstan (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 (1993) 173 He sceal..his martyrdom for Cristes lufæ þrowæn on Antecristes daȝum. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 14352 Þa ilke laȝen þat stoden on Arðures daȝen. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland (Vernon) (1867) A. i. l. 96 Dauid, in his dayes he Dubbede knihtes. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 21712 Nu in vr daies. ?a1425 Constit. Masonry (Royal 17 A.i) l. 509 in J. O. Halliwell (1844) 31 Suche mawmetys he hade yn hys dawe. ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) iii. l. 1675 in (1967) 106 Tullus seruilius dowchty in his daw. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in ii. 235 Hee speaketh as though Auerrois were an ancient Philosopher, that liued in the dayes of the primitiue Church. 1651 W. Dell 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 II. vi. xxvi. 95 The Jewish State in the Days of Josephus. 1744 9 In the Days of Fairy-hood there lived two Fairies. 1782 A. Highmore (1873) 19 In the days of chivalry, when the soul of valor animated every thought. 1841 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo y Villegas 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 Dec. 73/1 The days of the ‘bun’ coiffures are over. 1951 M. M. Mathews 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 21 131 Those who had lived in their present location since their forefathers' days. 2007 June 157 He stumped across India in the days of the British Raj. the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of certain character, condition, or events OE Ælfric (Cambr. Gg.3.28) Pref. 174 Ic..wearð asend on Æþelredes dæge cyninges fram Ælfeage biscope Aðelwoldes æftergengan to sumum mynstre. lOE (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 (1920) I. 12 Ælc þare lande..þe hi eafdon en Edwardes kinges deȝe. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 649 in C. Horstmann (1887) 125 Heo þat was er so heiȝ and freo bi mine Auncestres daye. 1547 A. Kelton sig. d. iii Recorde I take, of that cursed man To God alway, founde contrarius Called in his day, cruell Ualerian. 1676 R. Williams 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 164 For as in the day of the Law, many Sons of Israel..felt some Throws of the Cross. 1796 R. Southey iii. 293 Holy abbots honour'd in their day. 1842 J. D. Schomberg iii. ii. 320 The day of chivalry was gone. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato IV. 40 They were..more just than the men of our day. 1910 13 Aug. 648 The day of the aerial 'bus will soon be with us. 1982 R. Darnton i. 20 Before the day of the steam press and the mass reading public. 2000 (Nexis) 20 July 15 In Queen Elizabeth's day, parsnips were eaten more as a sweet than a savoury. the world > life > source or principle of life > age > prime > [noun] 1546 J. Heywood 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 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 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 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 i. i. 71 Suffer the Fools to laugh..This is their Day. 1839 C. Dickens ix. 77 She hoped she had tamed a high spirit or two in her day. 1850 L. Hunt I. 2 I have had vanities enough in my day. 1959 ‘M. M. Kaye’ x. 128 Roaring Rory must have been a hell-raiser and a half in his day. 1978 W. Nee vii. 86 Today is the day of man..when man judges. 2002 I. Knight 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. the world > time > duration > [noun] > of a specific period a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) iv. l. 776 (MED) He his trowthe leith to borwe To come..Ayein withinne a Monthe day. 1451 J. Fastolf in (2005) III. 137 They have be fals both to the Clyffordys and to me thys vij yeere day. 1543 ( (1812) 19 Who laye afore Paris amoneth daye. 1550 R. Crowley sig. Eiiiv You shall..lende but for a monethes day. 1552 T. Gresham in J. Strype (1721) II. App. C. 148 No man convey out any parcel of lead five years day. 1602 W. S. 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 (1681) Which Statute alloweth to these Provisors Six weeks Day to appear. 1765 J. Merrick xc. 225 If Nature yet a ten years' day Indulge us, e'er her debt we pay. 1825 J. Jamieson 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 (2010) 43 So undelayed By toil and strife this three-years day have I Been kept from dust and heat in which men die. the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 859 And hym bisecheth..To graunten hym dayes of the remenunt. 1428 in F. J. Furnivall (1882) 82 To have ther-of resonable daies of paiement. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. ccxiii. 263 The truce..is nat expired, but hath day to endure vnto the first day of Maye next. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. (?1560) ci. sig. D*iiii I giue her daye for a moneth, & truse in the meane season. 1568 E. Tilney (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 sig. H.iiii When drapers draw, no gaines by giuing day. 1608 Bp. J. Hall 83 Ye Merchants..make them pay deare for daies. 1612 T. Taylor (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 (1646) 13 I'le give no day..I must have present money. a1670 J. Hacket (1693) i. 60 He had day enough also to look about him, to enquire for able and honest Servants. 1740 G. Jacob 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 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. the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > daylight OE tr. Felix (Vesp.) (1909) iii. 115 Ða þæs on mergen, mid þan hit dæg wæs, þa ferde he eft to þam mynstre. ?a1160 (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1135 Þa þestrede þe dæi ouer al landes. c1300 (Laud) (1868) 811 (MED) On þe morwen, hwan it was day, He stirt up sone. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. xiii. 13 As in day wandre we honestly. a1400 (a1325) (Fairf. 14) l. 8676 I hit knew quen hit was day. 1490 W. Caxton tr. (1885) ix. 223 Whan Reynawde sawe the day, he rose vp. a1500 Rule Minoresses in W. W. Seton (1914) 92 (MED) In þe mornyninge whan it is day, bi þe chayne avale bifore iii of þe sustris. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch 459 Such as could see day at a litle hole. 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon 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 276 In his Conversion of the darkest Night to bright Day. 1710 R. Steele No. 142. ⁋1 She had now found out, that it was Day before Nine in the Morning. 1719 D. Defoe 238 It was broad Day. 1840 N. P. Willis 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 237 Every room wore a different hue, From rich colored glass that the day shone through. 1940 14 114 The next afternoon I saw the statue in bright day. 1946 9 Nov. 536/1 He is in the house, yet it is broad day. 2001 R. Nicoll (2002) 177 A light drizzle fell as the bloodless day began to fade. the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun] eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 313 Matutinum, uhttid siue beforan dæge. lOE (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1129 Ðis ilces geares on Sancte Nicholaes messeniht litel ær dæi wæs micel eorðdine. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) l. 50 Ha..eode to chirche euche daheðes dei [Royal deis dei]. c1330 (?c1300) (Auch.) (1937) l. 1051 (MED) Al þat niȝt he rode til day. a1400 (a1325) (Gött.) l. 6106 Þat þai Sould vte of hous cum bi-for day. c1475 (?c1425) (1984) l. 134 To ride þis forest or daye. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Sulpicius in 39 A little before day. 1602 tr. W. C. 5 Some foure or fiue thousand Horse and Foote of ours marched to his Quarter at day. 1651 tr. F. de Quintana 41 Perplexed with the horror of this murder, and feare of Justice, he absented himselfe before day. 1719 D. Defoe 52 They got up in the Morning before Day. 1793 Ld. Nelson in (1844) I. 309 This morning at day we fell in with a Spanish..Ship. 1861 H. A. Jacobs 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 (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 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 123 A train rumbles through the valley before day. OE Ælfric Homily (Corpus Cambr. 162) in J. C. Pope (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 (1955) 73 18 Ðær bið se torhta dæg þæs heofoncundan licoman. c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine (1993) 66 He is ure dæȝ, þe us mid ȝeileafæn onliht fram blindnesse. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 16914 Nohht ne darr ȝet stiȝhenn upp..I gastliȝ lifess brihhte daȝȝ. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 1405 Myn hertes day my lady fre So thursteth ay myn herte to biholde Youre beaute. a1500 (?c1425) (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 (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 v. i. 2191 They cast a Day around 'em. a1763 T. Godfrey Prince of Parthia iv. i, in (1765) 180 Vardanes thou, our better light, shalt bring Bright day and joy to ev'ry heart. 1849 C. Dickens (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 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 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 56 We will all arise from the darkness of death unto the brilliant day of eternal life. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > pane > in mullioned window 1348 in L. F. Salzman (1992) App. B. 437 (MED) Habebit duo diuersoria que Dayes nuncupantur. 1448 Will of Henry VI in R. Willis & J. W. Clark (1886) I. 354 In the est ende of the seide Quere shal be sette a grete gable windowe of .vii. daies. 1484 (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/7) f. 70 A wyndow..of iij dayes. 1779 F. Peck (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 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 (ed. 2) 38 Days, Bays, or Lights of a Window, the divisions made by mullions. 1867 A. Ashpitel 311/1 In the latter example A is the ordinary ‘day’ or light. the world > the earth > land > ground > [noun] > surface of 1620 N. Bloy (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 (Royal Soc.) 1 80 By letting down Shafts from the day (as Miners speak). 1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 12 in T. Nourse (ed. 3) Draw your Coals to Bank (or Day) out of the Pit. 1747 W. Hooson sig. Niijb The Ore that is found on the Tops of Veins, especially near to the Day. 1802 J. Mawe 207 Opencast, when a vein is worked open from the day. 1881 9 126 Day, the surface of the ground over a mine. 1989 S. Gates 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.1821 31 Dec. The former Treasurer of Berkshire county,..in consequence of some crooked money transactions, went away between two days. 1878 J. H. Beadle xxvi. 406 Some ne'er-do-well who had defrauded the State and other creditors by departing between two days. 1903 A. D. McFaul 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 Feb. 179/1 He..again thought of himself going ‘between two days’, making a get-away, riding away into hiding among the hills. 2004 July 99/1 Implicated in the murder of an adversary, he left town ‘between two days’ and assumed a false identity. b. With by. lOE Permission to ring Bells, Exeter in J. Earle (1888) 260 Þat yc..gef leaua ðam munche on Sancte Nicholaus minstre to hringinde hyre tyde be dage & be nihte. a1225 (c1200) (1888) 151 (MED) We habbeð niede him to bidden be daiȝ and be nihte. c1275 (?c1250) (Calig.) (1935) 241 (MED) Bi daie þu art stareblind. c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring (1891) cxx. 5 Brynynge of vice ne shal nouȝt brulen þe bi daie [L. per diem]. 1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith (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 sig. Dj Rufflers, and masterles men, that cannot Werke And slepeth by day, and Walketh in the derke. 1613 G. Wither i. vii. sig. F5v An owle-eyed buzzard, that by day is blind, And sees not things apparant. 1711 A. Pope 9 Be Homer's Works your Study, and Delight, Read them by Day, and meditate by Night. 1835 C. Thirlwall I. 219 He might prosecute his voyage as well as by day. 1877 W. W. Fowler (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 July (1994) III. 621 Peg Inerny..was beggar woman by day and Queen of Fairy by night. 2009 26 Feb. 23/4 The spot is a flower shop by day and a tavern by night. lOE (Corpus Cambr. 303) (1980) 102 Soðlice, þry dagas hi wunodon togædere and geornlice andledon godes lof betweoxan heom be dæges and be nihte. ?a1160 (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Þa namen hi þa men.., bathe be nihtes & be dæies, carlmen & wimmen, & diden heom in prisun. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 11332 Heold crist hiss fasste..Bi daȝhess. & bi nahhtess. c1300 St. Leonard (Laud) l. 14 in C. Horstmann (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 (Vernon) (1950) 34 Louely Ihesu..þat al my feblesse maiȝt strengþen.., bi niȝtes and bi dayes aȝeyn my wiþerwines. c1425 (1923) 4 (MED) Aftir the labourous and swetyng that he had by dayes, his body with reste he wolde refresshe. ?a1475 (1922) 360 (MED) Wachith me be dayes and nythis. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil 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 37 The Advantage of Travailing by nights, as well as by days. 1700 11 Her Slave by Night, her very Ape by days. 1906 Nov. 8/2 He is president of a prosperous steel chain company by days. 2003 J. Berardinelli 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.the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)] c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) 255 (MED) He walde don hire anan ut of dahene. c1300 (Harl. 2277) (1845) 2188 This holi man was ibroȝt of dawe. c1380 (1879) l. 1697 (MED) Many ys þe gode cristene kniȝt þat þar haþ be don of day [rhyme aray]. a1400 (a1325) (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) l. 282 (MED) I trawed my perle don out of dawez [rhyme lawez]. c1440 (?a1400) l. 2055 (MED) Oure soueraygne sulde be..don of dawez with dynttez of swreddez [read swerddez]. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Nero) ii. l. 3389 Qwhen þat he was don of daw Þai tuk þe lande for outtyn aw. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1959) vi. vii. 68 Thou with swerd was slaw, Byreft thi self the lyfe, and brocht of daw. a1350 (Ashm.) (1957) 86 Ne spareþ noȝt..ac heieþ uaste, þat heo of dawe be. a1393 J. Gower (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. eOE tr. Bede (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 (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 (Faust.) 6 (table of contents) Hu þa godcundan weorc on dæge sceolan beon gedon. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 67 (MED) Ete nu leinte mete, and enes o dai and euene fille. c1400 (?c1380) l. 510 (MED) Into acorde þay con declyne For a pene on a day, and forth þay gotz.] OE Ælfric (Julius) (1881) I. 178 Ðet hus eall scean, swa swa sunne on dæg. c1175 (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 (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 67 He maked þeues to stele oniȝt; o day to ligge & gouȝ. a1400 (a1325) (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) (1940) l. 47 (MED) Þe fest watz ilyche ful fiften dayes..Dere dyn vpon day, daunsyng on nyȝtes. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 134v Noctiluca.., which is to see anyȝt & not on day. 1568 G. Skeyne v. sig. A7 As..propensnes to sleip albeit on day, rauing and walking. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 402 Þa þatt..Aȝȝ follȝhenn rihhtwisnesse. Biforenn menn. bihinndenn menn. O daȝȝess. & o nihhtess. a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 244 (MED) A kowherde..is my kynde fader..& here i kepe is kyn..on dayes. c1400 (?c1380) (1920) l. 578 (MED) Non nuyez hym, on naȝt ne never upon dayez. ?1536 R. Copland 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) (2002) f. 133v Wyth myche dole vppon dayes & on derke nightes..The petie & the playnt was pyn for to here. a1616 W. Shakespeare (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.the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adverb] 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria i. i. f. 2 He..appeased theyr furie, and prolonged day after day [L. diem ex die]. 1597 H. Arthington 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 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 10 Nov. 47/1 The French..attacked the Imperial troops, day after day, for twenty-two days running. 1830 Ld. Tennyson 33 A world of peace And confidence, day after day. 1924 C. J. Galpin 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 iv. 101 In the factory it's just repetition, the same thing day after day. 2009 29 July a15/1 Day after day they slog through the heat, dust and mud, waiting for the enemy to initiate contact. 1833 G. H. Calvert x. 165 Day on day I've journeyed towards ye. 1902 E. W. Wilcox 55 How loud it echoed in that place, Where, day on day, no sound was heard But her own footsteps. 1999 S. S. Tepper (2000) 445 Day on day they had sat in the Shah's throne room. OE (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 (Burchfield transcript) l. 9939 Þatt aniȝ shollde dwellenn. Ne draȝhenn nohht fra daȝȝ to daȝȝ, To betenn heore sinness. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 10386 (MED) Fram daye to daye hii dude þe mansinge. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 32v Fro Day to day, de die in diem, in dies, dietim. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus 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 sig. I8 From daye to daye you haue beane worse. a1616 W. Shakespeare (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 No. 445. ¶3 Whether I should still persist in laying my Speculations, from Day to Day, before the Publick. 1736 tr. M. Huber 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 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 II. ix. 131 I scraped along from day to day, not daring to look much ahead. 1912 F. E. Matthes 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 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 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. the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adverb] > every specific number of days 1568 Wyf of Auchtirmwchty l. 22 in W. T. Ritchie (1928) II. 321 Content am I To tak þe pluche my day abowt.] 1708 v. 168 Here is only one Tribune mentioned, which inclines me to believe, that the two Tribunes..commanded day and day about. 1806 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 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 June 642 They should..each take the other's work, day about, turn in turn. 1903 25 222 One man worked day about on each wheel. 1939 F. Thompson 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 xiv. 220 The adults take it in turns day-about to remain on the nest during incubation. the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > repeatedly 1824 W. Irving 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 (1890) 127 Sewing as she did, day in, day out. 1927 Feb. 109/2 Work—day in day out—and not much money. 1966 G. N. Leech xv. 138 Lifebuoy Toilet Soap With Puralin gives day in–day out protection against B.O. 1985 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 203 What's the point? All this backbreaking, brain-aching work that people do day in day out—why? c. society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > day or night 1853 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 8 Jan. 1/6 Drabble answered that it was his day off, but that he would find a cab for him. 1893 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 Dec. 10/1 Whatever 'e's done, let us remember that 'e's given us a day off. 1971 1 July 1 (heading) Teachers' strike gives 400,000 pupils day off. 2008 (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. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > outing or excursion > [noun] 1822 26 Apr. 270/3 She..said she would call again in a fortnight, as it was her day out. 1869 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 4 Jan. 5/5 It was Fayle's day out, and he made the most of the chances offered. 1943 18 63 There was a tremendous crowd going, all flossied up for a day out. 2007 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. OE tr. Vitas Patrum in B. Assmann (1889) 207 And wit wæron ealne þone dæg on þære mæstan modes fyrhto. c1300 St. Kenelm (Laud) l. 233 in C. Horstmann (1887) 352 (MED) Heo seien hire [sc. a cow] sitte al þe day..Stille in one stude, meteles. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 91 Syngynge he was or floytynge al the day. a1439 J. Lydgate (Bodl. 263) iv. 3635 (MED) The peeple..Hadde al the day dronke myhti wynes. a1513 R. Fabyan (1516) II. Prol. f. iv For thoughe I shulde all day tell Or chat with my ryme dogerell. 1664 S. Pepys 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 105 Untir'd at night, and chearful all the Day . View more context for this quotation 1722 D. Defoe 5 I did nothing but Work and Cry all Day. 1766 C. Anstey viii. ii. 52 She slav'd all the Day like a Spitalfields Weaver. 1820 J. Severn Let. 17 Dec. in J. Keats (1958) II. 363 I am obliged to wash up—cook—& read to Keats all day. 1901 24 Aug. 476/1 There was vomiting all the day. 1974 E. Bowen iii. 47 She reclined all day on a silk chaise, resolutely trying to drink all the whiskey in Philadelphia. 2003 J. Lethem i. viii. 122 We going down to bomb some trains or we sit here all day talking 'bout this and that? the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adverb] 1533 T. More vii. p. cclxxxii He promysed to be wyth his chyrche all days to the worldes ende. 1575 G. Gascoigne 3rd Chorus sig. H.iii Humble bees, which fly all dayes aloft, And tast the flowers, that fairest are to see. 1605 J. Radford 239 He is..in spirit & truth with vs all daies euen to the end of the worlde. 1674 W. Annand 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 V. xx. 226 He bathes him with the witch, and sits perfumed, Drinking, all days, sweet mead, in king's high hall. 1566 T. Stapleton 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 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 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. OE (Corpus Cambr.) v. 17 Ða wæs anum dæge [L. in una dierum] geworden þæt he sæt & hig lærde. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 19458 Godess gast off heffne comm..An daȝȝ att unnderrn time. 1536 R. Morison 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 i. ii. xi. 53 Had it not been, to revenge himself one day, upon the Spaniards. 1719 D. Defoe 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 Dec. 108/1 Sam returned one day, weak, ague-shaken, demented, but still fondly, foolishly faithful. 1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara iii. in 282 I moralized and starved until one day I swore that I would be a full-fed free man at all costs. 2013 Mar. 290/1 One day, no one knows exactly when, agents stopped messengering scripts around town. the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > at some future time or one day 1477 Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale Prol. in (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 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 ii. ii. 21 The King will know him one day . View more context for this quotation 1738 J. Swift 57 I'll make you one Day sup Sorrow for this. 1872 J. Morley i. 2 A gracious, benevolent, and all-powerful being, who would one day redress all wrongs and recompense all pain. 1945 T. Williams 217 One day I will look in the mirror and I will see that my hair is beginning to turn grey. 2001 M. Ravenhill ii. viii. 85 One day I'm just gonna up and go. the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > at some future time or one day a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 117 I pray you brynge hym to the courte one of thes dayes. 1535 1 Sam. xxvii. 1 One of these dayes shal I fall into the handes of Saul. 1632 R. Brome i. ii. sig. Bv Your fine wit will post you into another world one of these dayes. 1700 W. Congreve 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 II. xxxv. 279 You will tell me a different tale one of these days. 1915 W. S. Maugham (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 (2009) xix. 301 It wouldn't surprise me if we both turn up lightly disguised in a campus novel one of these days. the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > a spell of bad luck > day of 1922 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 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’ 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 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. the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adverb] c1450 (1900) 112 (MED) The oþer day, I told ȝou a parcell of þe wose in sleuthe. 1566 W. Painter 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 16 Feb. (1971) IV. 44 A priest was taken in his vests officiating somewhere in Holborne the other day. 1712 R. Steele No. 552. ⁋1 I was tumbling about the town the other day in a hackney-coach. 1810 A. Argus 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 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 (2019) 17 The other day we had a long march to form a guard of honour. 1979 ‘W. Allen’ & M. Brickman Manhattan in (1982) 270 Guess what? I turned eighteen the other day. 2012 (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. OE Ælfric (Julius) (1881) I. 454 Ða sume dæg eode he swa swa he oft dyde. OE (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 (1917) 130 Hit gelamp sume dæige, þæt se halge were on ærnemorgen digellice ferde to his wæterseaðe. OE Ælfric (St. John's Oxf.) 148 Tempore futuro, docebo ic tæce gyt to dæg oððe sume dæg. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 985 To vouche sauf, som day with hym to dyne. a1535 T. More (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 ii. 14 Foreseeing that he, would be some day Suprem Lord, & Sovereign of the thirstie Ethrappels. 1796 F. Burney 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 III. ix. xvii. 95 I hope to return some day what you then so generously pressed upon me. 1953 D. Whipple xx. 176 ‘Some day’, she said to herself, ‘I shall be in a position where these little people will not dare to disrespect me.’ 2002 8 Apr. i. 2/5 He'll do just fine. The kid might even make federal judge some day. 1692 T. Southerne 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 (1950) I. 15 I will send you some of these days Shelton's Tachygraphical Alphabet, and directions. ?1856 F. E. Smedley xxxv. 245 Some of these days I shall be obliged to give him a lesson. 1940 R. Wright 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 11 Sept. a4/2 I just wondered if some of these days somebody is going to do something about it. P5. With verbs. the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] OE (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 (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. (1882–7) lxv. 222 There myserably he shall ende his dayes. 1639 S. Du Verger tr. J. P. Camus 35 He seeks to end his dayes..another time by poison, againe by some steeled weapon. 1726 J. Swift 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 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 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 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. 1097/2 He ended his days a compulsive-obsessive, drug-dependent hypochondriac. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. v. 34 in 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 (1950) 327 Come..let us make a day of it. Let us go down to Greenwich and dine. 1828 C. Lamb 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 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 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 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. 1644 J. Milton 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 (1971) II. 61 I can not yet see day in this businesse betwixt the two Houses. 1750 W. Warburton ii. 133 By this time the Reader begins to see day, through the thick Confusion of Theodoret's cloud of circumstances. 1800 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 8 July 2/1 For the first since the outbreak of the rebellion we begin to see day. 1437 (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) (Calig.) (1979) l. 1499 Þey..toke day at þe monthys ende Of playn batayle. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre (1913) 165 She acorded to her this request and toke daye for to do hit. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. xxxii. 46 Then they toke day to come agayn a thre wekes after the Feast of saynt John. 1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede v. xv. f. 171 To make quick confession of their sinfull actes and not to take dayes with God. 1642 T. Fuller 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 He need not take day to answer it. 1675 J. Collinges 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 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. 1865 Children's Employm. Comm. (1862): 4th Rep. App. 40/2 in XX. 103 [I] like being on days best, because I get 6s. a week then. 1910 Dec. 198/1 ‘You're lucky to be going on days,’ said the gray-haired sergeant that night. 1966 ‘A. Sylvester’ 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 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 (Nexis) 10 July Those [women] who worked only nights..were 80 per cent more likely to struggle to conceive than those who did days. P6. With another noun. a. Noun phrases with of. (a) society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > Yom Kippur > [noun] 1530 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 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 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 82 The Conclusion Prayer..concludes the service of the Day of Atonement. 1974 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 (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. (b) 1695 G. Hooper 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 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 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 viii. 258 The Day of Atonement..marks not only the conclusion, but the culminating point, of the Days of Repentance. 1959 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 210/2 Since the buying of these items is a mitzvah, there is added incentive to purchase them during the Ten Days of Repentance. (c) 1657 A. B. tr. J. Buxtorf 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 (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 (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 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 II. 289/2 By some Polish cantors this characteristic cadence is..employed in the services of the Days of Penitence. 2002 5 Sept. 53 We are required on Yom Kippur, and by the whole Ten Days of Penitence which it concludes, to examine ourselves. (d) society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > specific society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > All Souls (2 November) > [noun] 1803 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 8 Feb. 48/1 (heading) The Day of the Dead in Paris. 1888 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 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 (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 (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. (e) 1850 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 vii. 39 A reference to the New Year Reading on Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the ten Days of Awe. 2008 (Nexis) 19 Sept. 17 It's a shame that so many Jews go to synagogue only on the Days of Awe. (f) 1916 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 v. 73 The resulting circular called on all members to stop work on the Day of Action. 2013 (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. the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] 1832 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 18 Jan. 40/1 The numerous abuses that beset all business ventures in this day and age. 1944 H. Croome xxi. 209 Do you mean to say that in this day and age..you're going to come the conventional? 1958 18 July 116/2 The needs of this day and age. 2011 (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. the world > action or operation > continuing > continually (in action) [phrase] the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > repeatedly OE (Corpus Cambr. 196) 28 Nov. (2013) 220 Hig slepon dæg and nyht, swa lange swa hig on þam huse wæron. lOE (Corpus Cambr.) (1997) 96 Soðlice, hi þænceð dæg & niht ymbe þinne swicdom. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 5112 Te birrþ ȝe[o]rnenn daȝȝ. & nihht. a1250 in C. Brown (1932) 4 (MED) Þet swinkeð dei & niht i ðine seruise. ?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne 100 in W. Heuser (1904) 147 Oþer briddes..stinteþ neuer..Miri to sing dai and niȝt. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) v. l. 658 (MED) His peine day and nyht He dede, if he hire wynne myhte. 1485 (Caxton) i. vi. sig. av The x knyghtes were ordeyned to watche the swerd day & nyȝt. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in (1557) 53/2 The pageauntes..were in making day and night at westminster. 1639 T. Fuller iv. xviii. 199 [She] laboured his cause day and night. 1724 J. Gay 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 (1880) I. iii. 184 The bags were carried..day and night at the rate of about five miles an hour. 1899 16 Mar. 10/2 The work will be carried out by day and night relays of men. 1919 19 551 Day and night they worked. 1964 S. Duke-Elder (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 ii. 129 Their trappers' radio—powered by nine D cell batteries and left on day and night. OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) iv. 211 On ðam ne ablinð granung, & þoterung dæges oððe nihtes. c1175 ( Homily (Cambr. Ii.1.33) in A. M. Luiselli Fadda (1977) 151 Hig þonne þar nane reste nabað, dæges ne nihtes, butan on þære drihtenlican æristes tide.] a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris (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 (1956) 494 (MED) Noþer dai ne niȝt hi nolde hem noȝt forgo. a1400 (a1325) (Fairf. 14) 3449 (MED) So harde wiþ-in hir wombe þai faȝt atte ho ne mote reste day ne naȝt. a1475 (Lansd.) (1999) II. l. 11390 To her kinde [sc. fish] it longeþ noght To slepe day or night oght. ?a1475 (1922) 37 (MED) I pray to god..that he me kepe in such A plyght..I to affendyn hym day nor nyght. ?a1525 (?a1475) l. 279 I woll sure yow be thys lyght. Neuer dystre[n] yow daye nor nyght. 1596 T. Nashe sig. N3 Neuer exceeding a penny a quart day nor night; and this deare yeare..scarce that. 1658 S. Slater (single sheet) They neither Day nor Night spare any pains, But to Corpulentize ravenous Wembs Anthropophagize even Royal Stems. 1670 J. Milton ii. 43 With a dreadful industry of ten days, not respiting his Souldiers day or night. 1799 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 xi. 224 The mercury has not been below 90°, day nor night, for a week. 1938 Jan. 2/1 (advt.) Modern gas water heaters assure you ample hot water—day or night. 2011 J. D'Amboise 225 The dancing never stopped, day or night. (c) the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > other human disorders > [noun] 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig sig. Kijv The same water is good agaynste a sore named the daye and nyght shotte [Ger. nacht vnd tag schüß]. P7. Designating things relating to, used for, or lasting for, a period of the number of days specified. OE Ælfric (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 (1965) 83 31 Man mæg anes dæges fæsten mid anan pænige alysan. a1425 (c1395) (Royal) (1850) Luke ii. 44 Thei..camen a daies iourney [c1384 E.V. the wey of a day, L. iter diei]. 1581 W. Raleigh 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 xxix. 115 The three dayes abstinence being expired, lots were cast. 1759 Jan. 7/2 If the weather tends to be rainy, you must provide at least two days food. 1897 30 Jan. 20/2 Phlyctenular and simple ulcerative conjunctivitis was cured after six or seven days' treatment with sirol. 1920 Sept. 311 For forgetting to put any oil in the crank-case, he was stopped fourteen days' pay. 2010 (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. 1481 W. Caxton tr. (1893) ccxi. 309 Wel a thre daye iourneye was Rages fro meletene. 1685 J. S. tr. iii. lxvi. 165 He (in the Name of his Lord) demanded a six day Truce to bury the Dead. 1763 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 I. 413 Six-day licenses may be granted. 1894 at Day Mod. An eight-day clock. 1940 10 Sept. 1/1 In his three-day blitz on London Goering has now lost 140 planes. 2001 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. society > authority > power > [noun] > period of power or influence 1546 J. Heywood 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 v. i. 289 A Cat will meaw, a Dog will haue a day. a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub ii. i. 4 in (1640) III A man ha' his houre, and a dog his day . View more context for this quotation 1727 W. Somervile 227 The Man is young, the World is wide, And as judicious Authors say, Every Dog shall have his Day. 1792 J. Throsby 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 I. i. i. 5 Each dog has but his day. a1869 R. Leighton (1875) 184 The most unlucky dog may have his day, But I, poor whelp, have given my turn away. 1946 S. J. Perelman 165 You can't tell, one of our guests might become famous all of a sudden. Every dog has its day. 1993 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. 1907 11 Mar. 4/2 Oh hum! The same old grind. Another day, another dollar. 1956 M. Wolff ii. 11 ‘Another Saturday under the bridge’, he said. ‘How you say, c'est la vie, another day, another dollar.’ 1993 18 Jan. 16/1 Another day, another deadline, and another backdown by Saddam Hussein, for what seems like the zillionth time. 2011 (Nexis) 8 Dec. (Business section) 5 Another day, another dollar, another crisis summit about the euro. P9. Other phrases. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 992 This day fifty wykes..Euerich of yow shal brynge an hundred knyghtes. ?1443 M. Paston in (2004) I. 218 Your fader and myn was dys day [MS dysday] sevenyth at Bekelys. 1526 Acts x. 30 This daye nowe .iiij. dayes I fasted. 1531 in I. S. Leadam (1911) II. 187 The same Court so adiorned to be kepte ther that day thre wekes next ensuyng. 1622 S. Rowlands 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 (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 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 (1885) 64 Delation given in against Janet and Margaret Simsons, in Lonhead, as having gathered partens this day eight days. 1761 L. Sterne 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 III. xiii. 244 On the day month that he had made the dreadful avowal. 1829 J. Hogg I. 21 Saw ye naething o' our young dinnagood this day eight days, Robin? 1866 C. Kingsley I. xv. 280 Let Harold see how many..he holds by this day twelve months. 1935 S. Beckett Let. 23 Sept. in J. Knowlson (2004) 197 I was down at Bedlam this day week. 1954 D. Thomson iii. 62 I can get you the power of sleeping by this day week. b. c1590 (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 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. (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 Prol. sig. I6 True Wit has seen its best days long ago. 1736 Nov. 662 The Craftsman hath seen better Days; but he has wrote himself into Contempt. 1805 W. Scott i. Introd. 4 His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day. 1806 R. Forsyth IV. 102 The whole town bears evident marks of having seen better days. 1876 F. Marryat xxv The truth is, the old housekeeper had seen her day, and was thankful for the prospect of any help in her duties. 1920 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 139 A plea from the heart of an ‘old-timer’ who perhaps has seen his day. 1982 P. Carter xx. 184 A sniff which strongly suggested that the sniffer had known better days, and better food. 2012 7 July (Mag.) 11/1 A stripey matelot T-shirt that has seen better days. 1606 T. Dekker 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 ii. i Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete. Damns have had their day. 1841 E. Miall in 1 i Diplomacy has had its day, and failed. 1850 Ld. Tennyson Prol. p. vi Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be. 1909 18 Jan. 5/1 Milton has had his day; Darwin has come to stay. 1957 I. Fleming (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 1 Nov. 68/2 By now, the protest tradition is regarded as a movement that has had its day. 1884 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 7 July 6/2 She has her days and then she might beat anybody. 1984 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 iv. 62 I'm a pilot for Continental Airlines; I like my work, though it has its days. 2003 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. 1781 M. P. Andrews 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 16 140/2 Mr. Austin said..that it was not his day... Garnett admitted that his opponent's luck had been shocking. 1956 12 Dec. 13/1 Injured woman, going to doctor, hurt in collision... It just wasn't her day! 1974 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 1 Having a bit of trouble, luv? Not your day, is it? 1594 J. Lyly i. iii. sig. B2 As proud as the day is long, she wil none of him. 1600 W. Shakespeare ii. i. 44 There liue we as mery as the day is long . View more context for this quotation 1703 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 ii. 48 O! did I Soflin hate, and Soflin Me, One had been happy as the Day! 1721 P. Doddridge (1829) I. 78 If we had any ladies here, I should be just as idle as the day is long. 1818 ‘W. H. Scott’ 127 The Setter is as stout as the day is long—active, hardy, spirited, and fearing no ground wet or dry. 1845 Sept. 222 Elkanor knew his customer, an old acquaintance, ‘miserly as the day is long when days are the longest’. 1864 ‘G. Eliot’ 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 Sept. 490 True as steel, and honest as the day. 1925 R. Hall xi. 122 Eight weeks ago she had seemed as happy as the day. 1989 T. Kidder vi. iii. 221 They're still going to be as obnoxious as the day is long. 2010 May 20/1 Oh he's as honest as the day on Galifrey is long. the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective] 1612 W. Shute tr. G. Du Vair 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 (1769) I. Pref. p. vi I am a Creature of a Day, passing thro' Life, as an Arrow thro' the Air. a1758 J. Hervey (1759) I. 46 Phantoms of a Day. 1818 J. Keats 3 May (1931) I. 153 My song should die away... Rich in the simple worship of a day. 1834 14 Man—the insect of a day. 1865 M. Arnold Pref. p.xix Apparitions of a day. 1902 20 190 The iconoclasts in the profession have with ruthless hands broken down these idols of a day. 1948 R. Horan 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 v. 94 It's forbidden to kill beauty For the lust of a day. a1400 (a1325) (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 (1918) 16 Þe day a kyng, þe morne na thing to spend. 1572 (a1500) (1882) l. 648 Quhair is Wymond the day? 1650 in W. M. Ogilvie (1876) 45 He said mirrilie, the goodwyff is holding a jubilie thie day. 1692 ‘J. Curate’ iii. 106 I have brought him to you the day. 1768 A. Ross 52 But tell me gin ye saw twa men the day, The tane wi' yellow hair, the tither gray? 1814 W. Scott II. xix. 289 But we maun a' live the day, and have our dinner. View more context for this quotation a1894 R. L. Stevenson (1896) vi. 159 Wear them the day, hizzie. 1900 May 476 Ye wrought hard in the fiel' the day. 1949 July 290 Hamish is away from home the day. 1974 S. Dobson 16 Hoo are ye the day? 1993 I. Welsh 67 Ah git good vibes aboot this interview the day though man, ken? 2001 J. MacLeod Trotter xxxix. 256 You'll get nowt else to eat the day if you don't! 1738 J. Swift 42 She's on the wrong Side of Thirty, if she be a Day. 1780 R. B. Sheridan ii. ii. 18 She's six and fifty if she's a day. 1829 G. Griffin 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 May 609/2 She's seventeen if she's a day, though he is the very first sweetheart she has had. 1871 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 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 xiii. 149 Madeleine's sister is a great age, too. Eighty, if a day. 2010 (Nexis) 10 Apr. (Sport section) 16 Old man Hopkins, who must be 60 if he's a day. the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > always or in every case 1759 L. Sterne 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 i. 13 I fancy thee art as good as myself at woman's work, any day. 1841 C. Dickens ii. xxxix. 11 Why you are a good deal better-looking than her, Barbara... You are, any day. 1875 S. A. Drake 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 viii. 188 Susan Nipper..is more of a heroine than Florence any day of the week. 1931 A. L. Rowse 155 They would prefer a despotism of the civil service to a despotism of the law any day. 2000 I. Pattison (2001) i. 26 ‘Never you mind, son,’ said my mother, ‘you're as good as they are any day.’ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [phrase] > expression of nostalgia 1826 M. H. Barker 116 Ah, them were the days! when a sailor had no trouble in getting rid of his money. 1858 A. Trollope I. i. 25 Them was the days! it a'nt that long ago neither. 1922 S. Lewis 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 ii. 62 Great days, Dad. Those were the days, Dad. 2011 S. Tyler & D. Dalton 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! the mind > emotion > passion > expression of strong feeling [interjection] the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection] 1841 C. L. Gascoigne 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 xx. 369 ‘O, my days!’ ‘What's the matter?’ asked Nannie. Samanthy answered with a smothered groan. 1997 C. Newland (1998) xiii. 221 ‘Oh my days, dat was a crack up star, properly!’ he was saying, his round face red with glee. 2013 B. Evaristo xviii. 300 Harvard? My grandson? Oh my days. Pass the smelling salts! 1860 M. Collins 176 Twenty years to the day—Man and wife were both grey. 1904 16 May 3/3 It is twelve months almost to the day since Warwickshire were here before. 1950 J. Hersey i. i. 20 The Judenrat had been formed a month earlier, to the day. 1980 W. H. Chafe (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 2 June 49/3 The New York quintet have returned, almost exactly two years to the day since their last record. society > leisure > entertainment > [verb (intransitive)] the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > desist from effort or exertion the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > quit or give up the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > impossibility > desire the impossible [phrase] > absence of possibility 1916 20 Oct. 486/4 You don't know how I am waiting to get back again: that will be the day. 1918 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 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 vi. 50 That'll be the day!..a cant phrase expressing mild doubt following some boast or claim by a person. 1943 N. Marsh vi. 101 He's a beaut. Wait till I get him. That'll be the day. 1951 N. Marsh 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 v. 83 ‘Got any free road-maps?’ ‘That'll be the day. Bob apiece.’ 2007 (Nexis) 3 Nov. 7 A hopeful headline in 1929 reads ‘Snobbery a thing of the past?’ (that'll be the day). Compounds C1. General attributive. a. With the sense ‘of or belonging to the day’. 1628 R. Markham 3 Shall I mourning runne into a shade; Through which a day beame neuer yet could skip. 1825 D. L. Richardson 60 The day-beams fade Along the crimson west. 2001 E. Meidav 70 In the last daybeams, the temple's ivory-white makes the promise to him. 1813 Ld. Byron ii. xxviii. 695 When the day-blush bursts from high. 1975 J. Gonda I. v. 217 The Morning-Wind illuminates heaven and earth, because he brings the day-blush, and that is his glory. 1822 May 418/2 The calm serenity of an Italian sky, somewhat shrouded from its day glories. 1839 E. B. Barrett in T. K. Hervey 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! 1658 T. Bancroft iii. 29 Like the radiant Day-God shall you shine. 1827 21 81 Why, Day-god, why so late? 1997 A. L. Sherman v. 98 Gaspar Mendosa is ancient... He guards the secrets of the day gods of the traditional Mayan calendar. 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton 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 137 On cloud-pillows soft but resplendent, Our day-spirit floats to his rest. 2010 L. M. DuQuette 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). 1671 R. Bohun 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 (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 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. 1645 S. Rutherford 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 ii. 33 The master never slept but in his day-clothes whilst on board. 2004 C. Manby 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. 1846 C. J. Hempel tr. E. F. Rueckert 351 Faintness. Day-drowsiness [Ger. Tagschläfrigkeit]. Sensitiveness inducing a ready flow of tears. 2003 (Nexis) 27 Sept. e10 A modern sufferer of sleep apnoea, who endures restless slumber and day drowsiness. 1653 I. Walton 126 There is night as well as day-fishing for a Trout. View more context for this quotation 1797 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 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. 1863 E. W. Lane 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’ IV. viii. lxiv. 274 In leisurely day-journeying from Genoa to London. 1912 E. Bignell 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 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. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer I. iv. 1062 The day reflection, and the midnight dream! 1839 J. N. Pinkerton 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 Index 545 Case of day somnambulism, 247. 1907 L. G. Guthrie 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 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. 1818 T. Park 86 Safe may thy day-slumbers be. 1836–9 II. 767/2 The bat..awoke from its deep day-slumber. 1905 J. Conrad in 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 179 You should not again appear to them Not in night dreams And not in day slumbers. 1630 R. Brathwait 195 Our Ordinary Gentlemen, whose day-taske is this. 1838 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 vi. 167 When taken to the extreme, shift work could actually draw workers away from necessary day tasks. 1615 N. Byfield (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 (ed. 9) 36 A sick man's wildest dreams less wild are found, Than the day-visions of a mind unsound. 1991 S. Parman 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’. 1640 J. Shirley iii. sig. E3v At your lips, Day winds gather perfumes, proudly glide away, To disperse sweetnesse round about the world. 1834 G. Roberts 190 A true southerly wind..is known by its continuing at night, which the day wind of fine weather never does. 2009 J. Wiseman 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). 1548 R. Crowley 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 (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 iv. 53 The night birds move off to their rest as the day birds start waking up. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer IV. xix. 83 A day-devourer, and an ev'ning-spy! 1825 T. Carlyle 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 ii. 114 Shew him the way of doing that, the dullest daydrudge kindles into a hero. 1874 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 27 A community of humans who have been underfed, day drudges from youth up. 1785 T. Holcroft in tr. Comtesse de Genlis 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 2 667 The insect, then, is very local in its habits, and it is a day-flier. 2011 (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. 1654 R. Whitlock 33 If griefe lodges with us over night, Joy shall be our Day Guest. 1899 J. E. De Becker 287 The number of day-guests gradually dropped off, and at length nearly everybody came to visit the Yoshiwara after dark exclusively. 2012 (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. 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. i, in sig. B2v Jugglers, Day-lurkers [L. tenebriones], and Deceivers. 1819 G. Samouelle 360 (table) Tinea... Salicis... The rosy Day-moth. 1903 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 (1998) 65 In this wet soil, wildflowers abound, and little apricot-colored day moths flutter up against my legs as I walk. 1889 3 Aug. 167 Two classes of flower-girl—the day-sellers and the night-sellers. 2008 G. Steel i. 11 Most of these vendors sell during the day, but around sunset a new shift of evening vendors relieve the day sellers. 1549 J. Cheke sig. E4v Daiesleepers, pursepikers. 1802 tr. L. S. Mercier II. cxxix. 41 Clumsy slovens, day sleepers to whom the course of time is lengthened. 2010 K. Kuhlken 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. c1384 (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 (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 297 The day-thief always left the house before daybreak, and did not return till after dark. 1930 6 259 The dialogue..between the Day-Thief and the Night-Thief when they first meet in the Café. the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > one who watches or keeps guard > day-watchman 1712 R. Steele 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 11 Sept. 3/4 George Lamerton..was on duty there as day-watchman. 1993 (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 3.1706 J. Stevens i. at Ajornalár To hire by the day. From jornál, day hire. 1916 C. E. Robinson ix. 104 Not that he would let out his labour for day-hire. 1994 J. Crace x. 166 He only had to..pay two sovereigns for the day hire of a horse. 1852 1st Rep. Commissioners Exhib. of 1851 App. iv. 39 in XXVI. 1 Day passes for British exhibitors. 1943 C. Graves vi. 104 They were all given a day pass, but scarcely anybody availed themselves of it. 2012 (Nexis) 15 Oct. 201 A day pass for the regular bus routes. 1490 W. Caxton tr. (1885) xix. 429 A day respyte is worthe moche. 1588 W. Clowes 123 You shall take three of these pilles together, hauing a day respit betwene, according as the strength of the sick patient will serue. 1838 E. B. Barrett 319 Thy day-sum of delight. 2006 M. Black et al. 395/1 The day-sum of the mean daily minimum and maximum temperatures. 1459 (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1459 §38. m. 13 A commaundement..to be redy to come..upon a day warnyng. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. (?1560) lxxxxiiii. sig. B*viv To be redy at a day warning. C2. a. With participles, forming adjectives with the sense ‘—— during the day’. 1821 P. B. Shelley i Like a day-appearing dream. 1832 T. Medwin tr. Aeschylus 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. iii. 48 He had met himself before, a day-appearing dream walking on the narrow terrace that almost overhung the sea. 1633 J. Fisher iii. vi. sig. Fv Our day-borne obiects doe returne at night. 1849 H. D. Thoreau 59 The Society Islanders had their day-born gods. 2002 J. O'Neill xi. 160 Dayborn nightdreams flashed in the shining word. 1803 A. H. Haworth i. 82 This and some other day-flying species [of moth]. 1950 15 June 586/1 Probably the best-known day-flying insect frequenting the flower garden is the magpie moth. 2005 C. Tudge xiii. 327 Some studies have shown that day-flying bats rarely survive for more than a few hours. a1586 Sir P. Sidney (1590) i. i. sig. B2v The day-shining starres. 1659 T. Porter 25 The Sun..is a Masculine day-shining Planet, moderately hot and dry. 2003 A. Shapiro & P. Burian tr. Aeschylus 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’. 1751 tr. II. 159 Day-hired Servants. 1810 J. Baillie iv. i. 88 Thinkst thou I am a Lowland, day-hired minstrel, To play or stop at bidding? 2009 K. Harper 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. 1612 H. Peacham i. 14 May she that day-lasting Lillie be. a1649 W. Drummond (1711) 139 Day-lasting Ornaments. 2000 R. Trezise (2001) iii. 28 The phone calls, the posters, the advertisements and the long, day-lasting, health-risking searches were of no avail. c. Objective. (a) ?a1765 J. Bailey in (1979) 14 5 The day-detesting bats and hooting owls Were hovering on the wing with fearful screams. 1786 R. Burns 207 Some day-detesting owl. 1808 R. Cumberland & J. B. Burges 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 37 The day-dispensing God no radiance threw On land so eminent. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer V. xx. 102 The day-distracting theme. ?1780 8 The day-loving Lillie, is turn'd with the pose. 1928 62 394 The day-loving birds at one extreme and the crepuscular and night-loving birds at the other extreme. 2010 G. S. Paul 36/1 Day-loving raptors can see about three times better than people. (b) 1595 S. Daniel ii. cv. sig. L3v The day-hater Mineruas bird. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo (title page) The night-adventurer, or the day-hater. 2005 D. MacEochaidh 125 We had our drinking in the lonely hours, those sad hours savoured by the mad, the insomniacs and day-haters. 1824 J. Bowring & H. S. Van Dyk 158 Day-prolonger—summer's mate. d. Instrumental. 1843 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 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. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. iv. 35 Feeble, and day-wearied Sunne. View more context for this quotation 1855 G. MacDonald v. ii. 176 He sang a song, each pause of which closed up, Like a day-wearied daisy for the night. 1998 (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. 1583 B. Melbancke (new ed.) sig. G.iv Now nights dark mantle gan to auaile, the day bright star. 1834 M. Howitt 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 97/2 Through this crack streams the whole of the day-bright landscape beyond the wood. 1849 J. H. Newman Let. 7 Mar. in W. Ward (1913) I. viii. 238 Nothing is more day-clear than this. 1974 E. M. Pope 227 Beyond the forest the open vale with its scattering of trees looked almost day-clear. 1796 T. Townshend 49 Day-eyed Fancy. 1813 H. Cowley III. 82 The cumbrous alps ascend, whose tops explore The regions day-eyed Eagles fear to soar! 1857 J. Woodmansee v. 202 Yes, Day-eyed Sun! thy glories shall be quench' d. 1921 E. M. Patch xi. 178 He [sc. an owl] could see better than the day-eyed birds who tried to follow him. C3. 1822 W. Cobbett 46 Nobody is so dull as the day-before drunkard. 2005 B. Conord & J. Conord 218 Most hotels will make your day-before arrangements for the tours listed above. c1300 (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 (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 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 2 The Trustees for repairing the Parish Church and Clock of Cropredy,..and for ringing the Curfew and Day-bell there. 1839 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 v. 140 The tolling of daybell and curfew bells. society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [noun] > placarding, postering, or billing > a placard, notice, or bill 1731 24 Apr. Several Entertainments by Mrs. Salle and others, as will be express'd in the Day Bills. 1824 Ld. Byron lxii. 36 A single day-bill Of modern dinners. 1907 Aug. 223/2 The period which first saw the casts printed on the daybill was precisely the period when programmes came into vogue. 2010 16 July 103 This beautiful Australian daybill is one of the only very few large posters for this film that we are aware of. 1749 T. Nugent I. xvi. 299 In December, January, and February there is no day boat. 1819 I. ix. 158 These were the day boats of our female voyagers. 1852 J. Abbott (1853) VI. i. 13 Marco decided in favor of the day boat, in order that he might see the scenery. 1908 Nov. 254/1 Of the speedy runabout type, they represent a really practical class of day boat. 1988 (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 Dec. 77/1 Cobalt's 323 may be the best dayboat ever. 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 1568 Abp. M. Parker Let. 6 Feb. in (1853) (modernized text) 310 I trust, not so great a day-body..but can consider both reason and godliness. society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > day pupil 1750 L. Chambaud 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 lvi. 507 Georgy was, like some dozen other pupils, only a day boy. 1914 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 19 163 He went to the new King William's College, Isle of Man, as a dayboy for three years. 2004 H. Holt (2005) i. 19 After all, there are some very good schools quite near where they can be day-boys. society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > day pupil 1909 J. R. Ware 105/1 Don't row with that fellow, he's only a day-bug. 1913 C. Mackenzie I. i. vii. 103 When an older boarder called him a ‘day-bug’ Michael was discreetly silent. 2002 C. Slaughter (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. 1825 Gaols: Copies Rep. & Schedules (B.) 108 in (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 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 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 (1974) i. 8 Dogs and sleds, trapping skills, snow-shoeing, hidden caches and day camps were adequately described. 1989 T. B. Brazelton iv. 173 One day he was being surly and angry. It came out that the kids in day camp had been teasing him. 2013 (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. 1830 Rep. Select Comm. State of Poor in Ireland 5 in (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 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 (1871) 50 This company build and run their own elegant sleeping coaches and palace day cars. 1991 Oct. 74/3 Each carriage now boasts the same pre-war elegance displayed in the day cars. 2002 J. Hume viii. 129 A day-car, established in 1836, covered the journey [from Derry to Belfast] in 10 hours. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > place of resort > [noun] > non-residential centre for elderly or disabled 1888 Final Rep. Commissioners Elem. Educ. Acts 275 in (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 24 Mar. 631/1 The next development will be the establishment of residential hostels for the same purpose as the new day centre. 1976 21 Dec. 1/3 Grant aid to elderly persons' clubs, luncheon clubs and day centres will be continued. 2011 (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. the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun] 1835 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 p. xxvi Day-clean is used for day-break. 1937 D. C. Heyward 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 373 Their masters..decreed that a field slave must work from ‘day clean’ to ‘first dark.’ 2011 21 May (Saturday Review) 22 He loves the local [Guyanese] language, which calls the dawn ‘dayclean’. the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock 1766 6 A day clock, made by Dr. Cumberland, Bishop of Peterborough. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ I. i. iv. 74 The hours passed, to the loud ticking of the old day-clock. 2009 B. M. Lewis 12 Downstairs the day clock began to chime, as if on cue. 1676 D. L. Hodgson in (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 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. society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school 1889 15 91 There should be a day continuation school. 1902 10 128 The firm is further bound to allow the young man to attend a day continuation school. 1922 No. 308 16 In Nevada..the provision for evening schools is retained besides that for the day continuation schools. 1943 68 The Council..advocated..day continuation schools for young persons up to the age of 18. 2004 (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. 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 1915 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 15 Jan. 18/2 (advt.) By day protect your skin's precious look of youth with moisture-filled Day Cream. 2010 R. Campo i. 10 Day cream is all about hydration and sun protection, so use one with SPF 15. 1884 R. Strachey in (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 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 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 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. 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 1770 W. Dodd 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 18 Feb. 110/2 Pointed waists are more used for evening than day dresses. 1922 C. E. Tyndale-Biscoe 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 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. society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > horizontal 1859 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 (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 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 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. society > communication > journalism > journalist > editor of journal or newspaper > [noun] > other types of journal or newspaper editor 1869 J. H. Browne 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 2 Dec. 3/5 He called at their office..and saw a Mr. Harris, the day editor. 1985 (Nexis) 27 Feb. ‘ABC National’ will feature State political commentary from the show's day editor, Quentin Dempster. 2008 (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. 1855 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 7 27 Coal would probably be obtained first by ‘drifts’, ‘day-eyes’, or ‘breast-highs.’ 1999 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. the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall 1823 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 (1908) July 29 He [sc. Shelley] dabbles his fingers in the day-fall. He is gold-dusty with tumbling amidst the stars. 1996 42 No. 2. 87 You..measure dawn and dayfall like the clock Of heaven till the dead clock's work is done. 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence 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 (Nexis) 13 May 11 Butterflies are day-feeders and are attracted to bright-colored flowers and their sweet nectars. the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Gekkonidae > miscellaneous types of 1957 K. P. Schmidt & R. F. Inger 75/1 Probably the most extraordinary group of Madagascar geckos are the day geckos (Phelsuma). 1986 13 238/1 The primary object of most of these trips was the collection and study of day-geckos (Phelsuma species). 2010 21 Mar. (Guide to Pets Suppl.) 51/1 The day gecko is an arboreal creature, living in trees when in the wild. society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > day pupil 1831 I. Hill in 49 That afternoon I got leave to walk with Grace Arnold, a day girl. 1933 17 July 7/5 The school had been full throughout the year with almost equal numbers of boarders and day girls. 1987 R. Godden (1989) 43 In that mainly boarding school Rose and I were day girls which made us..outsiders. 2012 (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. the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall ?1552 Ld. Wharton in W. Nicolson (1705) App. 321 The Night-Watch to be set at the Day-going, and to continue unto the Day be light. 1638 T. Jackson 177 Betwixt three of the clock, and the day-going. 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 1725 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 (1966) x. 116 My old peacock cashmere evening, transformed into a day gown with long sleeves. 1914 J. W. Ballantyne x. 178 There will be a soft flannel blanket for receiving the baby when born..long flannel gowns, nightgowns and day-gowns. 2009 (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. 1882 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 24 449 The first day haul, at 1 ft below chart datum, was nearly 2 ft lower than the lowest night haul. 1993 (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 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. 1565 in F. J. Furnivall (1897) 44 Ther was diuerse daie-holdinges to get them to abide together; which they neuer cold bringe to passe. ?1794 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 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 11 Feb. 5/1 The coal is won by means of a day hole. 1905 R. W. Moore in J. Wilson 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 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. the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > other types of hospital 1843 30 Dec. 398/1 A kind of day-hospital, to keep the children from wandering idly abroad. 1958 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 (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. ?1556 L. Digges 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 ii. 77 The upper half of the circle..is the Day-Hours, and the lower..is the Night-Hours. 1722 J. Stevens I. 359/2 He..commanded them to perform the Night as well as the Day Hours of Divine Service. 1855 P. Freeman I. 220 There is, however, attached to each of these ‘day-hours’ a ‘mid-hour’ Office. 1997 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 (Nexis) 9 Jan. These are faceless entities who cover their faces during the day hours and become most active at night. 1640 J. Sadler 19 Libra, Venus' Day House: Saturns Exaltation. 1722 R. Ball 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 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 98 When one planet rules two signs, it is said to have a ‘day house’ and a ‘night house’. society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > a day's journey ?a1425 (Egerton) (1889) 77 Þe toure of Babilon..es fra Caldee foure day iournez. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 32v A Day Jornay, dieta. 1485 W. Caxton tr. (1957) 50 Whan they were by a day Iourneye nygh vnto vyenne. 2005 H. Bielenstein 323 Distances are given in day journeys or in Chinese miles. society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > types of 1910 H. L. Sellers in (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 57 The day letter is not handled so speedily as the full-rate message. 2002 G. J. Downey 88 Day letters..were accepted in the morning with delivery attempted (but not guaranteed) sometime that very same day. 1832 N. Michell 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 (ed. 2) 80 Things born of vice or day-lived fashion. 1921 F. W. Bourdillon 76 Ah, poor day-lived dreamer, All thy golden treasure Pledged on this life only! 1623 W. Drummond 38 Day-liuers wee rememberance doe losse Of Ages worne. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > object on land or sea as guide 1695 in E. Gibson tr. W. Camden 747 In the year 1684 a Day-mark was..erected, being a Beacon with a barrel on the top of it. 1756 W. Borlase 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 11 Jan. 2/7 She [sc. the lightship] has..two hoop iron day-marks (one at each masthead), painted red. 1953 H. Hubbard ix. 256 We could see through the mist the old daymark at the mouth of the river we were aiming at. 2011 (Nexis) 2 Sept. 14 Trinity House..said the Beachy Head lighthouse was no longer needed as a daymark, the reason for its eyecatching appearance. 1826 8 July 11/2 Cooba! Quamina! Coobenha! Juba! Mimba! me call you by your born-day name to please you!] 1844 H. Browne 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 7 551/1 At birth comes the day-name,..eight days later the child is given a second name by the father. 1966 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 iv. 271 He carefully wrote down some Twi words I taught him, including his ‘day name’ in Akan, ‘Kwabena’. 1931 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 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 (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 (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. the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age 1831 J. Wilson in Feb. 321/2 She left his breast—but, weak as a day-old lamb, tottered—and sank down among the snow. 1911 R. Brooke Feb. (1968) 280 Every night I sit in a café near here..and read the day-old Times. 1928 11 May 19/4 Day-olds from reliable pedigree strains cost only 21s a dozen. 1959 Apr. 18/2 Priority is being given to arrangements for the carriage of day-old chicks. 1960 5 Jan. 109/3 Year after year crops of goslings are..in big demand as day-olds or ‘growers’. 2002 D. H. Sterry (2003) v. 54 When I get home to my hovel I steamshovel a mouthful of day-old cake into my face. 1914 ‘Bartimeus’ iv. 27 The Day-on flopped exhaustedly on to a Wardroom settee. 1948 E. Partridge et al. 52 Day on, to be, to be Officer-of-the-Watch or ‘Duty-Boy’. society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > carried on back or over shoulder 1969 Apr. 134/2 Once camp has been established, this cleverly designed stuff bag becomes an easy-to-carry day pack. 1979 24 May 35/3 But the daypack, which straps over the shoulders and has a waist band, is not for everyone. 1993 Spring 41/2 James had stuffed his daypack with enough provisions to fortify a team of Sumo wrestlers for a year. 2007 T. Friend v. 129 I filled a raggedy brown day pack with notebooks, pens, a digital camera,..and plenty of granola bars just in case. the world > health and disease > healing > patient > [noun] > in hospital 1754 22 Jan. Day Patients, who are supplied with Medicines, get Advice, and are dressed, according to their different Necessities. 1863 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. viii. 485 Most of the sanatoriums are not provided with the equipments for caring for any but day patients. 1960 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 (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. society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > day pupil 1784 11 The terms to day pupils for the attending masters, the same as to boarders. 1842 C. Brontë May (1995) I. 284 This is a large school..in which there are about 40..day-pupils and 12..boarders. 1937 Jan. ii./1 Fees..from 30 guineas per annum for day-pupils. 2013 (Nexis) 26 May 2 Holyport will eventually take 225 boarders and 275 day pupils. 1863 18 Mar. 11/4 He went to the defendants' station at Scarborough and asked for a day return ticket to Whitby. 1929 24 Sept. 8/5 On the District Railway you cannot buy a day return after 4p.m. 1973 D. Lang 41 I went down there for a visit on a cheap day-return. 2003 A. M. Cooper xv. 398 Two day-returns to Rome on the fast train. 1728 R. Castell 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 577 A Small County Prison..A spacious day room on the ground floor. 1942 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 28 Feb. 9/2 Patients in various stages of extremis were shoved into the day-room for a couple of hours. 1964 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 (1988) vi. 130 The best we can do is daysail, or manage a weekend cruise. 2008 (Nexis) 8 Mar. (Features section) 8 Anyone with a basic level of competence can come along and daysail. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > yacht > small 1909 Mar. 283/2 This boat is a fine day sailer, easy to handle, able and speedy. 1989 B. Spock & M. Morgan 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 (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. 1890 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 25 Jan. 11/6 The large cockpit will accommodate a sizeable party for day sailing. 1987 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 15 May d4/8 (advt.) Number 1 daysailing & watersports companies now for sale. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > yacht > small 1939 8 Jan. s11/7 (advt.) A new 19' Sparkman and Stephens designed class racer and day sailor. 1951 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 (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 iv. 77 Cabin cruisers were all the rage for power boaters, but the 19-foot daysailor was perfect for inland racing. 1535 1 Chron. xxvii. C Towarde the south foure on the daye season likewyse. 1796 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 III. v. 299 During the brightness of the day-season, the nocturnal Lepidoptera conceal themselves in tangled vegetation. 1901 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. the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset 1633 Court Bk. Bishopric of Orkney (National Archives Scotl.: SC10/1/5) f. 87, in at Day He gaid to his dauchteris hous efter day sett. 1771 P. Fea Diary Feb. in at Day I think they got Eda about day Sett. a1899 A. Lampman (1925) 129 Toward dayset, where the journeying sun grown old Hangs lowly westward darker now than gold. 1916 J. J. H. Burgess 4 Aug. Dayset is da nicght blushin red at da kiss o her laad. 1993 (Nexis) 24 Dec. (Weekend Travel section) 2 My favourite Shetland term is dayset, a neat alternative to ‘evening’. 2018 H. Scott in (Scots Lang. Soc.) Apr. 1 The sun..Retirin aerlie bringin furth day-set. the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > daylight 1773 J. Robertson (rev. ed.) 40 Candles are destin'd to supply The want of day-shine in the sky. a1849 T. L. Beddoes (1851) I. 154 By moon, or lamp, or sunless day-shine white. 1997 C. Wallace-Crabbe 38 'Check it in here,' he said Squinting against the dayshine. 1691 A. D'Anvers 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 6 A clean day shirt should..be put on twice a week, and a clean night shirt once a week. 1968 V. Nabokov (1989) xi. 228 He had slept in his day shirt and had sweated profusely. 2015 G. Cooper ii. 23 St Gabriel's sewing party was making dozens of mufflers, dayshirts, nightshirts.., handkerchiefs and pillowcases for soldiers in training. the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset 1673 in J. A. Picton (1883) I. 316 That every publick house hang out lanthornes..till 8 a clock at night, from day shutting. a1861 J. Hunter MS Gloss. in S. O. Addy (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 x. 438 They are distinguished from the stone raised in quarries by the name of ‘Day-stones’. 1888 S. O. Addy 305 All rocks or stones that are visible on the surface are day-stones. The common lands in Rivelin are covered with day-stones. 1802 H. K. White in Sept. 199 Fast from the west the fading day-streaks fly. 1848 A. H. Clough ix. 110 The chilly day streak signal. 1979 R. P. Warren in Nov. 82 At day-streak, in terror, I rose, ran through The tangle of clover, the corn balks, the creek—home to bed. society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > day pupil 1795 23 May Day Students attend from 10 o'clock to 12. 1883 17 Dec. 141 Sorry indeed to see the day-student system becoming the rule. 1985 P. W. Cookson & C. H. Persell 66 Day students, as a group, are quite similar to boarding students in terms of their family backgrounds. 2013 (Nexis) 26 July 10 Both boarders and day students participate in hands-on agricultural studies on the farm. the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [noun] > types of surgery generally 1968 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 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 (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. 1780 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 3 248 Day tickets—The charge is a fare and a half. 1972 T. J. Donaghy v. 113 In 1844, the return or day ticket was introduced on the L & M. 1996 Mar. 87/1 Bus tours leave from the excellent visitors centre, where you can also get day tickets for the local buses. 2013 (Nexis) 8 Sept. 4 Day tickets will give you access to almost all attractions and cost $S74. 1972 ‘Brutus’ 183 He started by day-trading 500 TWA warrants at 26½ and made $350. 1990 Feb. 51/1 Early in 1989, Pharis day-traded five soybean contracts. 2003 16 June 51/2 The ‘pattern day trading rule’..says that any customer who frequently day trades must maintain a minimum $25,000 account. 1900 29 Apr. 26/4 Day-by-day traders, speculators who gamble, may be careless of the characters of men managing corporations. 1936 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 43 329 Perhaps the largest class of professional traders is that of ‘day traders’—those who operate primarily on intraday price fluctuations. 1999 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 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’). 1954 H. Working in Sept. 114 (title) Price effects of scalping and day trading. 1999 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 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. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > outing or excursion > [noun] 1838 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 viii. 215 He had gone to London by a day-trip on the previous Thursday. 2006 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. 1851 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 20 Sept. 658/1 The day tripper..is the usual victim [of food-poisoning from cockles]. 2009 D. O'Briain xv. 222 My home town was built for daytrippers from Dublin.., and settled into its retirement as a suburb quite easily. 1922 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 Dec. 203/3 Daytripping is one of the best ways to get started in backpacking. 1989 R. M. Wilson 179 The daytripping hickprovincials. 2012 (Nexis) 7 July (Lifestyle section) Passes are valid for three days, so the day-tripping fun could easily turn into an all-weekend affair. society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > of manual workers > paid by day 1581 i. f. 3v All things are so deere that by their day wages, they are not able to lyue. 1652 G. Winstanley 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 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 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 (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 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 20 159 A proper class of day-wage-workers has not been established everywhere. 2007 G. Clark 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. a1450 (c1410) (Douce 295) v. xi. f. 113v I haue made the a daye wayte to þe peple of israel. 1697 W. Gilpin Let. 6 Jan. in J. Lowther (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 (Royal Soc.) 20 369 A meer Day-Water..immediately from the Clouds. 1757 tr. J. F. Henckel 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 198 A poor clay..extremely retentive of day-water. 1903 G. B. Hodgson iv. 154 The Westoe Lane Well, 22 feet deep, which, in addition to its springs, collected the day water from the surface. 1835 6 Aug. 1/4 A beaver hat for day wear. 1879 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 Sept. 14/2 The boot that will be chosen for practical day-wear with tailored suits. 1995 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.1Origin: 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. the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > become daylight c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 13447 Hit agon daiȝen [c1300 Otho daȝeȝe]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 10841 Lihten hit gon dæȝen [c1300 Otho daȝeie]. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Otho) (1963) l. 849 Amorwe þo hit daȝede [c1275 Calig. dawede]..Brutus was abolȝe. (Harl. 221) 112 Dayyn, or wexyn day, diesco. 1483 (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 88 To Day, diere, diescere. a1500 (a1460) (1994) I. vi. 63 Fare well now, the day dayes. 1534 N. Udall 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.2Origin: 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. society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > summon > for an appointed day 1481 W. Caxton tr. (1970) 19 That he shold be sente fore and dayed [Du. dagen] ernestly agayn for tabyde suche Iugement. a1500 (a1460) (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! the world > time > particular time > [verb (transitive)] > time, appoint, or set a time for 1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso v. 221 So when the tearme was present come, that dayd The Captaine had [It. che fisse il Capitano]. society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > be slow to pay > postpone payment society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > pay by instalment > give (a person) time to pay 1543 ( (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 sig. D2 The moste parte of my debtters haue honestly payed And they that weare not redy I haue gently dayed. 1570 T. Tusser (new ed.) f. 22v Ill husbandry dayeth or letteth it lie, good husbandry payeth the cheaper to buy. 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 1580 T. Lupton 117 They haue bin enforced when all their money was..spent, to haue their matter dayed, and ended by arbitrement. 1581 T. Lupton 146 All other Churches ought rather be daied & iudged by the church of Rome. the world > time > reckoning of time > reckon or measure time [verb (transitive)] > measure by the day 1600 Abp. G. Abbot 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 168 Naturall duty, can neither be dayde nor yeard, nor determined by age, or eldership. 1635 F. Quarles ii. xiii. 114 Things to be done are long to be debated; Heav'n is not day'd. Repentance is not dated. 1839 P. J. Bailey 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). < |
