† day-breakingn.
Obsolete.
= daybreak n. 1.
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dayeOE
day-rimOE
day-redOE
mornOE
lightOE
lightingOE
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prick of the day?1533
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uprise1594
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sun-spring1900
piccaninny dawn1936
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Cum He departed at day breakyng.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. xiv. 26 At daie breaking, the legions..abandoned their standings.
1647 T. Shepard (title) The Day-breaking if not the Sun-rising of the Gospel with the Indians in New England.
1668 P. Rycaut Present State Ottoman Empire (new ed.) ii. xxiii. 158 Mahomet..enjoyned the performance [of prayers] five times in the space of twenty four hours, viz. between the day-breaking and Sun-rising.
1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 85 The next Morning we got up at Day-breaking, and proceeded on our Cruize.
1777 J. Murray Lect. Bk. Genesis xv. 216 At day-breaking he blessed Jacob.
1838 Lit. Gaz. 20 Oct. 660/1 On the third morning, at day-breaking, the chief was once more awakened.
1861 W. Thornbury Ice Bound II. 177 Egad, if before night we weren't carousing in the governor's own house, and at day-breaking were marching on to storm Berkeley.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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