| 单词 | first light |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfirst light first light n. the time when light first appears in the morning. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun] aristc825 dawingc900 dayeOE day-rimOE day-redOE mornOE lightOE lightingOE dawning1297 day-rowa1300 grekinga1300 uprista1300 dayninga1325 uprisingc1330 sun arisingc1350 springc1380 springingc1380 day-springa1382 morrowingc1384 dayingc1400 daylighta1425 upspring1471 aurora1483 sky1515 orienta1522 breaking of the day1523 daybreak1530 day-peep1530 morrow dayc1530 peep of the morning1530 prick of the day?1533 morning1535 day-breaking1565 creek1567 sunup1572 breach of the day1579 break of day or morn1584 peep of day1587 uprise1594 dawna1616 day-dawn1616 peep of dawn1751 strike of day1790 skreigh1802 sunbreak1822 day-daw1823 screech1829 dayclean1835 sun dawn1835 first light1838 morning-red1843 piccaninny sun1846 piccaninny daylightc1860 gloaming1873 glooming1877 sparrow-fart1886 crack1887 sun-spring1900 piccaninny dawn1936 1679 J. Davies tr. Appian Hist. i. vii. xxi. 220 The Military Tribunes and Primipiles running up and down, urged every one to get ready to march by the first Light.] 1838 J. Bosworth Dict. Anglo-Saxon Lang. Frum-leoht, first light or dawn. 1857 W. G. Wills Life's Foreshadowings i. in Irish Metrop. Mag. 1 7 I shall sleep at his house to-night. I'll be back with you by first light. 1926 L. S. Kelly Yellowstone Kelly xi. 190 I..tried to sleep but could not for thinking of the necessity of being on the way at first light. 1942 Flying Sept. 266/3 At first light on November 18, the Air Forces in the Western Desert moved into action. 1946 Amer. Speech 21 209 Orders [in the Eighth Army] for an early start never mentioned dawn but instead used first light... There might be some squabble about just what time constituted dawn. There couldn't be any at all about first light, at least not in the desert. 1965 R. McKie Company of Animals vii. 113 Jim went at first light to check which animals were visiting a small salt-lick in the jungle. a1985 P. White With the Jocks (2003) 119 I had warned all my Jocks to be dug in by first light. < as lemmas |
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