| 单词 | before day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbefore day b. The time when daylight first appears; daybreak, dawn. Chiefly in phrases, as before day, at day, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun] aristc825 dawingc900 dayeOE day-rimOE day-redOE mornOE lightOE lightingOE dawning1297 day-rowa1300 grekinga1300 uprista1300 dayninga1325 uprisingc1330 sun arisingc1350 springc1380 springingc1380 day-springa1382 morrowingc1384 dayingc1400 daylighta1425 upspring1471 aurora1483 sky1515 orienta1522 breaking of the day1523 daybreak1530 day-peep1530 morrow dayc1530 peep of the morning1530 prick of the day?1533 morning1535 day-breaking1565 creek1567 sunup1572 breach of the day1579 break of day or morn1584 peep of day1587 uprise1594 dawna1616 day-dawn1616 peep of dawn1751 strike of day1790 skreigh1802 sunbreak1822 day-daw1823 screech1829 dayclean1835 sun dawn1835 first light1838 morning-red1843 piccaninny sun1846 piccaninny daylightc1860 gloaming1873 glooming1877 sparrow-fart1886 crack1887 sun-spring1900 piccaninny dawn1936 eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 313 Matutinum, uhttid siue beforan dæge. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1129 Ðis ilces geares on Sancte Nicholaes messeniht litel ær dæi wæs micel eorðdine. c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) l. 50 Ha..eode to chirche euche daheðes dei [Royal deis dei]. c1330 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Auch.) (1937) l. 1051 (MED) Al þat niȝt he rode til day. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 6106 Þat þai Sould vte of hous cum bi-for day. c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 134 To ride þis forest or daye. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Sulpicius in Panoplie Epist. 39 A little before day. 1602 tr. W. C. Copie Let. from Campe before Graue 5 Some foure or fiue thousand Horse and Foote of ours marched to his Quarter at day. 1651 tr. F. de Quintana Hist. Don Fenise 41 Perplexed with the horror of this murder, and feare of Justice, he absented himselfe before day. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 52 They got up in the Morning before Day. 1793 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1844) I. 309 This morning at day we fell in with a Spanish..Ship. 1861 H. A. Jacobs Incidents Life Slave Girl iv. 23 Long before day, Benjamin was missing. He was riding over the blue billows, bound for Baltimore. a1871 P. Cary in A. Cary & P. Cary Poet. Wks. Alice & Phoebe Cary (1882) 302 She fears no ghosts that haunt the dark, But she fears the coming dawn; And her heart grows sick when at day she hears The prison-bolts withdrawn. 1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side i. 92 And piano-men at beat-out pianos grieved—Early in the morning before day That's when my blues come fallin' down. 1996 A. R. Ammons Brink Road 123 A train rumbles through the valley before day. < as lemmas |
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