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unit. Day's work, (n) The work of one day. (b) Naut., 
the account or reckoning of a ship's course for twenty-four 
hours, from noon to noon. Decoration day, Derby 
day, Dominion day, Easter day. See the qualifying 
words Eating days, days on which the eating of meat 
was allowed in tlie Anglican Church before the Reforma- 
tion. 
Upon eatiinge dayes at dynner by eleven of the clocke, 
a first dynner in the tyme of high masse for carvers. 
Mules of the House of Princess Cecill (Edw. III.). 
Eimeatical days. See enneatical. Evacuation day. 
See eaaeuatian. Fast day. Sxe fast-day. For ever and 
a day. Seeeiwr. Good day. Keugmil. Grand days.m 
Ere this-day-month come and gang, 
My wedded wife ye'se be. 
ISlancheJleur and Jellyflorice (Child's Ballads, I\ . 298). 
To carry the day. See carry. To have seen the day, 
to have lived in or witnessed the time when such and such 
a tiling or circumstance was different from what it is now. 
An old woman is one that hath seene the day, and is 
commonly ten yeares younger or ten yeares older by her 
owne confession than the people know she is. 
J. Stephens, Essays (1615). 
Oh Tibbie, I ha'e seen the day 
Ye wad lia been sae shy. 
Burns, Tibbie, I ha'e seen the day. 
-With- 
hout 
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woodchucff day, unuer wooacnucK. niticyuii uaya. ^>cu ^.j^m..^. ,v^..~., ,. .. vv v ~ ... -W> 
halcyon. High day. See high. Holy-Cross day, a fes- chuck. 
tival observed in the Greek and Roman Catholic churches day 1 ! (da), r. [< ME. dayen, daien, var. of dawen, 
on September 14th, in commemoration of the exaltation of dagen, < AS. dagian, become day, < Ateg, day: 
see daw 1 , r.] I. intrans. To become day ; dawn : 
day-long 
day-flier (da'ni"er), . Au animal that flies 
by day. 
day-flower (da'flou'er), . The popular name 
of plants of the genus Commeliiia. 
day-fly (da'fll), n. [= D. dagMegje = Dan. 
diignjluc = Sw. dagfluga; cf. G. eintagsfliege, 
one-day's-fly.'] A May-fly : a popular name of 
the neuropterous insects of the family Eplieme- 
tionof the Cross, under crosl. Holy days, daysset apart 
by the church in especial commemoration of certain sacred 
persons or events. Inauguration day, March 4th, the 
on which the Congress of the North American colonies of 
Oreat Britain (afterward the United States) passed the De- 
claratiou of Independence (July 4th, 1776). Its anniversary 
is observed as a national holiday. [U. S.]- Innocents' 
day See i,mocent.-In one's born days. See bomL- 
Intercalary day. See bisxext 
oil which any legal act may be p 
same as 
H. trans. To put on from day to flay; ao.- 
j ourn g e e (laying. 
\ " p t ?P osed to , be Y" f up a tio rau ? 
One of the compartments of a mul- 
Honed window. 
Same as do/ 1 . 
Same as 
, n. same as 
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xtm. Lawful day, a day dayal (da'yal), n. [Native name ; also written 
performed ; a week-day, as aahil, q. V.] A magpie-robin; a bird of the 
for rest dllT- Day-fly (Ephemera (Potamanthus) marginatus}, natural size. 
tlrst day of a new year. 
Having come from a day-bed, where I have left Olivia 
ceping. Shak., T. N., ii. 5. 
And also Newyers Day, sumtyme bakward, sumtyme sleeping. 
forward, both Day and liygllt, in gret fer be the coste of jf ar Is the grcat coul ;h up the Duke of Medina sent? 
Turkey. Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 59. Altea. 'Tis up and ready. 
Nine days' wonder. See wonder. Offering day. See Marg. And day-beds in all chambers 1 
o/criiig. Officer Of the day. See officer. One day. Fletcher, Rule a Wife, ill. 1. 
(a) On a certain or particular day, referring to time past. (J a yl) err y (da'ber*i), n. ; pi. dayberries (-17.). 
One day when Phoebe fair [Also dial, deberry ; < day (day 1 ^) + berry 1 . ] 
Au English name for the wild gooseberry. 
Lay-blindness (da' blind "nes), n. The com- 
mon name for the visual defect by which ob- 
jects are seen distinctly only by artificial light : 
the opposite of day sight. Also called night-sight, 
nocturnal sight, and by medical writers either hemera- 
lopia or nyctalopia, according to their definition of these 
With all her band was following the chase. 
Spenser. 
(b) At an indefinite future time; on some day in the fu- day-blindneSS (da ' blind "nes), n. 
ture. 
I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. 
Shak., Much Ado, ii. 1. 
Heaven waxeth old, and all the spheres above 
Shall one day faint. Sir J. Dames. 
^io^^n^?f^will 8 attend a to n ito^ l A?M ; rfa!^ 1 - day-book (da'buk), n. [= D. dagboek = G. 
Order of the toy. liee order. Kalny day. *See rainy, tagebuch = Dan. dagbog = Sw. dagbok, a diary.] 
Red-letter day. See red-letter. St. Andrew's day, If. A diary or chronicle. 
a festival observed on November 30th in honor of St. .An- Diar i um [L.]. . . . Registre journel [F.]. ... A daw 
drew, the patron saint of Scotlaml.-St. Crispins day. bmke conte iniiig such acts, deeds, and matters as are dailie 
See Crispin. St. David's day, a festival observed by the d ' \oiaenclalor 
Welsh on March 1st in honor of their patron saint, St. 
David, bishop of St. David's in Pembrokeshire, who flour- 
ished in the fifth and sixth centuries, and is said to have 
lived to the age of 110. St. George's day, April 23d, the 
day observed in honor of St. George, the patron saint of 
England. St. Nicholas's day, December 6th, the day 
observed in honor of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of sail- 
ors, merchants, travelers, and captives, and of several 
countries, especially in medieval times, and reverenced 
especially by the Dutch (under the name of Santa Glaus, 
made familiar in America by the Dutch settlers) as the 
guardian of children. St. Patrick's day, March 17th, 
the day observed by the Irish in honor of St. Patrick, the 
don 
The many rarities, riches and monuments of that sacred 
building, the deceased benefactors whereof our day-bookes 
make mention. Lansdoiene MS. (1634), 213. 
2f. Naut., a log-book. 3. In bookkeeping, a 
book in which the transactions of the day are 
entered in the order of their occurrence ; a book 
of original entries, or first record of sales and 
purchases, receipts, disbursements, etc. 
Primary records, or day-books, for each distinct branch 
of business. Waterston, Cyc. of Commerce. 
[Cf. Dan. dagbrtek- 
ning = Sw. dagbrackning.] The dawn or first 
appearance of light in the morning. 
I watch'd the early glories of her eyes, 
As men for daybreak watch the eastern skies. 
Dryden. 
A name given by miners 
to the upper stratum of coal, as being nearest 
apostle and patron saint of Ireland, who is supposed to Hnvbrpnlr 
have died about 460.-St. Swlthm's day, July 15th, "*",?,, 
a festival in honor of St. Swithin, bishop of Winchester, ' 
852 - 862. When he was canonized within the next cen- 
tury, the monks desired in transfer his remains from the 
churchyard at Winchester, where he had at his own re- 
quest been buried, to the cathedral, and selected July 16th 
as the date. Heavy rains lasting for forty days delayed , 1 ., ,. -.. 
the transfer : hence the popular saying that, if rain falls aay-COal (da kol), n. 
on St. Swithin's day, it is sure to rain continuously for 
forty days. St. Valentine's day, February 14th. See 
cessive'transits of^f five? star "'it^uniforniiy em'iaT'to day-dream (da'drem), n. A reverie ; a castle in 
23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.098 seconds, or 3 minutes 55.91 sec- the air ; a visionary fancy, especially of wishes 
onds less than the mean solar day. Still days, a name gratified or hopes fulfilled, indulged in when 
given by the Angl -Saxons to Aiauni Thursday, Good awake; an extravagant conceit of the fancy or 
thankagimng. The day. (a) The period or time spoken imagination. 
The vain and unprincipled Belle-Isle, whose whole life 
was one wild day-dream of conquest and spoliation. 
Macaulay, Frederic the Great. 
day-dreamer (da'dre'mer), n. One who in- 
dulges in day-dreams ; a fanciful, sanguine 
schemer; one given to indulging in reveries 
.. , , __. , , or to building castles in the air. 
late). The days of creation, the periods of creative day-dreaming (da'dre"ming), n. Indulgence in 
energy into which the first chapter of Genesis divides the ,-pvprip* or i fanciful nnrl MT<rmn. 
creation or formation of the world. The nature of these schemes, 
days cannot be determined from the language of the chap- 
ter, the literal meaning of which is, there was evening (the 
close of a period of light), and there was morning (the close 
of ; time then (or now) present. 
Looks freshest in the fashion of the day. 
Tennyson, The Epic. 
(l>) To-day: as, how are ye the day! [Scotch.] 
But we maun a' live the day, and have our dinner. 
Scott, Waverley, xlii. 
The day before (or after) the fair, too early (or toe 
To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing him- 
self in reveries, a sea voyage is full of subjects for medi- 
tation. Irmwj, Sketch-Book, p. 18. 
_____ ________ ...... , _________ 
ofa period of darkness), one day. The Great Day of dav-rlrpamv (da'dvfi"mi1 n Ttplatitu/ to nr 
Expiation. See exinatian. The Other day lately re- , y a ^ my . \, ai ml ' * . Kelaun g .J 
cently ; not long ago. abounding m day-dreams ; given to building 
Celia and I, the other Day, castles in the air. [Bare.] 
Walk'd o'er the Saud-Hilis to the Sea. day-feeder (da'fe"der), n. An animal that 
Prior, Lady's Looking-Glass. feeds by day. W. H. Flower. 
The time of day, a greeting: as, to pass the time of day. day-fevert (da'fe"ver), n. The sweating-sick- 
Not worth the time of day. Shak., Pericles, iv. 4. ness. Davies. 
rid<e : so called because, however long they 
may live in the larval state, in their perfect 
form they exist only from a few hours to a few 
days, taking no food, but only propagating and 
then dying. See Ephemeridai. 
day-hole (da'hol), n. In coal-mining, any head- 
ing or level communicating with the surface. 
day-house (da'hous), n. in astrol., the house 
ruled by a planet by day. Thus, Aries is the day- 
house of Mars, Gemini of Mercury, Libra of Venus, Sa- 
gittarius of Jupiter, and Aquarius of Saturn. 
dayhouse (da'hous), n. See deyhouse. 
dayingt (da'ing), n. [Verbal n. of day 1 , v .] A 
putting off from day to day ; procrastination. 
I will intreate him for his daughter to my sonne in mar- 
riage ; and if I doe obtaine her, why should I make any 
more dayiny for the matter, but marrie them out of the 
way? Terence in English (1614). 
day-labor (da'la"bor), n. Labor hired or per- 
formed by the day ; stated or fixed labor. 
Doth God exact day-labour, light denied? 
Milton, Sonnets, xiv. 
day-laborer (da'la"bor-er), n. One who works 
by the day. 
In one night, ere glimpse of morn, 
His shadowy nail hath thresh'd the corn, 
That ten day-labourers could not end. 
Milton, L' Allegro, 1. 109. 
daylight (da'Ht), n. [< ME. daylyht, dailiht, 
etc. ; < day 1 + Ugh ft.'] 1. The light of day; the 
direct light of the sun, as distinguished from 
night and twilight, or from artificial light. 
Or make that morn, from his cold crown 
And crystal silence creeping down, 
Flood with full daylight glebe and town ? 
Tennyson, Two Voices. 
2. Daytime as opposed to night-time ; the time 
when the light of day appears ; early morning. 
Vysytynge the holy place aforesayd, seying and heryng 
masses vnto tyme it was day light. 
Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 38. 
3. The space left in a wine-glass between the 
liquor and the brim, and not allowed when 
bumpers are drunk, the toast-master calling 
out, "No daylights!" [Slang.] 4. pi. The 
eyes. [Slang.] 
If the lady says such another word to me, d n me, I 
will darken her daylights. Fielding, Amelia, i. 10. 
5. A name of the American spotted turbot, 
Lophopsetta maculata, a fish so thin as to be 
almost transparent, whence the name. Also 
called window-pane To burn daylight. See &i . 
daylighted (da'li"ted), . [< daylight + -P.] 
Light; open. [Rare.] 
He who had chosen the broad, ilaiiliiihtnl unencum- 
bered paths of universal skepticism, found himself still 
the bondslave of honor. 
H. L. Stevenson, The Dynamiter, p. 215. 
day-lily (da'lil"i), n. A familiar garden-plant 
of the genus Hemerocallis : so called because 
the beauty of its flowers rarely lasts over one 
day. 
day-long (da'long), a. [< ME. "daylong, < AS. 
duylaity, < daig, day, + lung, long.] Lasting all 
day. 
