DAY 
the day-time.—Calling vny officers about me, in my 
branched velvet gown ; having come down from a daybed t 
where I have left Olivia deeping. Shakefpcare. 
DAY'BOOK, f. A tradefman’s journal; a book in 
which all the occurrences of the day are fet down. See 
the article Book-keefinc. 
DAY'BREAK,/; The dawn; thefirft appearance of 
light: 
I watch’d the early glories of her eyes, 
As men for daybreak watch the eaftern (kies. Dryden. 
DAY'DREAM,yi A vifion to the waking fenfes: 
Here fhadowy glades, 
Where the tremulous foliage darts the ray. 
That gilds the poet’s daydream. Mafon's Eng. Garden. 
D’AYE'NIA,/! in botany. See Ayenia. 
DAY'LABOUR, f. Labour by the day ; labour di¬ 
vided into daily talks.— Daylabour was but an hard and a 
dry kind of livelihood to a man that could get an ellatC 
with two or three drokes of his pen. South. 
D AY'LABOURER,yi One that works by the day.— 
The daylabourer, in a country village, has commonly but 
a final 1 pittance of courage. Locke. 
DAY'LIGHT,yi The light of the day, as oppofed to 
that of the moon, o^a taper.—Will you murder a man in 
plain daylight? Dryden. 
He (lands in daylight, and difdains to hide 
An adt, to which by honour he is ty’d. Dryden. 
D AY'LILLY,/'. in botany. See Hemeroca llis. 
DAY'MAR, a town of Arabia, in the country of O- 
man : 220 miles fouth of Mafcat. 
DAY-RULE, or Day-Writ, a rule or order of court, 
permitting a prifoner in cuflody in the king’s-bench pri- 
fon, &c. to go without the bounds of his prifon for one 
day. By a rule of the court of king’s-bench, Eader, 
30 Geo. III. a prifoner (hall not have day-rules above 
three days in each term ; and to return to prifon before 
nine in the evening. The king may grant a writ of war. 
rantia diei to any perfon, which (hall fave his default for 
one day, be it in plea of land or other adtion, and be the 
caufe true or not; and this by his prerogative, quod nota. 
Br. Prerogative, pi. 142. cites F. N. B. 7. It is againft law 
to grant liberty to pvifoners in execution, by other writs 
than day-writs, or rules. Chan. Rep. 67. No prifoner com¬ 
mitted by the court of king’s-bench ought to have the 
benefit of the day-rule of going abroad in term-time ; for 
their imprifonment is their punilhment for their con¬ 
tempt, or mifbehaviour. 2 Show. 88. pi. 80. One in exe¬ 
cution had a habeas corpus from the lord keeper, (which 
they call a day-writ,) returnable three or four days after 
its tede. By virtue of this writ, he went to the wine-li¬ 
cence office, but never to any inn of court or chancery, 
or to the lord keeper’s, and this in the vacation. Per 
Pemberton, chief juftice. This is a habeas out of chan¬ 
cery, which they may fend at any time, and by virtue of 
the king’s writ, the party was brought out of the prifon- 
houfe, and that is judifiable. Then all the day, fo long 
as there was a keeper with him, he was in cudody (till, 
and returning to prifon at night, it is well enough, and 
no efcape ; though chancery may examine the contempt, 
that is nothing to the court of king’s-bench. 2 Show. 298. 
pi. 229. A prifoner taken on an efcape-Warrant before 
the fitting of the court the fame day, (hall be difcharg- 
ed, if his name was entered with the clerk the night be¬ 
fore’; but not if it was entered the. fame morning only. 
8 Mod. 80. 
DAYS of GRACE, f. in commerce, are acudomary 
number of days allowed for the payment of a bill of ex¬ 
change, &c. after the fame becomes due. See the arti¬ 
cle Bill of Exchange, vol. iii. p. 29. 
DAY’S JOURNEY, f. in fcripture, is thirty-three 
Englifh miles, 172 paces, and four feet.— A J'abbath day's 
journey was 700 paces, about three quarters of a mile; 
and this didance the Jews feldom exceeded, unlefs upon 
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extraordinary sccafions, as to attend a funeral or a mar¬ 
riage, to avoid robbers, or to vifit 1‘ome rabbin. When 
they are aware of breaking this rule, they take the fol¬ 
lowing precaution : Two thoufand cubits from the place 
whence they were to fet out on the fabbath-day, they 
put a loaf, which they eat in that place ; then, without 
fcruple, they travel two thoufand cubits farther, becaufe 
the place where they ate this loaf is taken for the point 
of departure, though they have made a fabbath-day’s. 
journey already. This loaf is called gntroub, “ the bread 
of mixture,” becaufe it gives them a right of adding two 
thoufand cubits to their journey, or becaufe it is made 
up of meal collected from feveral houfes on the day of 
the fead of tabernacles, or at the beginning of the pa(T- 
over. See Jalcut and Mainonides, and Saurin’s Dif. 
ii. it. 
DAYSMAN, f. An old word for umpire. Ainfworth. 
Perhaps, rather, furety. 
For what art thou, 
That mak’d thyfelf his dayfman , to prolong 
The vengeance pred ? Spenfer. 
DAY'SPRING, f. The rife of the day ; the dawn; 
the firft appearance of light: 
The breath of heav’n frefh-blowing, pure and fweet, 
Withi iayfpring born, here leave me to refpire. Milton. 
DAY'STAR, /. The morning (tar: 
So finks the dayjlar in the ocean bed, 
And yet anon repairs his drooping head. Milton. 
DAY'TIME, y. The time in which there is light * 
oppofed to night.—In the daytime fame fitteth in a watch- 
tower, and flietlr mod by night; (he mingleth things done 
with things not done, and is a terror to great cities. Bacon. 
DAY'WORK, /. Work impofed by the day'; day- 
labour : 
True labour in the vineyard of thy lord, 
Ere prime thou had th’ impofed daywork done. Fairfax. 
To DAZE, v. a. [bptes, Sax.] To overpower with 
light; to drike with too drong ludre ; to hinder the a£fe 
of feeing by too much light fuddenly introduced : 
Poor human kind, all daz'd in open day, 
Err after blifs, and blindly mifs their way. Dryden. 
DAZE, or Glimmer, f. A term with miners, applied 
to micaceous fubdances. 
DA'ZIED, adj'. [rather dajied. See Daisy.] Be. 
fprinkled with daifies : 
Let us 
Find out the prettied dasied plot we can, 
And make him a grave. Shakefpeare. 
To DAZ'ZLE, v. a. To overpower with light; t« 
hinder the action of the fight by fudden ludre.—Fears 
ufe to be reprefented in fuch an imaginary fafhion, as 
they rather dazzle men’s eyes than open them. Bacon. 
How is it that fome wits are interrupted, 
That now they dazzled are, now clearly fee ? Davits. 
To drike or furprife with fplendour.—The places that 
have either (hining fentiments or manners, have no op- 
cafion for them : a dazzling expreldon rather damages 
them, and ferves only to eclipfe their beauty. Pope. 
Ah, friend ! to dazzle let the vain defign ; 
To raife the thought, or touch the heart, be thine. Pope. 
To DAZ'ZLE, v. n. To be overpowered with light; 
to lofe the power of fight.—An overlight maketh the 
eyes dazzle, infomuch as perpetual looking againd the 
fun would caufe blindnefs. Bacon. 
I dare not trud thefe eyes; 
They dance in mids, and dazzle with furprize. Dryden. 
DE, a Latin prepolition of a great many Englifii 
words, and fignifies from. It fometimes, likewife, ex¬ 
tends the fenfe of words. 
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