daylight (dal it)

[ Or make that morn, from his cold crown And crystal silence creeping down, Flood with full daylight glebe and town? Tennyson, Two Voices. All about the fields you caught His weary daylong chirping. daymare (da'mar), n. [ day + mare2; cf. nightmare.] A feeling resembling that experi- enced in nightmare, but felt while awake. The daymare , Spleen, by whose false pleas Men prove mere suicides of ease. Green, The Spleen. A monstrous load that I was obliged to bear, a daymare that there was no po ibility of breaking in, a weight that brooded on my wits, and blunted them! Dickens, David Copper field, viii. day-nett (dā'net), n. A net for catching small birds, as larks, martins, etc. Davies . As larks come down to a day - net , many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing like silly pa engers at an antic picture in a painter's shop. Burton, Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 18. day-nurse (dā'nėrs), n. A woman or girl who takes care of children during the day. day-nursery (dā'ner"se-ri), n. A place where poor women may leave their children to be taken care of during the day, while the mothers are at work. IMG:content-2093.png:[blocks in formation] day-owl (da'oul), n. An owl that flies abroad by day; specifically, the hawk-owl, Surnia ulula, one of the least nocturnal of its tribe.