morning cap (morningkap)

A cap worn during the day, on other than ceremonial occasions; especially, a cap worn by women in the morning to cover and protect the hair. morning-flower (môr'ning-flou"ėr), n. A plant of the iris family, Orthros an thus multi flor us. [Australia.] morning-gift (môr'ning-gift), n. [A mod. translation of AS. morgengifu (= G. morgen gabe , etc.), morgen , morn, morning, + gifu , gift. Cf. morganatic .] A gift made to a woman by her husband the morning after marriage: a practice formerly common in Europe (in some places a legal right of the bride), but now nearly obsolete. Now he has wooed the young counte , The Counte of Balquhin, An' given her for a morning -gift Strath bog gie and Aboyne. Lord Thomas Stuart (Child's Ballads, III. 357). She is described as dwelling at Winchester in the po e ion, not only of great landed po e ions, the morning gifts of her two marriages, but of immense hoarded wealth of every kind. E. A. Freeman , Norman Conquest, II. 3. morning-glory (môr'ning-glō"ri), n. A plant of the genus Ipomea , especially I. purpure a . See kaladana .