dawsonite (dasonit)

[After J. W. Dawson of Montreal (born 1820).] A hydrous carbonate of sodium and aluminium, occurring in white-bladed crystals at Montreal, and in the province of Siena in Italy. dawt, daut (dat), v. t.; pret. and pp. dawted or dawt it, ppr. dawting. [Sc.; hardly the same as dotel, q. v.] To regard or treat with affection; pet; care ; fondle. I'll set thee on a chair of gold,. And daut thee kindly on my knee. Lord Jamie Douglas (Child's Ballads, IV. 139). Much dawted by the gods is he, Wha' to the Indian plain Succe fu' ploughs the wally sea, And safe returns again. Ramsay, The Poet's Wish. dawtie, dawty (da'ti), n. [Sc., dim. from dawt.] A beloved child; a darling; a child And the evening and the morning were the first day. Gen. i. 5. My lord, I cannot be so soon provided; Please you, deliberate a day or two. Shak., T. G. of V., i. 3. 4. A particular or regularly recurring period of twenty-four hours, a igned to the doing of some specified thing, or connected with some event or observance: as, settling-day; bill- day. Knipp's maid comes to me, to tell me that the women's day at the playhouse is to-day, and that therefore I must be there, to encrease their profit. Pepys , Diary, IV. 29. Specifically-( a ) An anniversary; the particular day on which some event is commemorated: as, St. Bartholomew's day ; a birthday ; New Year's day . (b) The regularly recurring period in each week set apart for some particular purpose, as for receiving calls, etc. Mr. Gayman, your servant; you'll be at my Aunt Susan's this Afternoon; 'tis her Day , you know. Southern, Maid's Last Prayer, i. You have been at my Lady Whifler's upon her Day , Madam? Congreve, Double-Dealer, iii. 9. Ladies, however, have their days , and afternoon tea is as much an institution in Australia as at home. Arch. Forbes , Souvenirs of some Continents, p. 75. 5. Time. (at) Specified interval or space of time: as, three years' day to do something; something; he credit. [ Time is now used in this sense.] was absent for a year's day. (b) Time to pay; Faith, then, I'll pray you, 'cause he is my neighbour, To take a hundred pound, and give him day. (c) Period of time. B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, iv. 1. IMG:content-2087.png:[blocks in formation] day The cat will mew, and dog will have his day . Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. Lady Sneer. Why, truly, Mrs. Clackitt has a very pretty talent, and a great deal of industry. Snake. True, madam, and has been tolerably succe ful in her day . Sheridan , School for Scandal, i. 1. Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be. Tennyson, In Memoriam, Prol. (f) A time or period, as distinguished from other times or periods; age: commonly used in the plural: as, bygone days; the days of our fathers. Much cruelty did the Patavines suffer in this mans daies . Coryat , Crudities, I. 158. In days of old there liv'd, of mighty fame, A valiant prince, and These us was his name. Dryden, Pal. and Arc., i. 1. 6. A distance which may be accomplished in a day; a day's journey. See phrase below. "Sire Dowel dwelleth," quod Wit, "not a day hennes." Piers Plowman (A), x. 1. Beyond this Ile is the maine land and the great riuer Occam, on which standeth a Towne called Pomeiock, and six dayes higher, their City Skicoak. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's True Travels, I. 84. 7. The contest of a day; a battle or combat with reference to its i ue or results: as, to carry the day . The trumpets sound retreat, the day is ours. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 4. His name struck fear, his conduct won the day . Roscommon , To the Duke of York. All Fools' day, All Saints' day, All Souls' day. See fool, saint, soul. - Ancient of days. See ancient. - Anniversary day. See anniversary. - Arbor day. See ar bor-day. Ascension day. See ascension.- A year and a day. (a) A full year and an extra day of grace: an old law term denoting the period beyond which certain rights ceased. See year. (b) A long while; time of uncertain length. [Humorous.] - Banian days. See banian1.Barnaby day, the day of St. Barnabas. See Barnaby bright. That man that is blind, or that will wink, shall see no more sun upon St. Barnabie's day than upon St. Lucie's; no more in the summer than in the winter solstice. Donne , Sermons, vii. Bartholomew day, the 24th day of August, on which is held a festival in honor of St. Bartholomew, one of the twelve apostles, and which is noted in history as-(1) the day in 1572 on which the great ma acre of French Protestants (called the St. Bartholomew ma acre) was begun in Paris by order of the king, which order was executed in other towns on its receipt, last in Bordeaux on October 3d; (2) the day in 1662 on which the penalties of the English Act of Uniformity came into force; (3) the day on which a great fair (called Bartholomew fair) was held annually at Smith field in London, from 1133 to 1855, whence the name Bartholomew attached to the names of many articles sold there, as Bartholomew baby, Bartholomew pig, Bartholomew ware, etc. - Bill day, in the United States House of Representatives, a day (usually Monday of each week) set apart for the introduction of bills by members. - Black-letter day. See black - letter . Break of day. See break.- Canicular days. See canicular.- Childermas day. See Childermas . - Civil day, the mean solar day as recognized by the state in civil or legal and bus i ne transactions. See definition 3, above. - Cleansing days, clear days. See the adjectives. - Commemoration day, commencement day, commi ion day, contango day. See the qualifying words. - Continuation of days. See continuation. Costs of the day. See cost2. Daft days. See daft. - Dark days. See dark1. - Day about. (a) On alternate days; every other day. (b) A day in turn; a fixed recurrent day. "Husband," quoth scho, "content am I To tak the pluche my day about ." Wyf of Auchtirmuchty (Child's Ballads, VIII. 117). Day by day, daily; every day; each day in succe ion; continually; without intermi ion of a day. Day by day the zere gon pa e, The pope for-zate neuer his ma e. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 88. Withynne his brest he kept it day be day. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 228. Day by day we magnify thee. Book of Common Prayer , Te Deum. Eating the Lotos day by day. Tennyson, Lotos-Eaters. Day of abstinence. See abstinence . - Day of Brahma, in Hindu myth ., 1,000 mahāyugas or great ages, each equal Day of grace. See grace . - Day of trewt, a diet or meet to 4,320,000 years. - Day of doom, the judgment-day. ing to treat of a truce or to settle disputes. With lettres to diuers person is on the Bord our is, for the day of trew to be haldin eftir the diete of Anwic. Accounts of Lord High Treasurer (1473). Days in banc, in Eng . law , days set apart by statute or by order of the court when writs are to be returned, or when the party shall appear upon the writ served. - Days in court, opportunity for appearance to contest a case.Day's journey, a somewhat loose mode of measuring distance, especially in the East. The day's journey of a man on foot may be estimated at about 20 to 24 English miles, but if the journey is for many days, at about 171. A day's journey on horseback may be taken at about 26 to 30 miles. In a caravan journey with camels the day's journey is about 30 miles for a short distance, but on an extended line somewhat le . The mean rate of the daily march of an army is about 14 miles in a line of from eight to ten marches; but for a single march, or even two or three, the distance may be a mile or two longer, or for a forced march twice The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary day as long or more. The ancient A yrian day's journey (yum) was 6 parasangs; the marhala of Arabia, 8 parasangs. In many other countries the day's journey is a recognized unit.-Day's work. ( a ) 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 the Anglican Church before the Reformation. Upon eatynge dayes at dynner by eleven of the clocke, a first dynner in the tyme of high ma e for carvers. Rules of the House of Prince Cecill (Edw. III.). Enneatical days. See enneatical . - Evacuation day. See evacuation . - Fast day. See fast - day . - Forever and a day. See ever . - Good day. See good . - Grand days, in old Eng . law , holidays in the terms of court, solemnly kept in the inns of court and chancery: viz., Candle mas day, Ascension day, St. John Baptist's day, and All Saints' day. Also called dies non juridic i. - Ground-hog day. See woodchuck day , under woodchuck . - Halcyon days. See halcyon.-High day. See high . – Holy-Cro day, a festival observed in the Greek and Roman Catholic churches on September 14th, in commemoration of the exaltation of the alleged cro of Christ after its recovery from the Persians, A. D. 628. Also called Holyrood day. See Exalta tion of the Cro , under cro l . - Holy days, days set apart by the church in especial commemoration of certain sacred persons or events. Inauguration day, March 4th, the day when the President elect of the United States takes IMG:content-2089.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2090.png:[blocks in formation] Oh Tibbie, I ha'e seen the day Ye wad na been sae shy. Burns , Tibbie, I ha'e seen the day. To name the day, to fix the date of a marriage. - Without day, for an indefinite or undetermined time; without naming any particular day; sine die: as, the committee adjourned without day. - Woodchuck day. See wood chuck.