Day

dā, n. the time of light, from sunrise to sunset: the time from morning till night: twenty-four hours, the time the earth takes to make a revolution on her axis—this being the solar or natural day as distinguished from the sidereal day, between two transits of the same star: a man's period of existence or influence: a time or period.— ns. Day′-bed ( Shak. ), a couch or sofa; Day′-blind′ne , a defect of vision, in which objects are best seen by a dim light; Day′-book , a book in which merchants, ., enter the transactions of every day; Day′break ; Day′-coal , the upper stratum of coal; Day′-dream , a dreaming or musing while awake; Day′-fly , a fly which lives in its perfect form only for a day, one of the ephemera; Day′-lā′bour ; Day′-lā′bourer ; Day′light ; Day′-lil′y , a flower whose blo oms last only for a day, the hemerocallis.— adj. Day′long , during the whole day.— ns. Day′-peep ( Milt. ), the dawn; Day′-schol′ar , a boy who attends a boarding-school during the school-hours, but boards at home; Day′-school , a school held during the day, as opposed both to a night-school and to a boarding-school; Day′-sight = night-blindne ; Days′man , one who appoints a day to hear a cause: an umpire; Day′spring , dawn; Day′star , the morning star; Day′time .— adj. Day′-wea′ried ( Shak. ), wearied with the work of the day.— n. Day′-work .— Day by day , daily; Day of doom , the judgment day; Days of grace , three days allowed for payment of bills, ., beyond the day named.— Name the day , to fix the day of marriage.— One of these days , an indefinite reference to the near future.— The day , the time spoken of: ( Scot. ) to-day; The other day , not long ago; The time of day , a greeting, as, 'to give a person the time of day,' to greet him. [A.S. dæg ; Ger. tag ; not conn. with L. dies .]