dayhole (dahol)

In coal-mining, any heading or level communicating with the surface. day-house (da'hous), n. In astrol., the house ruled by a planet by day. Thus, Aries is the day house of Mars, Gemini of Mercury, Libra of Venus, Sag it tar i us of Jupiter, and Aquarius of Saturn. day house (da'hous), n. See dey house. dayingt (da'ing), n. [Verbal n. of day1, v.] A putting off from day to day; procrastination. I will intreate him for his daughter to my sonne in marriage; and if I doe obtaine her, why should I make any more daying for the matter, but marrie them out of the Terence in English (1614). Labor hired or per day-book (dā'bük), n. tagebuch = Dan. dagbog = Sw. dagbok , a diary.] way? 1t. A diary or chronicle. IMG:content-2092.png:[blocks in formation] imagination. The vain and unprincipled Belle-Isle, whose whole life was one wild day - dream of conquest and spoliation. Macaulay , Frederic the Great. day-dreamer (dā'drē"mer), n. One who in- dulges in day-dreams; a fanciful, sanguine schemer; one given to indulging in reveries or to building castles in the air. day-dreaming (da'drē"ming), n. Indulgence in reveries or in fanciful and sanguine schemes. To one given to day - dreaming , and fond of losing him self in reveries, a sea voyage is full of subjects for med i- tation. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 18. day-dreamy (dā'drēmi), a. Relating to or abounding in day-dreams; given to building castles in the air. [Rare.] day-feeder (dā'fē"der), n. An animal that Prior, Lady's Looking-Gla . feeds by day. W. H. Flower. The time of day, a greeting: as, to pa the time of day. day-fevert (dā'fē"vėr), n. The sweating-sick Not worth the time of day. Shak., Pericles, iv. 4. ne . Davies. day-labor (dā'lā bor), n . formed by the day; stated or fixed labor. Doth God exact day - labour , light denied? Milton , Sonnets, xiv. day-laborer (dā'lā"bor-er), n. One who works by the day. In one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day - labourers could not end. Milton, L'Allegro, 1. 109.