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Show DA DA Wow many hours bring about the day HMow many days will finifh up the year. Shakefp . Letus walk honeftly, as in the day3 not in riot ing and drunkennefs Romans "The weft yet glimmers with fome ftreaks of day Now fpurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn Shake[peare's Macbeth Around the fields did nimble lightning play ;W}uch offer'd us by fits, and fnatch'd the day Midft this was heard the fhrill and tender cr Of well-pleas'd ghofts, which in the ftorm did fly Yet are we able only to furve Dawnings_of beams, and promifes of day D):}'d Prior time fpecified and diftinguifhe from other time ; an age ; the time this f{enfe it is generally plural I After him reigned Gutheline his heir he jufteft man and trueft in his days Fairy I think, in thefe days, one honeft man is oblige to acquaint another who are his friends Pope We have at this tim of day better and mor certain means of information than they had Woodward 5. Life: in this fenfe it is commonly plural. He never in bis days broke his aword that is, 7z bis awhole life 6 He was never at a lofs in his days for a frequen anfwers Carte's Lifeof Ormonde The day of conteft ; th battle conteft th His name ftruck fear, his condu& won the day " _He came, he faw, he feiz'd the ftruggling prey Rofcommon The noble thanes do bravely in the war The day almoft itfelf profeffes yours And little is to do Skakefpeare's Macbeth Would you th' advantage of the fight delay If, ftriking firft, you were to win the day 2 Dryd 2. An appointed or fixed time Or if my debtors do not keep their day Deny their hands, and then refufe to pay I muft with patjence all the terms attend. Drydex 8. A day appointed for fome commemoration The field of Agincourt Fought on the day of Crifpin Crifpianus. Shakefp 9. From day ta day; without certainty o continuance Bayaria hath been taught, that merit and ferwvice doth oblige the Spaniard but from day to day Bacon To-pay To-day, On this day your hearts The paft is all by death pofleft And frugal fate, that guards the reft By giving, bids us live zo-day Pfalm Fenton Da'yBED. . /. [day and bed.] A bed ufe for idlenefs and luxury in the day-time Calling my officers about, me, in my branche yelvet gown; having come down from a daybed where I have left Olivia {leeping Shakefpeare's Twelfth Night Da'yroox. » /. [from day and book. tradefman's journal; a book in whic all the occurrences of the day are fe down Da'vereax. # [ [day and break.] Th dawn ; the firft appearance of light I watch'd the early glories of her eyes As men for daybreak warch the Eaftern ficies Dryden Davvra sour. n [ [day and labour.] Labour by the day; labour divided int daily tafks Doth God exalt daylaboury light denied 1 fondly afk Milton Daylabour was but an hard and a dry kind o DavLa'BOURER. 2. /. [from daylabour. One that works by the day cye the wond Poor human kind, all d22°4 in open; da;‘i'ffl His fhadowy flail hath threfh'd the cor That ten daylabourers could not end monly but a {mall pittance of courage Find out the prettieft dazied plot we can Milton The daylabourer, in a country village, has com Err after blifs, and blindly mifs thejy way Da'z1ED. adj. [rather dafied, See D Befprinkled with daifies In one night, ere glimpfe of morn "Y.' Let u Locke And make him a grave S akefpeare's Cymbeliy Th light. an [da f 7 Da'yLIGHT 7 zLE. w. a. [See DAZE. o tha t oppofe a light of the day 1 T verpower with light ; to hinde the moon, or a taper the action of the fight by fudden luf?ie By this the drooping daylight "gan to fade Fears ufe to be reprefented in fuch a imagiy fathion, as they rather dazz/e men' open them Baon And yield his room to fad fucceeding night Fairy Queen Thou fhalt bu If ever I thy face by dayligh Now go thy way They, by daylight paflin fleet, recovered the haven, t this dear fee Shakefpeare through the Turk the joy of the be fieged Chriftians Knolles eyes thi How is it that fome wits are intetrupted That now they dazz/led arey now clearly fee A a& to which by honour he is tied 2. To frike or furprife with fplcndourq.'m Thofe heavenly thape Infufferably bright Milln The places that have either fhining fentiment Will you murder a man in plain daylight Dryden Though rough bears in covert feek defence or manners, have no occafion for them: 2 daz zling expreflion rather damages them, and ferye ‘White foxes ftay, with feeming innocence only to eclipfe their beauty That crafty kind with day/ight can difpenfe Dryden If bodies be illuminated by the ordinary prifow daylight colours, no light caft on them tween both of th colour of th but of fome middle colour beNeawton's Opticks Day-riry. # /. The {fame with AsrpHODEL, which fee Da'ysman. n. /. [day and man.] An ol word for umpire. Ainfworth. Perhap rather, {urety For what art thou That mak'ft thyfelf his dayfman, to prolon The vengeance preft Fairy Queen Da'ysprine. n [ [day and Jpring.] Th rife of the day ; the dawn ; the firft appearance of light So all ere dayfpring, under confcious night Seccret they finifh'd, and in order fet Milton The breath of heav'n frefh-blowing, pure an fweet With dayfpring born, here leave me to refpire Milton Da‘ystar. n f. [day and flar. morning ftar Th Of greateft blood, and yet more good than great I meant the dayffar fhould not brighter rife Nor lend like influence from his lucent feat Ben Fonfon Sunk though he be beneath the watry floor So finks the day-ffar in the ocean bed And yet anon repairs his drooping head Da'vtiME 2. /. [ day and time. time in whic to night Milton Th there is light: oppofe and flieth moft by night; fhe mingieth thing done with things not done, and is a terror to grea Bacon cities My ants never brought out their corn but in th night when the moon did fhine, and kept it unde ground in the daytime Addifon Da'xwork. n. /. [day and work.] Wor impofed by the day ; daylabour True labour in the vineyard of thy lord Ere prime thou haft th' impofed dayzwork done Fairfax 7o DAZE. @. a. [ opzs, Saxon.] T overpower with light ; to firike wit too ftrong luftre ; to hinder the ad&t o feeing by too much light fuddenly in troduced Popr Ah, friend! to daxzle let the vain defign To raife the thought, or touch the heart, be thine T Da'zzLE w. n To b overpowere with light 5 to lofe the power of fight Dazzle mine eyes ? or do I fee three funs = Shakefpeare Come, boy, and go with me; thy fightis young And you shall read when mine begins to dazzl Shakefpeare An overlight maketh the eyes dazzk, infomuch as perpetual looking againt the fun woul caufe blindnefs Bact I dare not truft thefe eyes They dance in mifts, and dazz/e with furprize Dlydfl DE'ACON. . /. [diaconus, Latin.] 1. One of the loweft of the three order of the clergy Likewife muft the deacons be grave, 2 Tim i, The conftitutions that the apoftles made con cerning deacons and widows, are very importantl Bp. Sanderfon urged 2. [In Scotland. An overfeer_of the poor 3. And alfo the mafter of an incorporate company De'aconEss. # /. [from deacon] Afe male officer in the ancient church ] /. [from deacon.] Th De'aconry De‘aconsHIP: } office or dignity of deacon DEAD. adj. [oead, Saxon; dood, Dutch. 1. Deprived of life ; exanimated The queen, my lord, is dead --She fhould have died hereafter In the daytime Fame fitteth in a watch-tower Will dazzle now this earthly with their blag Dryden matick colours, they will appear neither of thei Da He ftands in daylight, and difdains to hid I meant to make her fair, and free, and wife if ye will hear his voice, harden no With quivering beams, which dzz' South two, or three ftrokes of his pen "The Iivelthood to a man that could get an eftate wit 8. Light ; funthine 4. An DEAg armies, ay Shakefpeare's Macheth A brute or a man are another thing, when the Hale are alive, from what they are when dead She either from her hopelefs lover fled Or with difdainful glances fhot him dead. Dryden 2. With of before the caufe of death ing thei This Indian told them, that, mifta were dead courfe, the crew, all except himfelf hunger 3. Without life ; inanimate Arbuthnot All, all but truth, drops dead-born fro ref ;'of -". e.f add laf th ik or e et ga la Like th[: z 'eh t m e e n f a d 4. Imitatin : Fh bo b c J o Go At thy rebuke ;': p fle de in ca ar f ho riot an fee k ne ad eh fo th o i n o A i £ backbone, we know is ufed for procuriig {lecps 5. Unadtive |