day : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a year that is not a leap year
  common year.
  

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• noun in the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by 4 except centenary years divisible by 400
  intercalary year; bissextile year; leap year.
  

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• (R. C. Ch.), Tuesday before Easter.

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• noun in some states of the United States: a legal holiday commemorating the day the state was admitted to the Union
  

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• adverb during the entire day
  daylong.
  
  • light pours daylong into the parlor

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• noun the first day of April which is celebrated by playing practical jokes
  April Fools'; All Fools' day.
  

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All" Fools' Day`

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1. The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced.

   The first of April, some do say, Is set apart for All Fools' Day. Poor Robin's Almanack (1760).

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• noun a Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835
  November 1; Hallowmas; Hallowmass; Allhallows.
  

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• noun a day of supplication for all the souls in purgatory
  November 2.
  

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All" Souls' Day`

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1. The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.

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• noun hard candy on a stick
  sucker; lollipop.
  

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• noun US: the 4th Friday in September
  

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• (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2.
• . See Anniversary, n.

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• noun a festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
  Annunciation Day; March 25; Annunciation.
  

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• noun the first day of April which is celebrated by playing practical jokes
  April Fools'; All Fools' day.
  

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• noun a day designated for planting trees
  

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• noun the 3rd Saturday in May
  

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• noun a legal holiday in the United States; formerly Armistice Day but called Veterans' Day since 1954
  Armistice Day; November 11; Veterans Day.
  

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• noun (Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter
  Ascension; Ascension of the Lord.
  

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• a period equal to the mean solar day, but beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day, as that most used by astronomers.

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• (Naut.), days in which the sailors have no flesh meat served out to them. This use seems to be borrowed from the Banians or Banya race, who eat no flesh.

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• noun a legal holiday in France celebrating the storming of the Paris bastille in 1789
  14 July.
  

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• noun the name of the day that is added during a leap year
  February 29; bissextile day.
  

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• days since one was born; lifetime. Colloq.

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• noun first weekday after Christmas
  

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• noun the first light of day
  sunup; daybreak; break of day; dawning; aurora; morning; first light; dayspring; dawn; cockcrow; sunrise.
  
  • we got up before dawn
  • they talked until morning

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• noun the first light of day
  sunup; daybreak; break of day; dawning; aurora; morning; first light; dayspring; dawn; cockcrow; sunrise.
  
  • we got up before dawn
  • they talked until morning

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• adverb one every day
  per diem.
  
  • we'll save 100 man-hours per diem

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• noun a day reckoned from midnight to midnight
  calendar day.
  

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• verb stop doing what one is doing
  call it quits.
  
  • At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books

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• noun feast day commemorating the presentation of Christ in the temple; a quarter day in Scotland
  Candlemas; Feb 2.
  

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• noun the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity
  canicular days; canicule.
  

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• . See Dog day.
• the dog days, See Dog days.

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• days of repose and age.

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Chil"dermas day`

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1. (Eccl.) A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called also Holy Innocent's Day.

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• noun a religious holiday for Christians
  

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• noun a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
  Dec 25; Christmas; Xmas.
  

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• . Same as Christmas.

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• noun church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah
  Mormons; Mormon Church.
  

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• noun celebrated in the United States
  September 17.
  

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• noun a day reckoned from midnight to midnight
  calendar day.
  

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• the mean solar day, used in the ordinary reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight.

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• noun United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935)
  Clarence Day; Day.
  

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• noun United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935)
  Clarence Day; Day.
  

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• (Law.), days reckoned from one day to another, excluding both the first and last day; as, from Sunday to Sunday there are six clear days.

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• a day of great ceremony at the English court, when persons, who are dignitaries of honorary orders, wear the collars of those orders.

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• noun a legal holiday commemorating the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
  October 12; Columbus Day.
  

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• at the University of Oxford, Eng., an annual observance or ceremony in honor of the benefactors of the University, at which time honorary degrees are conferred.

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• noun the day on which university degrees are conferred
  commencement day.
  

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• noun British, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth
  May 24; Commonwealth Day.
  

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• a day on which a court sits to administer justice.

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Cross"-days` noun plural

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1. (Eccl.) The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.

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• noun date of the Allied landing in France, World War II
  6 June 1944.
  

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• adverb for an indefinite number of successive days
  day after day.
  

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• noun convertible consisting of an upholstered couch that can be converted into a double bed
  studio couch.
  

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• noun inability to see clearly in bright light
  hemeralopia.
  

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• . (Med.) See Nyctalopia.

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• noun a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home
  

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• noun the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station
  rap sheet; charge sheet; police blotter; blotter.
  

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• adverb gradually and progressively
  daily.
  
  • his health weakened day by day

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• each day, each one, each piece, etc., by itself singly or separately; each severally.

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• daily; every day; continually; without intermission of a day. See under By. "Day by day we magnify thee." Book of Common Prayer.

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• noun a camp providing care and activities for children during the daytime
  

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• noun childcare during the day while parents work
  daycare.
  

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• noun a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work
  day care center.
  

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• noun a game played in daylight
  

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• adverb without respite
  all the time.
  
  • he plays chess day in and day out

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• a day for the appearance of parties in a suit.

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• adverb for an indefinite number of successive days
  day after day.
  

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• from the beginning to the limit of each of several days; day by day; every day.

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• noun West Indian evergreen shrub having clusters of funnel-shaped white flowers that are fragrant by day
  Cestrum diurnum.
  

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• noun a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages
  day laborer.
  

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• noun a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages
  day laborer.
  

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• noun any of numerous perennials having mounds of sumptuous broad ribbed leaves and clusters of white, blue, or lilac flowers; used as ground cover
  plantain lily.
  
• noun any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day
  daylily.
  

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Day" lil`y

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1. (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers. (b) A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers.

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• noun a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work
  day care center.
  

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• noun (Judaism) a solemn and major fast day on the Jewish calendar; 10th of Tishri; its observance is one of the requirements of the Mosaic law
  Yom Kippur.
  

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• noun (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
  Day of Judgment; Day of Judgement; Judgment Day; Last Judgment; Judgement Day; doomsday; eschaton; crack of doom; day of reckoning; end of the world; Last Judgement.
  

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• noun (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
  Day of Judgment; Day of Judgement; Judgment Day; Last Judgment; Judgement Day; doomsday; eschaton; crack of doom; day of reckoning; end of the world; Last Judgement.
  

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• noun (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
  Day of Judgment; Day of Judgement; Judgment Day; Last Judgment; Judgement Day; doomsday; eschaton; crack of doom; day of reckoning; end of the world; Last Judgement.
  
• noun an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
  doomsday; doom; end of the world.
  
  • everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it
  • that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world

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• noun the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)
  anniversary.
  

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• noun a day set aside for rest
  day of rest.
  

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• noun the specified day of the month
  date.
  
  • what is the date today?

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• noun any one of the seven days in a week
  

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• noun a day when you are not required to work
  
  • Thursday is his day off

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• (Zoöl.), an owl that flies by day. See Hawk owl.

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• noun a return ticket (at reduced fare) for traveling both ways in the same day
  

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• (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished) allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go beyond the prison limits for a single day.

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• noun a private school taking day students only
  
• noun a school giving instruction during the daytime
  
• noun a school building without boarding facilities
  

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• one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in distinction from a boarding school.

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• noun the work shift during the day (as 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
  
• noun workers who work during the day (as 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
  day shift.
  

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• . (Med.) See Hemeralopia.

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• noun workers who work during the day (as 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
  day shift.
  

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• (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon.

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• adjective satellite of or belonging to or occurring every day
  day-by-day; day-after-day; daily.
  
  • daily routine
  • a daily paper

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• adjective satellite at all times
  around-the-clock; round-the-clock; nonstop.
  
  • around-the-clock nursing care

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• adjective satellite of or belonging to or occurring every day
  day-by-day; day-after-day; daily.
  
  • daily routine
  • a daily paper

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Day"-coal` noun

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1. (Mining) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface.

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Day"-la`bor noun

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1. Labor hired or performed by the day. Milton.

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Day"-la`bor*er noun

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1. One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade. Goldsmith.

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Day"-net` noun

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1. A net for catching small birds.

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• adjective satellite not fresh today
  
  • day-old bread is cheaper than fresh

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Day"-peep` noun

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1. The dawn. Poetic Milton.

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Day"-star` noun

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1. The morning star; the star which ushers in the day.

   A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. 2 Peter i. 19.

2. The sun, as the orb of day. Poetic

   So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. Milton.

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• adjective satellite of or belonging to or occurring every day
  day-by-day; day-after-day; daily.
  
  • daily routine
  • a daily paper

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• (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return of writs and the appearance of parties; so called because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench, or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. Burrill.

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• (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. Shipley.

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• . See Grace.

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• (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. Shipley.

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• noun legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war
  Decoration Day.
  

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• noun the day on which university degrees are conferred
  commencement day.
  
• noun a unit used in estimating fuel requirements for heating a building
  

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• a particular day of the week when a bank discounts bills.

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• noun a legal holiday commemorating the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
  October 12; Columbus Day.
  

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Dog" day`, Dog"day` (Also<

• Dog day
• Dogday

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1. One of the dog days.

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• noun the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity
  canicular days; canicule.
  

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Dog" days`

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1. A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part of the summer. ✍ The conjunction of the rising of the Dog Star with the rising of the sun was regarded by the ancients as one of the causes of the sultry heat of summer, and of the maladies which then prevailed. But as the conjunction does not occur at the same time in all latitudes, and is not constant in the same region for a long period, there has been much variation in calendars regarding the limits of the dog days. The astronomer Roger Long states that in an ancient calendar in Bede (died 735) the beginning of dog days is placed on the 14th of July; that in a calendar prefixed to the Common Prayer, printed in the time of Queen Elizabeth, they were said to begin on the 6th of July and end on the 5th of September; that, from the Restoration (1660) to the beginning of New Style (1752), British almanacs placed the beginning on the 19th of July and the end on the 28th of August; and that after 1752 the beginning was put on the 30th of July, the end on the 7th of September. Some English calendars now put the beginning on July 3d, and the ending on August 11th. A popular American almanac of the present time (1890) places the beginning on the 25th of July, and the end on the 5th of September.

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• noun its distinctive song is heard during July and August
  harvest fly.
  

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• noun a legal holiday in Canada commemorating receiving Dominion status in 1867
  July 1.
  

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• noun an early period of development
  youth.
  
  • during the youth of the project

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• noun the day (in March or April) on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
  Easter Sunday.
  

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• adjective satellite lasting for eight days
  

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• noun the day appointed for an election; in the United States it is the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November
  election day.
  

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• noun a day set aside for fasting and prayer
  Ember Day.
  

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• noun a day set aside for fasting and prayer
  Ember Day.
  

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• (R. C. & Eng. Ch.), days set apart for fasting and prayer in each of the four seasons of the year. The Council of Placentia [A. D. 1095] appointed for ember days the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsuntide, the 14th of September, and the 13th of December. The weeks in which these days fall are called ember weeks.

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• noun British, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth
  May 24; Commonwealth Day.
  

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• day of death.

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• every ninth day of a disease.

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• (Eng. Law), the first general return day of the term, on which the court sits to receive essoins.

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• the anniversary of the day on which the British army evacuated the city of New York, November 25, 1783.

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• the sun. "So gently shuts the eye day." Mrs. Barbauld.

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• noun a day designated for fasting
  

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• a day appointed for fasting, humiliation, and religious offices as a means of invoking the favor of God.

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• a fast day; a day of fasting.

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• noun US: third Sunday in June
  

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• noun a day designated for feasting
  feast day.
  

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• a holiday; a day set as a solemn commemoative festival.

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• noun a day designated for feasting
  feast day.
  

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• noun (military) a day for military exercises and display
  
• noun a day for outdoor athletic competition
  
• noun a time of unusual pleasure and success
  
• noun a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering
  picnic; outing.
  

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• . (a) A day in the fields. (b) (Mil.) A day when troops are taken into the field for instruction in evolutions. Farrow. (c) A day of unusual exertion or display; a gala day.

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• Sunday; so called by the Friends.

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• a day on which fish is eaten; a fast day.

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• noun commemorating the adoption of the United States flag in 1777
  June 14.
  

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• emphatically forever. Shak.

  She [Fortune] soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day. Prof. Wilson.

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• adverb for a very long or seemingly endless time
  forever.
  
  • she took forever to write the paper
  • we had to wait forever and a day

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• as time passes; in the course of time; as, he improves from day to day.

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• adjective satellite yet to come
  
  • a future-day Gibbon of Macaulay

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• the calendar day gained in sailing eastward around the earth.

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• a day of mirth and festivity; a holiday.

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• the day on which rent or interest is due.

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• Rogation days; the time of perambulating parishes. See Gang week (below).

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Gaud"-day` noun

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1. See Gaudy, a feast.

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• noun a farewell remark
  good-by; adieu; adios; so long; cheerio; good-bye; arrivederci; sayonara; auf wiedersehen; goodbye; bye-bye; goodby; bye; au revoir.
  
  • they said their good-byes

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• noun past times remembered with nostalgia
  auld langsyne; old times; langsyne.
  

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• (Eng. Law), certain days in the terms which are observed as holidays in the inns of court and chancery (Candlemas, Ascension, St. John Baptist's, and All Saints' Days); called also Dies non juridici.

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• noun if the ground hog emerges and sees his shadow on this day, there will be 6 more weeks of winter
  February 2.
  

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• noun day for the celebration of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot
  

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• (Script.), a holy or feast day. John xix. 31.

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• noun Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity
  High Holiday.
  

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• noun a day specified for religious observance
  religious holiday.
  

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• noun a day when Catholics must attend Mass and refrain from servile work, and Episcopalians must take Communion
  

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• noun December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem
  Holy Innocents' Day.
  

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• Childermas day.

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• the fourteenth of September, observed as a church festival, in memory of the exaltation of our Savior's cross.

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• noun the day designated for inauguration of the United States President
  January 20.
  

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• noun a legal holiday in the United States
  Fourth of July; July 4.
  

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• noun December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem
  Holy Innocents' Day.
  

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• (Eccl.), Childermas day.

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• (Med.), one on which no paroxysm of an intermittent disease occurs.

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• the time between sunset and sunset.

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• noun a religious holiday for Jews
  

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• noun (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
  Day of Judgment; Day of Judgement; Judgment Day; Last Judgment; Judgement Day; doomsday; eschaton; crack of doom; day of reckoning; end of the world; Last Judgement.
  

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• noun (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
  Day of Judgment; Day of Judgement; Judgment Day; Last Judgment; Judgement Day; doomsday; eschaton; crack of doom; day of reckoning; end of the world; Last Judgement.
  

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• (Theol.), the last day, or period when final judgment will be pronounced on the subjects of God's moral government.

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• days on which courts are open.

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• noun first Monday in September in the United States and Canada
  

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• noun a festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
  Annunciation Day; March 25; Annunciation.
  

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• noun commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England
  August 1; Lammas.
  

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• noun (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
  Day of Judgment; Day of Judgement; Judgment Day; Last Judgment; Judgement Day; doomsday; eschaton; crack of doom; day of reckoning; end of the world; Last Judgement.
  

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• adjective satellite belonging to the present or recent times
  
  • the latter-day problems of our society

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• noun a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
  Mormon.
  

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Lat"ter-day` saint"

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1. A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.

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• . (a) Formerly, a day of holding court, esp. a court-leet. (b) The day named in a mortgage for the payment of the money to secure which it was given . U. S.

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• (Com.), time allowed in a charter party for taking in and discharging cargo. McElrath.

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• noun the name of the day that is added during a leap year
  February 29; bissextile day.
  

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• noun first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians
  Sun; Sunday; Dominicus.
  

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• a day formerly appointed for an amicable adjustment of differences. Obs. Piers Plowman. Chaucer.

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• noun the period of time taken for the moon to make one full rotation on its axis (about 27.3 sidereal days)
  

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• noun one of two major fast days on the Jewish calendar
  

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• noun a fixed day for holding a public market
  

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• noun observed on the Monday closest to January 15
  Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday.
  

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• noun observed in many countries to celebrate the coming of spring; observed in Russia and related countries in honor of labor
  First of May; May 1.
  

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• noun time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
  twenty-four hours; mean solar day; twenty-four hour period; day; 24-hour interval.
  
  • two days later they left
  • they put on two performances every day
  • there are 30,000 passengers per day

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• (Astron.), the mean or average of all the apparent solar days of the year.

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• noun legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war
  Decoration Day.
  

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• noun honoring the archangel Michael; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
  Michaelmas; September 29.
  

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• noun a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
  Midsummer Day; June 24; Midsummer's Day.
  

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• noun a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
  Midsummer Day; June 24; Midsummer's Day.
  

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• noun one of five minor fast days on the Jewish calendar
  

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• adjective satellite characteristic of the present
  contemporary.
  
  • contemporary trends in design
  • the role of computers in modern-day medicine

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• noun second Sunday in May
  

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• a day when one moves; esp., a day when a large number of tenants change their dwelling place.

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• adjective satellite as naked as at birth
  in one's birthday suit; in your birthday suit; mother-naked; naked as the day one was born.
  

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• adjective satellite as naked as at birth
  in one's birthday suit; in your birthday suit; mother-naked; naked as the day one was born.
  

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• noun the feast day of a saint whose name one bears
  

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• noun the date on which a person was born
  birthday.
  

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• the space of twenty-four hours. Chaucer.

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• noun the first day of the year
  New Year's; January 1.
  

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New" Year's` Day"

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1. the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to New year's or new year.

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• noun a day when things go poorly
  
  • I guess this is one of my off-days

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• (Mil.), the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard, prisoners, and police of the post or camp.

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• . (a) On a certain day, not definitely specified, referring to time past.

  One day when Phoebe fair, With all her band, was following the chase. Spenser.

  (b) Referring to future time: At some uncertain day or period; some day.

  Well, I will marry one day. Shak.

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• at an uncertain time, usually of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later. "Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband." Shak.

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• without certainty of continuance; temporarily. Bacon.

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• noun the order of business for an assembly on a given day
  

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• in legislative bodies, the special business appointed for a specified day.

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• the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day.

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• noun a day celebrating political and economic unity among American countries
  April 14.
  

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• noun the last day before Lent
  Mardi Gras; Shrove Tuesday.
  

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• noun the 3rd Monday in April; Massachusetts and Maine celebrate the battle of Lexington and Concord in 1775
  

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• the day of settlement of accounts.

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• the Irish insurgents of 1784; so called from their visiting the house of the loyal Irish at day break in search of arms. Cant

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• the days of the week as shared among the planets known to the ancients, each having its day. Hutton.

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• noun the day appointed for an election; in the United States it is the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November
  election day.
  

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• noun the Sunday nearest to November 11 when those who died in World War I and World War II are commemorated
  Remembrance Sunday; Poppy Day.
  

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• a day on which the mall arrives or departs.

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• adjective satellite belonging to the present time
  contemporary.
  
  • contemporary leaders

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• noun the third Monday in February; commemorates both presidents Lincoln and Washington
  

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• noun a Christian holy day; one of four specified days when certain payments are due
  

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• a day regarded as terminating a quarter of the year; hence, one on which any payment, especially rent, becomes due. In matters influenced by United States statutes, quarter days are the first days of January, April, July, and October. In New York and many other places, as between landlord and tenant, they are the first days of May, August, November, and February. The quarter days usually recognized in England are 25th of March (Lady Day), the 24th of June (Midsummer Day), the 29th of September (Michaelmas Day), and the 25th of December (Christmas Day).

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• noun a day on which university students hold a rag
  

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• noun a (future) time of financial need
  
  • I am saving for a rainy day

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• noun a memorably happy or noteworthy day (from the custom of marking holy days in red on church calendars)
  

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• a day that is fortunate or auspicious; so called in allusion to the custom of marking holy days, or saints' days, in the old calendars with red letters.

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• noun the Sunday nearest to November 11 when those who died in World War I and World War II are commemorated
  Remembrance Sunday; Poppy Day.
  

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• noun a day set aside for rest
  day of rest.
  

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• (Law), the day when the defendant is to appear in court, and the sheriff is to return the writ and his proceedings.

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• noun celebrated in southern United States
  Robert E Lee's Birthday; Lee's Birthday; January 19.
  

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• noun one of the three days before Ascension Day; observed by some Christians as days of supplication
  Rogation Day.
  

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• noun one of the three days before Ascension Day; observed by some Christians as days of supplication
  Rogation Day.
  

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• (Eccl.), the three days which immediately precede Ascension Day; so called as being days on which the people, walking in procession, sang litanies of special supplication.

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• (Com.), the consecutive days occupied on a voyage under working days. Simmonds.

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• a distance of about a mile, which, under Rabbinical law, the Jews were allowed to travel on the Sabbath.

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• noun a day observed by the Irish to commemorate the patron saint of Ireland
  March 17; Saint Patrick's Day.
  

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• noun a day for the exchange of tokens of affection
  Saint Valentine's Day; February 14; Valentine Day; St Valentine's Day.
  

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• noun a day commemorating a saint
  

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• noun the best time of youth
  bloom of youth; bloom.
  

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• noun any day on which school is in session
  school day.
  
  • go to bed early because tomorrow is a school day
• noun the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session
  school day; school; schooltime.
  
  • stay after school
  • he didn't miss a single day of school
  • when the school day was done we would walk home together

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• noun any day on which school is in session
  school day.
  
  • go to bed early because tomorrow is a school day
• noun the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session
  school day; school; schooltime.
  
  • stay after school
  • he didn't miss a single day of school
  • when the school day was done we would walk home together

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• the period in which youth are sent to school.

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• a day for settling accounts, as in the stock market.

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• adjective satellite lasting through a week
  weeklong.
  
  • her weeklong vacation

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• the seventh day of the week; Saturday.

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• noun Adventism that is strongly Protestant and observes Saturday as the Sabbath
  

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• a sect of Baptists who keep the seventh day of the week, or Saturday, as the Sabbath. See Sabbatarian. The Dunkers and Campbellites are also Baptists.

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• a sect which separated from the Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath.

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• the days allowed a vessel for loading or unloading.

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• . See under Clock, Day, etc.

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• noun the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day
  day.
  

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• the interval between two successive transits of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time.

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• noun tension between Arabs and Israeli erupted into a brief war in June 1967; Israel emerged as a major power in the Middle East
  Arab-Israeli War; Six Day War.
  

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• noun tension between Arabs and Israeli erupted into a brief war in June 1967; Israel emerged as a major power in the Middle East
  Arab-Israeli War; Six Day War.
  

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• noun time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
  twenty-four hours; mean solar day; twenty-four hour period; day; 24-hour interval.
  
  • two days later they left
  • they put on two performances every day
  • there are 30,000 passengers per day

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• . See Day, 2.

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• noun an annual day in the schools when speeches are made and prizes are distributed
  

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• noun a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
  Midsummer Day; June 24; Midsummer's Day.
  

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• noun the feast of Saint Martin; a quarter day in Scotland
  11 November; Martinmas.
  

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• noun a day observed by the Irish to commemorate the patron saint of Ireland
  March 17; Saint Patrick's Day.
  

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• noun a day for the exchange of tokens of affection
  Saint Valentine's Day; February 14; Valentine Day; St Valentine's Day.
  

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• noun widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds
  leatherleaf fern; Rumohra adiantiformis; leather fern; Polystichum adiantiformis.
  

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• noun Texans celebrate the anniversary of Texas' declaration of independence from Mexico in 1836
  March 2.
  

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• noun fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag
  Thanksgiving.
  

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• a day (May 19, 1780) when a remarkable and unexplained darkness extended over all New England.

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• at a certain time past, not distant, but indefinite; not long ago; recently; rarely, the third day past.

  Bind my hair up: as't was yesterday? No, nor t' other day. B. Jonson.

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• noun twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus
  January 6; Epiphany; Epiphany of Our Lord; Three Kings' Day.
  

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• noun an equestrian competition; the first day is dressage; the second is cross-country jumping; the third is stadium jumping
  

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• noun a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester
  rubella; German measles; epidemic roseola.
  

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• (Com.), the day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another. Eng. Simmonds.

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• the interval between the occurrences of two consecutive maxima of the resultant wave at the same place. Its length varies as the components of sun and moon waves approach to, or recede from, one another. A retardation from this cause is called the lagging of the tide, while the acceleration of the recurrence of high water is termed the priming of the tide. See Lag of the tide, under 2d Lag.

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• noun clock time
  hour.
  
  • the hour is getting late

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• salutation appropriate to the times of the day, as "good morning," "good evening," and the like; greeting.

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• to salute one with the compliment appropriate to the hour, as "good morning." "good evening", etc.

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• to keep one's appointment. Obs. Chaucer.

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• to gain the victory, to be successful. S. Butler.

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To-day" adverb

Etymology

Definitions

1. On this day; on the present day.

   Worcester's horse came but to-day. Shak.

To-day" noun

Definitions

1. The present day. usu. spelt today.

   On to-day Is worth for me a thousand yesterdays. Longfellow.

   today adj. modern, recent.

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• a day on which a military company assembles for drill or parade. U. S.

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• one of the days fixed by the Bank of England for the transfer, free of charge, of bank stock and government funds. These days are the first five business days in the week before three o'clock. Transfers may be made on Saturdays on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. Bithell.

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• noun (Christianity) a church festival held in commemoration of the Transfiguration of Jesus
  Transfiguration; August 6.
  

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• an arranged day of meeting or assembling, as of soldiers, friends, and the like.

  And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth East and west and south and north, To summon his array. Macaulay.

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• noun twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus
  January 6; Epiphany; Epiphany of Our Lord; Three Kings' Day.
  

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Twelfth"-day` noun

Definitions

1. See Twelfthtide.

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• noun a day for celebrating the founding of the United Nations
  October 24.
  

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• noun the day of a victory
  V-day.
  

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• noun the date of Allied victory in Europe, World War II
  8 May 1945.
  

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• noun the date of Allied victory over Japan, World War II
  15 August 1945.
  

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• noun a day for the exchange of tokens of affection
  Saint Valentine's Day; February 14; Valentine Day; St Valentine's Day.
  

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• noun a day for the exchange of tokens of affection
  Saint Valentine's Day; February 14; Valentine Day; St Valentine's Day.
  

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• noun a legal holiday in the United States; formerly Armistice Day but called Veterans' Day since 1954
  Armistice Day; November 11; Veterans Day.
  

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• noun a legal holiday in the United States; formerly Armistice Day but called Veterans' Day since 1954
  Armistice Day; November 11; Veterans Day.
  

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• noun a public holiday in Canada on the Monday on or before May 24th
  

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• noun the day of a victory
  V-day.
  

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• noun a day set aside for doing household laundry
  washday.
  

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• noun the day of a wedding
  

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• any day of the week except Sunday; a working day.

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• a translation of L. sine die, without the appointment of a day to appear or assemble again; finally; as, the Fortieth Congress then adjourned without day.

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• noun a day on which work is done
  workday; work day.
  

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• noun a day on which work is done
  workday; work day.
  
• noun the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage
  workday.
  
  • they work an 8-hour day

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• . (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction from Sundays and legal holidays. (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom, during which a workman, hired at a stated price per day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay.

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Work"ing-day adjective

Definitions

1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working.

   O, how full of briers in this working-day world. Shak.

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• (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an act or an event, in order that an entire year might be secured beyond all question. Abbott.

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