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morn|mɔːn|
Forms: 1 morᵹen, marᵹen, mer(i)ᵹen, merien (also in oblique forms morᵹn-, morn-, marn-), 2 marȝan, moreȝen, 2–3 marȝen, 3 mærȝen, marhen, mor(e)ghen, 2–4 morȝen, (4 moryhen); 3 marwen, morwhen, 3–5 morwen, 4 morewen, 5 morewane, morwyn, morwoun, morwynge; 3–5 morun, 4 moroun, 4–5 moren, 5 moron, moryn; 4–7 morne, 3– morn. See also morrow.
[Com. Teut.: the OE. forms represent three distinct types, each of which is represented in one or more of the other Teut. langs. (1) OE. morᵹen (inflected also morᵹn-, morn-) = OFris. *morgen, morn, OS. morgan (MLG., MDu., Du. morgen), OHG. morgan (MHG., mod.G. morgen):—OTeut. *murgano-z, represented also, with variation of suffix, by ON. morgunn, -onn (Sw. morgon, Da. morgen). (2) OE. myrᵹen- (in the comb. myrᵹenlic) = ON. myrginn, Goth. maurgin-s:—OTeut. *murgino-z. (3) OE. marᵹen, męrᵹen = MDu. margen, mergen, ON. merginn (OSw. marghan):—OTeut. *margano-z, -ino-z. The word in all forms retains the masculine gender.
The affinities outside Teut. are doubtful. Some refer the word to the pre-Teut. root *merk- to be dark; but the absence of consonant-ablaut, as well as the inappropriateness of the sense, seems to render this view less probable than the alternative hypothesis that the root is *mergh-, represented by Lith. mirgu to twinkle, margas parti-coloured.
The present monosyllabic form descends, partly at least, from the OE. contraction in oblique cases, morne, mornes for morᵹ(e)ne, morᵹ(e)nes. (The same contraction existed in ON.) But it may also in part represent the result of a process of contraction starting from ME. morwen, the intermediate forms being morun, moren, etc.
The ME. forms that retain the final n are for convenience placed here, though many of them might with equal propriety be referred to morrow. In MSS. it is often doubtful whether the word is morn or moru = ‘morrow’.]
1. The beginning of the day, dawn, sunrise. Only poet.: often personified.
Beowulf 1077 Syþðan morᵹen com. Ibid. 2103 Merᵹen. c1400Destr. Troy 9141 Hit semyt by sight of sitters aboute, As the moron mylde meltid aboue, When ho hasted with hond þe hore for to touche. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliv. 298 The morne aroos, the day gan spryng. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 454 Like a red morne, that euer yet betokend Wracke to the sea-man, tempest to the field. 1637Milton Lycidas 187 While the still morn went out with Sandals gray. 1792Wordsw. Descr. Sk. 405 'Tis morn: with gold the verdant mountain glows. 1830Tennyson Ode to Memory 70 What time the amber morn Forth gushes from beneath a low-hung cloud. 1852M. Arnold Parting 86 Thy high mountain platforms, Where Morn first appears.
fig.1813Shelley Q. Mab ix. 38 Yet slow and gradual dawned the morn of love. 1852M. Arnold Empedocles i. ii. 167 The first faint morn Of life.
b. The east; ‘the land of dawn’.
1642H. More Poems (1647) 31 A trimly decked Close Whose grassie pavement wrought with even line Ran from the Morn upon the Evening-close. 189.Baring-Gould Hymn, ‘On the Resurrection morning’ iii, For a while the wearied body Lies with feet toward the morn. 1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad iii, And you will list the bugle That blows in lands of morn.
c. northern morn (poet. nonce-use): the aurora borealis (cf. morning 4 b).
1842Tennyson Morte d'Arthur 139 The great brand..Shot like a streamer of the northern morn.
2. The early part of the day; morning. Now chiefly poet.
Beowulf 2450 Symble bið ᵹemyndᵹad morna ᵹehwylce eoforan ellorsið. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xx. 1 Ar in merne [Vulg. primo mane]. c1175Lamb. Hom. 115 Wa þere þeode..þer þa aldormen etað on erne marȝen ulaȝeliche [Eccl. x. 16]. c1250Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 33 On good-man was þat ferst uut-yede bi þe Moreghen for to here werkmen in-to his winyarde. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 493 Myryly on a fayr morn, monyth þe fyrst. 1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 4 In morun atte messe. c1400Mandeville (1839) xv. 164 For sume of hem, worschipe the Sonne,..or the first thing that thei meeten at morwen. 1567Satir. Poems Reform. iii. 1 About vj. houris at morne. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. ii. 1 Deere trouble not your selfe: the morne is cold. 1629Milton Christ's Nativ. i, This is the Month, and this the happy morn Wherein [etc.]. 1750Gray Elegy xxviii, One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill. 1859Tennyson Marr. Geraint 157 But Guinevere lay late into the morn. 1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad iv, Morns abed and daylight slumber Were not meant for man alive.
fig.1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. iv. 16 Say that right for right Hath dim'd your Infant morne, to Aged night. 1602― Ham. i. iii. 41 And in the Morne and liquid dew of Youth, Contagious blastments are most imminent.
b. In phrases, as at († on) morn and (at, † on) even (also eve and morn), etc.; morn by morn, morning after morning, occurring every morning; from morn to (or till) night, etc., all day long; † good morn, a salutation (see further good a. 10 c).
c825Vesp. Psalter liv. 18 On efenne on marne & on midne deᵹ. a1300Cursor M. 6385 It come at morn and euening. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1208 ‘God moroun, sir Gawayn’, sayde þat fayr lady. a1400–50Alexander 4769 Fra morewane to þe mydday merely þai spring. c1450Holland Howlat 195 At euyn and at morn. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 660 He would fight, yea From morne till night. 1667Milton P.L. i. 742 From Morn To Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve, A Summer's day. 1781Cowper Truth 509 Herself, from morn to night, from night to morn, Her own abhorrence. 1816J. Wilson City of Plague ii. iii. 48 A morn and even, And through the dismal day, that fierce aspect Glared on the city. 1827Keble Chr. Y., Even. viii, Abide with me from morn till eve. 1847Tennyson Princess vii. 30 Morn by morn the lark Shot up and shrill'd in flickering gyres. 1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad vi, Buy them, buy them: eve and morn Lovers' ills are all to sell.
3. The next morning. Hence, the day after to-day or the day mentioned; = morrow 2.[Com. Teut.: cf. Goth. du maurgina, G. morgen, etc.] †a. Without article. Chiefly with prep. as on morn or upon morn. Obs. exc. in to-morn dial. (See also a-morrow 2.)
Beowulf 2484 Þa ic on morᵹne ᵹefræᵹn mæᵹ oðerne billes ecgum on bonan stælan. c1000ælfric Saints' Lives iii. 584 Se læce him cwæð to . Ne lyfastu oð æfen . þa cwæð basilius. hwæt ᵹif ic bide meriᵹenes. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1161 Abraham up on morȝen stod. a1300Cursor M. 3345 On morn wit godds beniscon Was mai rebecca lede o ton. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 7104 Þai war on morne to durham boun.
†b. other morn (Sc.): the next day but one.
1572tr. Buchanan's Detect. Mary Q. Scot. T ij b, He hes prayit me to remane vpoun hym quhill vther morne.
c. the morn: the morrow. Now only Sc. and north. dial.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 79 A þe marȝen [the good Samaritan] bitahte him twa peneȝes to spenen on him. a1300Cursor M. 2917 Abraham went him, on þe morn, To þat sted. c1300Havelok 811 On þe morwen, hwan it was day, He stirt up sone. a1440Sir Degrev. 1337 Sire Degrivaunt on the morwoun Com aȝe to the thorun. 1485Caxton Paris & V. (1868) 42 Tyl on the morne at nyght. 1508Dunbar Poems v. 18 Scho slepit quhill the morne at none, et rais airly. 1544in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 401 My lord Governor tuke to be advised while the morne at even. 1887P. M'Neill Blawearie 133 Mother's away for the morn's meat. 1888Barrie Auld Licht Idylls viii. 171 Ay, Bell, the morn's the Sabbath.
d. the morn: used advb. (orig. in the accus.) = to-morrow, on the morrow. Now only Sc.
a1300Cursor M. 11532 Þe morun quen þai risen ware,..þai tok þair leue. 1340Ayenb. 46 Þane morȝen huanne he zet ate gemene: his arowe vil ope þet cheker al blody. 1461Rolls of Parlt. V. 476/2 And the morne, the xvi day of Decembre, my Lord Chaunceller opened..the matiers above-seid. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 299 Cum the morne to the Court and do my counsall. 1569Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 669 To tak jornay the morne the aucht day of this instant. 1621Gude & Godlie Ball. App. i. (S.T.S.) 234 This day thow was ane King with Croun, The morne cummis deith withouttin dreid. 1788Burns ‘There was a lass’ ii, But Duncan swoor a haly aith That Meg should be a bride the morn. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxiii, He wad be glad if I wad eat a reisted haddock..at breakfast wi' him the morn. 1869C. Gibbon R. Gray iv, I'll see how ye're getting on the morn or neist day.
†e. More explicitly, the morn after. Obs.
14..Gregory's Chron. in Hist. Coll. Citizen London (Camden) 110 The kyng sende hem worde yf they wolde delivery the towne on the morne aftyr, be the oure of mydnyght..he wolde accepte hyt [etc.]. Ibid. 112 Onne the morne aftyr Syn Symonnys day and Jude. 1483Rolls of Parlt. VI. 253/2 From the afore written morne next after Seint Hillarie day. 1560–1Bk. Discipl. Ch. Scot. i. (1621) 2 The Assembly appointed, the laird of Dunn..to conveen the morn after the preaching. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 55 The morne thairefter the gentillmen war honourabillie burieit in the kirk yaird.
f. the morn's morn(ing, night, etc. = to-morrow morning, night, etc. Also used advb. Sc.
1816Scott Antiq. xi, Till the morn's morning. 1822Galt Sir A. Wylie lx, Your Leddyship's brother..will be here betimes the morn's morning. 1889Barrie Window in Thrums xx. 193 Jamie, I'll no hae ye to sit aside me the morn's nicht.
4. attrib. and Comb.
a. In the sense of ‘morning’, as morn-devotion, morn-dew, morn-drink, morn-light, morn milk, morn-prayer, morn rising, morn sleep, morn-song; † morn-bell, a bell rung as a call to matins or to early mass; † morn-mass = morrow-mass; † morn-priest, the priest celebrating early mass; also similative, instrumental, and objective, with adjs. and pples., as morn-bright, † morn-dawning, morn-like, morn-loved, morn-waking.
1568–9in Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees) 115 To Nicholas Richerdson for a rope to the *morne bell, 3s.
1642H. More Song of Soul iii. iii. xlv, She sees his blazing *morn⁓bright eye.
1645Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845) 269 A glimmering of *morn-dawning light.
1600Fairfax Tasso i. xv, Godfrey..then his *morne deuotions sed.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. xii. 9 The *Morne-dew on the Mertle leafe.
a1440Sir Eglam. 381 Hys *morne-drynke he had tane.
Beowulf 917 Ða wæs *morᵹenleoht scofen and scynded. c1205Lay. 17946 Þat we i þan morȝen-liht mæȝen come forð riht forn at Meneue.
1593Nashe Christ's T. 71 b, Your *morne-like christall countenaunces shall be netted ouer.
1606Drayton Eglog. ii. Poems D 2, The *morn-lou'd Mary⁓gould.
1511Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl. IV. 180 For offerand to tua *morne missis and at the hie miss.
a1310in Wright Lyric P. ix. 36 Whittore then the *moren mylk. c1386Chaucer Prol. 358 An Anlaas and a gipser al of silk Heeng at his girdel, whit as morne Milk.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. iv. 71 If that be sin, Ile make it my *Morne-praier, To haue it added to the faults of mine, And nothing of your answere.
1466in Archæologia L. i. 44 Item j nothir Riddyll be hynde the *morne preste in the quere.
1601Holland Pliny I. 13 [Mercurie hath] the *morne rising in Aquarius, but very seldome in Leo.
a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 175 And tharefore qwyetness, after the reullis of phisick, and a *morne sleap was requisite for My Lord.
1601Deacon & Walker Spirits & Divels 339 His Euen-song and *Morne-song, they are one and the same.
1593Lodge Phillis (1875) 21 And Phillis hath *morne-waking birdes, Hir risinges for to honour.
†b. In the sense of ‘to-morrow’, as morn-day, morn-while. Obs.
971Blickl. Hom. 213 Godes man ne sceolde be þan morᵹendæᵹe þencean, þylæs þæt wære þæt [etc.]. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xl. (Ninian) 462 Þai.. bad þare til þe morne-day. a1450Cursor M. 5993 (Fairf.), Moises prayed þe morne day & alle þe fleys ware a-way. |