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morning, n. (and a.)|ˈmɔːnɪŋ|
Forms: 3 moreȝening(e, 3–4 mor(e)wening(e, 4 mor(e)wenyng(e, morennyng(e, 4–5 morwenyng(e, mor(o)wnyng(e, morowning, morowenyng, 5 morenyng(e, 6 Sc. moirneing, 4–6 mornyng(e, 4– morning.
[ME. morwening, morning, f. morwen morn + -ing1, on the analogy of evening.]
I. The simple word.
1. a. Originally, the time of the approach or beginning of ‘morn’; the period extending from a little before to a little after sunrise. The word gradually became synonymous with morn (which is now only poet. and dial.). In modern use: The early part of the day-time, ending at noon or at the hour of the midday meal.
a1250Owl & Night. 1718 (Jesus Oxf. MS.) Þe wrenne for heo cuþe singe Þar com in þare moreweninge [(Cott. MS.) moreȝeninge] To helpe þare nyhtegale. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1725) 17 Right in the mornyng in aldermost nede Com þe kynge's sonnes tuo. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 266 A nyȝt is partid in foure houres; as evenynge and mydnyȝt, cockis crowinge and morewnynge. c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 458 Herest, how the briddes synge For gladnesse of the morwenynge. c1450Holland Howlat 157 All thus in May, as I ment in a mornyng. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. ii. 113 The morning weares, 'tis time we were at Church. 1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. ii. xix. (1696) 282 How many precious Mornings do we spend in Consultation with Barbers, Taylors [etc.]. a1707Bp. Patrick Autobiog. (1839) 90 Some pious persons..had desired prayers at the hour of ten in the morning. 1728Vanbr. & Cib. Prov. Husb. iv. i, An hundred Pound in the Morning, and want another afore Night! 1833Tennyson New-Year's Eve vi, In the early early morning. Mod. My mornings are occupied with correspondence.
b. in the morning, appended to an hour-date, means between midnight and noon; = a.m.
a1654Selden Table-T. (Arb.) 82 Sitting up till two of the Clock in the Morning. 1727–52Chambers Cycl. s.v., The astronomers reckon morning, mane, from the time of mid-night, to that of midday.—Thus an eclipse is said to begin at eleven o'clock in the morning, &c. 1797T. Wright Autobiog. (1864) 194 A quarter past one o'clock in the morning. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 292/1 The Celestines were bound to say matins in the choir at two o'clock in the morning.
c. The portion of the day extending to the fashionable dinner time.
1749Fielding Tom Jones xv. ii, Past three in the morning, or to reckon by the old style, in the afternoon. 1840John Bull 31 May 1 M. Liszt will give at Two o'clock on Tuesday morning, June 9, Recitals on the Pianoforte.
d. fig. The beginning, or early part (of anything likened to a day).
1595W. S. Locrine ii. vi. E, Thus in the morning of my victories, Thus in the prime of my felicitie To cut me off by such hard ouerthrow. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 351 Moses telleth of the reigne and power of Chederlaomer King of Elam, in that morning of the world extended to the borders of Canaan. 1786Burns To James Smith xv, O Life! how pleasant in thy morning. 1855Prescott Philip II, i. viii. (1857) 149 A war which hung like a dark cloud on the morning of her reign.
e. Ellipt. for morning paper. colloq.
1961[see evening n.1 2 f]. 1966New Statesman 7 Oct. 503/3 Thomson already controls the Scotsman, three provincial mornings and nine evenings. 1970K. Giles Death in Church v. 121 Did you see the mornings?.. The act of killing the clergy seems to enrage English journalists.
2. a. With qualifying adj. denoting the kind of weather, etc., prevailing, or the pleasure (or the contrary) experienced during the morning.
one or some fine morning, etc.: see fine a. 15 b.
c1374Chaucer Compl. Mars 151 And therfore in this lusty morwnynge As I best can I wol hit seyn and synge. c1402Lydg. Compl. Bl. Knt. 25 Clere and faire was the morowning. 1546J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 81 Thus cloudy mornynges turne to cleere after noones. 1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor., Epist. vi. (1696) 503 In a Frosty Morning. 1784Cowper Task vi. 58 The morning [was] sharp and clear. 1865G. Macdonald A. Forbes 11 When the morning was wet.
b. good morning: see good a. 10 c. (Cf. the earlier good morn, good-morrow.) In informal speech often shortened to morning.
1611[see good a. 10 c]. 1653Walton Angler i. 1 You are wel overtaken Sir, a good morning to you. 1751Eliza Heywood Betsy Thoughtless I. 268 In going out, he saw Mr. Goodman in the parlour, who gave him the good morning as he passed. 1895‘H. S. Merriman’ Grey Lady ii. vii. (1899) 254 ‘Morning—morning!’ he cried. ‘Good morning’, replied Luke. 1911G. B. Shaw Blanco Posnet 390 Morning, Elder. (Passing on). Morning Strapper. (Passing on). Morning, Miss Evans. 1968G. Butler Coffin Following vi. 120 ‘Morning,’ said the ticket collector.
3. Idiomatic uses and phrases.
a. Used advb. (in ME. rarely † the morning) for ‘in the morning’. Now only in collocations like morning and evening. Also in proverbial phrase morning, noon, and night = all the day, incessantly.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 11676 Þe tiwesday to euesham he wende þe morweninge. 1697T. Brown Dispensary (ad fin.) Wks. 1709 III. iii. 90 Take one Spoonful of it Morning and Evening. 1808E. Weeton Let. 1 Apr. in Jrnl. of Governess (1969) I. 80 Your praises..have operated almost like a dose of salts, and have worked me morning, noon, and night for these two days. 1864Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xx. 160 Your sitting here all alone, morning, noon, and night, won't bring him back. 1891N. Gould Double Event 17 I'm sick of the name. Morning, noon, and night I hear nothing else. 1892C. Whitaker Student's Aid to Prayer Bk. Hist. Sk. p. vi, The Litany may be used morning or evening or both.
b. In certain phrases the article is omitted, as † in morning (obs.), at morning (now rare), till morning, before morning; from morning till evening, morning to night, etc.; also all morning (adv.) beside all the morning. Also † a-morning.
a1300Cursor M. 7181 On nighter-tale, or in morning. Ibid. 13291 Amorning fand he dan leui. 1530Palsgr. 434/1 He applyeth his crafte from mornyng to nyght. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. ii. 279 He plyes the Duke at morning and at night. 1713Swift Address to Earl of Oxford, Imit. Horace, Ep. i. vii. 78 Soon grows Domestick; seldom fails Either at Morning, or at Meals. 1788A. Hughes Henry & Isabella III. 17 Not having seen her all morning, she [etc.]. 1832Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 261, I..very seldom employ myself upon the same [thing] at morning and in the evening. 1842J. R. Planché White Cat ii. Extravaganzas 1879 II. 164 We won't go home till morning, Till day-light doth appear. 1849M. Arnold New Sirens i, I, who in your train at morning Stroll'd and sang with joyful mind, Heard, at evening, sounds of warning. 1887Hall Caine Deemster xii, All morning she had dreamt of her husband.
c. † on mornings, a-mornings (obs.), of mornings (see of prep. 52 b): habitually in the morning. Also mornings as adv. in the same sense; now rare or dial. Also, † of a mornings = ‘of a morning’.
[1377, etc.: see a-mornings] .1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xxvi. 38 The scottis, on mornyngis and nyghtis, made many skryes to trouble the oste, but lytle hurt they dyd. 1575Laneham Let. (1871) 58, I am..iolly & dry a mornings. 1620Venner Via Recta (1650) 55 Sometimes mornings fasting a small draught thereof may be profitable for them. 1652tr. Scudery's Ibrahim iv. ii. 174 Mornings and evenings only I took him out Lessons. 1732Mrs. Wesley in Wesley's Wks. (1829) I. 388 Mornings they had always spoon-meat; sometimes at nights. c1740Chesterfield Lett. to Son xlvii. (1774) I. 118 When the sun shines on either side of us (as it does mornings and evenings) the shadows are very long. 1795Coleridge Lett. (1895) I. 137 Only amusing myself on mornings. 1849[see of 52 b]. 1893H. C. O'Neill Told in the Dimpses 28 Farmer Spurrier could see the plough at work..before he got out of his bed mornings. 1936S.P.E. Tract xlv. 192 A peculiar use of the plural form is illustrated in ‘The operatic tenor Campanini was engaged to sing mornings’. 1938T. Wilder Our Town i. 11 Quarter of nine mornings, noontimes, and three o'clock afternoon's [sic], the hull town can hear the yelling and screaming from those schoolyards.
d. this morning: the morning of to-day. Chiefly in advb. use.
1577C'tess Mar in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 419/1, I rassauit this moirneing ane wreitting. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. v. iii. 305 A glooming peace this morning with it brings. 1606― Ant. & Cl. iv. v. 5 The Soldier That has this morning left thee. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. 5 May (1810) 181 This morning we pass'd by the fountain of Barrady. 1865H. Kingsley Hillyars & B. xii, The fellows who got bailed up by young Hillyar this morning.
e. in or of a morning: habitually in the morning.
1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. ii. xvi. (1696) 264 We wonder..how any Man can..endure to rise so early in a Morning. 1798Monthly Mag. VI. 171 To take a walk in the High-Street in a morning. 1824Lady Granville Lett. (1894) I. 325, I am..going to receive them of a morning. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Channings x, He should only have to go to the office for two hours before breakfast in a morning, to make up for the two lost in the day.
f. In genitive. Formerly often equivalent to the attrib. use. Now only in the senses ‘belonging to the particular morning’, ‘occupying a morning’.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. iii. 201 Vpon whose leaues are drops of new-shed-blood, As fresh as mornings dew distil'd on flowers. 1602F. Herring Anat. 8 Readie to visit his Patients at any hour, being as good an afternoones-man as a morning's-man. 1655Walton Angler v. (1661) 90 Come give my Scholer and me a Mornings-drink, and a bit of meat to breakfast. 1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. ii. xxii. (1696) 318 He gave me a Mornings Visit. 1697T. Brown Dispensary i. Wks. 1709 III. iii. 68 What will be the Charges of this Morning's Work? 1711Steele Spect. No. 134 ⁋2, I constantly peruse your Paper as I smoke my Morning's Pipe. 1859Tennyson Geraint & Enid 571 So the ruffians growl'd, Fearing to lose..Their chance of booty from the morning's raid.
g. (the) morning after (the night before): a morning on which the effects of the previous night's drinking or revelry are unpleasantly felt; also attrib. and absol., these effects or a person suffering from them; also in extended use for any unpleasant aftermath of pleasure. Also morning after, applied to a contraceptive pill that is effective when taken some time after sexual intercourse.
1884Punch 31 May 264/1 His method of inoculation for hydrophobia seems uncommonly like the old ‘morning-after’ remedy, when the chippy one who could ‘strike matches on his tongue’ was recommended to take ‘a hair of the dog that bit him’. 1909E. Nesbit Daphne in Fitzroy St. xvi. 256 ‘I'm all right,’ said the girl... ‘That's what we all of us says, when it comes to be the morning after,’ said Mrs. Delarue. 1922Joyce Ulysses 231 It was blue o'clock the morning after the night before. 1927Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 157 There wasn't much doubt what Jimmy had been up to. He was altogether ‘the morning after’. 1942T. Bailey Pink Camellia v. 28 She sat up and looked at herself in the mirror. ‘The morning after! And my face looks like it.’ 1946‘Brahms’ & ‘Simon’ Trottie True vi. 152 ‘The Duke's got a morning-after,’ she said crisply. 1947Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 12 Apr. 20/1 The nation relaxes, and only the morning-after headaches and the morning-after quarterbacks remain. 1957A. C. Clarke Deep Range iv. 43 He was not pleased to find that the entire stock of ‘morning-after’ pills had already been consumed. a1963S. Plath Crossing Water (1971) 33 Musky as a lovebed the morning after. 1967V. C. Clinton-Baddeley Death's Bright Dart 169 One of those aristocratic men in the advertisements whose morning-after needs are ministered to by a smiling and provident butler. 1967N.Y. Times 24 Aug. 35 Dr. Chang and Dr. Pincus had been working recently on a new pill, known popularly as the ‘morning-after’ pill. It affects the egg after ovulation. 1969Daily Tel. 3 July 23/3 Trials of a ‘morning after’ pill had been promising. 1973Express (Trinidad & Tobago) 17 Mar. 7/1 The Food and Drug Administration will approve the use of diethylstilbestrol or DES as a ‘morning after’ contraceptive pill for women in emergency situations such as rape. 1973L. Meynell Thirteen Trumpeters xiv. 215 ‘I felt awful. I didn't care whether I lived or died..’ ‘A classic case of the morning-after-the-night-before feeling.’
4. a. poet. The dawn, daybreak; the light of dawn. Often personified. (Cf. Ps. cxxxix. 9.)
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. i. 21 See how the Morning opes her golden Gates. 1599― Hen. V, iv. i. 88 Is not that the Morning which breaks yonder? 1611Bible Isa. xiv. 12 O Lucifer, sonne of the morning. 1667Milton P.L. v. 20 Awake, the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us. 1781Cowper Retirement 432 While morning kindles with a windy red. 1821Shelley Adonais xiv, Morning sought Her eastern watch-tower, and her hair unbound. 1833Tennyson Œnone 54 Far up the solitary morning smote The streaks of virgin snow. 1859FitzGerald tr. Omar i, Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight.
fig.1742Young Nt. Th. viii. 255 The blush of morning, in his cheek, turns pale.
b. northern morning: the Aurora Borealis. rare.
1836Uncle Philip's Convers. Whale Fishery 215 The Aurora Borealis, or northern morning, as it is called. 1842Tennyson Talking Oak 275.
5. a. A morning draught, a glass of liquor taken before breakfast. Chiefly Sc.
1718Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. iii. vi, Steen..Came in to get his morning. 1814Scott Wav. xviii, Of this he took a copious dram, observing, he had already taken his morning with Donald Bean Lean, before his departure. 1843Lever J. Hinton iv, ‘Are you ready for your morning?’..He poured..a brimming goblet full of some white compound, and handed it to me... I put it to my lips, and found it to be capital milk-punch. 1894‘Ian Maclaren’ Bonny Brier Bush v. 187 Aifter a whilie they tak a mornin' wi' a freend and syne a gless at the public-hoose in the evenin'.
b. ‘A slight repast taken at rising, some hours before what is called breakfast’ (Jam.). dial.
1818Scott Leg. Montrose vi, But now I must go down..and see that Gustavus [a horse] has his morning. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. iii, I just watched the 'ed porter..across to the buttery to get his mornin'. 1897Shetland News 29 May (E.D.D.), Bread for the Mason's mornings.
II. attrib. and Comb. (and quasi-adj.).
6. Simple attrib., with various nouns of action, as in morning-dawn, morning-peep, morning-rise, † morning-spring, morning-wake. Chiefly poet.
1810S. Green Reformist I. 28 Notwithstanding the moon lasting till *morning-dawn.
a1687Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Poems (1775) 144 Rhime next his heart, he takes at *morning-peep, Some love-epistles at his hours of sleep.
1599Shakes., etc. Pass. Pilgr. xiv, The *morning rise Doth scite each mouing scence from Idle rest.
1535Coverdale Josh. vi. 15 Vpon the seuenth daye whan the *mornynge sprynge arose, they gat them vp early.
1678Dryden & Lee Œdipus iii. i. (1679) 44 My Soul then stole my Body out by night; And brought me back to Bed e're *Morning-wake.
7. attrib. passing into adj.a. With the sense: Existing, prevailing, or taking place in the morning.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 778 With rotten damps rauish the *morning aire.
1928E. Blunden Retreat 33 With friends as nimble as *morning-beams, Who sped with him to this playground.
1535Coverdale Hosea vi. 4 Youre loue is like a *mornynge cloude, & like a dew yt goeth early awaye.
1535― Wisd. xi. 22 Yee as a droppe of y⊇ *morninge dew, that falleth downe vpon the earth. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 126 Their heads are hung With eares that sweepe away the morning dew.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. ix. 41 And he, that points the Centonell his roome, Doth license him depart at sound of *morning droome.
1890Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) 163 He hewed the living rock with sweat and tears, And reared a God against the *morning-gold.
1634Milton Comus 920 And I must haste ere *morning hour To wait in Amphitrite's bowr.
1667― P.L. ix. 194 The humid Flours, that breathd Thir *morning Incense.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 745 He in his speed lookes for the *morning light. 1820Shelley Good-Nt. iii, To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light, The night is good. 1930R. Campbell Adamastor 86 With food and drink, at morning-light, The children met me at the water-side.
1722De Foe Plague (1840) 51 The watchman..let them alone till the *morning-man, or day-watchman, as they called him, came to relieve him.
1675H. Woolley Gentlewoman's Comp. 203 Cheese, of which there are three kinds: *Morning-Milk-Cheese, Nettle-Cheese, and floaten⁓Milk-Cheese.
1827T. J. Dibdin Reminisc. I. 251 A large play bill from Dublin, announcing *morning performances, on account of a partial insurrection or rebellion. 1896Mary Anderson Few Mem. vi. (ed. 2) 92 A morning performance when two young men..disturbed the actors and public with loud remarks.
1535Coverdale Hosea vi. 3 As the euenynge and *mornynge rayne vpon the earth.
1634Milton Comus 622 Every..plant..That spreds her verdant leaf to th' *morning ray.
1657in Shropsh. Parish Documents (1903) 51 Published 3 severall Lords Days..at the close of *morning service. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Channings xxxviii, The day was a holiday from school, but not from morning service.
1891Law Times XCI. 3/1 For the two sessions 1833 and 1834 *morning sittings from twelve to three were devoted to petitions. 1894Daily News 17 Jan. 5/3 There have been twenty-three morning sittings of the House of Commons since the beginning of the present session. A ‘morning’ sitting, as most people know, opens at two o'clock in the afternoon, and ends at seven.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 80 When the *Morning Sunne shall rayse his Carre Aboue the Border of this Horizon.
1632Sherwood, The *morning time, la matinée. 1858W. T. Matson Sonn. Poems 460 In the rathe morning-time of life.
1727–52Chambers Cycl. s.v., *Morning twilight. 1849De Quincey Dream Fugue Wks. 1890 XIII. 321 The morning twilight even then was breaking.
¶ In poetry, morning adj. often connotes vaguely the attributes possessed in the morning, or the fact that morning is the time referred to.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 99, I doe heare the morning Larke. 1600― A.Y.L. ii. vii. 146 The Schoole-boy with his Satchell And shining morning face. 1602― Ham. i. ii. 218 The Morning Cocke crew lowd. 1833Browning Pauline 13 The morning swallows with their songs like words. 1916D. H. Lawrence Amores 125 It seemed that I and the morning world Were pressed cup-shape to take this reiver Bird. 1917― Look! We have come Through! 77 See, glittering on the milk-blue, morning lake They are laying the golden racing-track of the sun.
b. Of things intended to be worn in the morning.
In this use morning usually means early morning or forenoon; but in morning dress, clothes, costume, it is now used merely in contradistinction to ‘evening’.
c1620Roxb. Ball. (1891) VII. 422 Casting from him his morning gown. 1700T. Brown Acc. Journ. Exon. Wks. 1709 III. ii. 101, I have given you an Account of my Journey, every Part just scribbled o'er with as much Freedom as 'twas acted, wanting Leisure to put it in any other than a loose Morning-dress. 1755Johnson, Morning gown, a loose gown worn before one is formally dressed. 1804Jackson's Oxford Jrnl. Aug., Morning dress of fine cambric. 1825J. F. Cooper Lionel Lincoln II. vi. 151 As the airy band of her morning cap waved aside. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Channings xvii, At ten, Lady Augusta..entered the breakfast-room in a dirty morning wrapper, and rang the bell. 1867Harper's Mag. Aug. 362/1 He got himself a new morning suit for shop use. 1891T. Hardy Tess xxxii, A perfect morning costume. 1896Mary Anderson Few Mem. vii. (ed. 2) 110 Her strange working costume of pale grey cloth, made like a man's morning suit. 1897Genealog. Mag. Oct. 325 Ladies wore what is technically described as morning dress. 1912‘C. F. Benton’ Fairs & Fetes 118 They should sell brushes and combs..and morning jackets. 1933Week-end Review 21 Jan. 69/2 Black morning coat and waistcoat, grey striped trousers, grey tie and pearl pin. 1969R. Godden In this House of Brede xix. 395 Japanese gentlemen in morning coats, grey waistcoats, striped trousers.
8. Comb. (similative, objective, or instrumental) with adjs. or pples., as in morning-blue, morning-breathing, morning-bright, morning-cold, morning-coloured, morning-fair, morning-gathered, morning-grey, morning-winged adjs. Usu. poet.
1920D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl xvi. 366 The lovely translucent pale irises, tiny and *morning-blue, they lasted only a few hours.
1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 15 Clymenes audacious boy Torne by the *morning-breathing horses rage.
1820Keats Hyperion ii. 294 *Morning-bright Apollo! young Apollo! 1922E. Blunden Shepherd 48 Cheeks all morning-bright. 1923D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 76 My heart which like a lark at heaven's gate singing, hovers morning-bright to Thee.
1945J. Betjeman New Bats in Old Belfries 43 There splashed about our ankles as we waded Those intersecting wavelets *morning-cold.
1601Chester Love's Mart. (1878) 3 Her *morning-coloured cheekes.
1938W. de la Mare Memory 34 Eyes blue as speedwell, tranquil, *morning-fair.
1857Leisure Hour 2 July 421/1 You cannot now get out of hearing of..‘strawberries, *morning gathered’. 1903Farmer & Stockbreeder 8 June 950/3 The vegetables mostly arrive in freight trains from distant States. They are well packed, and despatched with regularity, but nothing is absolutely fresh or ‘morning gathered’, as London green⁓grocers love to shout. 1961Daily Mail 15 Mar. 8/8 ‘Morning gathered?’ (Which morning?)
1943C. Day Lewis Word over All 15 Children look down upon the *morning-grey Tissue of mist that veils a valley's lap.
1818Shelley Lines Written Euganean Hills 297 The leaves unsodden Where the infant Frost has trodden With his *morning-winged feet.
9. Special comb., as morning call, a visit paid during the ‘morning’ (i.e. afternoon); hence morning-calling ppl. a., that makes a morning call; morning caller, one who pays a formal morning call; morning coffee, coffee taken at mid-morning or (a less common use) at breakfast; morning draught, a portion of drink taken in the morning; morning-flower (see quot.); morning girl, a non-resident maidservant employed during the morning only; morning-gun, a gun fired from the admiral's or senior officer's ship, or at a military post or camp, to announce day-break; morning-hour U.S., ‘in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, the hour after the reading of the journal, set apart for reports, motions, etc., before the taking up of unfinished business’ (Cent. Dict. 1890); † morning-house, a tavern or public-house open in the early morning; morning-killer, one who wastes the morning by lying in bed; † morning-knowledge [L. cognitio matutina], according to St. Augustine and Aquinas the knowledge of things in their causes or Divine archetypal ideas, as opposed to ‘evening knowledge’, which is of things in their actual nature; morning-land [cf. G. morgenland], the East, the Orient; morning line, a list of probable betting odds established by the bookmaker prior to a sporting event; also attrib.; morning-office, morning-prayer; morning paper, a newspaper published so as to be on sale during the morning; morning planet = morning-star 1; morning prayer, (a) a prayer said in the morning; (b) the Anglican service of matins; (c) Mil. slang (see quot. 1965); morning-red, (a) (see quot. 1805–17); (b) the dawn (rare, after G. morgenroth); morning room, a room used as a sitting-room during the early part of the day; morning-sickness, nausea occurring in the morning, one of the earlier symptoms of pregnancy; † morning-stead rare—1, the time of dawn; morning tea, tea taken either before rising or at mid-morning; morning visit, (a) a visit made in the morning; (b) a formal ‘afternoon’ visit (cf. morning call); so morning visiting, morning visitor. Also morning-gift, -glory, etc.
1811L. M. Hawkins C'tess & Gertr. (K.O.), *Morning call. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Channings xv, I am only making a morning call upon you, after the fashion of gentlefolks.
1848Geo. Eliot Let. in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) I. 184 The bliss of having a very high attic in a romantic Continental town..far away from *morning-callers, dinners, and decencies. 1863Mrs. Gaskell Dark Night's Work viii. 128 She allowed Fletcher to..usher him into the library just like any common visitor, any morning-caller. 1941G. Heyer Faro's Daughter i. 1 While the butler went to convey this message to the morning-caller, her ladyship tidied her ruffled person.
1840Geo. Eliot in Cross Life I. 65 A magazine of easily-wielded weapons for *morning-calling and evening-party controversialists.
1855Geo. Eliot in Fraser's Mag. June 705/1 The dark little bedroom, and the arm-chair where he took his *morning coffee as he read. 1917Conrad Shadow-Line iv. 131 Presently Ransome brought me the cup of morning coffee. 1959T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman ii. 43 When I asked about morning coffee She said ‘I'm not the one for elevens's.’ 1973A. Christie Postern of Fate iii. xv. 231, I was just going to bring your morning coffee up.
1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 38 Whereunto he resorted for his *morning draught. 1667Primatt City & C. Build. 49 Money..given to workmen for Morning-draughts. 1843Borrow Bible in Spain l, Some fishermen entered, clamouring for their morning draught.
1890Century Dict., *Morning-flower, a plant of the iris family, Orthrosanthus multiflorus (Australia).
1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §900 Daily servant,..*morning girl; a non-resident general servant.
1743Woodroofe in Hanway's Trav. (1762) I. ii. xx. 91 We beat the drum and fired the *morning gun. 1867in Smyth Sailor's Work-bk.
1781R. King Mod. Lond. Spy 110 You have seen several night-houses..we shall now see a *morning-house. It is between 4 and 5.
1753Richardson Grandison (1811) II. vi. 109 Lady L― is a *morning-killer: she always loved her bed.
1621Jenison Height Israels Idol. 31 This knowledge, of S. Augustine is called scientia matutina & diurna, *morning and day-knowledge. 1704Norris Ideal World ii. xii. 469 That morning-knowledge which they [sc. the Schoolmen] ascribe to the angels.
1842Macaulay Prophecy of Capys xxxi, Through the sand of *morning-land The camel bears the spice.
1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 77/2 *Morning line, the betting odds quoted in poolrooms on horse races. 1941Sun (Baltimore) 26 Dec. 11/5 The old Louisiana Jockey Club abandoned the sport following a controversy over the..ruling eliminating the ‘morning line’ bookmaking. 1964A. Wykes Gambling viii. 192 The day starts with the numbers of the runners in the first race posted in order, with the ‘morning line’ odds in lights opposite them. The morning line is the odds established by the racing officials for each horse (on the basis of its past performance) on the morning of a particular racing day. 1968Wall St. Jrnl. 31 Jan. 1/1 Mr. Lewin has been track handicapper at Atlantic City, making up the ‘morning line’ (early odds) and picking likely winners for the official track program.
1765H. Walpole Otranto iv. (1798) 74 It was not till late after the *morning-office, that he recollected [etc.].
1727–41*Morning paper [see paper n. 8]. 1768J. Wedgwood Let. 13 June (1965) 64 That Morning Paper which is mostly taken in by People of Fashion. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Channings v, It is in all the morning papers. 1968R. B. Heath Newspapers i. 13 National daily morning papers.
1667Milton P.L. vii. 366 And hence the *Morning Planet guilds his horns.
1552Bk. Comm. Prayer, An ordre for *morninge prayer dayly throughout the yeare. 1557Seager Sch. Vertue in Babees Bk. 225 ⁋The mornynge prayer. ‘O God, from whom al good gifts procede! [etc.]’. 1585in Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees) 137 To Sir Hugh Hook, clerk, for saying morenynge praiers..33s. 4d. 1857Trollope Barchester T. III. xv. 264 Eleanor was dressed a full hour before the time fixed in the Ullathorne household for morning prayers. 1916Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 130 Death..is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path..attending to his morning and evening prayers. 1965B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irreg. viii. 250 ‘Morning prayers’ in 12th Army headquarters, the daily briefing of the staff, began with a statement of temperature and humidity.
1805–17R. Jamieson Char. Min. (ed. 3) 71 Aurora or *morning red is carmine-red mixed with much lemon yellow. a1864Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 132 The birds that..sing for us at morning-red.
1816Jane Austen Emma II. xiv. 260 That room was the very shape and size of the *morning-room at Maple Grove. 1822Magic Lantern 4 The morning room of the female part of the family next excited my attention. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta x, The next day old Lady Petherwin..came into the morning-room, with a newspaper in her hand. 1893J. Ashby-Sterry Naughty Girl iii. 26 He had the morning-room [of the club] all to himself.
1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 124 A fortnight's dyspepsia and *morning sickness.
a1618Sylvester Maiden's Blush 1176 Toward *morning-sted To mighty Pharaoh the Almighty sent A double Dream.
1727Swift Furnit. Woman's Mind in Poetical Wks. (1967) 329 Can at her *Morning Tea run o'er The Scandal of the Day before. 1923Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xii. 135 Sometimes when Jeeves has brought in my morning tea and shoved it on the table beside my bed, he drifts silently from the room. 1940Morning tea [see evening paper]. 1948H. V. Morton In Search of South Africa iv. 123, I saw groups of storm-bound people sitting at their morning tea. 1963A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 6 The meals called ‘tea’. There are three... First you have ‘morning tea’, which consists of cups of tea and biscuits, or savouries, at eleven o'clock.
1736Ainsworth Lat. Dict., A *morning visit, Matutina salutatio. 1787A. Young Jrnl. 28 June in Trav. France (1792) I. 25 We return in time to dress for dinner, at half after twelve or one: then adjourn to the drawing-room..as the first thing done, by every person who arrives, is to pay a morning visit to each party already in the place. 1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 112 Morning visits, too, are made in the afternoon. 1864Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. ii. 9 The old lady walked into the drawing-room one morning at eleven o'clock..these morning visits were made almost every day.
1852C. M. Yonge Two Guardians xi. 195 The afternoons were less certain to be agreeable... Marian had become liable..[to] being carried forth..on a *morning visiting expedition.
1777P. Thicknesse Year's Journey through France II. 234 The French never give..any refreshment..to their *morning or evening visitors. 1831M. Edgeworth Let. 6 Jan. (1971) 469 Scarcely had I taken up my pen and breathed when other morning visitors entered. |