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▪ I. daily, a. (n.)|ˈdeɪlɪ|
Forms: 5–8 dayly, 6 daylie, dailie, (Sc. dalie), 6– daily.
[OE. dæᵹlíc (in the compounds twádæᵹlíc, þréodæᵹlíc, happening once in two or three days) = OHG. tagalîh, dagalîh, ON. dagligr, an ancient derivative of WGer. dag, OE. dæᵹ day: see -ly1. The ordinary OE. word was dæᵹhwamlíc, in 12th c. deihwanlich.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of or belonging to each day; occurring or done every day; issued or published every day (or every week-day).
c1470Henry Wallace xi. 1291 For dayly mess, and heryng off confessioun. 1526Tindale Matt. vi. 11 Geve vs this daye oure dayly breade. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 7 Proued..by dayly experience. 1611Bible Ex. v. 13 Fulfill your workes, your dayly taskes. 1711Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 153 A Daily paper comes out call'd The Spectator. 1862Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. iv. 62 The daily labour to gain their daily bread.
b. with agent-nouns, as in daily waiter, one who waits daily (a title of certain officers of the Royal household). Also daily girl, etc.
1568E. Tilney Disc. Mariage C j, A daylie gamester, a common blasphemer. 1642Brass in Weybridge Church (N. & Q. 1 Oct. 1892), Here lieth the body of Humphry Dethick Esq. who was one of his Mati s Gent. Vshers (dayly Waiter). 1715Lond. Gaz. No. 5300/4 Sir William Oldes, to be his Majesty's first Gentleman Usher, Daily Waiter and Black Rod. a1895Mod. A daily visitor to the well. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §900 Daily servant, daily girl..; a non-resident general servant. 1933A. Bryant Pepys: Man in Making 434/2 Taylor, Pepys' ‘daily woman’. 1939D. L. Sayers In Teeth of Evidence 36 The daily woman, Mrs. Crabbe, had been in the house till nearly dinner-time. 1971Woman 13 Feb. 13/2, I gave Mrs. Candy, the daily help, a suit for her daughter.
†2. Of the present day; belonging to the present time. Obs. rare.
1663Gerbier Counsel 8 Why modern and daily Buildings are so exceedingly Defective.
3. spec. daily breader colloq., one who earns his own living or ‘daily bread’; daily dozen colloq., used of physical exercises performed each day on rising (see quot. 1925).
1906Westm. Gaz. 25 Sept. 1/3 In place of the neat villa of the daily-breader..it now journeys between rows of low, monotonous houses. 1930J. A. R. Marriott How we Live i. 8 Most of them live by their own exertions. They are in fact (to use the colloquial but expressive phrase) ‘daily breaders’. 1942N. Streatfeild Table for Six 99 There I was catching a tube, a daily breader.
1919Red Cross Mag. Dec. 30/3 It was while engaged in this work that he evolved what he calls his ‘short-hand system’ of setting-up exercises, or ‘the daily dozen’. 1925Yale Univ. Obituary Rec. 1349 Walter [Chauncey] Camp..devised..exercises for cabinet officers and civilian personnel in Washington out of which grew the ‘Daily Dozen’ series, which he introduced in all naval stations and in several aviation and army cantonments. 1936Wodehouse Laughing Gas iv. 43 Ann is one of those girls who always look as if they had just stepped out of a cold bath after doing their daily dozen. 1965W. Lamb Posture & Gesture ix. 121 Physical exercises, whether performed privately as a daily dozen, or in a class to the accompaniment of music, may be a pleasant and stimulating way of passing the time.
B. n. (ellipt.)
1. A daily newspaper. (orig. U.S.)
[1823D. Webster Priv. Corr. (1857) I. 333, I am glad to see that you publish, in the Daily [sc. the Boston Daily Advertiser], your narrative. ]1832J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. xxi. 190 ‘Make out an estimate of the cost of establishing a paper.’ ‘A daily, sir?’ ‘Ay, a daily, if you wish.’ Ibid. 191 I'll attack them in my Daily. 1846[see weekly n.]. 1858Times 29 Nov. 6/3 Clever weeklies and less clever dailies. 1881Academy 26 Mar. 234 The foreign correspondent of one of the great dailies. 1933Archit. Rev. LXXIV. 176/2 The women's pages of the popular dailies. 1965New Statesman 30 Apr. 679/1 The national daily he would like is still denied him. Ibid., Two Fleet Street dailies as well as the Sun are..vulnerable.
2. ‘Daily bread’, food; livelihood.
1906E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xiv. 182 What's er bonzer like you doin' spreadin' sour paste fer yer daily? 1922Joyce Ulysses 57 Boland's breadvan delivering with trays our daily but she prefers yesterday's loaves.
3. A domestic cleaner or servant who does not live on the premises.
1933D. C. Peel Life's Enchanted Cup xix. 261 In my youth there were charwomen but the ‘daily’ is a new invention. 1953‘P. Wentworth’ Watersplash v. 31 Mrs. Deacon..was Miss Blake's daily and a very good cook. 1967L. Meynell Mauve Front Door iii. 31 Most ‘dailies’ I have known have been disastrous. They come late; charge exorbitantly; drop ash all over the place.
4. pl. The first prints from cinematographic takes (take n.), rapidly made for film producers or editors.
1934Tit-Bits 31 Mar. 12/2 Every time a scene is successfully ‘shot’ it is called ‘a take’; the whole of the day's ‘takes’ are then assembled and shown to the producer in a private projection room, but are then known as ‘the rushes’ or ‘the dailies’. 1952L. Ross Picture (1953) iii. 106, I haven't had a chance to tell you how wonderful I feel the dailies (rushes) are.
Add:[A.] [3.] daily double Racing (orig. and chiefly U.S.), a bet on the winners of two designated races (often the first and second) on one day of a meeting; also, the two races selected by the track for the bet; cf. *double n. 3 s.
1932N.Y. Times 7 Sept. 15/2 The *daily double at Blue Bonnets today paid one man $3,489.50. 1964A. Wykes Gambling viii. 193 You can put your money on a ‘daily double’, which is usually run on the first two races of the day. 1987Washington Post 19 Sept. c3/5 Regular triple betting will be offered on the sixth and eighth races, and the daily double will be pushed back to the sixth and seventh races.
▪ II. daily, adv.|ˈdeɪlɪ|
Forms: 5–7 dayly, (6 Sc. dalie, -y), 6 dailie, 6–7 daylie, 7– daily.
[f. day + -ly2. The OE. word was daᵹhwamlíce.]
Every day, day by day. Often in a looser sense: Constantly, always, habitually.
c1440York Myst. xxvi. 9 My desire muste dayly be done. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 1 b, Wherin..dayly & hourly I myght loke, as in a myrour. 1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1869) 79 With bended knees I dayly beseech God. 1712Addison Spect. No. 265 ⁋6, I am informed that this Fashion spreads daily. 1747Wesley Prim. Physic (1762) 97 Drink daily half a Pint. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 75 He continued to offer his advice daily, and had the mortification to find it daily rejected. 1885R. Buchanan Annan Water v, The public waggonette ran daily between Dumfries and Annanmouth. |