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ˈdaybreak
[Cf. break v. 41 and n.1 2.]
The first appearance of light in the morning; dawn.
1530Palsgr. 804/1 At daye breake, au jour creuer. 1683Burnet tr. More's Utopia (1684) 81 It is ordinary to have Publick Lectures every Morning before day-break. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. I. 17 Between daybreak and sunrise.
attrib.1825Waterton Wand. S. Amer. i. i. 99 The crowing of the hannaquoi will sound in thine ears like the daybreak town-clock.
So † ˈday-breaking, the breaking of the day.
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. i. xiv. (1622) 26 At day breaking, the legions..abandoned their standings. 1647(title), The Day-breaking if not the Sun-rising of the Gospel with the Indians in New England. |