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ˈday-mare
[After night-mare.]
A condition similar to night-mare occurring during wakefulness. Also attrib.
1737M. Green Spleen 39 The day-mare Spleen, by whose false pleas Men prove mere suicides in ease. 1796Coleridge Biog. Lit. (1872) II. 744, I necessarily have day-mare dreams that something will prevent it. 1871Sir T. Watson Princ. Physic (ed. 5) I. 737 A lady..subject to these attacks of imperfect catalepsy: which have..been called whimsically, but expressively, attacks of day-mare. 1889Lowell in Atlantic Monthly LXIV. 147 Help me to tame these wild day-mares That sudden on me unawares. |