α. See day n. and rew n.1
β. See day n. and row n.1
† day-rown.
Obsolete.
The first light of day; dawn. Also in plural: the rays of dawn. Cf. row n.1 2a.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]
aristc825
dawingc900
dayeOE
day-rimOE
day-redOE
mornOE
lightOE
lightingOE
dawning1297
day-rowa1300
grekinga1300
uprista1300
dayninga1325
uprisingc1330
sun arisingc1350
springc1380
springingc1380
day-springa1382
morrowingc1384
dayingc1400
daylighta1425
upspring1471
aurora1483
sky1515
orienta1522
breaking of the day1523
daybreak1530
day-peep1530
morrow dayc1530
peep of the morning1530
prick of the day?1533
morning1535
day-breaking1565
creek1567
sunup1572
breach of the day1579
break of day or morn1584
peep of day1587
uprise1594
dawna1616
day-dawn1616
peep of dawn1751
strike of day1790
skreigh1802
sunbreak1822
day-daw1823
screech1829
dayclean1835
sun dawn1835
first light1838
morning-red1843
piccaninny sun1846
piccaninny daylightc1860
gloaming1873
glooming1877
sparrow-fart1886
crack1887
sun-spring1900
piccaninny dawn1936
a1300 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 163 Þe engles in þe daye-rewe [a1275 Trin. Cambr. dairet, c1275 Calig. dai-red] bloweþ heore beme.
a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 116 Þu asteȝe so þe daiȝ-rewe þe deleð from þe deorke nicht.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 893 (MED) Ruddon of þe day-rawe ros upon uȝten.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 392 Qwen þe day-raw rase he rysis be-lyfe.
c1450 ( Nightingale (Calig.) l. 54 in O. Glauning Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1900) 3 (MED) Thys blessed brid..my hert raueshed had..Longe or the day [e] -rowes can a-pere.
1468 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 97 (MED) My ffadyr is gone to God also..my modyr on Saterday by the morne, and my ffadyr on Munday by [d]ayrove.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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