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daylightn. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: day n., light n.1 Etymology: In α. forms (i) < the genitive of day n. + light n.1 In β. forms (ii) < day n. + light n.1 Compare Middle Low German dāgeslicht, Old High German tageslieht (Middle German tageliecht; German Tageslicht, †Taglicht) and also Old Icelandic dagaljós, dagsljós, Old Swedish dags lius (Swedish dagsljus), Old Danish dagslius (Danish dagslys). 1. the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > daylight α. OE Ælfric (Julius) (1881) I. 482 Ic hæbbe ænne sunu þe ne geseah næfre dæges leoht. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. xxxv. 171 Þæt leoht wæs beorhtre þonne dæges leoht, þæt þær lymde betwyh þam þeostrum. a1250 (?c1200) (Maidstone) (1955) 125 Þanne þonke þu þi louerd..of þe daies liht & of alle þe murhþe þat he þe for man makede. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 17344 (MED) Þar he o naman suld ha sight, Ne nankins leme o dais light. 1492 tr. sig. aiiv That is to saye an evyll favouryd and a fowle blacke wyf behovyth to shewe the dayes lyght. a1525 in W. A. Craigie (1923) I. 316 The son stud still..and ministerit to him dayis licht. 1606 R. Pricket sig. E4 For when daies light vpon my face should shine, I knew those wants, would nip both me and mine. 1689 E. Howard viii. 247 Bold and numerous Foes Begirt the Town, and as appear'd days light Allarum'd all within to Arm for Fight. 1849 W. Wordsworth in II. 312 Lived thankful for day's light, for daily bread, For health, and time in obvious duty spent. 1905 W. S. Hillyer 53 Now do I know it wrong to undergo The stress of dull procrastination slow, And hold for eve what should have seen day's light. 1996 M. P. Anderson in W. Anderson Introd. p. xx/2 Through the windows, day's light moves from dawn to dusk on the painted walls. society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > openness or unconcealedness > [noun] 1530 W. Tyndale sig. E.ivv It is night and the daye light of goddes worde shut vp that no man can spye them. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin lxiv. 391/2 There is inough prouided to make vs walk in the broade daylight, so as wee may defile the superstitions of the faithles, and not suffer things to hang any longer in suspence, if we haue God reigning ouer vs. 1612 J. Cotta i. iv. 35 Those who leauing the day light of clearer vnderstanding neglected, rashly run themselues into the mist of imposture and ignorance. 1690 J. Locke iv. xiv. 330 God has set some Things in broad day-light; as he has given us some certain Knowledge. 1753 E. Haywood I. xx. 218 It is the duty of her friends to force open her eyes, as she seems obstinate to shut daylight out. 1825 25 Jan. 76/1 What followed shed a little daylight on what he had read. 1856 R. W. Emerson viii. 134 They are good at..any desperate service which has daylight and honor in it. 1892 93 417/1 A healthy condition of such [jury] lists is not to be relied upon unless they are kept in plenty of daylight. 1943 Ld. Alanbrooke Diary 13 Aug. in (2001) 440 I am delighted with the papers and feel that at last they are beginning to see some daylight in the problems confronting us. 2008 (Nexis) 14 Dec. 36 The new financial system..will require transparency and openness... If we are to rebuild, we must first let daylight in on its proceedings. 2. the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [noun] the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun] α. OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) in (1886) 9 296 Gif hit byþ geendod be dæges leohte [L. luce diei].., onginnan hi primsangc butan ælcere bellan cnelle, gif hit elles byþ, abidan hi dæges, & þonne se belle cnelle. a1225 ( (Winteney) (1888) viii. 43 Þone dæȝrædsang, se is to aȝynnenne, þonne þæs dæȝes lyht aȝynð [OE Corpus Cambr. upasprungenum dægriman; L. incipiente luce]. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) l. 10222 So bryȝt As þe sun on days lyȝt. a1425 (?c1350) (1964) l. 233 (MED) Alsone als it was dayes lyght. 1891 R. P. Chope at Day's-light 'Twas a-got day's-light, you knaw. 1922 (Brit. Commerc. Gas Assoc.) ii. 86/2 The incandescent gas light can be rendered more perfect by the use of suitable colour screens. When treated in this way the light is known as ‘artificial daylight.’ 1940 225/2 Daylight, the average colour of sky and sun at noon, corresponding to a colour temperature of 6500 K. 1991 July 67/4 Colour-correction are light-balancing filters, used to balance the tungsten or daylight being used to match with the film, making very subtle adjustments. the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] ?1747 Humours Flashy Boys in 12 I shall see my jolly old Codger by the Tinney-side, I suppose with his Day-Lights dim, and his Trotters shivering under him. 1821 10 586 I saw the storm..through my half-bunged-up daylights. 1873 Feb. 96 ‘Why, hang me,’ said Tim Parton, ‘his daylights are out!’ Quite true—he was blind as a mole. 1944 G. Heyer ii. 18 The Viscount..would not have spared a glance for this wall had not his Tiger suddenly recommended him to cast his daylights to the left. 4. An appreciable distance, space, or difference between one person or thing and another. the world > space > [noun] > a clear visible space 1754 26 Sept. 549 He began the King's health in a bumper, which circulated in the same manner, not without some nice examinations of the chairman as to day-light. 1770 G. Colman (London ed.) ii. 15 I must insist on your drinking your own toast in a bumper. Nay, nay, I see daylight in your glass still. 1820 P. B. Shelley ii. 40 All. A toast! a toast!.. Dakry. No heel-taps—darken day-lights! 1836 E. Howard xliv No heel-taps after, and no daylight before. 1891 J. S. Farmer II. 259/1 The toast-master cries ‘no daylights nor heeltaps!’ 1948 G. Heyer vii. 105 We'll have a toast to your emancipation. No daylights, no heel-taps! 1775 G. Callendar 7 The first and second Church Steeples..so near together that you can but just see Day-Light between them. 1819 W. Green II. 217 The trees, which, growing from their chinks, and putting forth their branches, do but dimly shew day light through the pendant foliage. 1837 T. C. Haliburton 6 Rise forward on the saddle, so as to leave a little daylight between you and it. 1859 v. 199 The man who ‘shows daylight’ between himself and his saddle is a bad rider. 1873 T. Hardy II. i. 14 I hate to see daylight between a bracelet and a wrist; I wonder women haven't better taste. 1884 10 Dec. 132 After about a quarter of a mile, daylight was visible between the two boats. 1928 Sept. 32/1 Matched spruce on an outbuilding kept painted shows daylight between every pair of boards. 1966 1 Oct. d6/1 Deep Clover opened up daylight on her field, but began to tire with a quarter of a mile left. 2012 (Nexis) 26 Nov. 43 There's no daylight between Jose and the last defender... His arm is offside but you can't score with your arm. 1849 Dec. 351 The old North State was not only holding her own, but..opening daylight between them [sc. North Carolina and Massachusetts]. 1891 Mar. 422 The Gem never left daylight between his intentions and his hearer's perceptions. 1925 14 May 2/1 This drawing the line between professional and amateur sports is getting to the point that it is pretty difficult to see daylight between them. 1969 L. Chester et al. viii. 421 In a two-hour interview with the staff of the New York Times, he sought very skillfully to suggest that there was clear daylight between his position and the President's. 2007 17 Sept. 16/5 Shatner may have been his predecessor in Star Trek, but he likes to think there's a fair amount of daylight between his talent and Shatner's. 1914 19 Feb. 347/1 The daylight or stock space of this press has a variation of 28 in.; 20 in. minimum and 48 in. maximum. 1947 J. L. Daniels & O. R. Johnson in P. I. Smith xv. 205/1 Plain upstroke presses can be fitted with three or more plates, giving two or more daylights. 1968 (B.S.I.) 7 Daylight. 1. On the press. The distance between the bed of the press and the face of the slide with the press at the top of its stroke and with the adjustment up. 2. On the die set. The distance between the inner faces of the die set with the press slide at the bottom of its stroke. 3. On the press tool. The distance between the closest points of a press tool with the press fully open and the adjustment up. 1992 July–Oct. 373/3 Drilling Machine... Daylight under chuck: 40 mm. 1998 (Nexis) Apr. 44 The problem with having one multi-daylight press is that however many daylights you have, and however many boards you can produce, they are all more or less the same size. the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Scophthalmidae (turbot) > genus or member of Scophthalmus > scophthalmus aquosus (sand dab) 1880 9 Sept. 103/3 One of these (Lophopsetta maculata) is sometimes called the ‘spotted turbot’, and in New Jersey is called ‘window-pane’ or ‘daylight’, because it is so thin that when held to the light the sun can be seen through its translucent flesh. 1904 Sept. 1034 (caption) A typical left-sided flounder of the east coast of the United States. It is called ‘window-pane’ and ‘daylight’ by fishermen because it is exceedingly thin and transparent. 1944 62 Among the reports now in progress..a study of the life-history and habits of Scophthalmus aquesus [sic], the daylight flounder, a fish of considerable economic possibilities. 1986 P. Matthiessen ix. 107 He ran a string of 750 lobster pots, using dabs (daylight flounder) for bait. Phrases1744 R. North & M. North 152 By degrees, he saw Daylight, and detested that Nest of Villains as much as we did. 1768 A. Portal ii. 17 He hustled them [sc. the coins] into a great Bag, where I dare swear they will never see Daylight till his Heir breaks the Seal of it. 1833 Aug. 597 Now I began to see daylight in the business of this manufactory. 1883 W. H. Bishop v. 58 I have a lot of his letters, which he would not be at all anxious to have see daylight. 1923 47 11 An account of the method was printed but in an out-of-the-way journal and it never saw daylight. 1940 7 Jan. d2/4 Since then [sc. November 1933], Salt Lake City has had a continual housing shortage and is just now beginning to see daylight. 1987 I. Sinclair viii. 74 Nicholas Lane takes a carrier bag and fills it with tradables, that would never now see daylight. 2006 (Nexis) 24 Jan. 3 For years we have really, really struggled but the committee we have got at the moment is brilliant and we are beginning to see daylight. P2. 1752 H. Fielding I. i. xi. 86 If the Lady says such another Word to me..I'll darken her Daylights. 1786 No. 2. 20 The noble art of boxing, was..reduced to a complete and perfect system; and the Nobility and Gentry were taught..to bruise the bodies, and (to use a technical term) darken the daylights of each other. 1840 Feb. 243 I wish I was outside these bars, I'd darken your daylights, and knock your ivory cribbage-pegs down your throat. 1871 Lizzie Leigh i. i. 10 in XCIII Look out, bobby, or I'll darken your daylights. 2000 J. Burke in E. Gorman (2001) 2 448 Daresay you'll have a mouse under your right eye. Was it Henry who tried to darken your daylights? the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > terrify [verb (transitive)] 1813 J. Roby i. xxxiii. 23 Might I not dash thy day-lights out, Ere thou could'st turn thyself about? 1842 Dec. 178/1 I wish I had hold of the little rascal, I'd shake his daylights out. 1848 E. Bennet i. 10/1 We'll catch the fever and ager,..and that'll shake the day-lights out o' us. 1923 R. D. Paine ii. 22 Putting seven of 'em in irons after they shot the daylights out of me left us mighty short-handed. 1944 E. Caldwell (1947) xiv. 163 If I could find a stick I'd grab it and beat the daylights out of you. 1951 E. Taylor ii. i. 174 Though they scared the daylight out of me, I contempted them. 1955 F. Yerby (1956) iii. 36 Didn't mean to hit him... Meant to throw close to him and scare the living daylights out of him. 1985 D. Owoyele in C. Achebe & C. L. Innes (1987) 25 ‘What did you do about it?’ ‘Beat the living daylights out of her,’ rasped Sule. 2003 F. Blassie & K. E. Greenberg 7 He had a merry fuckin' Christmas that year, slapping my daylights out with his big strap. 2011 15 Oct. 37/2 Technology scares the living daylights out of some people. 1836 23 Apr. 137/1 Hav'nt I been serving my country these five years..; going to meetings and huzzaing my daylights out. 1849 W. Valentine 49 I've been working my daylights out all summer, on a farm, and I'm jest about tired out of that 'ere kind of business. 1884 B. Nye 79 The driver bangs the mule, that is ostensibly pulling his daylights out. 1936 J. Stuart 294 He is big as a skinned ox to lift—too much for me and you women folks to tug our daylights out tryin to lift. 1983 Apr. 58/3 Finally I told her to look up. We were almost there. Then she started to paddle her daylights out. 1758 I. vi. 53 The officer descended first, and brandishing his sword, made several lounges, crying, ‘Here I have the scoundrel;—there I shew day-light through the rascal.’ 1793 A. Young (ed. 3) 172 In the language of the streets, day-light is let into him. 1841 12 Sept. 101/2 With the facetious intention of ‘letting daylight into the wittling department’ of the pot-boy of the ‘Ram and Radish’. 1881 17 Sept. 124/1 Ready at the call of duty to frame a new programme or knock daylight into an old one. 1898 W. A. Keesy viii. 50 You son of ——!.. Clear out with you or I'll put day light through you! 1916 N. Kussy v. 143 If you don't like it I'll punch daylight through your putty-faced mug. 1922 J. Joyce ii. xii. [Cyclops] 314 The Molly Maguires looking for him to let daylight through him. 1976 18 June 4/1 If I had a gun handy I would let daylight through him. Compounds C1. General attributive. 1597 J. Lyly i. sig. Aiiiv Mine eyes? then gouerne thou my daylight carre. 1633 G. Herbert 73 Shepherd and flock shall sing, and all my powers Out-sing the day-light houres. 1638 R. Brathwait iii. lxxvii. 147 Thy thunder-shot roar'd round about, the world with lightnings shone; The earth was stirr'd, and shooke, in doubt, her day-light lamp was gone. a1727 I. Newton (1730) i. ii. 158 Their own Day-light Colours. 1753 W. Hogarth xii. 95 Clear enough to imitate a day-light piece. 1842 G. S. Faber (1844) II. 301 Through darkling suggestions rather than through day-light assertions. 1891 24 Dec. 222/1 Last week Chrome and I discussed the possibility of ever being able to work in colour with the aid of the electric light as successfully as under daylight conditions. 1939 H. Miller 287 One might think that in this retreat from the daylight world we are about to be ushered into an hermetically sealed laboratory in which only the ego flourishes. 2010 14 Oct. 44/4 The garment trade, which for well over a century had claimed the daylight hours. 1804 Sept. 2 No one indeed can view its [sc. France's] large and day-light robberies, or its foul and mid-night murders, without abhorrence. 1822 21 Sept. 271/1 Each cowslip cradled a spirit, that, at the sound of the curfew-bell, would start from her daylight sleep. 1853 25 Jan. 3/4 At midnight the three parties concentrated and moved into position for a daylight attack. 1865 2/1 The Leader..asserts that they are even planning daylight raids upon the banks there. 1912 C. McEvoy (1913) iv. 47 He stared dully at the huge headlines that were spread across the width of three columns..: ‘Astounding daylight abduction. Unwilling girl forced out of a Pimlico house.’ 1945 Sept. 104/3 American daylight bombing had drawn out the vastly greater part of the Luftwaffe's defensive weight. 1985 R. Tremain ii. 126 A night nurse, her eyes puffy with daylight sleeping, comes in. 2014 (Nexis) 30 Jan. 17 Her killer used an antique double-barrelled shotgun in the daylight attack. C2. Photography. 1858 15 Mar. 79/1 Portraits now exhibiting at the South Kensington Museum, taken by the Patentee, by Night, by Artificial Lights, which for detail, diffusion and brilliancy, far exceed any daylight Pictures yet produced. 1876 15 Sept. 444/1 Solomon's daylight enlarging apparatus. 1886 M. C. Lea 146 It appears that the background for magnesium photography should be much lighter than for daylight work. 1899 6 284 We have previously spoken so highly of this book which we consider the only text book leading the beginner into the way, by introducing him to daylight work first and dark room work later. 1911 C. N. Bennett et al. xiii. 102 Covered-in studios provided with expansive glass roofs for daylight work..are hardly among the first flights of commercial Kinematographic enterprise. 1940 F. J. Mortimer (ed. 15) 258 Daylight enlargers. 1999 Apr. 39/4 To score well for this, a camera needs a wide-angle lens, good focus accuracy at infinity, good daylight exposure accuracy. 2009 J. B. Frost 97 When daylight balanced film is shot under unfiltered tungsten light, it becomes quite amber. b. 1897 27 Oct. 12/5 With the advantages of the Eastman Daylight Loading Cartridge System several important new features are combined in this instrument. 1902 Rollable daylight loading Films. 1958 257 Roll film tanks. There are two types: daylight loading and daylight developing. 1983 Oct. 28/2 A small pocket camera, daylight loading. 2012 M. Hurbis-Cherrier (ed. 2) viii. 176 To attach film to a daylight-loading spool, simply bend three frames and then insert them in the slot at the hub of the spool. C3. the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > parts of > light bulb > types of 1917 7 338 (advt.) We use a 300 watt blue daylight bulb which gives a perfect white soft light. 1986 K. Malkiewicz vi. 152/2 They have to be filtered with blue gels unless they are equipped with FAY (daylight) bulbs. 2006 No. 8. 13/2 Crafters use daylight bulbs to help them see projects and detail more clearly without causing eye-strain. 1915 Memorandum 1st Rep. Departmental Comm. Lighting in Factories p. vi, in (Cd. 8000) XXI. 539 The ratio of the actual value of the illumination to this enhanced value, expressed as a percentage, is termed the daylight factor, and is a measure of the lighting efficiency of the building at the point under consideration. 1958 23 Oct. 642/2 Plot ratios and daylight factors are now everyday tools at the disposal of the designer. 2001 S. Roaf et al. (2002) i. 15 The view that buildings are fixed also fits well with certain types of scientific analysis, of daylight factors, energy flows, U-values, mechanical ventilation and so on. the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset 1613 T. Potts sig. B2v The sayd Spirit..appeared at sundry times vnto her..about Day-light Gate. 1670 T. Blount (ed. 3) Day-lights-gate, i.e. the going down of day-light. 1710 J. Harris II Inter Canem & Lupum, was an Expression formerly used for Twilight. In the North this is called in some places Day-light's Gate. 2010 M. Sharratt iv. 73 Daylight gate was that space betwixt and between, neither day nor yet night, when I could see the invisible. Derivatives 1886 9 June The Moonlighters, or rather Daylighters, then bolted, and the police..gave chase. 1886 25 Nov. 11/2 Seeing the ‘Day-lighters’ she ran into the room where she knew the gun to be and closed the door. the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adjective] > broad daylight 1860 20 May 8/2 It [sc. a painting] is too ‘daylighty’... A more sombre treatment would have helped the intention. 1880 W. Severn in No. 245. 379 A truthful simple Müller, or a daylighty Cox. 1905 W. H. Hunt II. ix. 233 His colour, which indeed, though very restrained, was ever fresh, sound, and daylighty. 1932 H. Walpole ii. 331 But to be cheerful and daylighty again, pray when you write tell me all the news. 1995 Oct. 51/1 The lobby's incandescent, clubby lighting gives way to the ‘perky, daylighty’ fluorescents of the main workout floor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.OE |
