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In the day; during the daytime. Frequently in opposition to nights. Now chiefly North American, except in to work days: to work during the day, as opposed to at night; to work a day shift. Cf. nights adv.See also far days at far adv. 3c, forth days at forth adv. 4b; cf. far-forth adv. 1b.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [adverb]
dayseOE
adayc1275
adaysc1400
a daytala1500
from sun to suna1500
up-sun1825
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. ii. 26 Þæt þe mon on bedde dæges upweard ne licge.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) v. 5 & symle dæges & nihtes he wæs on byrgenum and on muntum.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) l. 499 Miracles þet his men maket ȝette, þurh him, ant his deorewurðe nome deies & nihtes.
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 1590 (MED) Þat gode wif..Haueþ daies kare and niȝtes wake.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2703 (MED) Þei dwelled in duel niȝtes and daies.
c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 112 (MED) Crist..trauelede euere in penaunce for oure synnes: nyȝtes preiynge in hulles, daies goinge aboute weri for traueile of goinge to preche in uillages and oþer smale tounes.
a1450 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Rawl.) (1960) A. xii. l. 76 (MED) With deþ I duelle..dayes and nyȝtes.
1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie 14 Shee watchth both dayes and nightes.
1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Eij Aboue all nights, nights, dayes, each hower remember, To solemnize the twenteth of Nouember.
1683 R. Dixon Canidia xii. 66 All our Cocks and Hens shall scare you. You shall Swear they are all Sprites, To torment you Days and Nights.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xli. 108 I sat days and nights in imaginary dominion.
1865 Children's Employm. Comm. (1862): 4th Rep. App. 29/1 in Parl. Papers XX. 103 When I work days I have breakfast at 5 before I come.
1886 E. W. Nye Remarks 491 He slept days and made up berths all night.
1911 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Mar. 296 Nights and days..I see that shoe in my bureau drawer. Nights I get up and feel of it. Days I lock the drawer, and the key in my pocket seems to pull me crooked.
1916 Farm Jrnl. Sept. 467/3 Do not expect a horse to keep in good heart if worked days and turned out to pasture nights.
1981 R. B. Parker Savage Place (1987) v. 27 Nights I slept on the couch; days I read whatever she had handy.
2000 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 62 109/1 These four occupations accounted for one third of married women who worked nights or rotating schedules..but only one twentieth of those who worked days.
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