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Birth-day
The observance of birth-days was common in early times (Job 1:4, 13, 18). They were specially celebr...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Suit
·noun Regular order; succession.
II. Suit ·noun The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit....
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Birth
·noun ·see <<Berth>>.
II. Birth ·noun The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birt...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Birth
As soon as a child was born it was washed, and rubbed with salt (Ezek. 16:4), and then swathed with ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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birth
a place or station ; a good birth ; mine is the next birth. Kent. This word is used by seamen of all...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Day
·noun Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.
II. Day ·noun ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Day
The Jews reckoned the day from sunset to sunset (Lev. 23:32). It was originally divided into three p...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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day
The astronomical day is reckoned from noon to noon, continuously through the twenty-four hours, like...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Day
The variable length of the natural day at different seasons led in the very earliest times to the ad...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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day.
• "Evening." Before the captivity the Jews divided the night into three watches, (Psalms 63:6; 90:4)...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Established suit
·add. ·- A plain suit in which a player (or side) could, except for trumping, take tricks with all h...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Cross-birth
·noun Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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birth-marks
A ship must not be loaded above her birth-marks, for, says a maritime proverb, a master must know th...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Shirt-waist suit
·add. ·- A costume consisting of a plain belted waist and skirt of the same material.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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to suit to at
To suit or fit exactly. This old English phrase is often used by ourselves in colloquial language.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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suit of sails
The whole of the sails required to be bent for a vessel.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Boxing day
·add. ·- The first week day after Christmas, a legal holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to p...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Childermas day
·- A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod ...
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Class day
·add. ·- In American colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior...
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Columbus Day
·add. ·- The 12th day of October, on which day in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America, land...
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Day lily
·- A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white ...
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Day-coal
·noun The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface.
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Day-labor
·noun Labor hired or performed by the day.
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Day-laborer
·noun One who works by the day;
— usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not w...
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Day-net
·noun A net for catching small birds.
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Day-peep
·noun The <<Dawn>>.
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Day-star
·noun The sun, as the orb of day.
II. Day-star ·noun The morning star; the star which ushers in the...
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Decoration Day
·add. ·- = Memorial Day.
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Discovery Day
·add. ·- = Columbus Day, above.
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Dog day
·- ·Alt. of <<Dogday>>.
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Dominion Day
·add. ·- In Canada, a legal holiday, July lst, being the anniversary of the proclamation of the form...
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Gaud-day
·noun ·see <<Gaudy>>, a feast.
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Inauguration Day
·add. ·- The day on which the President of the United States is inaugurated, the 4th of March in eve...
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Independence Day
·add. ·- In the United States, a holiday, the 4th of July, commemorating the adoption of the Declara...
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Labor Day
·add. ·- In most of the States and Territories of the United States, a day, usually the first Monday...
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Memorial Day
·add. ·- A day, May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating their graves with flowers, by pat...
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Mother's Day
·add. ·- A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each pe...
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Patriots' Day
·add. ·- A legal holiday in the States of Massachusetts and Maine, April 19, the anniversary of the ...
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Pioneers' Day
·add. ·- In Utah, a legal holiday, July 24, commemorated the arrival, in 1847, of Brigham Young and ...
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Tag day
·add. ·- A day on which contributions to some public or private charity or fund are solicited promis...
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Term day
·add. ·- A day which is a term (as for payment of rent), or is a day in a term, as of the sitting of...
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To-day
·noun The present day.
II. To-day ·prep On this day; on the present day.
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Twelfth-day
·noun ·see <<Twelfthtide>>.
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Working-day
·adj Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard...
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Lord's day
Only once, in Rev. 1:10, was in the early Christian ages used to denote the first day of the week, w...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Day, John
(b. 1574)
Dramatist, s. of a Norfolk yeoman, was at Camb., 1592-3. It is only since 1881 that his w...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Day, Thomas
(1748-1789)
Miscellaneous writer, was b. in London, ed. at the Charterhouse and at Oxf., and called...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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banyan day
A sea term for those days on which no meat is allowed to the sailors: the term is borrowed from the ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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collar day
Execution day.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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execution day
Washing day.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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rainy day
To lay up something for a rainy day; to provide against a time of necessity or distress.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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winter's day
He is like a winter's day, short and dirty.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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every-day
Common; usual.
Men of genius forget things of common concern, which make no slight impression on ev...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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training-day
The day when the militia are called out to be reviewed.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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allemash-day
i. e. Allumage-day, the day on which the Canterbury silk-weavers begin to work by candle-light. Kent...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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carling-day
the second Sunday preceding Easter, when parched peas are served up at most tables in Northumberland...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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childermas-day
Innocents-day. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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day-tale
a day-labourer. York.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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good-day
a holiday. Staffordsh.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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day-book
An old and better name for the log-book; a journal [Fr.]
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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day-mates
Formerly the mates of the several decks now abolished. (See sub-lieutenant.)
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day-sky
The aspect of the sky at day-break, or at twilight.
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field-day
A day of exercise and evolutions.
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gained day
The twenty-four hours, or day and night, gained by circumnavigating the globe to the eastward. It is...
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liberty-day
A day announced for permitting a part of the crew to go ashore.
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lost day
The day which is lost in circumnavigating the globe to the westward, by making each day a little mor...
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lunar day
The interval between a departure and return of the moon to the meridian.
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nautical day
This day commences at noon, twelve hours before the civil day, and ends at noon of the day following...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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sidereal day
The interval between the departure and return of a star to the meridian; in other words, its two suc...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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solar day
Is the interval which elapses between two successive meridian transits of the sun, and is the unit o...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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All Fools' Day
·- The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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All Souls' Day
·- The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Latter-day saint
·- A Mormon;
— the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole ...
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New Year's Day
·- the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to New...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Atonement, Day of
The great annual day of humiliation and expiation for the sins of the nation, "the fast" (Acts 27:9)...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Jezreel, Day of
The time predicted for the execution of vengeance for the deeds of blood committed there (Hos. 1:5)....
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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paddington fair day
An execution day, Tyburn being in the parish or neighbourhood of Paddington. To dance the Paddington...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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red letter day
A saint's day or holiday, marked in the calendars with red letters. Red letter men; Roman Catholics:...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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saint geoffrey's day
Never, there being no saint of that name: tomorrow-come-never, when two Sundays come together.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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wry neck day
Hanging day.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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up-a-day
A fondling expression of a nurse to a child, when she takes it up in her arms, or lifts it over some...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dyze-man's-day
Childermas, or Innocents' Day. North. E.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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St. Jeffery's-day
never. York.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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pack-rag day
Michaelmas-day, when servants change their places, and remove their clothes. Norf. and Suff.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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well-a-day!
alas! Various.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Lords Day, The
(Kuriake Hemera), (Revelation 1:10) (only), the weekly festival of our Lord's resurrection, and iden...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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officer of the day
A military officer whose immediate duty is to attend to the interior economy of the corps to which h...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Atonement, The Day Of
I. The great day of national humiliation, and the only one commanded in the Mosaic law. [Fasts] The ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary