Early

·adv Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early.

II. Early ·adv Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the first of successive acts, events, ·etc.

III. Early ·adv In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first;

— opposed to late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit.

finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose