DAWN, DAWNING
(also see DAYBREAK)
ADVERBS
1881 — ADAWN dawning, gleaming with new light
NOUNS
..900 — DAWING dawn, daybreak; morning twilight → obs. exc. Sc.
1000 — DAY-RED the red of the break of day; the rosy dawn; daybreak → obs.
1000 — DAY-RIM dawn, the ‘rim’ or border of the coming day → obs.
1200 — DAY-RAWE — DAY-REWE dawn, the first streak of day → obs.
1250 — DAYENING dawn, dawning → obs.
1297 — DAWNING dawn, daybreak; the beginning of daylight → poetic or rhetorical
1300 — GREKING dawn, break of day → obs. exc. Sc.
1382 — DAY-SPRING early dawn, daybreak → chiefly poetic or figurative
1420 — DAYING dawn, daybreak; the beginning of daylight → obs.
1567 — CREEK the break of day; dawn → obs. exc. Sc.
1582 — ORIENT dawn, dayspring; rising of the sun, or the daylight; sunrise → obs.
1598 — DAY-BREAKING dawn, the breaking of the day → obs.
1606 — DAY-PEEP earliest dawn; peep of day
1746 — CANDLE-DOUTING dawn, morning → Eng. dial.
1787 — SCREEK OF DAY — SCREEK OF DAYLIGHT dawn, the break of day, cock-crow → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1802 — SCREIGH OF DAY — SKREIGH dawn, the break of day, cock-crow → Sc.
1813 — DAY-DAWN the dawn of day, daybreak → chiefly poetic usage
1824 — NEB — NEB OF THE MORNING the time between dawn and sunrise → Sc.
1835 — SUN-DAWN dawn, daybreak → poetic usage
1850 — DAY-STREAK streak of dawn
1850 — SUN-BREAK dawn, sunrise
1856 — DAW dawn → Sc.
1859 — DAWNIN dawn → Eng. dial.
1866 — DAGALI dawn, daybreak → Sc.
1868 — SCREECH OF DAY dawn, the break of day, cock-crow → Sc.
1886 — BLUE O’CLOCK just before dawn; very early in the morning
1887 — DAY-DAW the dawn of day → Sc.
1887 — FIRST DAYLIGHT dawn → Amer. dial.
1893 — SKREIGH OF DAWN dawn, the break of day, cock-crow → Sc.
1900 — DAGLIE the dawn of day → Sc. (Bk.)
1900 — SUN-SPRING dawn, sunrise → obs.
1902 — CHICKEN HOLLERING TIME dawn, early morning → Amer. dial.
1903 — OACHENIN — OCHENIN early dawn, the time at or just before daybreak → Sc.
1906 — CHICKEN CROWING TIME dawn, early morning → Amer. dial.
1908 — DAGGRI dawn → Sc.
1930 — CHICKEN CROW dawn, early morning → Amer. dial.
1930 — EARLY BEAM dawn, the early morning → African-American sl.
1930 — GOO-GOO WATCH dawn and the period just preceding it → African-American sl.
1931 — DAWN-DARKLE the darkness just before sunrise → Amer. dial.
1936 — FIRST DAWN dawn → Amer. dial.
1938 — FIRST LIGHT dawn → Amer. dial.
1941 — DAY-BUST dawn, daybreak → Amer. dial.
1942 — CAN’T-SEE dawn; dusk → Amer. dial.
1945 — COCKY’S CROW dawn or before dawn → Aust. (Bk.)
1967 — PEEP OF DAY dawn, sunrise → Amer. dial.
1985 — DARK-THIRTY a time shortly before dawn → military jocular usage
1991 — EOSOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of the dawn (Bk.)
2006 — CANDLELIGHT dawn, dusk → US sl. (Bk.)
PHRASES
..L19 — AT SPARROW’S FART at dawn, early in the morning → sl.
..L19 — UP AT SPARROW’S FART up at dawn, or early in the morning → sl.
1940 — AT SPARROW CROW at dawn → Aust. sl.
VERBS
..900 — DAW to dawn → obs. exc. Sc.
1205 — DAY to dawn → obs.
1250 — DAYN to dawn → obs.
1845 — CRACK of dawn: to break → US
1905 — DAWKEN to dawn → Sc.
1970 — CRACK DAY to dawn → Amer. dial.
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