DAYBREAK
(also see DAWN)
NOUNS
..900 — DAWING dawn, daybreak; morning twilight → obs. exc. Sc.
..971 — UGHTEN the part of the night immediately before daybreak; early morning → obs.
1000 — DAY-RED the red of the break of day; the rosy dawn; daybreak → obs.
1297 — DAWNING the beginning of daylight; dawn, daybreak → poetic or rhetorical
1300 — GREKING break of day, dawn → obs. exc. Sc.
1382 — DAYSPRING dawn, daybreak; the beginning
1420 — DAYING the beginning of daylight; dawn, daybreak → obs.
1422 — PRICK OF THE DAY daybreak → obs.
1567 — LIGHTMANS the day, or daybreak → thieves’ cant
1790 — STRIKE OF DAY daybreak → obs.
1802 — SCREIGH OF DAY — SKREIGH the break of day, cock-crow → Sc.
1813 — DAY-DAWN the dawn of day, daybreak → chiefly poetic
1835 — SUN-DAWN n. dawn, daybreak → poetic
1866 — DAGALI daybreak, dawn → Sc.
1867 — DAY CLEAN daybreak, full day → Amer. dial.
1886 — SPARROW-FART(S) break of day, very early morning → Eng. dial.
1893 — SKREIGH OF DAWN the break of day, cock-crow → Sc.
1895 — DELLIT daylight, daybreak → Eng. dial.
1900 — DAY-LIGHTENING morning, twilight, daybreak → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1941 — DAY-BUST daybreak; dawn → Amer. dial.
1952 — DISCERNING OF DAY daybreak; the first appearance of day → Amer. dial.