Reverse Dictionary: 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.