to gain the victory, to be successful. S. Butler. — Week day, any day of the week except Sunday; a
working day. — Working day. (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction from Sundays
and legal holidays. (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom, during which a workman,
hired at a stated price per day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay.
Dayaks
(Day"aks) n. pl. (Ethnol.) See Dyaks.
Daybook
(Day"book`) n. A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts
and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.
Daybreak
(Day"break`) n. The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.
Day-coal
(Day"-coal`) n. (Mining) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface.
Daydream
(Day"dream`) n. A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope.
Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over.
Thackeray. Daydreamer
(Day"dream`er) n. One given to daydreams.
Dayflower
(Day"flow`er) n. (Bot.) A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs having ephemeral
flowers.
Dayfly
(Day"fly`) n. (Zoöl.) A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many
species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; — so called because it commonly
lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
Day-labor
(Day"-la`bor) n. Labor hired or performed by the day. Milton.
Day-laborer
(Day"-la`bor*er) n. One who works by the day; — usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a
workman who does not work at any particular trade. Goldsmith.
Daylight
(Day"light`) n.
1. The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the
moon or to artificial light.
2. pl. The eyes. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
Day lily
(Day" lil`y) (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having
tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow
or tawny-orange flowers. (b) A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny
leaves, and large white or blue flowers.
Daymaid
(Day"maid`) n. A dairymaid. [Obs.]
Daymare
(Day"mare`) n. [Day + mare incubus.] (Med.) A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness,
attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare. Dunglison.
Day-net
(Day"-net`) n. A net for catching small birds.
Day-peep
(Day"-peep`) n. The dawn. [Poetic] Milton.
Daysman
(Days"man) n. [From day in the sense of day fixed for trial.] An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us.
Job ix. 33.
