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sion of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.

Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to Ant: nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.

Daily; every day.

Continuance during the day. [Obs.]

Variegation. "Bright diversities of day." Pope.

to carry out in action; as, to do a good or a bad act; do our duty; to do what I can. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work. Ex. xx. 9. We did not do these things. Ld. Lytton. You can not do wrong without suffering wrong. Emerson. Hence: To do homage, honor, favor, justice, etc., to render homage, honor, etc.…

ess; docility. To persons of docibility, the real character may be easily taught in a few days. Boyle. The docibleness of dogs in general. Walton.

e heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, a Canis Majoris. See Dog days.

[Obs.] "Some doily petticoats." Dryden. A fool and a doily stuff, would now and then find days of grace, and be worn for variety. Congreve.

grief; sorrow; lamentation. [Archaic] And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat. Tennyson.

Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord's day, or Sunday.

Ruin; death. This is the day of doom for Bassianus. Shak.

Of uncertain issue or event. We . . . have sustained one day in doubtful fight. Milton. The strife between the two principles had been long, fierce, and doubtful. Macaulay.

heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun. Byron. Long, open panegyric drags at best. Gay.

e takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. Berkeley. The drama and contrivances of God's providence. Sharp.

A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book. [Obs.] Burrill.

of Day. Also adj.; as, dried apples.

the like. "The purple flowers droop." "Above her drooped a lamp." Tennyson. I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.

To consume laboriously; -- with away. Rise to our toils and drudge away the day. Otway.

Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.