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Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive. You bless with choicer wine the festal day. Francis.

A time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious. The morning trumpets festival proclaimed. Milton.

individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. "Are not my days few" Job x. 20. Few know and fewer care. Proverb.

Among Spanish, a religious festival; a saint's day or holiday; also, a holiday or festivity.

entations of natural objects. Whose figulines and rustic wares Scarce find him bread from day to day. Longfellow.

Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term. Yet despair not of his final pardon. Milton.

workemen; he finds his nephew in money. Wages £14 and all found. London Times. Nothing a day and find yourself. Dickens.

To come to an end; to terminate. His days may finish ere that hapless time. Shak.

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

fixed. An unalterable fixation of resolution. Killingbeck. To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of a joint. Quain. A fixation and confinement of thought to a few objects. Watts.

To be exosed to too much light. [Obs.] Flaring in sunshine all the day. Prior.

To become fledged; to fledge. [Obs.] Every day build their nests, every hour flidge. R. Greene.

charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. -- To fling off, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. Addison. -- To fling open, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. -- To fling out, to utter; to s…

In a flock; in a body. [Obs.] That flockmel on a day they to him went. Chaucer.

-- Flood tide, the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide. -- The Flood, the deluge in the days of Noah.

or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk. Joel iii. 18. The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl. Prof. Wilson.

-- Flower clock, an assemblage of flowers which open and close at different hours of the day, thus indicating the time. -- Flower head (Bot.), a compound flower in which all the florets are sessile on their receptacle, as in the case of the daisy. -- Flower pecker (Zoöl.), one of a family (Dicæidæ) of small Indian a…

Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.

ce, hired for life, thy servile muse sing. prior. To guide the sun's bright chariot for a day. Garth.

ng or waiting; the exercise of patience. He soon shall findForbearance no acquittance ere day end. Milton.