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Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory. Gray.

tion. Hammond. A sort of men who . . . attend its [the curch of England's] service in the morning, and go with their wives to a conventicle in the afternoon. Swift.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples.

aving monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomæa. The luster of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems. Tennyson.

ay from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance. When every morn my bosom glowed To watch the convoy on the road. Emerson.

the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.

stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing. In one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn. Milton.

sh. Ancient towers . . . beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning. De Quincey.

teristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. "The cock had crown." Bayron. The morning cock crew loud. Shak.

sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand. He would visit his mistress in a morning gown, band,short cuffs, and a peaked beard. Arbuthnot.

A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.

To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.

To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns. In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher. Matt. xxviii. 1.

The morning star; the star which ushers in the day. A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. 2 Peter i. 19.

The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.

enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions of morning. D. Webster.

An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor. "The dew of his youth." Longfellow.

the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common morning-glóry.

pelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent. One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. Moore. The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. Dryden.

easy robes of peace. Shak. At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. Emerson.