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The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.

spicious; and no man can love the person he suspects. South. Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make men of merit suspicious of each other. Pope.

l air. Till thy fresh glories, which now shine so bright, Grow stale and tarnish with our daily sight. Dryden.

o St. Ambrose; -- so called from the first words "Te Deum laudamus." It forms part of the daily matins of the Roman Catholic breviary, and is sung on all occasions of thanksgiving. In its English form, commencing with words, "We praise thee, O God," it forms a part of the regular morning service of the Church of Englan…

terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation. Oracles severe Were daily thundered in our general's ear. Dryden. An archdeacon, as being a prelate, may thunder out an ecclesiastical censure. Ayliffe.

Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance. [Slang,Eng.]

A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.

ves; -- the objective case of we. See We. "Tell us a tale." Chaucer. Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11.

To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between "use to," and "used to." They use to place him that shall be their captain on a stone. Spenser. Fears use to be represented in an imaginary. Bacon…

nal days in woe and pain. Milton. Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him. Robertson.

That which is waste; a desert; a waste. [R.] Through woods and wasteness wide him daily sought. Spenser.

the sail, or the angle which it makes with its plane of revolution. -- Weather report, a daily report of meteorological observations, and of probable changes in the weather; esp., one published by government authority. -- Weather spy, a stargazer; one who foretells the weather. [R.] Donne. -- Weather strip (Arch.),…

trial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor. Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed. Milton.

A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.

vagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize. With bended knees I daily worship her. Carew.