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On this day; on the present day. Worcester's horse came but to-day. Shak.

The third day of the week, following Monday and preceding Wednesday.

See Twelfthtide.

The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday. Ash Wednesday. See in the Vocabulary.

Alas! Welaway! Shak.

The day following Whitsunday; -- called also Whitsun Monday.

The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white g…

The day following Whitmonday; -- called also Whitsun Tuesday.

See Workyday.

A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working. O, how full of briers in this working-day world. Shak.

A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a holiday. Also used adjectively. [Written also workiday, and workaday.] [Obs. or Colloq.] Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune. Shak.

The day last past; the day next before the present. All our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Shak. We are but of yesterday, and know nothing. Job viii. 9.

In each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", etc.

e a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv. 55.

Delivery, in speech. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Absolution day (R. C. Ch.), Tuesday before Easter.

Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life. "One abstemious day." Pope.

dian of any place about three minutes fifty-six seconds of solar time earlier than on the day preceding. -- Acceleration of the planets, the increasing velocity of their motion, in proceeding from the apogee to the perigee of their orbits.

e. -- Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt.

of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause. On such a day, a holiday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children. Southey.