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Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. Faraday.

ve, and to thy speed add wings. Milton. As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. Locke.

To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needfu…

The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.

The period including the four Sundays before Christmas. Advent Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). Shipley.

y, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

ne; expedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South.

Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and the clause. After I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee. Matt. xxvi. 32.

The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.

Ago. [Archaic. & Poet.] Three days agone I fell sick. 1 Sam. xxx. 13.

dance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

essive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered. Shipley.

The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.

All Saints' Day, November 1st. [Archaic]

o let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.

A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, co…

llowed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.

A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.