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y, two parts of red to one each of blue and yellow; also, of a yellowish brown color. The morn, in russet mantle clad. Shak. Our summer such a russet livery wears. Dryden.

urst their feeble eyes dispread Upon that town. Fairfax. We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work. Tennyson.

the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does. Methinks I scent the morning air. Shak.

. -- Seven-year vine (Bot.), a tropical climbing plant (Ipomoea tuberosa) related to the morning-glory.

pain, weather; a sharp and frosty air. Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak. The morning sharp and clear. Cowper. In sharpest perils faithful proved. Keble.

Bright; shining; radiant; sheen. "A sheeny summer morn." Tennyson.

Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday.

by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain. Slow broke the morn, All damp and rolling vapor, with no sun, But in its place a moving smear of light. Alexander Smith.

world to sow it with trifles. Sir M. Hale. [He] sowed with stars the heaven. Milton. Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl. Milton.

the colors] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship. Puttenham. Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations. Fuller.

hted by the stars, or by the stars only; as, a starlight night. A starlight evening and a morning fair. Dryden.

To rise, or be up, in the morning. [Colloq.] Shak.

A long, loose garment reaching to the feet. Spenser. But when mild morn, in saffron stole, First issues from her eastern goal. T. Warton.

. . streaked and dappled with white and black. Sandys. Now streaked and glowing with the morning red. Prior.

The first appearance of the sun above the horizon in the morning; more generally, the time of such appearance, whether in fair or cloudy weather; as, to begin work at sunrise. "The tide of sunrise swells." Keble.

Having a plainted and convolute arrangement in the bud, as in the morning-glory.

penser. Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew. Dryden.

pers upon he had.. Chaucer. At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. Emerson.

by another, often in a definite quantity or amount. Ma task of servile toil. Milton. Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close. Longfellow.

dition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: -- The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison.