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Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin. Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11. Bunyan has told us . . . that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands. Macaulay.

which their apparent diurnal motion exceeds that of the sun, in consequence of which they daily come to the meridian 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…

y of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

se in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure. "The law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not." Dan. vi. 8.

A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.

at he hath raised him from the dead. Acts xvii. 31. Assurances of support came pouring in daily. Macaulay.

An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11

A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal.

cherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders. The baker's punctual call. Cowper.

The act of casting in a mold. And why such daily cast of brazen cannon. Shak.

To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation. "Things that chance daily." Robynson (More's Utopia). If a bird's nest chance to be before thee. Deut. xxii. 6. I chanced on this letter. Shak.

A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]

opinion of the metropolis vented itself . . . Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his coffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own time have been called…

fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word. Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, To soothe his sister and delude her mind. Dryden.

A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.

Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. Watts.