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ining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service. She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew. Shak. Morning gown, a gown worn in the morning before one is dressed for the day. -- Morning gun, a gun fired at the first st…

A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel- shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.

Morning time. [Poetic]

In the morning; every morning. [Obs.] And have such pleasant walks into the woods A-mornings. J. Fletcher.

The morning of yesterday. Coleridge.

t, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.

In the morning. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell.

ed to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning. "Antelucan worship." De Quincey.

, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning.

An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. Grove. The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. Longfellow.

The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

To rouse from sleep.; to wake; to awaken. Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. Tennyson. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. Matt. viii. 25.

cle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.

, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc. Neither bid him God speed. 2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. Granrille.

uraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air. A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, and ferules, and the black hole. H. Spencer.

y 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty Shak. It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. Thackeray.

That which is given generously or liberally. "Thy morning bounties." Cowper.

The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.

To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast. Prior.