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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.

s, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. Locke. For much I dread due payment by the Greeks Of yesterday's arrear. Cowper. I have a large arrear of letters to write. J. D. Forbes. In arrear or In arrears, behind; backward; behindhand; in debt.

gainst; to meet; to encounter. I love to cope him in these sullen fits. Shak. They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down. Shak.

Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.

kled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Shak.

t so that. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. Gen. xxxii. 26. But yesterday you never opened lip, Except, indeed, to drink. Tennyson.

A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.

Pertaining to yesterday. [Obs.] See Yester, a. Ld. Lytton.

Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday. [R.] Thackeray.

thin a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before.

The act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday.

To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.

on or upon, and sometimes by over; as, to steal a march upon one's political rivals. She yesterday wanted to steal a march of poor Liddy. Smollett. Fifty thousand men can not easily steal a march over the sea. Walpole.

ecommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better. And in his time such a conqueror That greater was there none under the sun. Chaucer. His misery was such that none of the bystanders could refrain from weepi…

The present day. today. On to-day Is worth for me a thousand yesterdays. Longfellow.

Stern; grim. See Torvous. [Obs.] But yesterday his breath Awed Rome, and his least torved frown was death. J. Webster (1654).

Last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday. [An enemy] whom yester sun beheld Mustering her charms. Dryden.

The evening of yesterday; the evening last past.

The morning of yesterday. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to yesterday; relating to the day last past.