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noun

Morning n.

1.

The first or early part of the day, variously understood as the earliest hours of light, the time near sunrise; the time from midnight to noon, from rising to noon, etc.

2.

The first or early part; as, the morning of life.

3.

The goddess Aurora. (Poetic)

adjective

Morning adj. Pertaining 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."

Morning gown, a gown worn in the morning before one is dressed for the day.

Morning gun, a gun fired at the first stroke of reveille at military posts.

Morning sickness (Med.), nausea and vomiting, usually occurring in the morning; a common sign of pregnancy.

Morning star.

(a)

Any one of the planets (Venus, Jupiter, Mars, or Saturn) when it precedes the sun in rising, esp. Venus. Cf. Evening star, Evening.

(b)

Satan. See Lucifer. "Since he miscalled the morning star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far."

(c)

A weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes, either attached to a staff or suspended from one by a chain.

Morning watch (Naut.), the watch between four a. m. and eight a. m..

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Etymology of 'Morning'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Morning" Quotes from Famous Books

... though with less of his confident bold manner than usual, into the house, and penetrating to the inner room, found Hutter lying on his back with Hetty sitting at his side, fanning him with pious care. The events of the morning had sensibly changed the manner of Hurry. Notwithstanding his skill as a swimmer, and the readiness with which he had adopted the only expedient that could possibly save him, the helplessness of being in the water, bound hand and foot, had produced some such effect on him, as the near approach ...

— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper

... sat in an elegant room of a house near the castle, and conversed upon the news of the day, and stared at the morning journals which lay before them ...

— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach

... and faces of the younger classes are all strange to me. Doubtless this was why the sensation of my first day's teaching in the school came back to me with extraordinary vividness when I entered the class-room of First Division A this morning. ...

— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn

... reply, her gaze far down the track where those spirals of smoke were constantly becoming more plainly visible. In the increasing light of the morning he could observe how the long night had marked her face with new lines of weariness, had brought to it new shadows of care. It was not alone the dulled, lustreless eyes, but also those hollows under them, and the drawn lips, all combining ...

— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish

... the works of her contemporary, Albert Cuyp, were sold for thirty florins! and no higher price was paid for his works before the middle of the eighteenth century. A few years ago his picture, called "Morning Light," was sold at a public sale in London for twenty-five thousand dollars. How astonishing that a celebrated artist like Honthorst, who painted in Utrecht when Cuyp painted in Dort, should have valued a portrait by Anna Maria Schurmann at the price ...

— Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. • Clara Erskine Clement

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