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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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"Morning" Quotes from Famous Books

... a nipping morning, and the clearing outside the ranch was flecked with patches of frozen snow, when Waynefleet sat shivering in a hide chair beside the stove. The broken viands upon the table in front of him suggested that he had just made a tolerable breakfast, but his pose was expressive of limp resignation, ...

— The Greater Power • Harold Bindloss

... for I shall take you to hear a kind of music of which it is impossible you can have formed any idea, and it will afford me great pleasure to know the impression it makes upon you." The annual bagpipe competition was to take place next day, and accordingly in the morning Smith came to the Professor's lodgings at nine o'clock, and they proceeded at ten to a spacious concert-room, plainly but neatly decorated, which they found already filled with a numerous assembly of ladies and gentlemen. A large ...

— Life of Adam Smith • John Rae

... at Putnam Manor that we might be able to get dinner here," he began. "We came down from the city this morning expecting that the inn would be open. But we found it closed and we are very hungry. Would it be possible for you ...

— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison

... predilection or of aversion. They were the King's friends. It is to be observed that this friendship implied no personal intimacy. These people had never lived with their master, as Dodington at one time lived with his father, or as Sheridan afterwards lived with his son. They never hunted with him in the morning, or played cards with him in the evening, never shared his mutton or walked with him among his turnips. Only one or two of them ever saw his face except on public days. The whole band, however, always had early and accurate information as to his personal inclinations. ...

— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... the stem becomes too long and slender to stand upright. Then it does a strange thing. It circles about as though in search of something. It moves very slowly, but if you notice which way it is pointing in the morning, and again at noon, and again at night, you will see that it has changed its position. Why does it do this? It wishes to twine about a support, and will continue circling about until it finds one. If there is none, ...

— The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young • Margaret Warner Morley

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