Middle English Dictionary Entry

mōrning(e n.
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Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

1.
(a) Morning; dawn, break of day; the hours of night before dawn; also fig.; (b) in (on) a ~, on a certain morning; in that (this) ~, on that (this) morning; in (the) ~, in the morning; at break of day; before dawn; in (on) morninges, in the mornings; in morninges and evenes, in undermeles and in morninges, continuously; frequently; on (the) ~, in the morning [see also amorning]; (c) that ~, on that morning; the ~, in the morning; ~ evening mid dai and non; (d) ~ kepinge, the last of the watches by which the Romans and Jews divided the night; ~ song, an aubade; (e) in the greeting: god ~ [see god adj. 7. (e)].
2.
The morrow, the next morning; in (the) ~, on the ~, on the next morning; tomorrow morning; til the ~, until the next morning; the nexte ~, on the next morning.