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1. yester-dai adv.

Additional spellings: yesterdai
46 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) On the day preceding the present one, yesterday; also, just recently, only lately; (b) at some time in the past; also, formerly; as yester-dai.

2. mid-dai n., adj., & adv.

Additional spellings: middai
110 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) The middle of the day, the period around noon; devel of mid-dai, devil who is abroad in the middle of the day; in the time of mid-dai, in the middle of the day; in morwe and mid-dai and even-tide

3. Mọ̄̆ne-dai n.

Additional spellings: Monedai
38 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The second day of the week, Monday; (b) blak Mone-dai, Easter Monday; perilous monedaies, inauspicious Mondays for the birth of a child; Mone-dai lond, a lord's land on which tenants worked every…

4. wẹ̄ke-dai n.

Additional spellings: wekedai
10 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A day in a seven-day week; (b) a week; also, a workweek; al) the weke-dai, during the workweek.

5. imbre-dai n.

Additional spellings: imbredai
15 quotations in 1 sense
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Any of the three fasting days (Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) after the first Sunday in Lent, after the feast of Pentecost, after Holy Cross Day, Sept. 14, and after St. Lucy's Day, Dec. 13; an…

6. dai-werk, -work, daies werk n. & phr.

Additional spellings: daiwerk, dai-work, daiwork, daies werk
11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A normal day's work; a day's customary service; also, a day's fighting; (b) as a land measure: a plot of land that can be plowed by one team in one day [appar. from 3 to 5 poles].

7. tọ̄̆dai adv.

44 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) On this day, today; also as adj. [quot. ?c1475, 1st]; todai seven-night, todai thrid dai, a week from today, three days from today; nou todai, on this very day; (b) on this day of the year in the…

8. resten-dai n.

Additional spellings: restendai
4 quotations in 1 sense
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The Sabbath.

9. yọ̄l-dai n.

Additional spellings: yoldai
11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Christmas Day, December 25; (b) yol-dai of fish, a fast day during Advent on which fish is eaten.

10. dọ̄mes-dai n.

Additional spellings: domesdai
41 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The day of the Last Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday; (b) into (til) domes-dai, bitwene this and domes-dai, to the end of the World, till Doomsday.

11. hā̆lī̆-dai, hālī dai n. & phr.

Additional spellings: halidai, hali dai
65 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A Christian festival, a day consecrated to religious observances, a day of rest; any holy day, including Sunday; (b) any Hebrew holy day, including Saturday; (c) fig. a day sacred to Cupid, a…

12. frī-dai n.

Additional spellings: fridai
52 quotations in 2 senses
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Friday; --freq. with def. art.; in various constructions; (b) in prep. phrases; (c) adverbial uses.

13. dai n.

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A period of 24 hours, a natural day; dai natural; a daies space, a whole day; daies bred, daily bread; prime of the dai; etc.

14. lō̆nges adv.

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Long; longes agon, long ago.

15. Thūres-dai n.

Additional spellings: Thuresdai
46 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The fifth day of the week, Thursday; also, the fourth day of the Creation [quot. c1390]; (b) in adv. usage: the (than) Thures-dai, on Thursday, on Thursdays, Thursdays; (c) the word 'Thursday'…

16. Tiues-dai n.

Additional spellings: Tiuesdai
27 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The third day of the week, Tuesday; (b) in adv. usage: the) Tiues-dai, thane Tiues-dai, on (the) Tuesday, Tuesday; alle the tiues-daies, on every Tuesday; (c) in comb.: Tiues-dai gospel, the…

17. al-lō̆nge adj.

Additional spellings: allonge, al longe
9 quotations in 1 sense
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In set phrases: al-longe dai, all day (long); all the time, continually; al-longe night, all night (long); al-longe yeres, for years.

18. Sǒn-dai n.

Additional spellings: Sondai
77 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The first day of the week, Sunday, esp. the Christian Sabbath; also, the observance of the Sabbath; Son-dai gospel [cp. gospel n. 2.(a)]; breken Son-dai, to fail to observe the Sabbath; holden

19. ēster(n n.

Additional spellings: estern
113 quotations in 4 senses
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The church festival of Easter; Easter Sunday; the Easter season;-- usually without article.

20. Sater-dai n.

Additional spellings: Saterdai
54 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The seventh day of the week, Saturday, the Sabbath; (b) Sater-dai in albis, the Saturday in Easter Week, Easter Saturday; Sater-dai in estern even, holi Sater-dai, the Saturday before Easter, Holy…