daie
English
Noun
daie (plural daies)
- Obsolete spelling of day.
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris[1]:
- O graunt sweet God my daies may end with hers, That I with her may dye and live againe.
- 1601, Robert Yarington, “Two Lamentable Tragedies”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.[2]:
- Go downe and see; pray God my man keep close; If he prove long-tongd then my daies are done.
Anagrams
Yola
Noun
daie
- Alternative form of die
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 1:
- Ye state na dicke daie o'ye londe, na whilke be nar fash nar moile,
- The condition, this day, of the country, in which is neither tumult nor disorder,
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116