daie

English

Noun

daie (plural daies)

1. 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

• Adie, aide, idea

Yola

Noun

daie

1. Alternative form of die
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 1-2:

     Ye state na dicke daie o'ye londe, na whilke be nar fash nar moile, albiet 'constitutional agitation,'

     The condition, this day, of the country, in which is neither tumult nor disorder, but that constitutional agitation,

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 11-12:

     w'oul daie an ercha daie, our meines an oure gurles, praie var long an happie zins,

     we will daily and every day, our wives and our children, implore long and happy days,

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