daie

English

Noun

daie (plural daies)

  1. Obsolete spelling of day
    • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris‎:
      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.‎:
      Go downe and see; pray God my man keep close; If he prove long-tongd then my daies are done.

Anagrams

Yola

Noun

daie

  1. 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 (1867), 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, page 116
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