<B>daylong, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> through the whole day. <BR> <I>Ex. Castro kept on the move constantly, toughening his men by daylong forced marches (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="daymare">
<B>daymare, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an experience that is like a bad dream; a very distressing experience. <BR> <I>Ex. A peaceful drive through farmland suddenly turns into a daymare (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dayneutralplant">
<B>day-neutral plant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a plant growing and blooming independent of the amount of light. <BR> <I>Ex. Day-neutral plants, such as dandelions, apparently are insensitive to the length of day as they will bloom in any season if they receive enough heat and moisture (Harbaugh and Goodrich).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="daynursery">
<B>day nursery,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a nursery for the care of small children during the day; creche. </DL>
<A NAME="dayofatonement">
<B>Day of Atonement,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Yom Kippur, the most sacred fast observed by the Jews. </DL>
<A NAME="dayofdoom">
<B>day of doom,</B> =Day of Judgment.</DL>
<A NAME="dayofjudgment">
<B>Day of Judgment,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the day of God's final judgment of mankind at the end of the world; the end of the world; Judgment Day. </DL>
<A NAME="dayowl">
<B>day owl,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=hawk owl.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various owls which fly by day and look somewhat like hawks. </DL>
<A NAME="dayrelease">
<B>day release,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in Great Britain) a part-time release from employment to allow a worker to attend courses at a technical school. </DL>
<A NAME="dayreturn">
<B>day-return, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) a railroad ticket for going and returning only on the same day, usually sold at cheaper rates. <BR> <I>Ex. a day-return to London.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dayroom">
<B>dayroom, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a room in a military barracks with reading and recreational facilities. <BR> <I>Ex. Nights are taken up with movies, bull sessions in dayrooms, or sentry duty (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="days">
<B>days, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> during the day; in the daytime. <BR> <I>Ex. What does he do days now that he works nights?</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dayschool">
<B>day school,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a school held in the daytime (contrasted with <I>night school</I>). <DD><B> 2. </B>a private school for students who live at home. <DD><B> 3. </B>an elementary school held on weekdays. </DL>
<A NAME="dayshift">
<B>day shift,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a group of workers working through the day. <BR> <I>Ex. As the day shift filed from the plant, Knowland stuck out a warm and brawny hand and said, "I'm Senator Bill Knowland" (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the period of time during which they work. </DL>
<A NAME="daysman">
<B>daysman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a day laborer. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Archaic.) an arbitrator; mediator. </DL>
<A NAME="daysofgrace">
<B>days of grace,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> extra days allowed for payment after a bill or note falls due. </DL>
<A NAME="daysofobligation">
<B>days of obligation,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> days on which everyone is required to abstain from work and to attend religious services, holy days of obligation. </DL>
<B>day student,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a nonresident student who comes to a school or college during the day for classes or study. </DL>
<A NAME="daytank">
<B>day tank,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a furnace for melting a large quantity of glass over a period of about 24 hours. <BR> <I>Ex. Day tanks hold one to four tons of glass (C. J. Phillips).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="daytime">
<B>daytime, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the time when it is day and not night. <BR> <I>Ex. My baby brother sleeps even in the daytime. Daytime is the period naturally associated with work, as nighttime is with recreation (Matthew Luckiesh).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of the daytime; occurring during the day. <BR> <I>Ex. the daytime hours, daytime activities, daytime TV programs.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="daytoday">
<B>day-to-day, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> daily; day by day. <BR> <I>Ex. We go about the day-to-day routine of our lives with a feeling of security and comfort (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="daytrader">
<B>day-trader, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who engages in day-trading. <BR> <I>Ex. ... to play the market like professional day-traders (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="daytrading">
<B>day-trading, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the buying and selling of the same listed stocks on the stock exchange in the course of a single day. <BR> <I>Ex. Requirements are tightened on day-trading, the technique by which speculators move in and out of stock on the same day and count on rising prices to pay off their purchase and provide a profit as well (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="daytripper">
<B>day-tripper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who goes on a short trip or excursion and returns the same day. <BR> <I>Ex. Busloads of day-trippers ... overrun the chateaus (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="daywork">
<B>daywork, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>work done in the daytime. <DD><B> 2. </B>work paid for by the day or hour. </DL>
<A NAME="dayworker">
<B>dayworker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who works by the day or the hour. </DL>
<A NAME="daze">
<B>daze, </B>verb, <B>dazed,</B> <B>dazing,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to make unable to think clearly; confuse; bewilder; stun. <BR> <I>Ex. A blow on the head dazed him so that he could not find his way home. (Figurative.) The winner was dazed by his good luck.</I> (SYN) benumb, stupefy, confound. <DD><B> 2. </B>to hurt (one's eyes) with light; dazzle. <BR> <I>Ex. The child was dazed by the bright lights.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a dazed condition; bewilderment. <BR> <I>Ex. He was in a daze from the accident and could not understand what was happening.</I> (SYN) stupefaction. </DL>
<A NAME="dazedly">
<B>dazedly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a dazed, bewildered, or stupid manner. <BR> <I>Ex. In the final set he did little more than go through the motions of a tennis player, smiling dazedly as the ball whizzed by, often yards out of reach (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dazingly">
<B>dazingly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a dazing, benumbing, or stupefying manner. <BR> <I>Ex. Visually, "The Nun's Story" is almost dazingly beautiful (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dazzle">
<B>dazzle, </B>verb, <B>-zled,</B> <B>-zling,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to hurt (the eyes) with too bright light or with quickmoving lights. <BR> <I>Ex. To look straight at headlights dazzles the eyes.</I> (SYN) blind, daze. <DD><B> 2. </B>to overcome the sight or the mind of with anything very bright or splendid. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) The children were dazzled by the richness of the king's palace.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to be confused or overpowered by light. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to excite admiration by brilliance. <DD><I>noun </I> a dazzling; bewildering brightness. <BR> <I>Ex. the dazzle of powerful electric lights; (Figurative.) the dazzle of high society.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dazzlement">
<B>dazzlement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of dazzling or condition of being dazzled. <DD><B> 2. </B>something that dazzles. </DL>
<A NAME="dazzlepainting">
<B>dazzle painting,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the painting of ships in dazzling patterns during World War I to make it difficult for attacking submarines to estimate the course. </DL>
<A NAME="dazzler">
<B>dazzler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that dazzles. </DL>
<A NAME="dazzling">
<B>dazzling, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> brilliant or splendid. <BR> <I>Ex. the magician's dazzling display of skill. (Figurative.) Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling (Walt Whitman).</I> adv. <B>dazzlingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="db">
<B>db</B> (no period), <B>db.,</B> or <B>dB</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> decibel or decibels. </DL>
<B>dBA</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> decibel A (a unit for measuring noise in which A represents a weighing scale for loudness). <BR> <I>Ex. ... Central London rush-hour street noise is 63 dBA (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dba">
<B>DBA</B> or <B>dba</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> doing business as. </DL>
<A NAME="dba">
<B>D.B.A.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Doctor of Business Administration. </DL>
<A NAME="dbe">
<B>D.B.E.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Dame Commander of the British Empire. </DL>
<A NAME="dbh">
<B>dbh</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> diameter breast-high. </DL>
<A NAME="dbi">
<B>DBI</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) a drug used orally in the treatment of diabetes. <BR> <I>Ex. An antidiabetic pill, DBI, or phenformin, was developed especially for children (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
