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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE

Day"time` (-tīm`), n. The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.

Day"wom`an (-wm`an), n. A dairymaid. [Obs.]

Daze (dāz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dazed (dāzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dazing.] [OE. dasen, prob. from Icel. dasask to become weary, a reflexive verb; cf. Sw. dasa to lie idle, and OD. daesen to be foolish, insane, daes, dwaes, D. dwaas, foolish, insane, AS. dws, dysig, stupid. √71. Cf. Dizzy, Doze.] To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.

While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen.
Spenser.
Such souls,
Whose sudden visitations daze the world.
Sir H. Taylor.
He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest.
Dickens.

Daze, n.

1. The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze. [Colloq.]

2. (Mining) A glittering stone.

Daz"zle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dazzled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dazzling (?).] [Freq. of daze.]

1. To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light.

Those heavenly shapes
Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze
Insufferably bright.
Milton.

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