Day"mare` (d"mâr`), n. [Day + mare incubus.] (Med.) A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare. Dunglison.
Day"-net` (-nt`), n. A net for catching small birds.
Day"-peep` (-pp`), n. The dawn. [Poetic] Milton.
Days"man (dz"mn), n. [From day in the sense of day fixed for trial.] An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us.
Job ix. 33.
Day"spring` (d"sprng`), n. The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning. Milton.
The tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us.
Luke i. 78.
Day"-star` (-stär`), n. 1. The morning star; the star which ushers in the day.
A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day- star arise in your hearts.