Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • By day; in the daytime.
  • On or in the day or time: only in the compound phrase nowadays (which see).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete By day, or every day; in the daytime.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb obsolete In the daytime.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English a- + day + -s, genitive ending. Old English a ("on") + dæges (genitive of "day").

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