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noun

day-star n.

The morning star; the star which ushers in the day; usually the planet Venus, when seen before and just after sunrise. "A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts."

The sun, as the orb of day. (Poetic) "So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Day-star" Quotes from Famous Books

... So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead ...

— Familiar Quotations • Various

... exciting news of the day; and it is not difficult to imagine the changes of feeling with which he would follow the political changes in France, the hopes of humanity now apparently lost in the gloom of the Reign of Terror, and now the rising of the day-star, precursor of a glorious day of republican freedom, in the marvellous successes of the cool, determined, energetic, stoical young conqueror of Italy, living, when Bernadotte fired his imagination ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various

... Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward, angel now, and melt with ruth: And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth. Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of ...

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