dayspring

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dayspring - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  dayspring \day"spring`\ (d[=a]"spr[i^]ng`), n.
     The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the
     dawn; hence, the beginning. --Milton.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from
           on high hath visited us.                 --Luke i. 78.
     [1913 Webster]

dayspring - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dayspring
      n 1: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they
           talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning,
           aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day
           , dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow]
           [ant: sundown, sunset]

dayspring - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Dayspring
  (Job 38:12; Luke 1:78), the dawn of the morning; daybreak.
  (Comp. Isa. 60:1, 2; Mal. 4:2; Rev. 22:16.)