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Definition of Day-old
1. Adjective. Not fresh today. "Day-old bread is cheaper than fresh"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Day-old
Literary usage of Day-old
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT YOUTH, large, lusty, loving — youth full of grace,
force, fascination, Do you kuow that Old ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"Y YOUTH, DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT. OUTH, large, lusty, loving—youth full of grace,
force, fascination, Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"A comparison of 8- to 10-day-old rat uteri taken from intact and ... Price (9)
has also observed that castration of 1-day- old rats resulted in no ..."
4. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"The development of these studies was the investigation into the effect of spiramycin
treatment on experimental mycoplasmosis in day-old chicks and turkey ..."