The Collaborative International Dictionary
Morning \Morn"ing\, a. Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service. She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew. --Shak. Morning gown, a gown worn in the morning before one is dressed for the day. Morning gun, a gun fired at the first stroke of reveille at military posts. Morning sickness (Med.), nausea and vomiting, usually occurring in the morning; -- a common sign of pregnancy. Morning star.
Any one of the planets (Venus, Jupiter, Mars, or Saturn) when it precedes the sun in rising, esp. Venus. Cf. Evening star, Evening.
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Satan. See Lucifer.
Since he miscalled the morning star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far.
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A weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes, either attached to a staff or suspended from one by a chain.
Morning watch (Naut.), the watch between four a. m. and eight a. m..
Wiktionary
n. (context dated English) A dressing gown.
Usage examples of "morning gown".
There was a severely cut gold-velvet riding habit with a plumed, high-poked hat to match, a morning gown of soft yellow muslin with laced frocking, and the most beautiful dress she had ever beheld, a pale-blue-velvet evening gown, fashioned high in the back in the Russian style, with plunging neckline and long, fitted sleeves sewn with tiny seed pearls on the cuffs.
She was, he saw with approval, very simply dressed in a white morning gown, covered with a blue pelisse.
She wore a simple morning gown of blue damask embroidered in gold at the neck, sleeves, and hem.
Adrienne felt the heat of his thighs burning through her thin silk morning gown.
Phaedre verified Brianna's suspicions, voiced as the maid dug in the wardrobe for a fresh morning gown.
Her high-waisted, silver-gray morning gown with its crisp ruff and full sleeves was obviously the work of an expensive French modiste.
His hand closed on her shoulder, close by her neck, on skin left bare by her summer morning gown.
Demon watched her for a full minute, taking in her crisp, cambric morning gown, noting her hair, newly brushed, a gilded frame about her face.
Her pelisse was the same powder blue as the simple morning gown she wore beneath it.
Iphiginia, dressed in a white morning gown and a flower-trimmed chip straw bonnet, bobbed up and down behind him.
Framed in the window, sun spilling over the most splendid morning gown of rosy skin I've ever seen.
Carfilhiot himself strolled out upon the terrace, wearing a pale blue morning gown: apparently he had just risen from bed.
He was acutely aware of the soft curves of her breasts, warm ivory mounds enticingly displayed by the scooped neckline of her morning gown.
Lady Marchant stood there, small and exquisite in a morning gown of dark blue dimity sprinkled with silver flowers and a matching silver ribbon around her waist.