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Webster 1913 Edition

Diary

Di′a-ry

(dī′ȧ-ry̆)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Diaries
(#)
.
[L.
diarium
, fr.
dies
day. See
Deity
.]
A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda;
as, a
diary
of the weather; a physician’s
diary
.

Di′a-ry

,
Adj.
lasting for one day;
as, a
diary
fever
.
[Obs.]
“Diary ague.”
Bacon.

Webster 1828 Edition

Diary

DIARY

,
Noun.
[L., a day.] An account of daily events or transactions; a journal; a register of daily occurrences or observations; as a diary of the weather. A diary fever is a fever of one day.

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