dayspring

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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}]

from The 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]

from 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.)

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