Daytime

The time during which there is daylight as distinguished from the night same as day 1 as during the daytime...

Bunk

A wooden case or box which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night...

Day

The time of light or interval between one night and the next the time between sunrise and sunset or from dawn to darkness hence the light sunshine also called daytime...

Diurna

A division of Lepidoptera including the butterflies so called because they fly only in the daytime...

Diurnal

Relating to the daytime belonging to the period of daylight distinguished from the night opposed to nocturnal as diurnal heat diurnal hours...

matineacutee

A reception or a musical or dramatic entertainment held in the daytime See SoirEacutee...

Nighttime

The time from dusk to dawn opposed to daytime...

Poaching, taking name by trespass. Also taking fish, e.g., salmon and trout by illegal methods (see infra).Trespassing in the daytime in pursuit of 'game'--i.e., hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor game, black game, or bustards--or woodcock, snipe, quails, landrail, or rabbits, is punishable summarily by fine up to 2l., and in case of a trespass by five or more, up to 5l.; the leave of the occupier being no defence if the landlord or other person have by reservation the right to kill the game. [See (English) GAME ACT, 1831, ss. 2, 30]Unlawfully taking in the night, i.e., between the expiration of the first hour after sunset and the commencement of the first hour before sunrise, 'game,' as above defined, is punishable summarily by imprisonment with hard labour; and any persons, to the number of three or more, by night unlawfully entering lands, for the purpose of taking or destroying any 'game,' as above defined, or rabbits (any of them being armed with any gun or other ...

Rabbit

Rabbit, also termed 'coney' in the (English) Game Act, 1831, ss. 30-32 of which render trespass in the daytime in pursuit of conies punishable on summary conviction by fine upto 2l; trespassers may be required to quit the land and to tell their names and abodes on pain of arrest on refusal, and similar trespass with violence by five or more armed persons is punishable by fine up to 5l. By the (English) Night Poaching Act, 1828, s. 1, unlawfully taking or destroying game or rabbits by night is punishable on summary conviction by imprisonment up to three months with hard labour (with increased punishments for second or third offences); and by s. 9 of the same Act, armed persons to the number of three or more unlawfully entering land for the purpose of destroying game or rabbits are punishable after conviction on indictment by penal servitude up to ten years or imprisonment with hard labour up to three years.A tenant may shoot rabbits on his farm, although the right of sporting is reserve...

Watch and ward

Watch and ward. one of the principal duties of constables is to keep watch and ward. ward [custodia, Lat.] is chiefly applied to the daytime, in order to apprehend rioters and robbers on the highways. Watch [fr. watcht, or wacta, Teut.] is applicable to the night only, and begins at the time when ward ends, 1 Bl. Com. 356....

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