#125.  Morning. [Noon.] —­ N. morning, morn, forenoon, a.m., prime,
dawn, daybreak; dayspring[obs3], foreday[obs3], sunup; peep of day, break of day; aurora; first blush of the morning, first flush of the morning, prime of the morning; twilight, crepuscule, sunrise; cockcrow, cockcrowing[obs3]; the small hours, the wee hours of the morning.
     spring; vernal equinox, first point of Aries.
     noon; midday, noonday; noontide, meridian, prime; nooning, noontime.
summer, midsummer. 
     Adj. matin, matutinal[obs3]; vernal. 
     Adv. at sunrise &c. n.; with the sun, with the lark, “when the morning
dawns”. 
     Phr. “at shut of evening flowers” [Paradise Lost]; entre chien et
loup[Fr]; “flames in the forehead of the morning sky” [Milton]; “the breezy call of incense-breathing morn” [Gray].

     #126.  Evening. [Midnight.] —­ N. evening, eve; decline of day, fall of
day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting[obs3]; eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the sun, cock- shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime.
     afternoon, postmeridian, p.m.
     autumn; fall, fall of the leaf; autumnal equinox; Indian summer, St.
Luke’s summer, St. Martin’s summer.
     midnight; dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night,
witching time of night; winter; killing time. 
     Adj. vespertine, autumnal, nocturnal. 
     Phr. “midnight, the outpost of advancing day” [Longfellow]; “sable-
vested Night” [Milton]; “this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay’d” [Young].

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     #127.  Youth. —­ N. youth; juvenility, juvenescence[obs3];
juniority[obs3]; infancy; babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood[obs3]; incunabula; minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom.
     cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage[obs3].
     prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life[obs3], seedtime of
life, golden season of life; heyday of youth, school days; rising generation. 
     Adj. young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne,
beardless, under age, in one’s teens; in statu pupillari[Lat]; younger, junior; hebetic[obs3], unfledged. 
     Phr. “youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm” [Gray];
“youth . . . the glad season of life” [Carlyle].

     #128.  Age. —­ N. age; oldness[obs3] &c. adj.; old age, advanced age,
golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility[obs3], gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity[obs3], superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, “sear and yellow leaf” [Macbeth]; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.
     seniority, eldership; elders &c. (veteran) 130; firstling; doyen,
father; primogeniture.
     [Science of old age.]