(n.) A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
(a.) Without teeth, tongue, or claws; -- said of a lion represented heraldically.
(n.) The first or early part of the day, variously understood as the earliest hours of light, the time near sunrise; the time from midnight to noon, from rising to noon, etc.
(n.) The first or early part; as, the morning of life.