subs. (common).—An early dram; an EYE-OPENER (q.v.). Also MORNING-ROUSER.
1814. SCOTT, Waverley, XVIII. Of this he took a copious dram, observing he had already taken his MORNING with Donald Bean Lean.
1853. R. W. VANDERKISTE, Notes and Narratives of a Six Years’ Mission, Principally among the Dens of London, p. 322. On rising to attend his work, according to his custom, he first went to a certain gin-shop in T ——— Street for ‘his MORNING’ (a dram).
1872. Globe, 12 March. That species of ‘refresher’ which in some parts of our country is known as a MORNING is also a German institution.
THE TOP OF THE MORNING, phr. (Irish).—A cheery greeting.
