† a-ˈmornings, advb. phr. Obs.
[f. as prec. with genitival -s: cf. a-days, and mod. ‘He comes of a morning.’]
In the morning, every morning.
| 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 7253 Males drowen hem to males · a mornynges bi hem-self. a 1541 Wyatt Poet. Wks. (1861) 98 A mornings then when I do rise. 1572 L. Mascall Govt. Cattle (1627) 13 Squirt thereof a mornings into his nostrils. 1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 27 The brightest dayes dye into dark nights, but rise againe a mornings. |