daily; diurnal.-a diary; an account of daily transactions and events.-a book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions.-a daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc.-the record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk.-a newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc.-that which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey.-that portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. see illust. of axle box.