Word Meanings - BIRTHNIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years. The angelic song in Bethlehem field, On thy birthnight, that sung thee Savior born. Milton.
Related words: (words related to BIRTHNIGHT)
- NIGHT-FARING
Going or traveling in the night. Gay. - FIELD
The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity - SUCCEEDANT
Succeeding one another; following. - FIELDING
The act of playing as a fielder. - NIGHTMAN
One whose business is emptying privies by night. - ANGELIC; ANGELICAL
Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine. "Angelic harps." Thomson."Angelical actions." Hooker. The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience. Macaulay. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - FIELDY
Open, like a field. Wyclif. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - ANGELICA
1. An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic. 2. The candied leaf stalks of angelica. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - SUCCEEDER
A successor. Shak. Tennyson. - NIGHTLONG
Lasting all night. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - FIELDPIECE
A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun. - NIGHTSHADE
A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna - NIGHTLESS
Having no night. - ANGELICALLY
Like an angel. - KNIGHTLESS
Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser. - ALLNIGHT
Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon. - UNKNIGHT
To deprive of knighthood. Fuller. - HOMEFIELD
Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne. - MIDNIGHT SUN
The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer. - INFIELD
To inclose, as a field. - SEVENNIGHT
A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight. - FORTNIGHT
The space of fourteen days; two weeks. (more info) nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also, - MIDNIGHT
The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shak. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - KNIGHT BANNERET
A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field