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Word Meanings - NIGHTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Darkness; clouded. Shak. 2. Overtaken by night; belated. Beau. & Fl.

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  • NIGHT-FARING
    Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
  • NIGHTLY
    At night; every night.
  • NIGHTMAN
    One whose business is emptying privies by night.
  • DARKNESS
    1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
  • CLOUDINESS
    The state of being cloudy.
  • CLOUDLAND
    Dreamland.
  • CLOUD-BURST
    A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
  • NIGHTLONG
    Lasting all night.
  • 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
  • CLOUDBERRY
    A species of raspberry growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.
  • NIGHTLESS
    Having no night.
  • NIGHTTIME
    The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to Ant: daytime.
  • BELATE
    To retard or make too late. Davenant.
  • CLOUD-COMPELLER
    Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. Pope.
  • CLOUDING
    1. A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing. 2. A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals. Knight.
  • NIGHT-BLOOMING
    Blooming in the night. Night-blooming cereus. See Note under Cereus.
  • NIGHTISH
    Of or pertaining to night.
  • NIGHT LETTER; NIGHT LETTERGRAM
    See ABOVE
  • CLOUDLESS
    Without a cloud; clear; bright. A cloudless winter sky. Bankroft. -- Cloud"less*ly, adv. -- Cloud"less*ness, n.
  • NIGHT
    OS. & OHG. naht, G. nacht, Icel. n, Sw. natt, Dan. nat, Goth. nachts, Lith. naktis, Russ. noche, W. nos, Ir. nochd, L. nox, noctis, gr. 1. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp.,
  • KNIGHTLESS
    Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
  • ALLNIGHT
    Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon.
  • UNKNIGHT
    To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
  • CLOUD
    arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, susponded in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13. Note: A classification of clouds according
  • MIDNIGHT SUN
    The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • ALE-KNIGHT
    A pot companion.
  • UNCLOUD
    To free from clouds; to unvail; to clear from obscurity, gloom, sorrow, or the like. Beau. & Fl.
  • FORTNIGHTLY
    Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication. -- adv.

 

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