Word Meanings - NIGHTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Darkness; clouded. Shak. 2. Overtaken by night; belated. Beau. & Fl.
Related words: (words related to NIGHTED)
- 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. - NIGHT-BLOOMING
Blooming in the night. Night-blooming cereus. See Note under Cereus. - 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. - NIGHTISH
Of or pertaining to night. - NIGHT LETTER; NIGHT LETTERGRAM
See ABOVE - 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., - CLOUDLESS
Without a cloud; clear; bright. A cloudless winter sky. Bankroft. -- Cloud"less*ly, adv. -- Cloud"less*ness, n. - 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.