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Word Meanings - NIGHTINGALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird (Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song. (more info) niht night + galan to sing, akin to E. yell; cf. D. nachtegaal, OS. nahtigala, OHG. nahtigala,

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A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird (Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song. (more info) niht night + galan to sing, akin to E. yell; cf. D. nachtegaal, OS. nahtigala, OHG. nahtigala, G. nachtigall, Sw. näktergal, Dan.

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  • NIGHT-FARING
    Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
  • GALANGA; GALANGAL
    The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia and of the Kæmpferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.
  • BROWNBACK
    The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
  • NIGHTMAN
    One whose business is emptying privies by night.
  • PLAINTIVE
    1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • PLAINTIFF
    One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
  • CELEBRATE
    1. To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High. 2. To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.
  • SINGSTER
    A songstress. Wyclif.
  • NIGHTLONG
    Lasting all night.
  • CELEBRATION
    The act, process, or time of celebrating. His memory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney.
  • SWEETNESS
    The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
  • 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
  • BROWNIE
    An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
  • PLAINT
    A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. Blackstone. (more info) planctum , to beat, beat the breast, lament. Cf. 1. Audible expression of sorrow;
  • PLAINLY
    In a plain manner; clearly.
  • NIGHTLESS
    Having no night.
  • NIGHTTIME
    The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to Ant: daytime.
  • PLAIN-SPOKEN
    Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden.
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • KNIGHTLESS
    Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
  • ALLNIGHT
    Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon.
  • UNKNIGHT
    To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
  • 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,
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • 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
  • CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
  • EXPLAIN
    out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear

 

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