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.
Related words: (words related to NIGHTINGALE)
- 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