Word Meanings - NIGHTMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One whose business is emptying privies by night.

Related words: (words related to NIGHTMAN)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• NIGHT-FARING
  Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
• NIGHTLY
  At night; every night.
• NIGHTMAN
  One whose business is emptying privies by night.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• NIGHTLONG
  Lasting all night.
• EMPTY
  1. To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean. 2. To become empty. "The chapel empties." B. Jonson.
• 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.
• EMPTYING
  The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl.
• NIGHTTIME
  The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to Ant: daytime.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• NIGHT-BLOOMING
  Blooming in the night. Night-blooming cereus. See Note under Cereus.
• NIGHTISH
  Of or pertaining to night.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• 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.,
• NIGHTDRESS
  A nightgown.
• NIGHTWARD
  Approaching toward night.
• NIGHTGOWN
  A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garnment.
• 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,
• 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.
• FORTNIGHTLY
  Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication. -- adv.
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.