Word Meanings - NOCTURNALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
By night; nightly.
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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. - 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 - NIGHTLESS
Having no night. - NIGHTTIME
The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to Ant: daytime. - 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 - 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. - NIGHT TERRORS
A sudden awkening associated with a sensation of terror, occurring in children, esp. those of unstable nervous constitution. - NIGHTMARE
1. A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep. 2. A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on - NIGHTFALL
The close of the day. Swift. - NIGHTINGALE
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, - NIGHTED
1. Darkness; clouded. Shak. 2. Overtaken by night; belated. Beau. & Fl. - NIGHTSHIRT
A kind of nightgown for men. - 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. - KNIGHT-ERRANTRY
The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young. - KNIGHT TEMPLAR
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