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Definition: night
night
n 1: the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark
outside [syn:
nighttime,
dark] [ant:
day]
2: the time between sunset and midnight;
“he watched television
every night”
3: the period spent sleeping;
“I had a restless night”
4: the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit;
“three nights later he collapsed”
5: darkness;
“it vanished into the night”
6: a shortening of nightfall;
“they worked from morning to
night”
7: a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
8: Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of
Greek Nyx [syn:
Nox]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Night
Night
\Night\ (n[imac]t), n. [OE. night, niht, AS. neaht, niht;
akin to D. nacht, OS. & OHG. naht, G. nacht, Icel. n[=o]tt,
Sw. natt, Dan. nat, Goth. nahts, Lith. naktis, Russ. noche,
W. nos, Ir. nochd, L. nox, noctis, Gr. ny`x, nykto`s, Skr.
nakta, nakti. [root]265. Cf.
Equinox,
Nocturnal.]
1. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the
horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the
time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the
sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. --Gen. i. 5.
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2. Hence:
(a) Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.
--Pope.
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(b) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
(c) A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night
of sorrow.
(d) The period after the close of life; death.
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She closed her eyes in everlasting night.
--Dryden.
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Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
--Dylan
Thomas.
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(e) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems
to sleep.
“Sad winter's night”. --Spenser.
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Note: Night is sometimes used, esp. with participles, in the
formation of self-explaining compounds; as,
night-blooming, night-born, night-warbling, etc.
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Night by night,
Night after night, nightly; many nights.
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So help me God, as I have watched the night,
Ay, night by night, in studying good for England.
--Shak.
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Night bird. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The moor hen (
Gallinula chloropus).
(b) The Manx shearwater (
Puffinus Anglorum).
Night blindness. (Med.) See
Hemeralopia.
Night cart, a cart used to remove the contents of privies
by night.
Night churr, (Zo["o]l.), the nightjar.
Night crow, a bird that cries in the night.
Night dog, a dog that hunts in the night, -- used by
poachers.
Night fire.
(a) Fire burning in the night.
(b) Ignis fatuus; Will-o'-the-wisp; Jask-with-a-lantern.
Night flyer (Zo["o]l.), any creature that flies in the
night, as some birds and insects.
night glass, a spyglass constructed to concentrate a large
amount of light, so as see objects distinctly at night.
--Totten.
Night green, iodine green.
Night hag, a witch supposed to wander in the night.
Night hawk (Zo["o]l.), an American bird (
Chordeiles Virginianus
), allied to the goatsucker. It hunts the
insects on which it feeds toward evening, on the wing, and
often, diving down perpendicularly, produces a loud
whirring sound, like that of a spinning wheel. Also
sometimes applied to the European goatsuckers. It is
called also
bull bat.
Night heron (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
herons of the genus
Nycticorax, found in various parts
of the world. The best known species is
Nycticorax griseus
, or
Nycticorax nycticorax, of Europe, and the
American variety (var. n[ae]vius). The yellow-crowned
night heron (
Nyctanassa violacea syn.
Nycticorax violaceus
) inhabits the Southern States. Called also
qua-bird, and
squawk.
Night house, a public house, or inn, which is open at
night.
Night key, a key for unfastening a night latch.
Night latch, a kind of latch for a door, which is operated
from the outside by a key.
Night monkey (Zo["o]l.), an owl monkey.
night moth (Zo["o]l.), any one of the noctuids.
Night parrot (Zo["o]l.), the kakapo.
Night piece, a painting representing some night scene, as a
moonlight effect, or the like.
Night rail, a loose robe, or garment, worn either as a
nightgown, or over the dress at night, or in sickness.
[Obs.]
Night raven (Zo["o]l.), a bird of ill omen that cries in
the night; esp., the bittern.
Night rule.
(a) A tumult, or frolic, in the night; -- as if a
corruption, of night revel. [Obs.]
(b) Such conduct as generally rules, or prevails, at
night.
What night rule now about this haunted grove?
--Shak.
Night sight. (Med.) See
Nyctolopia.
Night snap, a night thief. [Cant] --Beau. & Fl.
Night soil, human excrement; -- so called because in cities
it is collected by night and carried away for manure.
Night spell, a charm against accidents at night.
Night swallow (Zo["o]l.), the nightjar.
Night walk, a walk in the evening or night.
Night walker.
(a) One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist; a
noctambulist.
(b) One who roves about in the night for evil purposes;
specifically, a prostitute who walks the streets.
Night walking.
(a) Walking in one's sleep; sleep walking; somnambulism;
noctambulism.
(b) Walking the streets at night with evil designs.
Night warbler (Zo["o]l.), the sedge warbler (
Acrocephalus phragmitis
); -- called also
night singer. [Prov. Eng.]
Night watch.
(a) A period in the night, as distinguished by the change
of watch.
(b) A watch, or guard, to aford protection in the night.
Night watcher, one who watches in the night; especially,
one who watches with evil designs.
Night witch. Same as
Night hag, above.
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