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Over :: Over (prep.) Across or during the time of; from beginning to end of; as, to keep anything over night; to keep corn over winter..

Caravansary :: Caravansary (n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court..

Jug :: "Jug (v. i.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale..

Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]..

Knight Service :: Knight service () A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4..

Nycthemeron :: Nycthemeron (n.) The natural day and night, or space of twenty-four hours..

Grope :: Grope (v. t.) To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight..

Binnacle :: Binnacle (n.) A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night..

Equidiurnal :: Equidiurnal (a.) Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; -- applied to the equinoctial line.

Orle :: Orle (n.) The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest..

Pnigalion :: Pnigalion (n.) Nightmare.

Excubitorium :: Excubitorium (n.) A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night..

Bivouac :: Bivouac (n.) An encampment for the night without tents or covering.

Fauvette :: Fauvette (n.) A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers..

Night-blooming :: Night-blooming (a.) Blooming in the night.

Pernoctalian :: Pernoctalian (n.) One who watches or keeps awake all night.

Coistril :: Coistril (n.) An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries.

Run :: Run (n.) Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights..

Tellurian :: Tellurian (n.) An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons..

Shine :: Shine (v. t.) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them..

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