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Chivalry :: Chivalry (n.) The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc..

Incubus :: Incubus (n.) A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night..

Beauseant :: Beauseant (n.) The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

Tonight :: Tonight (adv.) On this present or coming night.

Nightman :: Nightman (n.) One whose business is emptying privies by night.

Benight :: Benight (v. t.) To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task..

Taint :: Taint (v. t.) To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner..

Gin :: Gin (n.) Against; near by; towards; as, gin night..

Chess :: Chess (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns..

Alkekengi :: Alkekengi (n.) An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato..

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

Nocturn :: Nocturn (n.) One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service..

Equites :: Equites (n. pl) An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.

Moon :: Moon (n.) The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month..

Lullaby :: lullaby (v. t.) Hence: Good night; good-by.

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

Nightjar :: Nightjar (n.) A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker..

Twelfth-night :: Twelfth-night (n.) The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches..

Knight :: Knight (v. t.) To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---..

Qua-bird :: Qua-bird (n.) The American night heron. See under Night.

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