Definition of night

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Night (n.) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep..

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Scup :: Scup (n.) A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or S. argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug..
Eve :: Eve (n.) The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event..
Knighthood :: Knighthood (n.) The whole body of knights.
Benight :: Benight (v. t.) To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light..
Lucubration :: Lucubration (n.) That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition.
Nighttime :: Nighttime (n.) The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to daytime.
Templar :: Templar (n.) One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars..
Squawl :: Squawk (n.) The American night heron. See under Night.
Night-eyed :: Night-eyed (a.) Capable of seeing at night; sharp-eyed.
Knight :: Knight (n.) A champion; a partisan; a lover.
Burglary :: Burglary (n.) Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not..
Knights Bannerets :: Knights bannerets (pl. ) of Knight bannere.
Knight Banneret :: 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 of battle..
Nightcap :: Nightcap (n.) A potion of spirit drank at bedtime.
Obscure :: Obscure (superl.) Of or pertaining to darkness or night; inconspicuous to the sight; indistinctly seen; hidden; retired; remote from observation; unnoticed.
Knight-er-ratic :: Knight-er-ratic (a.) Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry.
Batfowling :: Batfowling (n.) A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise..
Redstart :: Redstart (n.) A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India..
Change :: Change (v. i.) To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night..
Knightly :: Knightly (adv.) In a manner becoming a knight.
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