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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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Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
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Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
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A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.
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The period after the close of life; death.
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A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.
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nightly; many nights.
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The Manx shearwater (Puffinus Anglorum).
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See Hemeralopia.
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a cart used to remove the contents of privies by night.
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the nightjar.
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a bird that cries in the night.
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a dog that hunts in the night, -- used by poachers.
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Ignis fatuus; Will-o'-the-wisp; Jask-with-a-lantern.
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any creature that flies in the night, as some birds and insects.
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a spyglass constructed to concentrate a large amount of light, so as see objects distinctly at night.
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iodine green.
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a witch supposed to wander in the night.
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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.