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- English Word Nightish Definition Of or pertaining to night.
- English Word Nightjar Definition A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.
- English Word Nightless Definition Having no night.
- English Word Nightlong Definition Lasting all night.
- English Word Nightly Definition Of or pertaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night; as, nightly shades; he kept nightly vigils.
- English Word Nightly Definition At night; every night.
- English Word Nightman Definition One whose business is emptying privies by night.
- English Word Nightmare Definition A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
- English Word Nightmare Definition A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus.
- English Word Nightmare Definition Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence.
- English Word Nightmen Definition of Nightman
- English Word Nightshade Definition A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous.
- English Word Nightshirt Definition A kind of nightgown for men.
- English Word Nighttime Definition The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to daytime.
- English Word Nightward Definition Approaching toward night.
- English Word Nigraniline Definition The complex, nitrogenous, organic base and dyestuff called also aniline black.
- English Word Nigrescent Definition Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness.
- English Word Nigrification Definition The act or process of making black.
- English Word Nigrine Definition A ferruginous variety of rutile.
- English Word Nigritude Definition Blackness; the state of being black.
- English Word Nigromancie Definition Necromancy.
- English Word Nigromancien Definition A necromancer.
- English Word Nigrosine Definition A dark blue dyestuff, of the induline group; -- called also azodiphenyl blue.
- English Word Nigua Definition The chigoe.
- English Word Nihil Definition Nothing.
- English Word Nihilism Definition Nothingness; nihility.
- English Word Nihilism Definition The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality.
- English Word Nihilism Definition The theories and practices of the Nihilists.
- English Word Nihilist Definition One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.
- English Word Nihilist Definition A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions.