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- English Word Nightcap Definition A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.
- English Word Nightcap Definition A potion of spirit drank at bedtime.
- English Word Nightdress Definition A nightgown.
- English Word Nighted Definition Darkness; clouded.
- English Word Nighted Definition Overtaken by night; belated.
- English Word Nightertale Definition period of night; nighttime.
- English Word Nightfall Definition The close of the day.
- English Word Nightgown Definition A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garnment.
- English Word Nightingale Definition A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird (Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song.
- English Word Nightingale Definition A larger species (Lucinia philomela), of Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied species.
- 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.