Word Meanings - ENGILD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To gild; to make splendent. Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak.

Related words: (words related to ENGILD)

• NIGHT-FARING
  Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
• NIGHTLY
  At night; every night.
• NIGHTMAN
  One whose business is emptying privies by night.
• NIGHTLONG
  Lasting all night.
• NIGHTSHADE
  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. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna
• NIGHTLESS
  Having no night.
• NIGHTTIME
  The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to Ant: daytime.
• NIGHT-BLOOMING
  Blooming in the night. Night-blooming cereus. See Note under Cereus.
• NIGHTISH
  Of or pertaining to night.
• NIGHT LETTER; NIGHT LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE
• NIGHT
  OS. & OHG. naht, G. nacht, Icel. n, Sw. natt, Dan. nat, Goth. nachts, Lith. naktis, Russ. noche, W. nos, Ir. nochd, L. nox, noctis, gr. 1. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp.,
• SPLENDENT
  1. Shining; glossy; beaming with light; lustrous; as, splendent planets; splendent metals. See the Note under 3d Luster, 4. 2. Very conspicuous; illustrious. "Great and splendent fortunes." Sir H. Wotton.
• NIGHTDRESS
  A nightgown.
• NIGHTWARD
  Approaching toward night.
• NIGHTGOWN
  A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garnment.
• NIGHT TERRORS
  A sudden awkening associated with a sensation of terror, occurring in children, esp. those of unstable nervous constitution.
• HELENA
  See SAINT
• NIGHTMARE
  1. A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep. 2. 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
• NIGHTFALL
  The close of the day. Swift.
• NIGHTINGALE
  A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird (Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song. (more info) niht night + galan to sing, akin to E. yell; cf. D. nachtegaal, OS. nahtigala, OHG. nahtigala,
• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• ALLNIGHT
  Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• MIDNIGHT SUN
  The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer.
• SEVENNIGHT
  A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
• FORTNIGHT
  The space of fourteen days; two weeks. (more info) nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also,
• MIDNIGHT
  The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shak.
• 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
• ALE-KNIGHT
  A pot companion.
• FORTNIGHTLY
  Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication. -- adv.
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• RESPLENDENT
  Shining with brilliant luster; very bright. -- Re*splen"dent*ly, adv. With royal arras and resplendent gold. Spenser. (more info) resplendere to shine brightly; pref. re- re- + splendere to shine.
• KNIGHT-ERRANTRY
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young.