Word Meanings - FORTNIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The space of fourteen days; two weeks. (more info) nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also,
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- RECKONER
One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden. - SPACE
One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance - 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 - FOURTEEN
Four and ten more; twice seven. - RECKON
reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the - SPACE BAR; SPACE KEY
A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters. - SPACELESS
Without space. Coleridge. - RECKONING
1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically: An account of time. Sandys. Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc. Even reckoning makes - SPACEFUL
Wide; extensive. Sandys. - FOURTEENTH
1. Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month. 2. Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived. - NIGHTSHIRT
A kind of nightgown for men. - DEAD-RECKONING
See A - DISPACE
To roam. In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser. - HYPERSPACE
An imagined space having more than three dimensions. - MISRECKONING
An erroneous computation. - ANCHOR SPACE
In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk. - OVERRECKON
To reckon too highly. - UNDERRECKON
To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate. Bp. Hall. - MISRECKON
To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate. Swift. - ANIGHT; ANIGHTS
In the night time; at night. Does he hawk anights still Marston.