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Word Meanings - MIDNIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shak.

Related words: (words related to MIDNIGHT)

  • NIGHT-FARING
    Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
  • NIGHTLY
    At night; every night.
  • MIDDLE
    1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
  • NIGHTMAN
    One whose business is emptying privies by night.
  • TWELVEPENNY
    , Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.
  • MIDNIGHT SUN
    The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer.
  • TWELVEMO
    See DUODECIMO
  • TONGUELET
    A little tongue.
  • TONGUE-SHELL
    Any species of Lingula.
  • CLOCKLIKE
    Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. Their services are clocklike, to be set Blackward and vorward at their lord's command. B. Jonson.
  • NIGHTLONG
    Lasting all night.
  • CLOCKWISE
    Like the motion of the hands of a clock; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative.
  • CLOCKWORK
    The machinery of a clock, or machinary resembling that of a clock; machinery which produced regularity of movement.
  • 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
  • MIDDLE-GROUND
    That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
  • NIGHTLESS
    Having no night.
  • TONGUESTER
    One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
  • MIDDLE-EARTH
    The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
  • NIGHTTIME
    The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to Ant: daytime.
  • MIDDLEMAN
    The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts,
  • KNIGHTLESS
    Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
  • ALLNIGHT
    Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon.
  • SERPENT-TONGUED
    Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
  • UNKNIGHT
    To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
  • WATER CLOCK
    An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
  • 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,
  • HONEY-TONGUED
    Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
  • SHRILL-TONGUED
    Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
  • 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
  • ADDER'S-TONGUE
    A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.

 

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