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.