Word Meanings - MOONSHINY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Moonlight. I went to see them in a moonshiny night. Addison.

Related words: (words related to MOONSHINY)

• 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.
• MOONSHINY
  Moonlight. I went to see them in a moonshiny night. Addison.
• 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.,
• 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.
• ADDISON'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not
• 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
• MOONLIGHTER
  moonlight; as: A moonshiner. In Ireland, one of a band that engaged in agrarian outrages by night. A serenader by moonlight.
• NIGHTFALL
  The close of the day. Swift.
• 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.
• 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.