Word Meanings - NYCTHEMERON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The natural day and night, or space of twenty-four hours.

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• NIGHT-FARING
  Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
• NIGHTLY
  At night; every night.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• NIGHTMAN
  One whose business is emptying privies by night.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• 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
• NIGHTLONG
  Lasting all night.
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• 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.
• HOURS
  Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day. Lo! where the rosy-blosomed Hours, Fair Venus' train, appear. Gray.
• NIGHTTIME
  The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to Ant: daytime.
• NATURALNESS
  The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
• NIGHT-BLOOMING
  Blooming in the night. Night-blooming cereus. See Note under Cereus.
• NIGHTISH
  Of or pertaining to night.
• NATURALISM
  The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting
• NATURALLY
  In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.
• 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.,
• TWENTY
  1. The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score. 2. A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx.
• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• ALLNIGHT
  Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• 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.
• NATURALIZE
  1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of