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Nyctitropic :: Nyctitropic (a.) Turning or bending at night into special positions.

Bachelor :: Bachelor (n.) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight..

Nightjar :: Nightjar (n.) A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker..

Knight-errantry :: Knight-errantry (n.) The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.

Perioecians :: Perioecians (n. pl.) Those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians, so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other. Compare Antoeci..

Water Bug :: Water bug () Any one of numerous species of large, rapacious, aquatic, hemipterous insects belonging to Belostoma, Benacus, Zaitha, and other genera of the family Belostomatidae. Their hind legs are long and fringed, and act like oars. Some of these insects are of great size, being among the largest existing Hemiptera. Many of them come out of the water and fly about at night..

Custrel :: Custrel (n.) An armor-bearer to a knight.

Atropine :: Atropine (n.) A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine..

Joust :: Joust (v. i.) A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.

Knighthead :: Knighthead (n.) A bollard timber. See under Bollard.

Anights :: Anights (adv.) In the night time; at night.

Lullaby :: lullaby (v. t.) Hence: Good night; good-by.

Late :: Late (v.) Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher..

Equites :: Equites (n. pl) An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.

Nicker :: Nicker (v. t.) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.

Arc :: Arc (n.) The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night..

Knights Bachelors :: Knights bachelors (pl. ) of Knight bachelo.

Season :: Season (n.) One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy..

Nightly :: Nightly (adv.) At night; every night.

Knight :: Knight (n.) A young servant or follower; a military attendant.

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