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Benightment :: Benightment (n.) The condition of being benighted.

Nightingale :: Nightingale (n.) A larger species (Lucinia philomela), of Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied species..

Nye :: Nye (a. & adv.) Nigh.

Run :: Run (n.) Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights..

Knight-errants :: Knight-errants (pl. ) of Knight-erran.

Mid :: Mid (superl.) Occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger; the mid hour of night..

Philomela :: Philomela (n.) A genus of birds including the nightingales.

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night..

Sevennight :: Sevennight (n.) A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.

Cacodemon :: Cacodemon (n.) The nightmare.

Run :: Run (a.) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months..

Dub :: Dub (v. t.) To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight..

Knighted :: Knighted (imp. & p. p.) of Knigh.

Nightman :: Nightman (n.) One whose business is emptying privies by night.

Anigh :: Anigh (prep. & adv.) Nigh.

Puck :: Puck (n.) A celebrated fairy, the merry wanderer of the night; -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc..

Hyoscyamus :: Hyoscyamus (n.) A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade family; henbane.

Equinoctial :: Equinoctial (a.) Pertaining to an equinox, or the equinoxes, or to the time of equal day and night; as, the equinoctial line..

Knights Bannerets :: Knights bannerets (pl. ) of Knight bannere.

Escuage :: Escuage (n.) Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage..

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