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Noctiferous :: Noctiferous (a.) Bringing night.

Wait :: Wait (v. i.) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen..

Approach :: Approach (v. i.) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer..

Templar :: Templar (n.) A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars. See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under Temple..

Mare :: Mare (n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare..

Off :: Off (a.) On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg..

Spur :: Spur (n.) An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood..

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

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.

Day :: Day (n.) The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine..

Diurnal :: Diurnal (a.) Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves..

Varlet :: Varlet (n.) A servant, especially to a knight; an attendant; a valet; a footman..

Crosspiece :: Crosspiece (n.) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.

Yestreen :: Yestreen (n.) Yester-evening; yesternight; last night.

Rancho :: Rancho (n.) A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night..

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..

Lucubrate :: Lucubrate (v. t.) To elaborate, perfect, or compose, by night study or by laborious endeavor..

Benight :: Benight (v. t.) To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.

Bivouac :: Bivouac (n.) An encampment for the night without tents or covering.

Squawl :: Squawk (n.) The American night heron. See under Night.

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