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Tineman :: Tineman (n.) An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night.

Philomel :: Philomel (n.) Same as Philomela, the nightingale..

Knight Templar :: Knight Templar () See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3..

Bivouac :: Bivouac (v. i.) To encamp for the night without tents or covering.

Night :: Night (n.) The period after the close of life; death.

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night..

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..

Donship :: Donship (n.) The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight..

Companion :: Companion (n.) A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath..

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..

Ignis Fatuus :: Ignis fatuus () A phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal or vegetable substances, or by some inflammable gas; -- popularly called also Will-with-the-wisp, or Will-o'-the-wisp, and Jack-with-a-lantern, or Jack-o'-lantern..

Hospitaler :: Hospitaler (n.) One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims, A. D. 1042. They were called Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and after the removal of the order to Malta, Knights of Malta..

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..

Howler :: Howler (n.) Any South American monkey of the genus Mycetes. Many species are known. They are arboreal in their habits, and are noted for the loud, discordant howling in which they indulge at night..

Chess :: Chess (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns..

Knight :: Knight (n.) A champion; a partisan; a lover.

Morne :: Morne (n.) The first or early part of the day, variously understood as the earliest hours of light, the time near sunrise; the time from midnight to noon, from rising to noon, etc..

Templar :: Templar (n.) One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars..

Scup :: Scup (n.) A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or S. argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug..

Nightcap :: Nightcap (n.) A potion of spirit drank at bedtime.

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