Word Meanings - NIGHTWARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Approaching toward night.
Related words: (words related to NIGHTWARD)
- NIGHT-FARING
Going or traveling in the night. Gay. - NIGHTLY
At night; every night. - NIGHTMAN
One whose business is emptying privies by night. - TOWARD; TOWARDS
1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil - TOWARDS
See TOWARD - TOWARDNESS
Quality or state of being toward. - NIGHTLONG
Lasting all night. - 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. - APPROACHABLENESS
The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility. - NIGHTTIME
The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to Ant: daytime. - NIGHT-BLOOMING
Blooming in the night. Night-blooming cereus. See Note under Cereus. - NIGHTISH
Of or pertaining to night. - TOWARDLY
See DRYDEN - APPROACHLESS
Impossible to be approached. - 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., - NIGHTDRESS
A nightgown. - TOWARDLINESS
The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh. - NIGHTWARD
Approaching toward night. - KNIGHTLESS
Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser. - ALLNIGHT
Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon. - UNKNIGHT
To deprive of knighthood. Fuller. - 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. - FORTNIGHTLY
Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication. -- adv. - KNIGHT BACHELOR
A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.