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Nightgown :: Nightgown (n.) A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garnment..

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

Fortnight :: Fortnight (n.) The space of fourteen days; two weeks.

Yesternight :: Yesternight (n.) The last night; the night last past.

Talliage :: Talliage (n.) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses..

Caravansary :: Caravansary (n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court..

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services..

Grope :: Grope (v. t.) To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight..

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..

Arctic :: Arctic (a.) Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature..

Dominus :: Dominus (n.) Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor..

Recur :: Recur (v. i.) To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night..

Nigh :: Nigh (a.) In a situation near in place or time, or in the course of events; near..

Knight Bachelor :: 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..

Bachelry :: Bachelry (n.) The body of young aspirants for knighthood.

Jack :: "Jack (v. i.) To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n..

Lucubration :: Lucubration (n.) That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition.

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..

Potato :: Potato (n.) A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico..

Noctuary :: Noctuary (n.) A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal; -- distinguished from diary.

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