NIGHT. 
NI'GHT-CAP, f. A cap worn in bed, or in undrefs.—• 
The rabblement houted, and clapt their chopt hands, and 
threw up their fweaty night-caps. Shakefpeare's Jul. Ccef .— 
Great mountains have a perception of the difpofition of 
the air to tempefts fooner than the vallies below; and 
therefore they fay in Wales, when certain hills have their 
night-caps on, they mean mifchief. Bacon's Nat. Hift. 
How did the humbled Twain deteft 
His prickly beard and hairy bread ! 
His night-cap border’d round with lace 
Could give no foftnefs to his face. Swift. 
NI'GHT-CROW, f. A bird that cries in the night: 
The owl (hriek’d at thy birth, an evil fign ; 
The night-crow cry’d, a boding lucklefs time. Shahefpeare. 
NI'GHT-DEW, f. Dew that wets the ground in the 
night: 
All things are hulh’d, as Nature’s felf lay dead, 
The mountains feem to nod their drowfy head ; 
The little birds in dreams their fongs repeat, 
And fleeping flowers beneath the night-dew fweat; 
E’en lufl and envy deep. Dry den's Ind. Bmp. 
NI'GHT-DOG, f. A dog that hunts in the night; 
ufed by deer-dealers.—When night-dogs run, all forts of 
deer are chafed. Shahefpeare. 
NI'GHT-DRESS, f. The drefs worn at night: 
The fair ones feel fuch maladies as thefe, 
When each new night-drefs gives a new difeafe. Pope. 
NI'GHT-FARING, f. Travelling in the night: 
Will-a-Wifp mifleads niglit-faring clowns. 
O’er hills, and finking bogs, and pathlefs downs. Gay. 
NI'GHT-FIRE, f. Ignis fatuus; Will-a-Wifp: 
Foolifh night-fires, women’s and children’s wilhes, 
Chafes in arras, gilded emptinefs : 
Thefe are the pleafures here. Herbert. 
NI'GHT-FLY, f Moth that flies in the night: 
Why rather, deep, ly’ft thou in fmoaky cribs, 
And huflit with buzzing night-flies to thy dumber, 
Than in the perfum’d chambers of the great, 
And lull’d with founds of fweetefl melody ? Shahefpeare. 
NI'GHT-FOUNDERED, adj. Lod or diftrefled in the 
night: 
Either feme one like us night-foundered here, 
Or elfie fome neighbour woodman, or at word, 
Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Milton' sComus. 
NI'GHT-GOWN, /! A loofe gown ufed for an undrefs. 
—They have put me in a filk nightgown, and a gaudy fool’s 
cap. Addifon's Guardian. 
To meagre mufe-rid mope, adud and thin, 
In a dun night-gown of his own loofe lkin. Pope. 
NI'GHT-HAG, J'. Witch, fuppofed to wander in the 
night: 
Nor uglier follows the night-hag, when, call’d 
In fecret, riding through the air die comes, 
.Lur’d with the lmell of infant-blood, to dance 
With Lapland witches. Milton's P. L. 
NI'GHT-HAWK, f. A name fometimes given to the 
Caprimulgus, or goat-fucker. 
NIGHT-MAGISTRATE, f. A condable of the 
night; the head of the watch-houfe. Scott. 
NFGHT-MAN, f. One who carries away ordure in the 
night. 
NI'GHT-MARE, f. [plight, and, according to Tem¬ 
ple, mara, a fpirit that, in the northern mythology, was 
related to torment or fudocate lleepers. Su. Goth, mara, 
a fpeftre of the night; macre. Germ, one of the fates; 
from marren, to didurb. Sereni/es.] A morbid oppreflion 
in the night, refembling the preffure or weight upon the 
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bread.—.The forerunners of an apoplexy are, dulnefs, 
drowfinefs, vertigoes, tremblings, oppreflions in fleep, and 
night-mares. Abut knot on AJiments. 
Saint Withold footed thrice the would, 
He met the night-mare, and her name he told; 
Bid her alight, and her troth plight. Shahefpeare. 
NI'GHT-PIECE, f. A picture fo coloured as to be 
fuppofed feen by candle-light; not by the light of the 
day.—He hung a great part of the wall with night-pieces, 
that feemed to Ihow themfel ves by the candles which were 
lighted up ; and were fo inflamed by the fun-fliine which 
fell upon them, that I could fcarce forbear crying out fire. 
Addifon. 
NFGHT-RAIL, f [night, and rejl, Sax. a gown or 
robe.] A loofe cover thrown over the drefs at night.—An 
antiquary will fcorn to mention a pinner or night-rail; 
but will talk as gravely as a father of the church on the 
vitta and peplus. Addifon on Medals. 
To furvey 
Embroider’d petticoats; and, ficknefs feign’d. 
That your night-rails of forty pounds a-piece 
Might be feen with envy of the vifltants. Mafinger. 
NIGHT-RA'VEN, f. A bird fuppofed of ill omen, that 
cries loud in the night.—There be a fort of birds that fly 
only in the night, called from thence night-birds and 
slight-ravens, which are afraid of light, as an enemy to fpy, 
to a (fault, or betray, them. Hammond, iv. 658. 
NI'GHT-REST, f. Repofe of the night.—Domeflick 
awe, night-reft , and neighbourhood. Shakefpeare's Tim. of 
Athens. 
NI'GHT-ROBBER, f. One who deals in the dark.— 
Highways (hould be fenced on both (ides, whereby thieves 
and night-robbers might be more eafily purfued and en¬ 
countered. Spenfer on Ireland. 
NFGHT-RULE, J\ [night, and rule, fuppofed to be a 
corruption of revel, formerly written reuel.] A frolic of 
the night: 
How now, mad-fpirit ? 
What night-rule now about this haunted grove ? Shalufp. 
NI'GHT-SHADE, f. The darknefs of the night. Not 
in ufe. —Through the darke night-Jhade herfelfe (he drew 
from fight. Phcer's Tv. of Virgil, 1562. 
NFGHT-SHINING, adj. Showing brightnefs in the 
night.—None of thefe nodtiluca, or night-Jhining bodies, 
have been obferved in any of the antient fepulchres. 
Wilkins's Dccdalws. 
NI'GHT-SHRIEK, f. A cry in the night: 
I have aim oil forgot the tafte of fears : 
The time has been, my fenfes would have cool'd**** 
To hear a night-Jhriek ; and my fell of hair 
Would at a difmal treatife roufe and ftir, 
As life were in’t. Shakefpeare's Macbeth. 
NI'GHT-SPELL, f. A charm againft the accidents cf 
the night.—Spell is a kind of verfe or charme, that in 
elder times they ufed often to fay over every thing that 
they would have preferved ; as the nigkt-fpell for thieves, 
and the wood-fpell. E. K. on Spenfer's Shep. Cal. 
I crouch thee from elves, and from whites: 
Therewith the nigkt-Jpel faid he anon rightes. Chaucer. 
NIGHT-TRIPPING, adj. Going lightly in the night: 
Could it be prov’d, 
That fome night-tripping fairy had exchang’d. 
In cradle clothes, our children where they lay, 
Then would I have his Harry, and he mine. SJiakeJpeare , 
NI'GHT-VISION, f. A vilion of the night.—Then 
was the fecret revealed unto Daniel in a night-vifion . 
Dan. ii. 19. 
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