night shoot

A place for dumping night-soil. night-flier, night-flyer, subst. A bird or insect ( Eng.) 2. Fig .: A state or time of darkne , depre ion, sadne , misfortune, or obscurity; as, (1) A state or time of ignorance; intellectual darkne . (2) A state of obscurity; unintelligibility. "Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night, God said, 'Let Newton be,' and all was light." Pope : Epitaph on Sir I. Newton. IMG:content-0050.png:[blocks in formation] "Mr. Jorrocks celebrated the event with night - cap of his usual beverage." -Handley Cro , ch. xxiv. night-cart, s. A cart employed to remove night soil (q. v.). *night-cat, s. (See extract.) "The prisoners were charged with having instruments called night - cats , for impeding the action of cavalry in the streets."- Ma ey : Hist . Eng . , iii. 381. night-chair, 8. [NIGHT-STOOL.] night-charm, subst. The same as NIGHT-SPELL (q. v.).