night parrot (nitpar"ot)

The kakapo or 3993 I pray God his bad voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the night - raven , come what plague could have come after it. Shak ., Much Ado, ii. 3. 84. night-robe (nīt'rōb), n . A nightgown. All in her night - robe loose she lay reclined, And, pensive, read from tablet eburnine Some strain that seemed her inmost soul to find. Scott , L. of L. M., vi. 19. Ther-with the nyghtspel seyde he anonrightes, On foure halves of the hous aboute, And on the thre hfold of the dore with-oute. Chaucer, Miller's Tale (ed. Gilman, 1. 3480 of C. T.). Spell is a kinde of verse or char me that in elder tymes they used often to say over everything that they would have preserved, as the Nights pel for the eves, and the wood-spell. Spenser, Shep. Cal., March (Glo e). or frolic in the night. How now, mad spirit! What night - rule now about this haunted grove? Shak., M. N. D., iii. 2. 5. nights (nīts), adv. [ Piers Plowman (B), xi. 30. "So thievish they hev to take in their stone walls nights ." And, by the way, the Yankee never says "o' nights," but uses the older adverbial form, analogous to the German nachts. Lowell , Biglow Papers, 2d ser., Int. night-school (nīt'sköl), n. A school which is held at night, especially for those who cannot attend a day-school. night-season (nīt'sē"zn), n. The time of night. nightshade (nit's had), w. [ nightshade , nihtscada (= D. nachtschade = MLG. nachtschaden, nacht scheden OHG. naht naht scato, MHG. schate, G. nachtschatten), nightshade (a plant), Woody Nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara ). IMG:content-1382.png:[blocks in formation] night-swallow (nit's wol"ō), n. The night-jar or goatsucker, Caprimulgus europæus : so called from its nocturnal habits and its mode of flight in catching insects on the wing. night-sweat (nīt's wet), n. Profuse sweating at night, as in phthisis. night-taper (nīt tā"per), n. A taper made to burn slowly, for use as a night-light. The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees, And for night - tapers crop their waxen thighs And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes. Shak., M. N. D., iii. 1. 172. night-terrors (nīt'ter" orz), n. pl. Sudden and incomplete waking from sleep (on the part of young children) in a state of confusion and terror.