nightwalker (nitwa"ker)

walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.-2. One who roves about in the night for evil purposes; a nocturnal vagrant. Men that hunt so be either ignorant per sones, preuie stealers, or night walkers. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 63. Night - walkers are such persons as sleep by day and walk by night, being oftentimes pilferers or disturbers of the peace. Jacob , Law Dictionary. ( Latham .) 3. A prostitute who walks the streets at night. night-walking (nīt'wa"king), n. 1. Walking in one's sleep; somnambulism.-2. A roving in the streets at night with evil designs. night-walking (nīt' waking), a . Walking about at night. Night - walking heralds. Shak., Rich. III., i. 1. 72. They shall not need hereafter in old Cloaks, and false Beards, to stand to the courtesy of a night - walking cudgeller for eavesdropping. Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst. night-wanderer (nīt'wonder-er), n. One who wanders by night; a nocturnal traveler. Or stonish'd as night - wanderers often are, Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood. Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 825. Wan- night-wandering (nīt'wonder-ing), a . dering or roaming by night. Night-wandering weasels shriek to see him there; They fright him, yet he still pursues his fear. IMG:content-1386.png:[blocks in formation] in dyeing, prepared from the hydro chlorid of viol aniline. This product is variously modified in the proce of manufacture: several shades, varying from blue through bluish-gray to gray-violet to black (the last being called nigrosine ), are produced. Other names for the various other shades are viol aniline , Elberfeld blue , night-watch (nīt'woch), n. [ bengaline , aniline gray , Coupier's blue , etc. niht , night, + wæcce , a watch: see watch . Cf. night-wake.] 1. A watch or period in the night. Nightwacche for to wake, waites to blow; Tore fyres in the tenttes, tendlis olofte. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1, 7352. A critic, nay, a night - watch constable. night-watcher (nit (nit' woch"ėr), n. One who watches in the night, especially with evil de- signs. night-watchman (nit'woch"man), n. One who acts as a watchman during during the night. night-witch (nit'wich), n. A night-hag; awitch that appears in the night. night-work (nīt'werk), rk), n. n. Work done at night. nighty (ni'ti), a. [ night ight + -y1.] Of or pertain- ing to night. Davies. We keep thee midpath with darckne e night ye beueyled. Stan i hurst , Æneid, ii. 369. night-yard (nīt'yärd), n. A place where the contents of ce pools, night-soil, etc., collected during the night, are deposited; a night-shoot. nigont, n. [ME., also nygon , nigoun , neg on, negyn; -on , a F. termination.] A niggard; a miser. IMG:content-1387.jpg:[blocks in formation] by the Government, and was applied indiscriminately by them, as an opprobrious and discrediting nickname, to all persons who were not satisfied with the existing order of things, and who sought, by any active method whatever, to bring about changes in Ru ian social and political organization. The Century , XXXV. 51. nihilistic (ni-hi-lis'tik), a. [ nihi- listic views. nihil (ni'hil), n. [ nihil , contr. nil , also nihilum , contr. nilum , nothing, ne , not, + hilum , a little thing, a trifle. Cf. nichil , nil2.] Nothing. Clerk of the nihils. See clerk .-Nihil (or nil) ad rem, nothing to the point or purpose. - Nihil albumt, the flowers or white oxid of zinc.-Nihil capi at per breve (that he take nothing by his writ), a common-law judgment against a plaintiff. - Nihil (or nil) debet (he dicit (he says nothing), a common-law judgment when de- owes nothing), a plea denying a debt. - Nihil (or nil) fendant makes no answer. - Nihil habu it in tenement is (he had nothing in the tenement or holding), a plea in an action of debt brought by a le or against a le ee for years, or at will without deed. nihil i an ism (ni-hil'yan-izm), n. [ nihilian ( nihilism (ni'hil-izm), n. [= F. nihil is me = Sp. nihilismo ; as L. nihil , nothing, + -ism.] 1. In metaph ., the doctrine that nothing can really be known, because nothing exists; the denial of all real existence, and consequently of all knowledge of existences or real things. Nihilism is scepticism carried to the denial of all exis tence. Fleming , Vocab. Philos. 2. In theol . , same as nihil i an ism .-3. Total dis- belief in religion, morality, law, and order. Nihilism arrives sooner or later. God is nothing; man is nothing; life is nothing; death is nothing; eternity is nothing. J. F. Clarke, Ten Great Religions, viii. 4. 4. ( a ) Originally, a social (not a political) move- ment in Ru ia, in opposition to the customary forms of matrimony, the parental authority, and the tyranny of custom. In this sense the word was introduced by Turgeneff in 1862. See nihilist, 3. (b) Later, a more or le organ- ized secret effort on the part of a large body of malcontents to overturn the established or- der of things, both social and political. Nihilism comprises several Ru ian parties, differing in the means of action employed and in the immediate results aimed at, some leaning more toward political radicalism and vio- lence, and others toward economic reorganization and socialism. The movement originated about 1840, and is due largely to the influence of the universities. About magazine "Contemporary." About 1870 revolutionary ideas became the subject of a propaganda among workmen, peasants, and students. The adherents of this movement formed a "people's party" ("Land and Freedom"), purpos- ing the complete overthrow of the existing order of things der in its stead. Under the influence of Bakunin (died 1876) and the persecution of peaceful propagandists by the government, the people's party divided into two factions, the "democratization of land" and the "will of the peo- IMG:content-1388.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1389.jpg:[merged small][merged small][merged small][graphic] victory, called by the Romans Victoria . She was regularly represented in ancient art as a winged maiden, usually as just alighting from flight, her most frequent at- tributes being a palm-branch in one hand and a garland in the other, or a fillet outstretched in both hands; some- times she holds a herald's staff. nill, v. and n. See nill1 . nil2' (nil), n. [L., contracted form of nihil , nothing: see nihil .] Nothing. - Nil method. Same as null method (which see, under method ). nil desperandum (nil des-pe-ran'dum). [L.: nil , contr. of nihil , nothing (see nihil ); despe- randum, gerundive of des per are , despair: see despair .] Nothing is to be despaired of-that is, never despair, or never give up. nil faciend (nil'fa-shiend), n. [L. L. nil , nothing, + faciend us , gerundive of facere , make: see fact .] In math ., a faciend giving a product hilista = Ru . niiilistů ; as L. nihil , nothing, + zero. -ist.] 1. One who believes in nothing; one who advocates the metaphysical doctrine of nihil- 2. One who rejects all the positive beliefs upon which existing society and governments are founded; one who demands the abolition of the existing social and political order of things. "A nihilist , " said Nicholas Petrovitch,... "signifies a man who... recognizes nothing?" "Or rather who re- looks at everything from a critical point of view," said Arcadi. "Does not that come to the same thing?" asked his uncle. "No, not at all; a nihilist is a man who bows before no authority, who accepts no principle without ex- am in at i on, no matter what credit the principle has." Turgenieff, Fathers and Sons (tr. by Schuyler), v. Specifically-3. An adherent of nihilism; a member of a Ru ian secret society which aims at the overthrow of the existing order of things, social, political, and religious; a Rus- sian anarchist or revolutionary reformer. See nihilism , 4. describe a certain type of character... which he con- trasted sharply and effectively with the prevailing types in the generation which was pa ing from the stage. The word was soon caught up by the conservatives and IMG:content-1390.jpg:[graphic][merged small] nilgau short little-curved horns, a blackish mane, and a bunch of hair on the throat.