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| all-nighter |
a night spent without sleeping, esp. in order to work on something. |
| Angelus |
(often l.c.) a prayer recited by some Roman Catholics at morning, noon, and night in memory of the Annunciation. [1/2 definitions] |
| Aurora |
(l.c.) bands or streamers of light that appear in the sky at night in areas around the magnetic poles, caused by solar particles striking atoms in the outer part of the earth's atmosphere. (See aurora australis, aurora borealis.) [1/3 definitions] |
| bat2 |
any of various usu. night-flying mammals that have wings that are covered with membranes, and that sense objects mostly by means of reflected sound waves rather than by vision. |
| bed-wetting |
urinating in bed, esp. at night; enuresis. |
| benighted |
overtaken by nightfall; enclosed in the darkness of night. [1/2 definitions] |
| black |
of or pertaining to the color black, the color of the night sky. [1/13 definitions] |
| Boston Tea Party |
a protest by colonial Americans against the British tax on imported tea in which colonists disguised as Indians boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped several hundred chests of tea overboard on the night of December 16, 1773. |
| brownie |
a small, mythical fairy, esp. one who secretly does household work at night. [1/3 definitions] |
| buenas noches |
(Spanish) good night. |
| club |
an establishment that is open late at night and provides food, drink, and usu. entertainment; nightclub. [1/7 definitions] |
| curfew |
a rule or law that establishes a time after which everyone, or everyone of a particular class or group, must be off the street and inside for the night. [1/2 definitions] |
| cutworm |
a caterpillar that feeds by night on a wide variety of plants, characteristically cutting through the plant stems at ground level. |
| dark |
night. [1/7 definitions] |
| dash light |
a light used to illuminate the instrument panel of a motor vehicle, esp. at night. |
| dew |
water droplets that collect, usu. at night, on cool surfaces. [1/3 definitions] |
| dim-out |
the dimming or restricted use of light at night, as in a city or on a ship in order to be less visible to enemy aircraft. |
| dusk |
the time of day just before night; last moments of twilight. |
| equinox |
either of the two times during the year when the sun crosses the earth's equator so that day and night are of equal duration worldwide, occurring in March and September. |
| evening |
of, pertaining to, or occurring in the early hours of night. [1/4 definitions] |
| firefly |
any of a number of beetles whose abdomens emit a flashing light at night. |
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