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(b) Intellectual and moral darkness;
ignorance. (c) A state of affliction;
adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.
(d) The period after the close of life;
death.

She closed her eyes in everlasting
night.

(e) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when
nature seems to sleep. "Sad winter's night".
Spenser.

&fist; Night is sometimes used, esp. with participles, in
the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, night-
blooming, night-born, night-warbling, etc.

Night by night, Night after
night, nightly; many nights.

So help me God, as I have watched the night,

Ay, night by night, in studying good for England.

-- Night bird. (Zoöl.)
(a) The moor hen (Gallinula
chloropus). (b) The Manx shearwater
(Puffinus Anglorum). -- Night
blindness.


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