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A depression round the eye of a millstone. Knight.

l holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to postmen, errand boys, employees, etc. The night of this day is boxing night. [Eng.]

Good; fine. "A braw night." Sir W. Scott.

forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn. The day begins to break, and night is fied. Shak. And from the turf a fountain broke, and gurgled at our feet. Wordswoorth.

promotion of respiration. Here is a lady that wants breathing too; And I have heard, you knights of Tyre Are excellent in making ladies trip. Shak.

very produced a breeze. [Colloq.] Land breeze, a wind blowing from the land, generally at night. -- Sea breeze, a breeze or wind blowing, generally in the daytime, from the sea.

The principal ward of a key. Knight.

The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle. Knight.

The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill. Knight.

ore bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful. And night shall brighten into day. N. Cotton. And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere world be past. Goldsmith.

radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches. Knight.

A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.

The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. Knight.

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. Knight.

roken. G. Eliot. The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. Goldsmith.

-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [Scot.]

A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes. Knight.

To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound. At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not. Tennyson.

A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. Knight.

The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidæ. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera. [Written also buhlbuhl.]