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mark, bearing figures of cross and crown. Order of Dannebrog, an ancient Danish order of knighthood.

ntury used to be reckoned by mediæval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night. Hallam.

applications. Addison. The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night. Tennyson.

currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing. Knight.

The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.

The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

rs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare. Dunglison.

The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.

hip's cargo. (c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live weight being the load. Knight. -- Dead wind (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship's course. -- To be dead, to die. [Obs.] I deme thee, thou must algate be dead. Chaucer.

t can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key. Knight.

Subject to death; mortal. [Obs.] The image of a deadly man. Wyclif (Rom. i. 23). Deadly nightshade (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under Nightshade.

d to the hungry Is. lviii. 7. And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold. Tickell. The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. Gay. Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt. Dryden.

s supposed to forebode death. And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. Coleridge. -- Death grapple, a grapple or struggle for life. -- Death in life, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. [Poetic] "Lay lingering out a five years' death in life." Tennyson. -- Death knell,…

The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). Dr. Prior.

An act or occasion of debauchery. Silenus, from his night's debauch, Fatigued and sick. Cowley.

To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly. Macaulay.

ny mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. Decoration Day, a day, May 30, appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors, who fell in the Civil War in t…

Illustrious act; achievement; exploit. "Knightly deeds." Spenser. Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn. Dryden.

le; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss. Thy judgments are a great. Ps. xxxvi. 6. Deep of night, the most quiet or profound part of night; dead of night. The deep of night is crept upon our talk. Shak.

; to accuse. [R.] Rebecca is . . . defamed of sorcery practiced on the person of a noble knight. Sir W. Scott.