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f transferring impressions of the grain of wood to metallic surfaces by chemical action. Knight.

To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. [Obs.] "I mette of him all night." Chaucer.

An instrument for measuring the size of the womb. Knight.

Occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger; the mid hour of night.

Middle; middlemost. Ere night's midmost, stillest hour was past. Byron.

itary persons under a bond of certain peculiar rules; especially, such an association of knights in the Middle Ages, or a body in modern times taking a similar form, membership of which confers some distinction. -- Military tenure, tenure of land, on condition of performing military service.

A kind of large earth auger. Knight.

chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter! To be her mistress' mistress! Shak.

, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. -- Mock lead. See Blende (a). -- Mock nightingale (Zoöl.), the European blackcap. -- Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. P. coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American ki…

t, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month. The crescent moon, the diadem of night. Cowper.…

A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.

In Ireland, one of a band that engaged in agrarian outrages by night.

A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night. [Cant, U.S.]

Moonlight. [Colloq.] I went to see them in a moonshiny night. Addison.

Nightshade; -- so called from its blackish purple berries. [Written also morelle.]

Nightshade. See 2d Morel.

iously understood as the earliest hours of light, the time near sunrise; the time from midnight to noon, from rising to noon, etc.

ay; the day subsequent to any day specified or understood. Lev. vii. 16. Till this stormy night is gone, And the eternal morrow dawn. Crashaw.

To utter in a mournful manner or voice. The lovelorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. Milton.

he rolls only once. -- Muck iron, crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers. Knight.