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On this present or coming night.

The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches.

To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.

Almost; nearly. Chaucer.

The last night; the night last past.

To bear; to behave. [Obs.] So did the faery knight himself abear. Spenser.

In bed, or on the bed. Not to be abed after midnight. Shak.

A lady's waiting-maid. Pepys. Her abigail reported that Mrs. Gutheridge had a set of night curls for sleeping in. Leslie.

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

plete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish. The armorers accomplishing the knights. Shak. It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. Wilkins. These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. Cowden Clarke.

An apparatus for hastening acetification. Knight.

receipts: not, in financial language, "actuals," but only Egyptian budget estimates. Fortnightly Review.

To aim; to direct. [Obs.] Chaucer. And this good knight his way with me addrest. Spenser.

To favor; to grace. [Obs.] "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.

To dress; to attire; to adorn. [Obs.] Above all knights ye goodly seem aguised. Spenser.

A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.

A railway brake operated by condensed air. Knight.

A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill. Knight.

An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight.

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak.