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An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour. Knight.

An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part. Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. Acts xxvi. 28. Almost never, scarcely ever. -- Almost nothing, scarcely anything.

y turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight.

A theodolite. Knight.

An instrument for measuring distances; -- called also perambulator. Knight.

The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.

An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind. Knight.

An anemograph. Knight.

A messenger. [R.] The dear good angel of the Spring, The nightingale. B. Jonson.

) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron. -- Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. -- Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an interio…

d my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell. This proud king . . . studies day and night To answer all the debts he owes unto you. Shak.

Good against nightmare. -- n.

An antimask. [Obs. or R.] Performed by knights and ladies of his court In nature of an antic. Ford.

An instrument for measuring the height of objects. Knight.

alth by application to study. Had his application been equal to his talents, his progress night have been greater. J. Jay.

To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city 2 Sam. xi. 20. But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25.

A drawing nigh; approach. [R.] Bp. Hall.