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properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.

who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton.

A token or badge of knightly rank.

, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl.

encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt. Bemired and benighted in the dog. Burke.

A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.) "The night of her bespeak." Dickens.

e; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun. [Obs.] How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colors, and not ourselves be seen Shak.

than one of 90º. -- Bevel wheel, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis. Knight.

A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle. Knight.

A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth. Knight.

A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head. An old woman's biggin for a nightcap. Massinger.

A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap. Knight.

box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night. Totten.

The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers. Knight.

A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.

Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly. -- n.

opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. O night, with hue so black! Shak.

t Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air. A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, and ferules, and the black hole. H. Spencer.

A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.