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rtaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night; as, nightly shades; he kept nightly vigils.

Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication. -- adv.

Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit. For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit. Spenser. [Excuses] full knightly without scorn. Tennyson.

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

A token or badge of knightly rank.

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

Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous.

r to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day. [Eng.]

A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste. When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl. Shak.

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.

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

delights the ear. Inventions to delight the taste. Shak. Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds. Tennyson.

To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine. The knightly forms of combat to dispose. Dryden.

moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc. "Desire of knightly exercise." Spenser. An exercise of the eyes and memory. Locke.

To make the peculiar cry of an owl. The clamorous owl that nightly hoots. Shak.

rses at livery, the which word, I guess, is derived of livering or delivering forth their nightly food. Spenser. It need hardly be observed that the explanation of livery which Spenser offers is perfectly correct, but . . . it is no longer applied to the ration or stated portion of food delivered at stated periods. Tre…

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

A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal; -- distinguished from diary. [R.] Addison.

By night; nightly.

To go round, as a guard. [Poetic] They . . . nightly rounding walk. Milton.