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Webster 1913 Edition


Midnight

Mid′nightˊ

,
Noun.
[AS.
midniht
.]
The middle of the night; twelve o’clock at night.
The iron tongue of
midnight
hath told twelve.
Shakespeare

Mid′nightˊ

,
Adj.
Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night;
as,
midnight
studies;
midnight
gloom.
“Midnight shout and revelry.”
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Midnight

MID'NIGHT

,
Noun.
The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.

MID'NIGHT

,
Adj.
Being in the middle of the night; as midnight studies.
1.
Dark as midnight; very dark; as midnight gloom.