| 释义 |
middle night Obs. exc. dial.
= midnight.
Beowulf 2782 Liᵹeᵹesan wæᵹ hatne for horde, hioroweallende middelnihtum. c1205Lay. 20607 Hit was to þere middel-niht. a1300K. Horn 1391 Þat schup gan ariue, Abute middelniȝte. 1893Stevenson Catriona xxi. 253 When my father and my uncles lay in the hill, and I was to be carrying them their meat in the middle night. |