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▪ I. ˈnight-walking, vbl. n.
[f. night n. + walking vbl. n.]
The action or fact of walking or going about by night; an instance of this. Also, sleep-walking.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 400 Certayne persones yt thyder were commytted by Sir Iohn Bryton, then custos or gardeyn of the cytie, for nyght walkynges. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. x. ix. (1886) 149 Witches night walkings are but phantasies and dreames. 1618Dalton Countr. Just. (1630) 66 Such night-walkings are unfit for honest men, and more suiting to the theefe. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. vii. 118 After hard meates, it [sleep] increaseth fearefull dreames, Incubus, night-walking. 1943A. M. Maynard in D. Ibberson Our Towns 135 Look for signs of bitten finger-nails, night walking or excitability.
▪ II. ˈnight-walking, ppl. a.
[Cf. prec.]
That walks by night.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. i. 72 There is no man secure But the Queenes kindred, and night-walking Heralds. 1641Milton Animadv. Wks. 1851 III. 191 To stand to the courtesy of a night-walking cudgeller. 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 959 Those night-walking Butterflies batter with their wings and destroy those that fly by day. 1709Rambl. Fuddle-Caps 8 To pleasure each Sot, like a Night-walking Lady. 1822W. Irving Bracebr. Hall (1890) 384 This night-walking old fellow of the Haunted House. |