| 单词 | by nightertale |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby (also on, with, etc.) nightertale Night-time, the night. Esp. in by (also on, with, etc.) nightertale: by night, during the night. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] nighteOE nightertalec1300 darkc1400 nightertimec1425 night-timec1430 night-tidea1500 night-season1530 darkmans?1536 Nox1567 moonshine1652 darkie?1738 the watches of the night1826 nite1928 bat-flight1934 c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2025 (MED) Hwo mithe so mani stonde ageyn, Bi nither-tale, knith or swein? c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 97 So hoote he louede that by nyghtertale [v.r. nygter tale] He slepte namoore than dooth a nyghtyngale. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2991 (MED) Vp ras þe king on nighter tale [a1400 Fairf. niȝtter-tale]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 11596 (MED) Wit naghtertale [a1400 Trin. Cambr. By nyȝt] he went o tun. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 3849 (MED) By nyghtertale he was slayn. 1455 in J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 287 (MED) Hyt was ordeynyt that no maner beger..ne scholer walke by nyghtertall abegyn. 1497 in N. Riding Rec. (1894) New Ser. I. 189 [He] with Force and armz of the nyghtertall sent hys..seruantis to the Castell. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 803 A nyghtertale, de nuyct. a1561 Court of Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & other Pieces (1897) xxiv. 436 Why slepen ye? it is no nightertale. a1637 H. Calthrop Rep. Cases London (1655) 131 That yea do provide..that the Lanthornes with Light by Nightertaile in old manner accustomed, be hanged forth. 1702 W. Bohun Privilegia Londini 356 And that no man go by nightertail without Light, nor with Vizard, on the peril that belongeth thereto. < as lemmas |
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