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Definition of Night bird
1. Noun. Any bird associated with night: owl; nightingale; nighthawk; etc.
Definition of Night bird
1. Noun. a type of bird associated with the night ¹
2. Noun. a human denizen of night. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Night Bird
Literary usage of Night bird
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1882)
"But Dryden also calls its song "shrill," while his natural history was so very
defective (and he never mentions the nightingale as a night bird) that I ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1805)
"We select the lamentation of the outcast Genius : What time the night-bird pour'd
his gloomy song: ' As late I roam'd the Hudson's banks along, ..."
3. Novels, Poems and Letters of Charles Kingsley by Charles Kingsley (1899)
"THE night bird A MYTH A FLOATING, a floating Across the sleeping sea, All night
I heard a singing bird Upon the topmost tree. " Oh came you off the isles of ..."
4. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... -SNAP, or -TRADER) = NIGHT-BIRD (yV) ; NIGHT- HOUSE = (i) a public-house
licensed lo open at night, and (2) a brothel ; NIGHT-HUNTER =(i) a poacher, ..."
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