Word Meanings - TATTOO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp.

• Repairable
  Reparable.
• Sounding-board
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.
• NIGHTFARING
  Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
• Night-blooming
  Blooming in the night.
• Nightman
  One whose business is emptying privies by night.
• Nightmare
  A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
• Repairer
  One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends.
• Soundless
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable.
• NIGHTLETTERNIGHTLETTERGRAM
  See Letter, above.
• Nightcap
  A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.
• Nightshade
  A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous.
• Repairment
  Act of repairing.
• Soundly
  In a sound manner.
• NIGHTTERRORS
  A sudden awkening associated with a sensation of terror, occurring in children, esp. those of unstable nervous constitution.
• Nightdress
  A nightgown.
• Nightshirt
  A kind of nightgown for men.
• Retreat
  The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
• Soundness
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith.
• QUARTERSAW
  To saw (a log) into quarters; specif., to saw into quarters and then into boards, as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter, to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously.

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