Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: NIG'GARD-ISH – NIGHT'ED
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NIG'GARD-ISH, a.
Somewhat covetous or niggardly. Johnson.
NIG'GARD-LI-NESS, n.
Mean covetousness; sordid parsimony; extreme avarice manifested in sparing expense. Niggardliness is not good husbandry. Addison.
NIG'GARD-LY, a.
- Meanly covetous or avaricious; sordidly parsimonious; extremely sparing of expense. Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Hall.
- Sparing; wary; cautiously avoiding profusion. Sidney.
NIG'GARD-LY, adv.
Sparingly; with cautious parsimony. Shak.
NIG'GARD-NESS, n.
Niggardliness. [Not used.] Sidney.
NIG'GAR-DY, n.
Niggardliness. [Not used.]
NIG'GLE, v.t. [and v. i.]
To mock; to trifle with. [Not in use.] Beaum.
NIG'GLED, pp.
Trifled with.
NIG'GLING, ppr.
Mocking.
NIGH, a. [ni; Sax. neah, neahg, neh, for nig; G. nahe, nigh. This is the G. nach, D. na, a preposition signifying to, on or after, that is, approaching, pressing on, making toward; D. naaken, to approach; W. nig, strait, narrow.]
- Near; not distant or remote in place or time. The loud tumult shows the battle nigh. Prior. When the fig-tree putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh. Matth. xxiv.
- Closely allied by blood; as, a nigh kinsman. Knolles.
- Easy to be obtained or learnt; of easy access. The word is very nigh to thee. Deut. xxx.
- Ready to support, to forgive, or to aid and defend. The Lord is nigh to them who are of a broken heart. Ps. xxxiv.
- Close in fellowship; intimate in relation. Ye are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Eph. ii.
- Near in progress or condition. Heb. vi.
NIGH, adv. [ni.]
- Near; at a small distance in place or time, or in the course of events. He was sick, nigh to death. Phil. ii.
- Near to a place. He drew nigh. Milton.
- Almost; near. He was nigh dead. Nigh is never a preposition. In the phrase, “nigh this recent, with terror they survey,” there is an ellipsis of to. They nigh to this recess, survey, &c.
NIGH, v.i. [ni.]
To approach; to advance or draw near. [Not used.] Hubberd.
NIGH'LY, adv. [ni'ly.]
Nearly; within a little. A cube and a sphere nighly of the same bigness. [Not used.] Locke.
NIGH'NESS, n. [ni'ness.]
Nearness; proximity in place, time or degree.
NIGHT, n. [nite; Sax. niht; Goth. nahts; D. nagt; G. nacht; Sw. natt; Dan. nat, contracted; L. nox; Gr. νυξ; Sp. noche; Port. nôite; It. notte; Fr. nuit; Ir. nocht; Russ. noch; Slav. nosch; Sans. nischa. The sense may be dark, black, or it may be the decline of the day, from declining, departing, like the Shemitic ערב.]
- That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the, horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise.
- The time after the close of life; death. John ix. She closed her eyes in everlasting night. Dryden.
- A state of ignorance; intellectual and moral darkness; heathenish ignorance. Rom. xiii.
- Adversity; a state of affliction and distress. Is. xxi.
- Obscurity; a state of concealment from the eye or the mind; unintelligibleness. Nature and nature's works lay hid in night. Pope. In the night, suddenly; unexpectedly. Luke xii. To-night, in this night. To-night the moon will be eclipsed.
NIGHT'-AN-GLING, n.
The angling for or catching fish in the night. Encyc.
NIGHT'-BIRD, n.
A bird that flies only in the night. Hall.
NIGHT'-BORN, a.
Produced in darkness.
NIGHT'-BRAWL-ER, n.
One who excites brawls or makes a tumult at night. Shak.
A cap worn in bed or in undress. Swift.
NIGHT'-CROW, n.
fowl that cries in the night. Shak.
NIGHT'-DEW, n.
The dew formed in the night. Dryden.
NIGHT'-DOG, n.
A dog that hunts in the night; used by deer-stealers. Shak.
NIGHT'-DRESS, n.
A dress worn at night. Pope.
NIGHT'ED, a.
Darkened; clouded; black. [Little used.] Shak.