NIGHT, noun [The sense may be dark, black, or it may be the decline of the day, from declining, departing.] 1. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise. 2. The time after the close of life; death. John 9:4. She closed her eyes in everlasting night 3. A state of ignorance; intellectual and moral darkness; heathenish ignorance. Romans 13:12. 4. Adversity; a state of affliction and distress. Isaiah 21:4. 5. Obscurity; a state of concealment from the eye or the mind; unintelligibleness. Nature and natures works lay hid in night In the night suddenly; unexpectedly. Luke 12:20. To-night, in this night To-night the moon will be eclipsed.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI