XNIGHT, n.

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.

She closed her eyes in everlasting night.

3. A state of ignorance; intellectual and moral darkness; heathenish ignorance. Rom 13.

4. Adversity; a state of affliction and distress. Isa 21.

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.

To-night, in this night. To-night the moon will be eclipsed.