释义 |
ˈnightward, a. [f. night n. + -ward.] Coming, taking place, etc., towards nightfall; leading towards night.
1631Milton in Birch Life M.'s Wks. 1738 I. 4, I am the bolder to send you some of my nightward Thoughts. 1644― Educ. 5 Their nightward studies wherewith they close the dayes work. 1863Mrs. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlh. xxiii, To tread the nightward path under the old leaden sky. So ˈnightwards adv., towards the region of night, westwards.
1855Bailey Mystic, etc. 93 They scattered wide, From Hungria, to Golcond and isles Molucques, And nightwards, to Brasil. |