Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A night-charm; a charm or spell against accidents at night; a charm against the nightmare.
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Examples
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His night-spell is his guard, and charms his physicians.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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That the Pater noster used sometimes to be said with the wicked design of working ill to individuals, and by those who were deemed witches, is clear form the above extract: may not, then, this "wytche's" Pater noster be the "white" Pater noster, against which the night-spell in
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Pater Noster and St. Peter's sister in Chaucer's night-spell. [
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
ruzuzu commented on the word night-spell
See night-charm.
September 29, 2010