midnight

midnight
midnightly, adj., adv.
/mid"nuyt'/, n.
1. the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
adj.
2. of or pertaining to midnight.
3. resembling midnight, as in darkness.
4. burn the midnight oil, to study or work far into the night: After months of burning the midnight oil, he really needed a vacation.
[bef. 900; ME; OE midniht. See MID-, NIGHT]

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