Night

n.	1.	That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. - Gen. i. 5.
	2.	Darkness; obscurity; concealment. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night. - Pope.
	3.	Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance. She closed her eyes in everlasting night. - Dryden. Do not go gentle into that good night Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas.
	4.	A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep. Night by night nightly; many nights. So help me God, as I have watched the night, Ay, night by night, in studying good for England. - Shak.

Noun	1.	night - the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside Synonyms: nighttime, dark Antonyms: daylight, daytime, day - the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside; "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime"
	2.	night - the time between sunset and midnight; "he watched television every night"
	3.	night - the period spent sleeping; "I had a restless night"
	4.	night - the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit; "three nights later he collapsed"
	5.	night - darkness; "it vanished into the night"
	6.	night - a shortening of nightfall; "they worked from morning to night"
	7.	night - a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
	8.	Night - Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx Synonyms: Nox

NIGHT. That space of time during which the sun is below the horizon of the earth, except, that short space which precedes its rising and follows its setting, during which, by its light, the countenance of a man may be discerned. I Hale, P. C. 550; 3 Inst. 63; 4 Bl. Com. 224; 1 Hawk. P. C. 101; 3 Chit. Cr. Law, 1093; 2 Leach, 710; Bac. Ab. Burglary, D; 2 East, P. C. 509; 2 Russ. Cr. 32; Rosc. Cr. Ev. 278; 7 Dane's Ab. 134.

To dream of night, signifies some major setbacks and obstacles in achieving your goals. You may find that some issues you are facing are not all that clear and you need to put them to rest for awhile before a decision is made. *Please also see DarknessEgyptian darkness, Erebus, all the time, all-night, blackness, ceaselessly, charcoal, coal, continually, continuously, crow, dark, dark of night, darkness, darkness visible, dead of night, dusk, ebon, ebony, endlessly, evening, evensong, eventide, gloaming, incessantly, ink, intense darkness, jet, lightlessness, midnight, moonlessness, night and day, night-fallen, nightfall, nightlong, nightly, nighttide, nighttime, nocturnal, obscure, obscure darkness, obscurity, pitch, pitch-darkness, pitchy darkness, raven, round-the-clock, sable night, sloe, smoke, smut, soot, starlessness, sundown, sunlessness, sunset, swarthiness, tar, tenebrosity, tenebrousness, the palpable obscure, total darkness, twilight, unceasingly, unendingly, velvet darkness, vespers

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