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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Midnight \Mid"night'\, noun [AS. midniht.] The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Midnight \Mid"night'\, adjective Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight studies; midnight gloom. ''Midnight shout and revelry.'' --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
midnight
noun: 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night; "young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "midnight": all-night, atramentous, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, coal-black, coaly, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, dead of night, deep black, ebony, hush of night, ink-black, inky, jetty, night, night-black, night-dark, night-fallen, nightlong, nightly, nighttime, nigrous, nocturnal, noonday night, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, raven, raven-black, sable, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, tar-black, tarry
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