Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Traveling in the night.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Going or traveling in the night.

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Examples

  • But sun, moon, and stars abstracted or concealed, the night-faring inhabitant had to fall back — we speak on the authority of old prints — upon stable lanthorns two stories in height.

    Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

  • Through the window came now and again faint notes of night-faring birds, south bound on their autumnal migration.

    The Purchase Price Emerson Hough 1890

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