Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird that flies in the night.
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Examples
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In every little Fen village along the endless hedgeless roads they are looking out for the night-flier.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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In every little Fen village along the endless hedgeless roads they are looking out for the night-flier.
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Some night-flier to Holland; some English airman pricking out the lighted shape of London, or practising flight between Hendon and an East Coast base.
Flowering Wilderness 2004
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Among the formidable evil spirits who war against or torment the child and its mother are the Hebrew Lilith, the long-haired night-flier; the
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Viking ship with lighter hearts than they had had since the sighting of the night-flier.
The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic John Henry Goldfrap 1898
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