Meaning of night-cap | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“You skie-ſtaring Cocks combes you: you fat braines, out upon you; you are good for nothing but to ſweat night-caps, and make⟳ rug-gownes deare: […]”

“1769, Samuel Johnson, cited in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, Volume 1, p. 311, You remember⟳ the gentleman in “The Spectator,” who had a commission of lunacy taken out against him for his extreme singularity, such as never wearing a wig, but a night-cap. Now, Sir, abstractedly, the night-cap was best; but, relatively, the advantage was overbalanced by his making the boys run⟳ after him.”

“After a little while the good lady turned out in her petticoat and stays, with a blanket over her shoulders, and a night-cap so beflapped and befrilled as gave the pitiful countenance within it the appearance of being decked out for a funeral.”

“—Miss⟳ Luna, muffling up her head, Went with the ague, straight to bed, Put⟳ out her lamp, and bade them tell⟳ She could not hear⟳ her mistress' bell, Begg'd them with motherwort to dose her, And drew her cloudy night-cap closer.—”

“Rum Fustian is a "night-cap" made precisely in the same way as the preceding [egg-posset or egg-flip], with the yolks of twelve eggs, a quart of strong home-brewed beer, a bottle of white wine, half-a-pint of gin, a grated nutmeg, the juice from the peel of a lemon, a small quantity of cinnamon, and sugar sufficient to sweeten it.”

“The glitter of gold, or of diamonds, will but hurt⟳ sore eyes instead of curing them; and an aching head will be no more eased by wearing a crown, than a common night-cap.”

“Thus secured against surprise⟳, he took off his cravat; put⟳ on his dressing-gown and slippers, and his night-cap; and sat down before the fire to take⟳ his gruel.”

“if the hearing is affected, Isopathy makes you a night-cap trimmed with the ears of a calf!”

“As an ordinary drinker, he always used to find⟳ it necessary to have⟳ a glass of something as a night-cap, and then he always woke up in the morning hot and feverish, and Mondayish.”

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