night-stalker

noun

Definitions

  1. A person who is habitually abroad at night, especially in order to conduct illegal…

    A person who is habitually abroad at night, especially in order to conduct illegal business.

    • “You can't conceive what he fancies. It seems, according to his account, that you are a night-stalker.”
  2. A monster or other malevolent figure that moves about at night

    A monster or other malevolent figure that moves about at night; a shadow-stalker.

    • “Thou wilt have no need to bury me, for if I get my death he will have eaten me all dashed with blood, he will bear away my gory corpse, he will taste me; the night-stalker will devour me without mercy.”

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