A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale.

A kind of flannel scarf with sleeves, formerly worn by invalids when sitting up in bed.

The cardinal number immediately following twenty-eight and preceding thirty.

(now rare) A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

(transitive) To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.

(Internet) Clipping of nickname.

(transitive, obsolete) To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.

(archaic) A nix or nixie (“water spirit”).

(often used adverbially) The evening or night immediately before the present.

during the previous day’s nighttime; during the night before today