Index of English words, starting with "ni"

(1) - Nightmare (n.) Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence.
(2) - Nightmare (n.) A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus.
(3) - Nightmare (n.) A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.

(1) - Nightshade (n.) A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous.