night-bat

Alternative forms

 * nightbat

Noun

 * 1)  A (night-flying) bat.
 * , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:
 * there were found divers populous nations, in farre differing climates, that lived upon them; made provision of them, and carefully fed them; as also of grasse-hoppers, pissemires, lizards, and night-bats.
 * 1)  A ghost, an evil spirit.
 * 2)  A large nocturnal moth.