Definition of "night-watcher" [night-watcher]

• One who watches in the night, especially with evil designs. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The sentinels paced up and down more quickly, to dissipate that feeling of shivering cold which runs through the night-watcher during the first hour of the morn."
• "It was doubtless caused by one of those meteors, which the night-watcher may so often observe burning out to waste, in the vacant regions of the atmosphere."
• "For Luke had been a constant night-watcher by his master’s bed."