Definition of "night-tripping" [night-tripping]

• Tripping about in the night.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "To effect such a change, however, of the first-born sons of Northumberland and Bolinbroke, an extent of power and skill must have been in requisition far beyond what their warmest advocates are wont to assign to those "night-tripping" personages."
• "That fome night-tripping fairy had exchang'd In cradlercloths our children where they lay."