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  • English Word Knelt Definition of Kneel.
  • English Word Knew Definition of Know.
  • English Word Knew Definition of Know
  • English Word Knicker Definition A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing.
  • English Word Knickerbockers Definition The name for a style of short breeches; smallclothes.
  • English Word Knickknack Definition A trifle or toy; a bawble; a gewgaw.
  • English Word Knickknackatory Definition A collection of knickknacks.
  • English Word Knickknackery Definition Knickknacks.
  • English Word Knife Definition An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc..
  • English Word Knife Definition A sword or dagger.
  • English Word Knife Definition To prune with the knife.
  • English Word Knife Definition To cut or stab with a knife.
  • English Word Knife-edge Definition A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction.
  • English Word Knifeboard Definition A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
  • English Word Knifed Definition of Knife
  • English Word Knifing Definition of Knife
  • English Word Knight Definition A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
  • English Word Knight Definition In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.
  • English Word Knight Definition One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John.
  • English Word Knight Definition A champion; a partisan; a lover.
  • English Word Knight Definition A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.
  • English Word Knight Definition A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
  • English Word Knight Definition To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---.
  • English Word Knight bachelor Definition A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
  • English Word Knight banneret Definition A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.
  • English Word Knight baro-net Definition See Baronet.
  • English Word Knight marshal Definition An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties.
  • English Word Knight service Definition A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
  • English Word Knight Templar Definition See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.
  • English Word Knight-er-ratic Definition Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry.