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A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. Knight.

nmark, bearing figures of cross and crown. Order of Dannebrog, an ancient Danish order of knighthood.

n currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing. Knight.

ship's cargo. (c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live weight being the load. Knight. -- Dead wind (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship's course. -- To be dead, to die. [Obs.] I deme thee, thou must algate be dead. Chaucer.

it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key. Knight.

any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. Decoration Day, a day, May 30, appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors, who fell in the Civil War in…

Illustrious act; achievement; exploit. "Knightly deeds." Spenser. Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn. Dryden.

e; to accuse. [R.] Rebecca is . . . defamed of sorcery practiced on the person of a noble knight. Sir W. Scott.

eanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups. Knight.

The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means. Knight.

one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop. He saw many removes and degradations in all the other offices of which he had been possessed. Clarendon.

erson has arrived; rank or station in life; position. "A dame of high degree." Dryden. "A knight is your degree." Shak. "Lord or lady of high degree." Lowell.

y delights the ear. Inventions to delight the taste. Shak. Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds. Tennyson.

The drain on the land side of a sea embankment. Knight.

A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. Knight.

An ornamental tooling like lace. Knight.

ument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone. Knight.

vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.

Improperly, an heraldic bearing. Knights-errant used to distinguish themselves by devices on their shields. Addison. A banner with this strange device -Excelsior. Longfellow.

ally in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the ladies. "Do now your devoid, young knights!" Chaucer.