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contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4. Knight. Ductor roller (Printing), the roller which conveys or supplies ink to another roller. Knight.

A floating barge connected with a pier. Knight. To play dummy, to play the exposed or dummy hand in cards. The partner of the dummy plays it.

A large wrench. Knight.

h a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc. Knight.

An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax. Knight.

rail of more depth than width. (b) A guard rail by the side of the main rail at a switch. Knight. -- Edge railway, a railway having the rails set on edge. -- Edge stone, a curbstone. -- Edge tool. (a) Any tool instrument having a sharp edge intended for cutting. (b) A tool for forming or dressing an edge; an edging…

Having an edge planed, -- said of a board. Knight.

To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset. A knight her met in mighty arms embossed. Spenser.

Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper. Knight.

hammer, a hammer with a slightly rounded face of large diameter; -- used by gold beaters. Knight. -- To enlarge an order or rule (Law), to extend the time for complying with it. Abbott. -- To enlarge one's self, to give free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. "They enlarged themselves on this subject." Clarendo…

, a timepiece made to exhibit the differences between mean solar and apparent solar time. Knight. -- Normal equation. See under Normal. -- Personal equation (Astron.), the difference between an observed result and the true qualities or peculiarities in the observer; particularly the difference, in an average of a lar…

Belonging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order. Burke.

ipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments. Armed and dight, In the equipments of a knight. Longfellow.

An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.

The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson.

Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage. Blackstone.

se (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called dexter, and the other side sinister.

Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire.

of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up. [Written also uphroe and uvrou.] Knight.

ng under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. Knight.