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A small tool used in cleaving laths. Knight.

Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous.

Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous. In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser.

A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry. "His Memphian chivalry." Milton. By his light Did all the chivalry of England move, To do brave acts. Shak.

ring noise such as that made by some insects, as the cockchafer, or by some birds, as the nightjar, the partridge, etc.

iferate; to complain; to make importunate demands. The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Shak.

rap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. Knight.

ing material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. Knight.

A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals. Knight.

used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. Knight.

erlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.

The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch. Knight. Ball cock. See under Ball. -- Chaparral cock. See under Chaparral. -- Cock and bull story, an extravagant, boastful story; a canard. -- Cock of the plains (Zoöl.) See Sage cock. -- Cock of the rock (Zoöl.), a South Amer…

The fire chamber of a furnace. [Eng.] Knight.

A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] Nares. Cockshut time or light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] Shak. B. Jonson.

Rubblework faced with stone. Knight.

A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak. Knight.

To think over; to plan. He . . . is our witness, how we both day and night, revolving in our minds, did cogitate nothing more than how to satisfy the parts of a good pastor. Foxe.

Recollection; recognition. Who, soon as on that knight his eye did glance, Eftsoones of him had perfect cognizance. Spenser.

An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries. [Written also coistrel.]

An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devises to designate their rank or order.