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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.

A tool to polish the edge of a sole. Knight.

.] Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson. Brief as the lighting in the collied night. Shak.

solstitial colure. Thrice the equinoctial line He circled; four times crossed the car of night From pole to pole, traversing each colure. Milton.

. -- To come it ever, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of. [Colloq.] -- To come near or nigh, to approach in place or quality to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems to come near it." Sir W. Temple. -- To come of. (a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my mother came." Dryden. (b) To result o…

h lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory.

A cheat of drawers or a bureau. (b) A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel. (c) A kind of close stool.

on life. W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. A. Murpphy.

A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.

To call forth; to summon. [Obs.] Chapman. She had this knight from far compelled. Spenser.

ue or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for. The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day. Bacon. The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries. Prior.

custom of godly man been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night. Hammond.

of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment. Compositions for not taking the order of knighthood. Hallam. Cleared by composition with their creditors. Blackstone.