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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.

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.

lume of a liquid, as by evaporation. The acid acquires a higher degree of concentration. Knight.

s for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air. Knight.

A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part. Visit by night your lady's chamber window With some sweet concert. Shak. And boding screech owls make the concert full. Shak. Concert pitch. See under Pitch.

on of scoriæ around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form. Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. Milton.

r to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day. [Eng.]

The space between the strands on the outside of a rope. Knight.

The act of formally betrothing a man and woman. This is the the night of the contract. Longwellow.

pulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale.

brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill. Knight.