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Unbecoming a knight. [Obs.] "Knightless guile." Spenser.

Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit. For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit. Spenser. [Excuses] full knightly without scorn. Tennyson.

Having a milky look; becoming milky. [Obs.]

Belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike. "Some lady trifles." Shak.

Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners. "With fingers ladylike." Warner.

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. [Obs.] Came too lag to see him buried. Shak.

Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.

Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.

Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring.

Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.

Like, or becoming, a lawyer; as, lawyerlike sagacity. "Lawyerly mooting of this point." Milton.

Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable. And in this legend all that glorious deed. Read, whilst you arm you. Fairfax.

colorless substance isomeric with chlorophyll, contained in parts of plants capable of becoming green. Watts.

A real or apparent libratory motion, like that of a balance before coming to rest. Libration of the moon, any one of those small periodical changes in the position of the moon's surface relatively to the earth, in consequence of which narrow portions at opposite limbs become visible or invisible alternately. It receive…

ning of a ship's floor immediately above the timbers, so as to prevent the limbers from becoming clogged. -- Limber box or chest (Mil.), a box on the limber for carrying ammunition. -- Limber rope, Limber chain or Limber clearer (Naut.), a rope or chain passing through the limbers of a ship, by which they may be clea…

The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.

The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.

Pertaining to lithophosphor; becoming phosphoric by heat.

Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. The we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against the tournament, which is not long. Spenser.

ctation. Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. Luke xxi. 26.