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A small jackscrew. Knight.

Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night." Shak.

A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.

n of decisive consequence; as, a fortification critically situated. Coming critically the night before the session. Bp. Burnet.

Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. Knight.

-- Cross handle, a handle attached transversely to the axis of a tool, as in the augur. Knight. -- Cross lode (Mining), a vein intersecting the true or principal lode. -- Cross purpose. See Cross-purpose, in the Vocabulary. -- Cross reference, a reference made from one part of a book or register to another part, wh…

A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.

ttle time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night. Macualay.

n. There shall be a great cry throughout all the land. Ex. xi. 6. An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light; And with no language but a cry. Tennyson.

Sucked by cubs. [R.] This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.

A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc. Knight.

bit, a stiff bit having branches by which a leverage is obtained upon the jaws of horse. Knight. -- Curb pins (Horology), the pins on the regulator which restrain the hairspring. -- Curb plate (Arch.), a plate serving the purpose of a curb. -- Deck curb. See under Deck.

An armor-bearer to a knight. [Obs.]

a rotating stock to which cutters may be attached, as in a planing or matching machine. Knight.

A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvæ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.…

eriod which have severed as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend aof Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.

chine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine. Knight.

A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame. Knight.

A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. Knight.

Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor. Night . . . with black air Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom. Milton.