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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.

mark, bearing figures of cross and crown. Order of Dannebrog, an ancient Danish order of knighthood.

ntury used to be reckoned by mediæval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night. Hallam.

applications. Addison. The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night. Tennyson.

currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing. Knight.

The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.

The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

rs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare. Dunglison.

The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.

hip's cargo. (c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live weight being the load. Knight. -- Dead wind (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship's course. -- To be dead, to die. [Obs.] I deme thee, thou must algate be dead. Chaucer.

t can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key. Knight.

Subject to death; mortal. [Obs.] The image of a deadly man. Wyclif (Rom. i. 23). Deadly nightshade (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under Nightshade.