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A wrangling, noisy fellow.

r in a harsh and noisy manner. The noisy jay, Jargoning like a foreigner at his food. Longfellow.

f; an earl; in English history, one of the leaders in the Danish and Norse invasions. Longfellow.

orick's skull, the king's jester. Shak. Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. Longfellow.

A dreamy, idle fellow. Shak.

Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge. "Beyond his ken." Longfellow. Above the reach and ken of a mortal apprehension. South. It was relief to quit the ken And the inquiring looks of men. Trench.

A young fellow; formerly, a low thief. [Slang, Eng.]

el Death, to those you take more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind. Waller. A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. Garrick.

imes, and worn doth by men and women. Wearing her Norman car, and her kirtle of blue. Longfellow.

. And my near kith for sore me shend. W. Browne. The sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. Kith and kin, kindred more or less remote.

A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity. The fellow . . . has not the knack with his shears. B. Jonson. The dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. Swift.

Knotty; gnarled. The knarred and crooked cedar knees. Longfellow.

A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain. "A pair of crafty knaves." Shak. In defiance of demonstration, knaves will continue to proselyte fools. Ames.

of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick. "Knavish politicians." Macaulay.

nk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water. Where knee-deep the trees were standing. Longfellow.

a sharper in general. Nares. "A knight of the post, . . . quoth he, for so I am termed; a fellow that will swear you anything for twelve pence." -- Nash. -- Knight of the shire, in England, one of the representatives of a county in Parliament, in distinction from the representatives of cities and boroughs. -- Knights…

A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap. " A knock at the door." Longfellow. A loud cry or some great knock. Holland. Knock off, a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.

tion, and we know it. Dryden. Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. Longfellow.

irit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.

ty of their existence, would be presumption. Goldsmith. Like a kraken huge and black. Longfellow.