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te of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness. For unto knight there was no greater shame, Than lightness and inconstancie in love. Spenser.

notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer. False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn. Spenser.

, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype. Knight.

pring, a spring beneath a seat, and resting on cleats or blocks in the body of a vehicle. Knight.

A machine of great antiquity, used in Bengal for raising water to irrigate land. Knight.

as to go upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on either side indifferently. Knight.

r. Japanned leather,leather treated with coatings of Japan varnish, and dried in a stove. Knight.

A stone mason's tool, having a flat face and a pointed part. Knight.

The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. Knight. Jet propeller (Naut.), a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump. -- Jet pump, a device in which a small jet of steam, air, water, or other fluid, in rapid motion, lif…

ined road in a coal mine, on which loaded cars descend by gravity, drawing up empty ones. Knight.

; agreeable; pleasant. "A jolly cool wind." Sir T. North. [Now mostly colloq.] Full jolly knight he seemed, and fair did sit. Spenser. The coachman is swelled into jolly dimensions. W. Irving.

To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. [Written also just.] For the whole army to joust and tourney. Holland.

gn or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity. Such joy made Una, when her knight she found. Spenser. The roofs with joy resound. Dryden.

A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split. Knight.

iege; the donjon. See Illust. of Castle. The prison strong, Within whose keep the captive knights were laid. Dryden. The lower chambers of those gloomy keeps. Hallam. I think . . . the keep, or principal part of a castle, was so called because the lord and his domestic circle kept, abode, or lived there. M. A. Lower.…

t closely resembling rubber; -- used principally as an insulating material in telegraphy. Knight.

-- Kettle stitch (Bookbinding), the stitch made in sewing at the head and tail of a book. Knight.

re are made up of several concentric cylinders; those of a smaller size are forged solid. Knight.

rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes. Knight.

A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart. The soldier here his wasted store supplies, And takes new valor from his lady's eyes. Waller.