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d approbation. Shak. Knee breeches. See under Breeches. -- Knee holly, Knee holm (Bot.), butcher's broom. -- Knee jerk (Physiol.) a jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, which causes a sudden contraction of the quadriceps muscle; one of the so-called tendon reflexes.…

An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike. To be at loggerheads, To fall to loggerheads, or To go to loggerheads, to quarrel; to be at strife. L' Estrange.

ith indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings. If James should be pleased to massacre them all, as Maximian had massacred the Theban legion. Macaulay.

A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages. [Prov. Eng.]

A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse. [Prov. Eng.]

The northern butcher bird.

The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.

rter, a cleft in the quarter of a horse's foot. -- Fifth quarter, the hide and fat; -- a butcher's term. -- On the quarter (Naut.), in a direction between abeam and astern; opposite, or nearly opposite, a vessel's quarter. -- Quarter aspect. (Astrol.) Same as Quadrate. -- Quarter back (Football), the player who has…

ed titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird.

discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson (More's Utopia). Reject me not from among thy children. Wisdom ix. 4.

Among butchers, the piece of beef betwen the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.

hat danger Who 's that that shakes behind there Beau & FL. Shaking piece, a name given by butchers to the piece of beef cut from the under side of the neck. See Illust. of Beef.

A place where butcher's meat is sold. As summer flies are in the shambles. Shak.

A sharp tool or weapon. [Obs.] If butchers had but the manners to go to sharps, gentlemen would be contented with a rubber at cuffs. Collier.

small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.

To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.

A house where beasts are butchered for the market.

A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.

such slaughters were from thence called Bartelmies, simply in a perpetual stigma of that butchery. Sir G. Buck.

A knife; esp., a pocket, sheath, or clasp knife. "A butcher's whittle." Dryden. "Rude whittles." Macaulay. He wore a Sheffield whittle in his hose. Betterton.