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ud cry or some great knock. Holland. Knock off, a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.

cam or the like for disconnecting something, as a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.

A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself.

Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth, as f and v. -- n.

Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. " Languid, powerless limbs. " Armstrong. Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue. Addison.

Languid; drooping.[Obs.] Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. Milton. Lank hair, long, thin hair. Macaulay.

A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket. [Usually in pl.]

A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

o or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages. As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way. Fairfax. And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. Leigh Hunt.

A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.

A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.

The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc. A levy of all the men left under sixty. Thirlwall.

Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons; as, light troops; a troop of light horse.

loq.] He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden. Walpole. To like of, to be pleased with. [Obs.] Massinger.

printing from such an engraving. -- Line of battle. (a) (Mil Tactics) The position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver. (b) (Naval) The line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement. -- Line of battle ship. See Ship of the line, below. -- Line of beauty (Fine Arts…

See Liripoop.

ine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine. Hooper.

, To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run. J. F. Cooper.

See 1st Loop.

To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow. He fair the knight saluted, louting low. Spenser.