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ted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularity reported. The victor knight, Bareheaded, popularly low had bowed. Dryden.

coin I will discharge your post. S. Rowlands. From pillar to post. See under Pillar. -- Knight of the post. See under Knight. -- Post hanger (Mach.), a bearing for a revolving shaft, adapted to be fastened to a post. -- Post hole, a hole in the ground to set the foot of a post in. -- Post mill, a form of windmill…

To explain by marginal notes; to postil. Tracts . . . postillated by his own hand. C. Knight.

A perforated cask for draining sugar. Knight.

To make use of; to employ. [Obs.] In malice to this good knight's wife, I practiced Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her. Massinger.

The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars. Sir W. Scott.

A religious house of the Knights Templars, subordinate to the temple or principal house of the order in London. See Commandery, n., 2.

give in charge or possession; to deliver; to make over. So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear, and arm him for the fight. Pope.

To spur onward; to ride on horseback. Milton. A gentle knight was pricking on the plain. Spenser.

A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery. Knight.

imer seizin (Feudal Law), the right of the king, when a tenant in capite died seized of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir, if of full age, one year's profits of the land if in possession, and half a year's profits if the land was in reversion expectant on an estate for life; -- now abolished. Blackstone.…

exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. " Privee knights and squires." Chaucer.

To solicit; to entreat. [Obs.] The famous Briton prince and faery knight, . . . Of the fair Alma greatly were procured To make there longer sojourn and abode. Spenser.

An adjustable pattern used by tailors. Knight.

Valiant; brave; gallant; courageous. [Archaic] Tennyson. The prowest knight that ever field did fight. Spenser.

orbidly romantic ideal of duty or honor, as illustrated by the exploits of Don Quixote in knight-errantry.

A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished. Knight.

The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument. Knight. Radius bar (Math.), a bar pivoted at one end, about which it swings, and having its other end attached to a piece which it causes to move in a circular arc. -- Radius of curvature. See under Curvature.

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. Knight.

ed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." Motley.