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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…

upon, as a door. Master, knock the door hard. Shak. To knock down. (a) To strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by blows; as, to knock down an assailant. (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow or knock; to knock off. -- To knock in the head, or on the head, to stun or kill by a blow upon the head…

A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal.

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.

as, a lame man. "Lame of one leg." Arbuthnot. "Lame in both his feet." 2 Sam. ix. 13. "He fell, and became lame." 2 Sam. iv. 4.

ace, as distinguished by its speech. [R.] All the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image. Dan. iii. 7. Language master, a teacher of languages.[Obs.]

e at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet. [They play] their little game of lansquenet. Longfellow.

with midnight plaint. Milton. Looking backward in vain toward their Lares and lands. Longfellow.

A rowdy street loafer; a rowdyish or noisy ill-bred fellow; -- variously applied, as to a street blackguard, a street Arab, a youth given to horse-play, etc. [Australia & Eng.] -- a.

es. Sir T. Browne. Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter. Longfellow.

The stone with moss and lichens so overspread, Nothing is legible but the name alone. Longfellow.

enitive at least for evils, which Nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep. Sterne.

s. [Archaic] Chaucer. But the Jews, which believed not, . . . took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, . . . and assaulted the house of Jason. Acts xvii. 5. Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief. Southey .

theology. The college of physicians, in July, 1687, published an edict, requiring all the fellows, candidates, and licentiates, to give gratuitous advice to the neighboring poor. Johnson.

in the world. Ascham. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime. Longfellow. 'T is from high life high characters are drawn. Pope

A low, base fellow; also, a prostitute. [Scot.] Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands. Sir W. Scott.

taining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.