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t of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation. Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate. Macaulay.

a half quires. [Eng.] A common practice is now to count five hundred sheets to the ream. Knight.

erect. Rearing bit, a bit designed to prevent a horse from lifting his head when rearing. Knight.

mbatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven. "This recreant knight." Spenser.

Formidable; dread. "Some redoubled knight." Spenser. Lord regent, and redoubted Burgandy. Shak.

bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis. Knight.

To fashion anew; to form or mold into shape a second time. MacKnight.

with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles. Knight.

to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse. This knight laid hold upon his reyne. Chaucer.

The projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece. Knight.

A kind of waterproof cloth. Knight.

alment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak.

caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides. Knight.

to the framework. Rib-band lines, oblique longitudinal sectionss of the hull of a vessel. Knight.

true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity. Long love to her has borne the faithful knight, And well deserved, had fortune done him right. Dryden.

trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.; also, a reamer. Knight.

f the grain or fiber. Ripping chisel (Carp.), a crooked chisel for cleaning out mortises. Knight. -- Ripping iron. (Shipbuilding) Same as Ravehook. -- Ripping saw. (Carp.) See Ripsaw. -- To rip out, to rap out, to utter hastily and violently; as, to rip out an oath. [Colloq.] See To rap out, under Rap, v. t.…

l projectile for ordnance. -- Round Table, the table about which sat King Arthur and his knights. See Knights of the Round Table, under Knight. -- Round tower, one of certain lofty circular stone towers, tapering from the base upward, and usually having a conical cap or roof, which crowns the summit, -- found chiefly…

throughout all the region round about. Luke vii. 17. Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight. Shak.

), hydrochloric acid. -- Salt block, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory. Knight. -- Salt bottom, a flat piece of ground covered with saline efforescences. [Western U.S.] bartlett. -- Salt cake (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the first…