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of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface. Knight.

A torsel. Knight.

The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like. Knight. Angle of traction (Mech.), the angle made with a given plane by the line of direction in which a tractive force acts. -- Traction engine, a locomotive for drawing vehicles on highways or in the fields.

A kind of movable stepladder. Knight. Trap stairs, a staircase leading to a trapdoor. -- Trap tree (Bot.) the jack; -- so called because it furnishes a kind of birdlime. See 1st Jack.

An odometer for vehicles. Knight.

A frame on which paper is dried. Knight.

mming joist (Arch.), a joist into which timber trimmers are framed; a header. See Header. Knight.

A weaver's knife. See Trevat. Knight. Trivet table, a table supported by three legs. Dryden.

A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish. Knight.

designating a kind of hillside plow. [Eng.] Knight.

A trough for washing ores. Knight.

To be subject or amenable to. [R.] The knight of Ivanhoe . . . underlies the challenge of Brian der Bois Guilbert. Sir W. Scott.

ershut valve (Mach.), a valve which shuts by being lifted against a seat facing downward. Knight.

rranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog. Knight. Urchin fish (Zoöl.), a diodon.

A servant, especially to a knight; an attendant; a valet; a footman. [Obs.] Spenser. Tusser.

A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold. Knight.

Specifically, a promise of fidelity; a pledge of love or affection; as, the marriage vow. Knights of love, who never broke their vow; Firm to their plighted faith. Dryden.

tallic chlorides, so as to form a substance resembling ebonite in texture, hardness, etc. Knight. -- Vulcanized rubber, India rubber, vulcanized.

with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it. Knight.

A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position. Knight.