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KNIFEEDGE; KNIFE-EDGE n.
A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. Knife-edge file. See Illust. of File.
KNIGHT'S FEE n.
The fee of a knight; specif., the amount of land the holding of which imposed the obligation of knight service, being sometimes a hide or less, sometimes six or more hides.
MISFEELING a.
Insensate. [Obs.] Wyclif.
OVERFEED v.
To feed to excess; to surfeit.
SOOFEE; SOOFEEISM n.
Same as Sufi, Sufism.
SPLITFEET n.
The Fissipedia.
STALL-FEED v.
To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall- feed an ox.
TOFFEE; TOFFY n.
Taffy. [Eng.]
UNDERFEED v.
To feed with too little food; to supply with an insufficient quantity of food.
UNFEELING a. 2 definitions
Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate.
A-TIPTOE adv.
On tiptoe; eagerly expecting. We all feel a-tiptoe with hope and confidence. F. Harrison.
AARD-VARK n.
resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.
ABELMOSK n.
West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.
ABHOR v.
To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.
ABHORRENCE n.
Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.
ABOMINATION n.
The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.
ABOUT prep.
ns; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.
ABSTRACT a.
bers used without application to things, as 6, 8, 10; but when applied to any thing, as 6 feet, 10 men, they become concrete. -- Abstract or Pure mathematics. See Mathematics.
ACATALECTIC a.
A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables.
ACCENT n.
A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
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