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A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.

Tumult; riot; hurly-burly. [Obs.] Knolles.

Tumult; bustle; confusion. Shak. All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly. Knolles.

To divert; to convert to a wrong use. [Obs.] Knolles.

he crown of Stephanus, first king of Hungary, was always kept in the castle of Vicegrade. Knolles.

To attack or harass. [Obs.] Knolles. (d) (Naut.) To check the motion of (a vessel) and cause it to be stationary. -- To lay to heart, to feel deeply; to consider earnestly. -- To lay under, to subject to; as, to lay under obligation or restraint. -- To lay unto. (a) Same as To lay to (above). (b) To put before. Hos.…

t of troops; a piece of music in the march form. The drums presently striking up a march. Knolles. To make a march, (Card Playing), to take all the tricks of a hand, in the game of euchre.

To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country. Knolles.

levation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. Dryden. Mound bird. (Zoöl.) Same as Mound maker (below). -- Mound builders (Ethnol.), the tribe, or tribes, of North American aborigines who built, in former times, extensive mo…

persuasion, or appeal; to influence. Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold. Knolles. No female arts his mind could move. Dryden.

remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate. "Nigh kinsmen." Knolles. Ye ... are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Eph. ii. 13.

A soldier armed with a pike. Knolles.

Politicly; artfully. [Obs.] Knolles.

m above my chief joy. Ps. cxxxvii. 6. Preferred an infamous peace before a most just war. Knolles. Preferred stock, stock which takes a dividend before other capital stock; -- called also preference stock and preferential stock.

To limit beforehand. [Obs.] Knolles.

Respectable. [Obs.] Knolles.

To retire; to give up a siege. He, rising with small honor from Gunza, . . . was gone. Knolles.

; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. "The deepness of the rotten way." Knolles. Rotten borough. See under Borough. -- Rotten stone (Min.), a soft stone, called also Tripoli (from the country from which it was formerly brought), used in all sorts of finer grinding and polishing in the arts, and for c…

a great while in Rome. Sir W. Temple. Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himself. Knolle

. who had before been great commanders, but now served as private gentlemen without pay. Knolles.