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Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] Knolles.

merchant held a noble house. Chaucer. Of him to hold his seigniory for a yearly tribute. Knolles. And now the strand, and now the plain, they held. Dryden.

A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock. Bartram.

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.

e 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.…

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.

evation 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 mou…

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

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

To be unwilling; to refuse to act. The actions of the will are "velle" and "nolle," to will and nill. Burton. Will he, nill he, whether he wills it or not.

To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.

An abbrev. of Nolle prosequi.

dgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he does not appear to prosecute. See Nolle prosequi.

The top of the head; the head or noll. [Obs.] Spenser.

A soldier armed with a pike. Knolles.