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especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen. Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee. Beau. & Fl. Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, "alone". Ld. Lytton.

Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem. Knots worthy of solution. Cowper. A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs. South.

A small Russian coin. One hundred kopecks make a rouble, worth about sixty cents. [Written also kopek, copec, and copeck.]

Lapsible. Cudworth.

Laudableness; praiseworthiness.

Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.

The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.

A wager. "My fortunes against any lay worth naming."

nd; to move swiftly. Also Fig. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky. Wordsworth.

life and fire in fancy and in words. Felton. That gives thy gestures grace and life. Wordsworth.

One who is conspicuous or noteworthy; a model or example; as, the lights of the age or of antiquity. Joan of Are, A light of ancient France. Tennyson.

Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story. It seems likely that he was in hope of being busy and conspicuous. Johnson.

To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop. [Prov. Eng.] Wordsworth.

Birdlime. Like the lime That foolish birds are caught with. Wordsworth.

iva is principally worshiped in his character of the creative and reproductive power. Whitworth. E. Arnold.

blance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. [Obs.] Chaucer. Not lither in business, fervent in spirit. Bp. Woolton.

One who, or that which, lives. And try if life be worth the liver's care. Prior.

Same as Liverwort.

To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. H. Spencer. Wordsworth.