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nd. [Obs.] The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty galleys, set forth by the Venetians. Knolles. -- To set forward. (a) To cause to advance. (b) To promote. -- To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or bondage; to liberate; to emancipate. -- To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start t…

See Shawm. [Obs.] Knolles.

One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer. By these shavers the Turks were stripped. Knolles.

A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnée; -- usually in the plural.

s . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia, from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium. Knolles.

courage. The Rhodians, seeing the enemy turn their backs, gave a great shout in derision. Knolles.

, or duty. All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, he Knolles.

; as, the violence of the waves was spent. Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst. Knolles.

To furnish with staves or rundles. Knolles.

His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil-appointed horseman not half full. Knolles.

thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest. In the thick of the dust and smoke. Knolles.

A knoll or hill. [Obs.] "A tower on a toft." Piers Plowman.

Eve; verge; point. [R.] "He was upon the top of his marriage with Magdaleine." Knolles.

A little hillock; a knoll. Ainsworth.

2 Chron. xi. 23. Shak. He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual. Knolles. There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand Bare victual for the movers. Tennyson. Short allowance of victual. Longfellow.

at by force, what by policy, he had taken from the Christians above thirty small castles. Knolles.

sclosing read, thus as the paper spake. Spenser. Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ. Knolles.