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A person examined.

To veneer.

See Jinnee.

An harpooner. Grabb.

Of or pertaining to the Hindoos or their language. -- n.

One of the Illuminati.

Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession. -- n.

An Indiaman.

An arrow poison, made from an apocynaceous plant (Strophanthus hispidus) of the Gaboon country; -- called also onaye.

Same as Knock-knee.

See Knock-kneed.

children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms. [Written also jin, djinnee, etc.]

See Knock-kneed.

A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.

A jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, which causes a sudden contraction of the quadriceps muscle.

Obsequious; fawning; cringing. "Knee-crooking knave." Shak.

Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep. Grass knee-deep within a month. Milton.

Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee- high.

A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.

The kneepan.