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To bear; to behave. [Obs.] So did the faery knight himself abear. Spenser.

In bed, or on the bed. Not to be abed after midnight. Shak.

A lady's waiting-maid. Pepys. Her abigail reported that Mrs. Gutheridge had a set of night curls for sleeping in. Leslie.

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

plete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish. The armorers accomplishing the knights. Shak. It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. Wilkins. These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. Cowden Clarke.

An apparatus for hastening acetification. Knight.

receipts: not, in financial language, "actuals," but only Egyptian budget estimates. Fortnightly Review.

To aim; to direct. [Obs.] Chaucer. And this good knight his way with me addrest. Spenser.

To favor; to grace. [Obs.] "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.

To dress; to attire; to adorn. [Obs.] Above all knights ye goodly seem aguised. Spenser.

A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.

A railway brake operated by condensed air. Knight.

A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill. Knight.

An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight.

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak.

An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour. Knight.

An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

y turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight.

A theodolite. Knight.