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; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous. Throngs of knights and barons bold. Milton.

dock, used in veering or fastening ropes. Bollard timber (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.

jects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying. Knight. Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. W. M. Buchanan.

Boring tool (Metal Working), a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes. Knight.

A depression round the eye of a millstone. Knight.

promotion of respiration. Here is a lady that wants breathing too; And I have heard, you knights of Tyre Are excellent in making ladies trip. Shak.

The principal ward of a key. Knight.

The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle. Knight.

The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill. Knight.

radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches. Knight.

The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. Knight.

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. Knight.

A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes. Knight.

A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. Knight.

A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed. Knight.

d inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor. Knight.

The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan.

rtised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear. Knight.

The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station. Knight.

An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knight's fee; hence, in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish, a land measure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Porto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern United States, about 108 acres.