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A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry. "His Memphian chivalry." Milton. By his light Did all the chivalry of England move, To do brave acts. Shak.

f being clusy. The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance. Collier.

the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp. Collier. Is this a dagger which I see before me . . . Come, let me clutch thee. Shak.

See Colliery.

To assist or help; to aid. [Obs.] I . . . can not help the noble chevalier: God comfort him in this necessity! Shak.

l; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier. I should compare with him in excellence. Shak.

One who makes complaint. Eager complainants of the dispute. Collier.

o contribute or help toward a common object or effect. When outward causes concur. Jer. Colier.

hey abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. Bancroft.

t the front or face. [R.] Which [darts] they never throw counter, but at the back of the flier. Sandys.

e; a cloack. "Under cover of the night." Macualay. A hendsome cover for imperfections. Collier.

vots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty. The cradle that received thee at thy birth. Cowper. No sooner was I crept out of my cradle But I was made a king, at nine months old. Shak.…

e. Not dispirited with my afflictions. Dryden. He has dispirited himself by a debauch. Collier.

display; flash; glitter. [R.] A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.

l kings and parliaments since the Conquest; and if that won't do; challenge the crown. Collier. To do by. See under By. -- To do for. (a) To answer for; to serve as; to suit. (b) To put an end to; to ruin; to baffle completely; as, a goblet is done for when it is broken. [Colloq.] Some folks are happy and easy in mind…

Dolphin fly (Zoöl.), the black, bean, or collier, Aphis (Aphis fable), destructive to beans. -- Dolphin striker (Naut.), a short vertical spar under the bowsprit.

pl. Etym: [Cf. Pr. doblier, dobler draughtboard.]

used only colloquially.] Bacon. The trade of life can not be driven without partners. Collier.

ike, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.

An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.