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A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid. Knight.

ee Expect. Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night. Milton.

A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.

The body of young aspirants for knighthood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. [Obs.] He by the heels him hung upon a tree, And baffled so, that all which passed by The picture of his punishment might see. Spenser.

eights suspended from one arm, the mutual attraction of oppositely electrified surfaces. Knight. -- Balance fish. (Zoöl) See Hammerhead. -- Balance knife, a carving or table knife the handle of which overbalances the blade, and so keeps it from contact with the table. -- Balance of power. (Politics), such an adjustm…

To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles. [Obs.] Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see. Shak.

rmits lateral deflection of the arbor or shaft, while retaining the pivot in its socket. Knight. -- Ball lever, the lever used in a ball cock. -- Ball of the eye, the eye itself, as distinguished from its lids and socket; -- formerly, the pupil of the eye. -- Ball valve (Mach.), a contrivance by which a ball, placed…

Deadly nightshade.

A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. Knight.

Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.

jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day. W. Irving.

To except; to exclude by exception. Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me By what we do to- night. Shak.

A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. Knight.

Machinery), a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly. Knight.

isting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer. Knight.

A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise.

f stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals. Knight.

form of coupling similar to that by which a bayonet is fixed on the barrel of a musket. Knight.