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Word Meanings - FLINTWARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely. Knight.

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  • KNIGHTLESS
    Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
  • WHOSESOEVER
    The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
  • FLINTWOOD
    An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.
  • KNIGHT BANNERET
    A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
  • FLINTWARE
    A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely. Knight.
  • FLINTINESS
    The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty. Beau. & Fl.
  • KNIGHT BACHELOR
    A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
  • FLINTLOCK
    1. A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on stricking the steel ignites the priming. 2. A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
  • KNIGHT-ERRANTRY
    The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young.
  • KNIGHT TEMPLAR
    See 3
  • SUPERIORLY
    In a superior position or manner.
  • SUPERIORITY
    The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit. Syn. -- Preëminence; excellence; predominancy; prevalence; ascendency; odds; advantage.
  • KNIGHTLY
    Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit. For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit. Spenser. full knightly without scorn. Tennyson.
  • KNIGHT SERVICE
    A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
  • WHOSE
    The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
  • KNIGHTHOOD
    1. The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry. "O shame to knighthood." Shak. If you needs must write, write Cæsar's praise; You 'll gain at least a knighthood, or the bays. Pope. 2. The whole body
  • FLINTY
    Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. Flinty rockFlinty state, a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See Basanite.
  • KNIGHT'S FEE
    The fee of a knight; specif., the amount of land the holding of which imposed the obligation of knight service, being sometimes a hide or less, sometimes six or more hides.
  • KNIGHT-ER-RATIC
    Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry. Quart. Rev.
  • FLINT GLASS
    A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the
  • UNKNIGHT
    To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
  • DECOMPOSITION
    1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
  • ALE-KNIGHT
    A pot companion.
  • GUNFLINT
    A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.

 

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