Word Meanings - POINTREL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A graving tool. Knight.
Related words: (words related to POINTREL)
- KNIGHTLESS
Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser. - GRAVIDATION
Gravidity. - GRAVES
The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves. - GRAVEDIGGER
See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves. - GRAVIDITY
The state of being gravidated; pregnancy. - GRAVEL
A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. - GRAVIC
Pertaining to, or causing, gravitation; as, gravic forces; gravic attraction. - 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 - GRAVIMETRIC
Of or pertaining to measurement by weight; measured by weight. -- Grav"i*met"ric*al*ly, adv. Gravimetric analysis , analysis in which the amounts of the coastituents are determined by weight; -- in distinction from volumetric analysis. - GRAVY
1. The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up. 2. Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc. - GRAVEN
Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4. - 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. - GRAVITATE
To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force Or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object. Why does this apple fall to the ground Because all bodies gravitate toward each other. - GRAVEYARD
A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery. - GRAVIDATED
Made pregnant; big. Barrow. - GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel . - 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. - GRAVES' DISEASE
See DISEASE - GRAVELESS
Without a grave; unburied. - KNIGHT TEMPLAR
See 3 - UNKNIGHT
To deprive of knighthood. Fuller. - MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave. - AGGRAVATING
1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow. - WILDGRAVE
A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott. - PALGRAVE
See PALSGRAVE - PORTGREVE; PORTGRAVE
In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. Fabyan. - PREGRAVATE
To bear down; to depress. Bp. Hall. - ALE-KNIGHT
A pot companion. - INGRAVIDATION
The state of being pregnant or impregnated. - INGRAVE
To engrave. "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.