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Word Meanings - POINTREL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A graving tool. Knight.

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  • 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.

 

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