Word Meanings - TURNWREST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent. designating a kind of hillside plow. Knight.
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- KNIGHTLESS
Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser. - HILLSIDE
The side or declivity of a hill. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - STYLET
A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape - 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 - DESIGNATOR
An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates. - 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. - DESIGNATIVE
Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out. - 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 - 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. - 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 - 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. - KNIGHT SERVICE; KNIGHT'S SERVICE
1. The military service by rendering which a knight held his lands; also, the tenure of lands held on condition of performing military service. By far the greater part of England is held of the king by knight's service. . . . In - KNIGHT-ERRANT
A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity. - KNIGHT MARSHAL
An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties. Wharton. - DESIGNATORY
Serving to designate; designative; indicating. - KNIGHT BARONET
See BARONET - UNKNIGHT
To deprive of knighthood. Fuller. - ARAEOSTYLE
See INTERCOLUMNIATION - CYCLOSTYLE
A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred - SURSTYLE
To surname. - AMPHIPROSTYLE
Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n. - INSTYLE
To style. Crashaw. - ENDOSTYLE
A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata. - DODECASTYLE
Having twelve columns in front. -- n. - POLYSTYLE
Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall. -- n. - ALE-KNIGHT
A pot companion. - CYRTOSTYLE
A circular projecting portion. - SUBSTYLE
A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane - OCTASTYLE
See OCTOSTYLE