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. A vomiting or nauseous feeling similar to seasickness experienced by passengers in aircraft; -- it is caused by motion and distinguished from the effects of low air pressure, as it may also occur in the pressurized cabins of large aircraft. [ PJC ]

adv. On the knee. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

They're darker now than blackness. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being blank. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A fall that breaks the neck. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A steep place endangering the neck. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cockneys [ OE. cocknay, cokenay, a spoiled child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg (cf. Newt), AS. æg. See 1st Cock, Egg, n. ] 1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. “A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling.” Nash (1592). [ 1913 Webster ]

This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A native or resident of the city of London, especially one living in the East End district; -- sometimes used contemptuously. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. the distinctive dialect of a cockney{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

a. Of or relating to, or like, cockneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cockney + -fy. ] To form with the manners or character of a cockney. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. craquelin, fr. D. krakeling, fr. krakken to crack. See Crack, v. t. ] A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Naut.) Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sprightliness; vigor; health. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped. [ U. S. ]
Syn. -- crookneck squash. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. [ 1913 Webster ]

And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A state of privacy; secrecy. [ 1913 Webster ]

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John. iii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pursue these sons of darkness: drive them out
From all heaven's bounds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A state of distress or trouble. [ 1913 Webster ]

A day of clouds and of thick darkness. Joel. ii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prince of darkness, the Devil; Satan. “In the power of the Prince of darkness.” Locke.

Syn. -- Darkness, Dimness, Obscurity, Gloom. Darkness arises from a total, and dimness from a partial, want of light. A thing is obscure when so overclouded or covered as not to be easily perceived. As tha shade or obscurity increases, it deepens into gloom. What is dark is hidden from view; what is obscure is difficult to perceive or penetrate; the eye becomes dim with age; an impending storm fills the atmosphere with gloom. When taken figuratively, these words have a like use; as, the darkness of ignorance; dimness of discernment; obscurity of reasoning; gloom of superstition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death; a knell{ 1 }. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: (figuratively) A sign or harbinger of the end, death, or passing away of anything. [ PJC ]

n. Darkness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like dough; soft. [ 1913 Webster ]

He demeans himself . . . like a dough-kneaded thing. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Duskiness. [ R. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Falconer. ] A falconer. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors. “Hackney tongue.” Roscommon.

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n.; pl. Hackneys [ OE. hakeney, hakenay; cf. F. haguenée a pacing horse, an ambling nag, OF. also haquenée, Sp. hacanea, OSp. facanea, D. hakkenei, also OF. haque horse, Sp. haca, OSp. faca; perh. akin to E. hack to cut, and nag, and orig. meaning, a jolting horse. Cf. Hack a horse, Nag. ] 1. A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A horse or pony kept for hire. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hackneyed p. pr. & vb. n. Hackneying. ] 1. To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Had I so lavish of my presence been,
So common-hackneyed in the eyes of men. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To carry in a hackney coach. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Hackneymen A man who lets horses and carriages for hire. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Knock-knee. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Knock-kneed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) The the process of deterioration afflicting a ship that is iron-sick. [ PJC ]

a. See Knock-kneed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Kneaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Kneading. ] [ OE. kneden, As. cnedan; akin to D. kneden, G. kneten, Sw. knåda, Icel. knoða; cf. OSlav. gnesti. ] 1. To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.; as, to knead dough. [ 1913 Webster ]

The kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To treat or form as by kneading; to beat. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will knead him : I'll make him supple. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To press repeatedly with the hands or knuckles, sometimes with a twisting or squeezing motion; -- performed for example on the body of a person as a form of massage. [ PJC ]

Kneading trough, a trough or tray in which dough is kneaded. Ex. viii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To perform movements like kneading, with the paws; -- said of cats, which may knead{ 3 } a master's body when stroked, presumably a sign of contentment; as, a cat kneading and purring in his master's lap. [ PJC ]

a. That may be kneaded; capable of being worked into a mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who kneads. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of one kneading. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Major von Knebel. ] (Min.) A mineral of a gray, red, brown, or green color, and glistening luster. It is a silicate of iron and manganese. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Naut.) The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. kne, cneo, As. cneó, cneów; akin to OS. knio, kneo, OFries. knī, G. & D. knie, OHG. chniu, chneo, Icel. knē, Sw. knä, Dan. knæ, Goth. kniu, L. genu, Gr. go`ny, Skr. jānu, √231. Cf. Genuflection. ] 1. In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) (a) The joint, or region of the joint, between the thigh and leg. (b) In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in man. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech. & Shipbuilding) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A bending of the knee, as in respect or courtesy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give them title, knee, and approbation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Knee breeches. See under Breeches. --
Knee holly,
Knee holm (Bot.), butcher's broom. --
Knee joint. See in the Vocabulary. --
Knee timber, timber with knees or angles in it. --
Knee tribute, or
Knee worship, tribute paid by kneeling; worship by genuflection. [ Obs. ] “Knee tribute yet unpaid.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To supplicate by kneeling. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Fall down, and knee
The way into his mercy. Shak [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A thick mass or collection of hairs on the legs of bees, by aid of which they carry the collected pollen to the hive or nest; -- usually in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Anat.) A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneepan. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cap or protection for the knee.

v. t. to break the knees of, especially by shooting in the kneecap; -- often done by criminal or terrorist groups as a warning or punishment.
Syn. -- knee-cap. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Obsequious; fawning; cringing. “Knee-crooking knave.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having knees;- used chiefly in composition; as, in-kneed; out-kneed; weak-kneed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as, kneed grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grass knee-deep within a month. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where knee-deep the trees were standing. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Physiol.) A jerk or forward kick of the lower part of the leg produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, which causes a sudden contraction of the quadriceps muscle; the patellar reflex. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]