Word Meanings - ENGINE-SIZED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper. Knight.

Related words: (words related to ENGINE-SIZED)

• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• WHILES
  1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• WHILERE
  A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton.
• 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
• SIZING
  1. Act of covering or treating with size. 2. A weak glue used in various trades; size.
• 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.
• SIZY
  Sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood. Arbuthnot.
• 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
• SIZAR
  One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford. The sizar paid nothing for food and
• SIZZLING
  from Sizzle.
• PAPERY
  Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.
• SIZARSHIP
  The position or standing of a sizar.
• 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
• SIZED
  1. Adjusted according to size. 2. Having a particular size or magnitude; -- chiefly used in compounds; as, large-sized; common-sized.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• SIZE
  Six.
• WHILE
  wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• ERSTWHILE
  Till then or now; heretofore; formerly.
• HYPOSTASIZE
  To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize. The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. Coleridge.
• EMPHASIZE
  To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• ASSIZE
  assembly of judges, the decree pronounced by them, tax, impost, fr. assis, assise, p. p. of asseoir, fr. L. assid to sit by; ad + sed to 1. An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• BROMIDE PAPER; BROMID PAPER
  A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.
• CAPPAPER
  See N
• ALE-KNIGHT
  A pot companion.
• SUBSIZAR
  An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar. Bid my subsizar carry my hackney to the buttery and give him his bever. J. Fletcher.