Word Meanings - FLINTWARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely. Knight.

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• FLINTWOOD
  An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.
• 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
• FLINTWARE
  A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely. Knight.
• FLINTINESS
  The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty. Beau. & Fl.
• 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.
• FLINTLOCK
  1. A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on stricking the steel ignites the priming. 2. A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
• 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
• SUPERIORLY
  In a superior position or manner.
• SUPERIORITY
  The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit. Syn. -- Preëminence; excellence; predominancy; prevalence; ascendency; odds; advantage.
• 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.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• 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
• FLINTY
  Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. Flinty rockFlinty state, a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See Basanite.
• 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.
• FLINT GLASS
  A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the
• KNIGHT-ER-RATIC
  Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry. Quart. Rev.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• ALE-KNIGHT
  A pot companion.
• GUNFLINT
  A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.