Word Meanings - POINTREL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A graving tool. Knight.

Related words: (words related to POINTREL)

• 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.