knight ship ( gh silent)

[Eng. knight; -ship.] The dignity or position of a knight; knighthood. Knip-per-dol-Ings, s . pl . [See def.] tists ( Hist of than a tical center their name from their founder, Bernard Knipperdoling. Ch. Hist.: A sect of German Anabap *knip-per-kin, s . [NIPPERKIN.] knit, *knitte, v . t . & i. [A. S. cnyttan, cnittan, from cnotta =a knot; cogn. with Icel. knýta , knytja , from knutr =a knot; Dan. knytte to tie a knot, to knit, from knude a knot; Sw. knyta =to knit, from knut a knot.] [KNOT, 8.] IMG:content-0275.png:[blocks in formation] attach. "Since the red-cro e knight he erst did weet, To been with Guyon knit in one consent." Spenser: F. Q. , II. iii. 11. 4. To cause to grow together; to cause to join. "Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge."-Wiseman: Surgery. IMG:content-0276.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Ord. Lang.: Texture. "The spinsters and the knitters in the sun." Shakesp.: Twelfth Night, ii. 4. 2. A knitting-machine. *3. Anything which knits, joins, or unites. "For so great a knitter and binder it is, that it will draw their chawes together in manner of a muzzle." P. Holland: Pliny , bk. xxxiv., ch. xii. knit-ting, pr. par., a. & 8. [KNIT, v.] A. & B. As pr. par . & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: 1. Lit .: The art of knitting is modern; it cannot be traced back farther than about A. D. 1500, and is believed to have originated in Scotland shortly previous to that date. It consists in the construction of a looped fabric in which for the first row a succe ion of loops are cast on or preferably knitted on to a needle, and in succeeding rows each loop is pa ed through the loop of each succeeding row. It differs distinctly from braiding, netting and weaving, which is, as here mentioned, perhaps, the order of invention, knitting being centuries later than either of the others. f the needle-beards while *knitting-cup, s. A cup of wine handed round after a couple had been knit together in matrimony; also called the contracting-cup.