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Knight :: Knight (v. t.) To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---..

Measle :: Measle (n.) A tapeworm larva. See 2d Measles, 4..

Red-tapist :: Red-tapist (n.) One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities.

Acumination :: Acumination (n.) A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.

Cataphractic :: Cataphractic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cataphract..

Antiapoplectic :: Antiapoplectic (a. & n.) Same as Antapoplectic.

Fusiform :: Fusiform (a.) Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell..

Metanotum :: Metanotum (n.) The dorsal portion of the metaphorax of insects.

Drift :: Drift (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach..

Acephalocyst :: Acephalocyst (n.) A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin..

Cue :: Cue (n.) A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

Gid :: Gid (a.) A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus..

Tap :: Tap (n.) A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.

Tap :: Tap (v. t.) Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury..

Tropical :: Tropical (n.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.

Conical :: Conical (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel..

Kuda :: Kuda (n.) The East Indian tapir. See Tapir.

External :: External (a.) Outside of or separate from ourselves; (Metaph.) separate from the perceiving mind.

Epitaph :: Epitaph (v. i.) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.

Metaphysic :: Metaphysic (n.) See Metaphysics.

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