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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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KNUCK'LE, n. nuk'l.
KNUCK'LE, v.i. nuk'l. To yield; to submit in contest to an antagonist.
The joint of a finger,
particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers.
Davenant. The kneejoint, or middle joint, of either
leg of a quadruped, especially of a calf; -- formerly used of the
kneejoint of a human being.
With weary knuckles on thy brim she kneeled sadly down. Golding. The joint of a plant.
[Obs.]
Bacon. The joining parts of a
hinge through which the pin or rivet passes; a knuckle
joint.
A convex portion of
a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a
canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat
bottom.
A contrivance, usually of brass or iron,
and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to
a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; as, brass
knuckles; -- called also knuckle duster.
[Slang.]
Knuckle joint (Mach.), a hinge joint, in which a projection with an eye, on one piece, enters a jaw between two corresponding projections with eyes, on another piece, and is retained by a pin which passes through the eyes and forms the pivot. -- Knuckle of veal (Cookery), the lower part of a leg of veal, from the line of the body to the knuckle. To yield] to submit; -- used with
down, to, or under.
To knuckle to. To beat with the
knuckles; to pommel.
[R.] Horace Smith. | ||||||||