Word Meanings - KNOCKDOWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal.
Related words: (words related to KNOCKDOWN)
- ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - FELLY
, adv. In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely. Spenser. - FELLOW-COMMONER
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - FELLABLE
Fit to be felled. - KNOCKSTONE
A block upon which ore is broken up. - FELLOE
See FELLY - FELLOWSHIP
1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. - FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak. - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - FELLOW-FEELING
1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot. - FELLFARE
The fieldfare. - FELLOWLIKE
Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall. - FELLOWLY
Fellowlike. Shak. - ANIMALCULE
An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the - KNOCKING
A beating; a rap; a series of raps. The . . . repeated knockings of the head upon the ground by the Chinese worshiper. H. Spencer. - ASTROFEL; ASTROFELL
A bitter herb, probably the same as aster, or starwort. Spenser. - BEDFELLOW
One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch. - WOOLFELL
A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled. - UNFELLOWED
Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak. - DISFELLOWSHIP
To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart. - ODD FELLOW
A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.