Part 6280

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>In defiance of demonstration, <b>knaves</b> will continue to proselyte fools. <i>Ames.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; "How many serving lads must have been unfaithful and dishonest before <i>knave</i> -which meant at first no more than boy -- acquired the meaning which it has now !"</note>

<i>Trench.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.</def>

<cs><col>Knave child</col>, <cd>a male child. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Villain; cheat; rascal; rogue; scoundrel; miscreant.</syn>

<h1>Knavery</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knav"er*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Knaveries</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action.</def>

<blockquote>This is flat <b>knavery</b>, to take upon you another man's name. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>Roguish or mischievous tricks.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Knaveship</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knave"ship</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A small due, in meal, established by usage, which is paid to the under miller.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<h1>Knavess</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knav"ess</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A knavish woman.</def>

<i>Carlyle.</i>

<h1>Knavish</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knav"ish</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; <as>as, a <ex>knavish</ex> fellow, or a <ex>knavish</ex> trick</as>.</def> "<i>Knavish</i> politicians."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Mischievous; roguish; waggish.</def>

<blockquote>Cupid is <b>knavish</b> lad, Thus to make poor females mad. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Knavishly</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knav"ish*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>In a knavish manner; dishonestly; fraudulently.</def>

<i>Holland.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Mischievously; waggishly; roguishly.</def> "<i>Knavishly</i> witty."

<i>Gayton.</i>