knife
knife is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A sword or dagger. The coward conquest of a wretch's knife. Shak. Knife grass (Bot.) a tropical American sedge (Scleria latifolia), having leaves with a very sharp and hard edge, like a knife. -- War to the knife, mortal combat; a conflict carried to the last extremity.
- 2.(Hort.) To prune with the knife.
- 3.To cut or stab with a knife. [Low]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- appetite
- avarice
- avaricious
- belly
- blow
- bolt
- bon
- cheer
- cormorant
- cram
- crapulence
- crapulent
- cuisine
- devour
- eat
- edacious
- edacity
- engorge
- epicure
- epicurism
- feast
- fill
- food
- fork
- gastronome
- gastronomy
- glutton
- gluttonous
- gluttony
- gobble
- god
- good
- gorge
- gormandize
- gourmand
- gourmet
- greed
- greediness
- greedy
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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