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v. t. To call knave. [ Obs. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics.
Syn. -- genus Canavalia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An amino acid found in the jack bean. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Capable of being sailed round. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Circumnavigated p. pr. & vb. n. Circumnavigating ] [ L. circumnavigatus, p. p. of circumnavigare to sail round; circum + navigare to navigate. ] To sail completely round. [ 1913 Webster ]

Having circumnavigated the whole earth. T. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sails round. W. Guthrie. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. enavigatus, p. p. of enavigare. ] To sail away or over. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. innavigabilis : cf. F. innavigable. See In- not, and Navigable. ] Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships or vessels. Drygen. -- In*nav"i*ga*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ OE., boy, servant, knave, AS. cnafa boy, youth; cf. AS. cnapa boy, youth, D. knaap, G. knabe boy, knappe esquire, Icel. knapi, Sw. knape esquire, knäfvel knave. ] 1. A boy; especially, a boy servant. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

O murderous slumber,
Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy
That plays thee music ? Gentle knave, good night. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any male servant; a menial. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

He's but Fortune's knave,
A minister of her will. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain. “A pair of crafty knaves.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In defiance of demonstration, knaves will continue to proselyte fools. Ames. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “How many serving lads must have been unfaithful and dishonest before knave -- which meant at first no more than boy -- acquired the meaning which it has now !” Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack; as, the knave of hearts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Knave child, a male child. [ Obs. ] Chaucer.

Syn. -- Villain; cheat; rascal; rogue; scoundrel; miscreant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Knaveries 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small due, in meal, established by usage, which is paid to the under miller. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A knavish woman. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Like or characteristic of a knave{ 3 }; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick. “Knavish politicians.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mischievous; roguish; waggish; rascally. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cupid is knavish lad,
Thus to make poor females mad. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a knavish manner; dishonestly; fraudulently. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mischievously; waggishly; roguishly. “Knavishly witty.” Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being knavish; knavery; dishonesty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Navajo /sing>. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians inhabiting New Mexico and Arizona, allied to the Apaches. They are now largely engaged in agriculture. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. navalis, fr. navis ship: cf. F. naval. See Nave of a church. ] Having to do with shipping; of or pertaining to ships or a navy; consisting of ships; as, naval forces, successes, stores, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Naval brigade, a body of seamen or marines organized for military service on land. --
Naval officer. (a) An officer in the navy. (b) A high officer in some United States customhouses. --
Naval tactics, the science of managing or maneuvering vessels sailing in squadrons or fleets. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Nautical; marine; maritime. -- Naval, Nautical. Naval is applied to vessels, or a navy, or the things which pertain to them or in which they participate; nautical, to seamen and the art of navigation. Hence we speak of a naval, as opposed to a military, engagement; naval equipments or stores, a naval triumph, a naval officer, etc., and of nautical pursuits or instruction, nautical calculations, a nautical almanac, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Naval affairs. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. navarchus, Gr. nay`archo`s; nay^s ship + 'archo`s chief. ] (Gr. Antiq.) The commander of a fleet. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. nayarchi`a. ] Nautical skill or experience. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Petty. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The name of a naval battle in the War of Greek Independence (1827), at which the Turkish and Egyptian fleet was defeated by the allied fleet.
Syn. -- battle of Navarino. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to Navarre. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant of Navarre; the people of Navarre. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. nef, fr. L. navis ship, to which the church was often likened; akin to Gr. nay`archo`s, Skr. nāus, and perh. to AS. naca boat, G. nachen, Icel. nökkvi; cf. L. nare to swim, float. Cf. Nausea, Nautical, Naval. ] (Arch.) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances, or, if there are no transepts, from the choir to the principal entrance, but not including the aisles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. nafu; akin to D. naaf, G. nabe, OHG. naba, Icel. nöf, Dan. nav, Sw. naf, Skr. nābhi nave and navel: cf. L. umbo boss of a shield. √260. Cf. Navel. ] 1. The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The navel. [ Obs. ] hak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. nafela, fr. nafu nave; akin to D. navel, G. nabel, OHG. nabolo, Icel. nafli, Dan. navle, Sw. nafle, L. umbilicus, Gr. 'omfalo`s, Skr. nābhīla. √260. See Nave hub, and cf. Omphalic, Nombril, Umbilical. ] 1. (Anat.) A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus; called also belly button in humans. See Umbilicus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The central part or point of anything; the middle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Within the navel of this hideous wood,
Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gun.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Navel gall, a bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle. Johnson. --
Navel point. (Her.) Same as Nombril. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A type of orange in which the fruit incloses a small secondary fruit, the rind showing on the exterior a navel-like pit or depression at the apex. There are several varieties; they are usually seedless, or nearly so, and are much grown in California. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The umbilical cord. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A European perennial succulent herb (Cotyledon umbilicus), having round, peltate leaves with a central depression; -- also called pennywort, and kidneywort. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. navel, naveau, a dim. fr. L. napus navew. Cf. Napiform. ] (Bot.) A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris. See Brassica. [ Written also naphew. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) The navicular bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. navicularius, fr. navicula, dim. of navis ship: cf. F. naviculaire. ] 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Navicular bone. (Anat.) (a) One of the middle bones of the tarsus, corresponding to the centrale; -- called also scaphoid. (b) A proximal bone on the radial side of the carpus; the scaphoid. --
Navicular disease (Far.), a disease affecting the navicular bone, or the adjacent parts, in a horse's foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. navigabilité. ] The quality or condition of being navigable; navigableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. navigabilis: cf. F. navigable. See Navigate. ] Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ By the common law, a river is considered as navigable only so far as the tide ebbs and flows in it. This is also the doctrine in several of the United States. In other States, the doctrine of the civil law prevails, which is, that a navigable river is a river capable of being navigated, in the common sense of the term. Kent. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Nav"i*ga*ble*ness, n. -- Nav"i*ga*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Navigated p. pr. & vb. n. Navigating. ] [ L. navigatus, p. p. of navigare, v.t. & i.; navis ship + agere to move, direct. See Nave, and Agent. ] 1. To journey by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Phenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western Ocean. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To direct or operate a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft. [ PJC ]

3. To pass through, over, or around; -- used especially of a course having obstacles; as, to navigate around all the randomly scattered tables to the far side of the room. [ PJC ]

v. t. 1. To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pass through, over, or around; -- used especially of a course having obstacles; as, to navigate all the randomly scattered tables to the far side of the room. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. navigatio: cf. F. navigation. ] 1. The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) The science or art of conducting ships or vessels from one place to another, including, more especially, the method of determining a ship's position, course, distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy. (b) The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Ships in general. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aerial navigation, the act or art of sailing or floating in the air, as by means of airplanes or ballons; aviation; aeronautic. --
Inland navigation,
Internal navigation, navigation on rivers, inland lakes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to navigation; used in navigation; as, navigational aids. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who navigates or sails; esp., one who direct the course of a ship, or one who is skillful in the art of navigation; also, a book which teaches the art of navigation; as, Bowditch's Navigator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. naviger; navis ship + gerere to bear. ] Bearing ships; capable of floating vessels. [ R. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Navies [ Abbreviated fr. navigator. ] Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Navies [ OF. navie, fr. L. navis ship. See Nave of a church. ] 1. A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company. “The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir.” 1 kings x. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The whole of the war vessels belonging to a nation or ruler, considered collectively; as, the navy of Italy. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The officers and men attached to the war vessels of a nation; as, he belongs to the navy. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. same as navy blue. [ PJC ]

Navy bean. see Bean. --
Navy yard, a place set apart as a shore station for the use of the navy. It often contains all the mechanical and other appliences for building and equipping war vessels and training their crews. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a color of navy blue. [ PJC ]

n. 1. A dark grayish blue. Also called navy. [ PJC ]

2. Prussian blue. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

v. t. To surpass in knavery. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Pseudonavicullæ [ NL. ] (Zool.) Same as Pseudonavicula. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Pseudonaviculæ [ NL., fr. Gr. pseydh`s false + NL. navicula, a genus of diatoms. See Navicular. ] (Zool.) One of the minute spindle-shaped embryos of Gregarinæ and some other Protozoa. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To navigate again. [ 1913 Webster ]