in a military sense, a rough leather bag which a soldier carries on his back, and which contains all his necessaries. Square knapsacks are most convenient; and should be made with a division to hold the shoes, black ball and brushes, separate from the linen. White goat-skins are the best.

NAVE, an old Saxon word, which had at first a sense of simplicity and innocence, for it signified a boy: Sax. cnapa, whence a knave child, i.e. a boy, distinguished from a girl, in several old writers; afterwards it was taken for a servant boy, and at length for any servant man. Also it was applied to a minister or officer that bore the shield or weapon of his superior; as field knapa, whom the Latins call armiger, and the French efuyer, 14 Edw. III. c. 3. And it was sometimes of old made use of as a titular addition; as Joannes C. filius Willielmi C. de Derby, knave, &c. 22 Hen. VII. KNEE. VII. c. 37. The word is now perverted to the hardest meaning, viz. a false deceitful fellow.

KNIVESHIP, in Scots Law, one of the names of the small duties payable in thrillage to the miller's servants, called sequels.