Knife

is the emblem borne by St. Agʹatha, St. Albert, and St. Christiʹna.

The flaying knife is the emblem of St. Bartholomew, because he was flayed.

A sacrificing knife is borne in Christian art by St. Zadkiel, the angel.

The knife of academic knots. Chrysipʹpos, so called because he was the keenest disputant of his age (B.C. 280–207).

War to the knife. Deadly strife.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.