Knob (n.) A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob.
Knob (n.) See Knop.
Knob (v. i.) To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed.
Knobbed (a.) Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna.
Knobber (n.) See Knobbler.
Knobbing (n.) Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.
Knobbler (n.) The hart in its second year; a young deer.
Knobbling fire () A bloomery fire. See Bloomery.
Knobby (a.) Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.
Knobby (a.) Irregular; stubborn in particulars.
Knobby (a.) Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly.
Knobstick (n.) One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trades union.
Knocked (imp. & p. p.) of Knock
Knocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Knock
Knock (v. i.) To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
Knock (v. i.) To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.
Knock (v. t.) To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table.
Knock (v. t.) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
Knock (n.) A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
Knock (n.) A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.
Knockdown (n.) A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal.
Knockdown (a.) Of force sufficient to fell or completely overthrow; as, a knockdown blow; a knockdown argument.
Knocker (n.) One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.
Knocking (n.) A beating; a rap; a series of raps.
Knockings (n. pl.) Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.
Knock-knee (n.) A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.
Knock-kneed (a.) Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.
Knockstone (n.) A block upon which ore is broken up.
Knoll (n.) A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
Knolled (imp. & p. p.) of Knoll
Knolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Knoll
Knoll (v. t.) To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing.
Knoll (v. i.) To sound, as a bell; to knell.
Knoll (n.) The tolling of a bell; a knell.
Knoller (n.) One who tolls a bell.
Knop (n.) A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.
Knop (n.) Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial; -- called also knob, and knosp.
Knopped (a.) Having knops or knobs; fastened as with buttons.
Knoppern (n.) A kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing.
Knopweed (n.) Same as Knapweed.
Knor (n.) See Knur.
Knosp (n.) Same as Knop,2.
Knot (n.) A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.
Knot (n.) A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself.
Knot (n.) An ornamental tie, as of a ribbon.
Knot (n.) A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
Knot (n.) Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem.
Knot (n.) A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc.
Knot (n.) A cluster of persons or things; a collection; a group; a hand; a clique; as, a knot of politicians.
Knot (n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.
Knot (n.) A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
Knot (n.) A protuberant joint in a plant.
Knot (n.) The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
Knot (n.) See Node.
Knot (n.) A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour.
Knot (n.) A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots.
Knot (n.) A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot.
Knot (n.) A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne.
Knotted (imp. & p. p.) of Knot
Knotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Knot
Knot (v. t.) To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle.
Knot (v. t.) To unite closely; to knit together.
Knot (v. t.) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
Knot (v. i.) To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled.
Knot (v. i.) To knit knots for fringe or trimming.
Knot (v. i.) To copulate; -- said of toads.
Knotberry (n.) The cloudberry (Rudus Chamaemorus); -- so called from its knotted stems.
Knotgrass (n.) a common weed with jointed stems (Polygonum aviculare); knotweed.
Knotgrass (n.) The dog grass. See under Dog.
Knotless (a.) Free from knots; without knots.
Knotted (a.) Full of knots; having knots knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak.
Knotted (a.) Interwoven; matted; entangled.
Knotted (a.) Having intersecting lines or figures.
Knotted (a.) Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks.
Knotted (a.) Entangled; puzzling; knotty.
Knottiness (n.) The quality or state of being knotty or full of knots.
Knottiness (n.) Difficulty of solution; intricacy; complication.
Knotty (superl.) Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
Knotty (superl.) Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
Knotty (superl.) Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
Knotweed (n.) See Knot/rass.
Knotwort (n.) A small, herbaceous, trailing plant, of the genus Illecebrum (I. verticillatum).
Knout (n.) A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.
Knout (v. t.) To punish with the knout.
Know (n.) Knee.
Knew (imp.) of Know
Known (p. p.) of Know
Knowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Know
Know (v. i.) To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's duty.
Know (v. i.) To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of; as, to know things from information.
Know (v. i.) To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization.
Know (v. i.) To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of; as, to know a person's face or figure.
Know (v. i.) To have sexual commerce with.
Know (v. i.) To have knowledge; to have a clear and certain perception; to possess wisdom, instruction, or information; -- often with of.
Know (v. i.) To be assured; to feel confident.
Knowable (a.) That may be known; capable of being discovered, understood, or ascertained.
Knowa bleness (n.) The state or quality of being knowable.
Know-all (n.) One who knows everything; hence, one who makes pretension to great knowledge; a wiseacre; -- usually ironical.
Knower (n.) One who knows.
Knowing (a.) Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog.