The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out.

To supplicate by kneeling.

emotional and predictable; -- of certain people and their reactions to events.

Obsequious; fawning; cringing.

Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep.

Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high.

A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.

to break the knees of, especially by shooting in the kneecap; -- often done by criminal or terrorist groups as a warning or punishment.

Having knees;- used chiefly in composition; as, in-kneed; out-kneed; weak-kneed.

The joint of the knee.

Geniculate; kneed. See Kneed, a., 2.

To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down.

One who kneels or who worships by or while kneeling.

In a kneeling position.

A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.

A piece shaped like a knee; as, the kneepieces or ears of a boat.

Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest.

To summon, as by a knell.

imp. p. p. of Kneel.

imp. of Know.

A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing.

A descendent of the early Dutch colonists of the New York City area; -- used mostly as a nickname for an inhabitant of New York state or especially New York City.

The name for a style of short breeches; smallclothes; called also knickers.

The name for a style of loose-fitting short trousers, gathered in and ending at the knees; smallclothes; called also knickerbockers.

A trifle or toy; a bawble; a gewgaw; a tchotchke.

A collection of knickknacks.

Knickknacks.

To prune with the knife.

A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction.

A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.

To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---.

See Baronet.

An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties.

See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.

Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry.

A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.

The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.

The military service by rendering which a knight held his lands.

The body of knights, taken collectively.

A bollard timber. See under Bollard.

The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry.

Unbecoming a knight.

The character or bearing suitable for a knight; chivalry.

In a manner becoming a knight.

A fried, or sometimes baked, turnover made from a round or square sheet of dough containing a filling, usually of meat or potatoes.

Union knitting; texture.

The plant comfrey; -- so called from its use as a restorative.

A number of things tied or knit together; a bundle; a fagot.

Small particles of ore.

A woman who knits.

One who, or that which, knits, joins, or unites; a knitting machine.

The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting; knitwork.

A string that draws together a purse or bag.

knitted clothing.

A network of yarn created by interlacing threads of yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine; knitting.

n. pl. of Knife. See Knife.

To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed.

Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna.

See Knobbler.

Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.

A bloomery fire. See Bloomery.

Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.

A short wooden club with a knobbed end used as a missile weapon by Kafir and other native tribes of South Africa.

One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trade union.

A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.

To strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by blows; as, to knock down an assailant.

to quit (working).

A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.

Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.

knock-knee.

That knocks off; of or pertaining to knocking off.

That knocks out; characterized by knocking out; as, a knock-out blow; a knock-out key for knocking out a drill from a collet.

Drops of any drug, used to a person to fall asleep or become unconscious or stupefied for the purpose of robbery, etc.; they are usually mixed into a drink so that the person consuming it does so unknowingly. One compound used for this purpose is chloral hydrate.

Act of knocking out, or state of being knocked out; the act of rendering a person unconscious by a blow.

A small yacht, generally from fifteen to twenty-five feet in length, having a mainsail and a jib; a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit. All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard. The original type was twenty-one feet in length. The next larger type is called a raceabout.

Marked by knocking about or roughness.

Of force sufficient to fell or completely overthrow; as, a knockdown blow; a knockdown argument..

marked by extreme violence; -- of fights; also used metaphorically of fierce contests; as, a knock-down-and-drag-out fight; a knockdown-dragout competition for the browser market.

damaged; -- not used of persons; as, the gym has some of the most knocked-out equipment since Vic Tanny. Opposite of undamaged.

One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.

A beating; a rap; a series of raps.

Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.

A cheap imitation of something popular, produced illegally without a license from the trademark owner, and of inferior materials.

A block upon which ore is broken up.

The tolling of a bell; a knell.

One who tolls a bell.

A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.

Having knops or knobs; fastened as with buttons.

A kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing.

Same as Knapweed.

See Knur.

Same as Knop, 2.

To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled.

The cloudberry (Rudus Cham/morus); -- so called from its knotted stems.

a common weed with jointed stems (Polygonum aviculare); knotweed. The dog grass. See under Dog.

Free from knots; without knots.

Full of knots; having knots; knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak.

The quality or state of being knotty or full of knots.

Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.

See Knotgrass.

A small, herbaceous, trailing plant, of the genus Illecebrum (Illecebrum verticillatum).

To punish with the knout.

To have knowledge; to have a clear and certain perception; to possess wisdom, instruction, or information; -- often with of.

One who knows everything; hence, one who makes pretension to great knowledge; a wiseacre; a know-it-all; -- usually ironical.

the knowledge and skill required to do something; practical knowledge for a specific task.

One who knows everything; a person who makes pretension to great knowledge, especially one whose didactic conversational habit conspicuously reveals his belief that he has superior knowledge on many subjects; a wiseacre; a know-all; -- usually ironical.

A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office.

The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings.

The state or quality of being knowable.

That may be known; capable of being discovered, understood, or ascertained.

One who knows.

Knowledge; hence, experience.

With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend.

The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.

See Knowledge.

Knowledge.

To acknowledge.

The application of computerized data and text manipulation to manage and interpret large bodies of knowledge, or find useful information in large bodies of data. The study of methods for knowledge engineering is generally considered as a branch of artificial intelligence.

A person whose occupation is predominantly concerned with generating or interpreting information, as contrasted with manual labor.

Requiring access to and manipulation of large quantities of knowledge; as, knowledge-intensive labor.