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.

The hart in its second year; a young deer.

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.

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.

thoroughly acquainted with and skilled in something through study or experience; as, knowledgeable in classical languages. Opposite of unversed, unacquainted, and unfamiliar.

of Know.

Waste silk formed in winding off the threads from a cocoon.

To beat with the knuckles; to pummel.

To yield; to submit; -- usually used with to.

Jointed.

a small metal weapon, worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand; called also brass knuckles and knuckle duster.

same as knuckles.

A lout; a clown.

A knurl.

To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill.

Full of knots; gnarled.

Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.

Full of knots.

To knock out; to deliver a blow that renders (the opponent) unconscious; -- used especially in boxing.

rendered unconscious, usually by a blow.

Same as Coaita.

A tailless furry marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus), found in Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called also Australian bear, koala bear, native bear, and native sloth. The koala lives almost all of its life in trees, moves sluggishly like a sloth, and eats eucalyptus leaves almost exclusively.

Any one of several species of African antelopes of the genus Kobus, esp. the species Kobus sing-sing.

See Cobalt.

A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.

A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.

A brand of photographic transparency bearing a positive color image.

A Dravidian language.

To photograph with a kodak; hence, to describe or characterize briefly and vividly.

Same as Kodiak bear.

A large brown bear (Ursus middendorffi syn. Ursus arctos middendorffi) of coastal Alaska and British Columbia related to the grizzly bear; called also Kodiak bear.

Any one of several species of cuckoos of the genus Eudynamys, found in India, the East Indies, and Australia. They deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds.

The genus comprising the American mountain mint, synonymous with Pycnanthemum.

A two-masted Dutch vessel.

Ornamental work produced by inlaying steel with gold, -- a variety of damascening much used in the arts of India.

The genus comprising the pygmy sperm whales.

A mixture of soot and other ingredients, used by Egyptian and other Eastern women to darken the edges of the eyelids.

A variety of cabbage, in which the edible part is a large, turnip-shaped swelling of the stem, above the surface of the ground.

A famous diamond, surrendered to the British crown on the annexation of the Punjab. According to Hindu legends, it was found in a Golconda mine, and has been the property of various Hindu and Persian rulers.

The gemsbok.

Any pheasant of the genus Pucrasia. The birds of this genus inhabit India and China, and are distinguished by having a long central and two lateral crests on the head. Called also pucras.

The gnu.

An individual of one of the races of aboriginal inhabitants which survive in Hindustan. Of or pertaining to the Kolarians.

Among furriers, any of several Asiatic minks; esp., Putorius sibiricus, the yellowish brown pelt of which is valued, esp. for the tail, used for making artists' brushes. Trade names for the fur are red sable and Tatar sable.

A collective farm owned by the communist state, in the former USSR.

a member of a kolkhoz.

A Chinese genus having only one species, the beauty bush.

Designating, or pertaining to, a linguistic stock of North American Indians comprising the Tlinkit tribes of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska and adjacent coast lands. Their language bears some affinity to Mexican tongues.

Of or pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from meconic acid.