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.

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.

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.

A Hungarian breed of large powerful shaggy-coated white dog, used also as guard dog.

An African freshwater fish (Protopterus annectens), belonging to the Dipnoi. It can breathe air by means of its lungs, and when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it remains till the rainy season. It is used as food.

To know. See Can, and Con.

An erect deciduous shrub or tree (Fuchsia excorticata), native to New Zealand, growing up to 10 feet, with maroon-flushed flowers.

See Conite.

A form of capsule for inclosing a dose of medicine that is offensive, caustic, or the like.

A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), allied to the hartbeest, but having shorter and flatter horns, and lacking a black patch on the face.

A large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color is reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut.

The oryx or gemsbok.

A west African anthropoid ape (Troglodytes koolokamba, or Troglodytes Aubryi), allied to the chimpanzee and gorilla, and, in some respects, intermediate between them.

See Coleslaw.

See Kurd.

See Kurdish.

Same as Kurilian.

Hill; mountain.

A small Russian coin, continued as a unit of currency within the Soviet Union. One hundred kopecks make a ruble. The ruble was worth about sixty cents (U. S.) in 1910; in 1991 a two-kopeck coin could be used for a local telephone call at a pay telephone. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1993, the exchange value of the ruble declined rapidly and by the end of 1994 the ruble was worth three hundredths of a cent, and by 1997 two hundredths of a cent. By 1993, the kopek had become of such small value that it was obsolete and no longer minted.

A hillock; a small kop, especially a small hill rising up from the African veld.

A Hebrew unit of capacity.

The Scriptures of the Muslims, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.

An Asian peninsula off Manchuria.