Knack – Kyanogen

Knack

KNACK, noun nak. A little machine; a petty contrivance; a toy.

A knack a toy, a trick, a baby's cap.

1. A readiness; habitual facility of performance; dexterity; adroitness.

My author has a great knack at remarks.

The Dean was famous in his time,

And had a kind of knack at rhyme.

2. A nice trick.

For how should equal colors do the knack?

Cameleons who can paint in white and black?

KNACK, verb intransitive nak. To crack; to make a sharp abrupt noise. [Little used.]

Knacker

KNACK'ER, noun nak'er. A maker of knacks, toys or small work.

1. A rope-maker, or collar-maker. [Not in use.]

Knag

KNAG, noun nag.

1. A knot in wood, or a protuberant knot; a wart.

2. A peg for hanging things on.

3. The shoot of a deer's horns.

Knaggy

KNAG'GY, noun nag'gy. Knotty, full of knots; rough with knots; hence, rough in temper.

Knap

KNAP, noun nap. A protuberance; a swelling. [Little used. See Knob.]

KNAP, verb transitive nap. [See Knab.]

1. To bite; to bite off; to break short. [Little used.]

2. To strike with a sharp noise. [Little used.]

KNAP, verb intransitive nap. To make a short, sharp sound.

Knapbottle

KNAP'BOTTLE, noun nap'bottle. A plant.

Knappish

KNAP'PISH, adjective nap'pish. Snappish. [See Snap.]

Knapple

KNAP'PLE, verb intransitive nap'ple. To break off with an abrupt sharp noise.

Knapsack

KNAP'SACK, noun nap'sack. A soldier's bag, carried on his back, and containing necessaries of food and clothing. It may be of leather or coarse cloth.

Knapweed

KNAP'WEED, noun nap'weed. A plant of the genus Centaurea, so called probably from knap, a button.

Knar

KN'AR, noun n'ar. A knot in wood.

Knarled

KN'ARLED, adjective Knotted. [See Gnarled.]

Knarry

KN'ARRY, adjective Knotty.

Knave

KNAVE, noun nave.

1. A boy; a man-child.

2. A servant.

3. A false deceitful fellow; a dishonest man or boy.

In defiance of demonstration, knaves will continue to proselyte fools.

4. A card with a soldier painted on it.

Knavery

KNA'VERY, noun na'very. Dishonesty; deception in traffick; trick; petty villainy; fraud.

1. Mischievous tricks or practices.

Knavish

KNA'VISH, adjective na'vish. Dishonest; fraudulent; as a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick or transaction.

1. Waggish; mischievous.

Cupid is a knavish lad,

Thus to make poor females mad.

Knavishly

KNA'VISHLY, na'vishly. Dishonestly; fraudulently.

1. Waggishly; mischievously.

Knavishness

KNA'VISHNESS, noun na'vishness. The quality or habit of knavery; dishonesty.

Knawel

KNAW'EL, noun naw'el. A species of plant.

Knead

KNEAD, verb transitive nead. To work and press ingredients into a mass, usually with the hands; particularly, to work into a well mixed mass the materials of bread, cake or paste; as, to knead dough.

The cake she kneaded was the savory meat.

Kneaded

KNE'ADED, participle passive ne'aded. Worked and pressed together.

Kneading

KNE'ADING, participle present tense ne'ading. Working and mixing into a well mixed mass.

Kneading-Trough

KNE'ADING-TROUGH, noun ne'ading-trauf. A trough or tray in which dough is worked and mixed.

Knebelite

KNEB'ELITE, noun neb'elite. [from Von Knebel.] A mineral of a gray color, spotted with dirty white, brownish green, or green.

Knee

KNEE, noun nee. [Latin genu.]

1. In anatomy, the articulation of the thigh and leg bones.

2. In ship-building, a piece of timber somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent, having two branches or arms, and used to connect the beams of a ship with her sides or timbers.

KNEE, verb transitive nee. To supplicate by kneeling. [Not used.]

Knee-Crooking

KNEE-CROOKING, adjective nee'crooking. Obsequious.

Knee-Deep

KNEE-DEEP, adjective nee'-deep. Rising to the knees; as water or snow knee-deep

Knee-High

KNEE-HIGH, adjective nee-hi. Rising to the knees; as water knee-high

Knee-Holly

KNEE-HOLLY, noun nee'holly. A plant of the genus Ruscus.

Knee-Tribute

KNEE-TRIBUTE, noun nee'tribute. Tribute paid by kneeling; worship or obeisance by genuflection.

Kneed

KNEED, adjective need. Having knees; as in-kneed, out-kneed.

1. In botany, geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as kneed-grass.

Kneeholm

KNEE'HOLM, noun nee'home. Kneeholly.

Kneel

KNEEL, verb intransitive neel. To bend the knee; to fall on the knees; sometimes with down.

As soon as you are dressed, kneel down and say the Lord's prayer.

Kneeler

KNEE'LER, noun nee'ler. One who kneels or worships by kneeling.

Kneeling

KNEE'LING, participle present tense nee'ling. Falling on the knees.

Kneepan

KNEE'PAN, noun nee'pan. The round bone on the fore part of the knee.

Knell

KNELL, noun nell. Properly, the stroke of a bell; hence, the sound caused by striking a bell; appropriately and perhaps exclusively, the sound of a bell rung at a funeral; a tolling.

Knew

KNEW, preterit tense of know.

Knife

KNIFE, noun nife; plural knives; nives.

1. A cutting instrument with a sharp edge. Knives are of various shapes and sizes, adapted to their respective uses; as table knives; carving knives or carvers; penknives, etc.

2. A sword or dagger.

Knight

KNIGHT, noun nite.

1. Originally, a knight was a youth, and young men being employed as servants, hence it came to signify a servant. But among our warlike ancestors, the word was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms. The admission to this privilege was a ceremony of great importance, and was the origin of the institution of knighthood. Hence, in feudal times, a knight was a man admitted to military rank by a certain ceremony. This privilege was conferred on youths of family and fortune, and hence sprung the honorable title of knight in modern usage. A knight has the title of Sir.

2. A pupil or follower.

3. A champion.

KNIGHT of the post, a knight dubbed at the whipping post or pillory; a hireling witness.

KNIGHT of the shire, in England, one of the representatives of a county in parliament, originally a knight but now any gentleman having an estate in land of six hundred pounds a year is qualified.

KNIGHT, verb transitive nite. To dub or create a knight which is done by the king who gives the person kneeling a blow with a sword, and says, rise, Sir.

Knight-Errant

KNIGHT-ER'RANT, noun [knight and Latin errans, erro, to wander.]

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

Knight-Errantry

KNIGHT-ER'RANTRY, noun The practice of wandering in quest of adventures; the manners of wandering knights.

Knight-Heads

KNIGHT-HEADS, noun In ships, bollard timbers, two pieces of timber rising just within the stem, one on each side of the bowsprit to secure its inner end; also, two strong frames of timber which inclose and support the ends of the windlass.

Knight-Marshal

KNIGHT-M'ARSHAL, noun An officer in the household of the British king, who has cognizance of transgressions within the king's household and verge, and of contracts made there.

Knight-Service

KNIGHT-SERVICE, noun In English feudal law, a tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service, every possessor of a knight's fee, or estate originally of twenty pounds annual value, being obliged to attend the king in his wars.

Knighthood

KNIGHTHOOD, noun The character or dignity of a knight.

1. A military order, honor, or degree of ancient nobility, conferred as a reward of valor or merit. It is of four kinds, military, regular, honorary, and social.

Knightliness

KNIGHTLINESS, noun Duties of a knight.

Knightly

KNIGHTLY, adjective Pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; as a knightly combat.

Knit

KNIT, verb transitive nit. preterit tense and participle passive knit or knitted. [Latin nodo, whence nodus, Eng. knot.]

1. To unite, as threads by needles; to connect in a kind of net-work; as, to knit a stocking.

2. To unite closely; as, let our hearts be knit together in love.

3. To join or cause to grow together.

Nature cannot knit the bones, while the parts are under a discharge.

4. To tie; to fasten.

And he saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending to him, as it were a great sheet knit at the four corners. Acts 10:11.

5. To draw together; to contract; as, to knit the brows.

KNIT, verb intransitive nit. To unite or interweave by needles.

1. To unite closely; to grow together. Broken bones will in time knit and become sound.

KNIT, noun nit. Union by knitting; texture. [Little used.]

Knittable

KNIT'TABLE, adjective nit'table. That may be knit.

Knitter

KNIT'TER, noun nit'ter. One that knits.

Knitting

KNIT'TING, participle present tense nit'ting. Uniting by needles; forming texture; uniting in growth.

KNIT'TING, noun Junction.

Knitting-Needle

KNIT'TING-NEEDLE, noun nit'ting-needle. A long needle usually made of wire, used for knitting threads into stockings, garters, etc.

Knittle

KNIT'TLE, noun nit'l. [from knit.] A string that gathers or draws together a purse.

1. A small line used in ships to sling hammocks.

Knob

KNOB, noun nob. A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; as a knob in the flesh or on a bone.

Knobbed

KNOB'BED, adjective nob'bed. Containing knobs; full of knobs.

Knobbiness

KNOB'BINESS, noun nob'biness. [from knobby.] The quality of having knobs, or of being full of protuberances.

Knobby

KNOB'BY, adjective nob'by. Full of knobs or hard protuberances; hard.

Knock

KNOCK, verb intransitive nok.

1. To strike or beat with something thick or heavy; as, to knock with a club or with the fist; to knock at the door. We never use this word to express beating with a small stick or whip.

2. To drive or be driven against; to strike against; to clash; as when one heavy body knocks against another.

To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge to be conquered; an expression borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table, when conquered.

KNOCK, verb transitive nok. To strike; to drive against; as, to knock the head against a post.

1. To strike a door for admittance; to rap.

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

To knock out, to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out the brains.

To knock up, to arouse by knocking. In popular use, to beat out; to fatigue till unable to do more.

To knock off, to force off by beating. At auctions, to assign to a bidder by a blow on the counter.

To knock on the head, to kill by a blow or by blows.

KNOCK, noun nok. A blow; a stroke with something thick or heavy.

1. A stroke on a door, intended as a request for admittance; a rap.

Knocker

KNOCK'ER, noun nok'er. One that knocks.

1. An instrument or kind of hammer, fastened to a door to be used in seeking for admittance.

Knocking

KNOCK'ING, participle present tense nok'ing. Beating; striking.

KNOCK'ING, noun nok'ing. A beating; a rap.

Knoll

KNOLL, verb transitive noll. [See Knell.] To ring a bell, usually for a funeral.

KNOLL, verb intransitive noll. To sound, as a bell.

[This word, I believe, is not used in America.]

KNOLL, noun noll. The top or crown of a hill; but more generally, a little round hill or mount; a small elevation of earth.

Knop

KNOP, noun nop. [a different spelling of knap or nob.]

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

Knopped

KNOP'PED, adjective nop'ped. Having knops or knobs; fastened as with buttons.

Knot

KNOT, noun not. [Latin nodus; probably connected with knit, but perhaps from swelling or gathering.]

1. The complication of threads made by knitting; a tie; union of cords by interweaving; as a knot difficult to be untied.

2. Any figure, the lines of which frequently intersect each other; as a knot in gardening.

In beds and curious knots.

3. A bond of association or union; as the nuptial knot

4. The part of a tree where a branch shoots.

5. The protuberant joint of a plant.

6. A cluster; a collection; a group; as a knot of ladies; a knot of figures in painting.

7. Difficulty; intricacy; something not easily solved.

8. Any intrigue or difficult perplexity of affairs.

9. A bird of the genus Tringa.

10. An epaulet.

11. In seamen's language, a division of the logline, which answers to half a minute, as a mile does to an hour, or it is the hundred and twentieth part of a mile. Hence, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, she is said to go eight knots.

KNOT, verb transitive not. To complicate or tie in a knot or knots; to form a knot

1. To entangle; to perplex.

2. To unite closely.

KNOT, verb intransitive not. To form knots or joints, as in plants.

Knotberry

KNOT'BERRY, noun not'berry. A plant of the genus Rubus.

Knotgrass

KNOT'GRASS, noun not'grass. The name of several species of plants, so denominated from the joints of the stem. The common knotgrass is the Polygonum aviculare.

Knotless

KNOT'LESS, adjective not'less. Free from knots; without knots.

Knotted

KNOT'TED, adjective not'ted. Full of knots; having knots; as the knotted oak.

1. Having intersecting figures.

Knottiness

KNOT'TINESS, noun not'tiness. [from knotty.]

1. Fullness of knots; the quality of having many knots or swellings.

2. Difficulty of solution; intricacy.

Knotty

KNOT'TY, adjective not'ty. Full of knots; having many knots; as knotty timber.

1. Hard; rugged; as a knotty head.

2. Difficult; intricate; perplexed; as a knotty question or point.

Knout

KNOUT, noun nout. A punishment in Russia, inflicted with a whip.

Know

KNOW, verb transitive no. preterit tense knew; participle passive known. [Latin nosco, cognosco, Gr. although much varied in orthography. Nosco makes novi, which, with g or c prefixed, gnovi or cnovi, would coincide with know knew. So Latin cresco, crevi, coincides with grow, grew. The radical sense of knowing is generally to take, receive, or hold.]

1. To perceive with certainty; to understand clearly; to have a clear and certain perception of truth, fact, or any thing that actually exists. To know a thing precludes all doubt or uncertainty of its existence. We know what we see with our eyes, or perceive by other senses. We know that fire and water are different substances. We know that truth and falsehood express ideas incompatible with each other. We know that a circle is not a square. We do not know the truth of reports, nor can we always know what to believe.

2. To be informed of; to be taught. It is not unusual for us to say we know things from information, when we rely on the veracity of the informer.

3. To distinguish; as, to know one man from another. We know a fixed star from a planet by its twinkling.

4. To recognize by recollection, remembrance, representation or description. We do not always know a person after a long absence. We sometimes know a man by having seen his portrait, or having heard him described.

5. To be no stranger to; to be familiar. This man is well known to us.

6. In scripture, to have sexual commerce with. Genesis 4:9.

7. To approve.

The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous. Psalms 1:6.

8. To learn. Proverbs 1:2.

9. To acknowledge with due respect. 1 Thessalonians 5:2.

10. To choose; to favor or take an interest in. Amos 3:10.

11. To commit; to have.

He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. 2Cor.

12. To have full assurance of; to have satisfactory evidence of any thing, though short of certainty.

KNOW, verb intransitive no.

1. To have clear and certain perception; not to be doubtful; sometimes with of.

If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. John 7:17.

2. To be informed.

Sir John must not know of it.

3. To take cognizance of; to examine.

KNOW of your youth - examine well your blood.

Knowable

KNOWABLE, adjective no'able. That may be known; that may be discovered, understood or ascertained.

Knower

KNOWER, noun no'er. One who knows.

Knowing

KNOWING, participle present tense no'ing.

1. Having clear and certain perception of.

2. adjective Skillful; well informed; well instructed; as a knowing man.

The knowing and intelligent part of the world.

3. Conscious; intelligent.

A knowing prudent cause.

KNOWING, noun no'ing. Knowledge.

Knowingly

KNOWINGLY, adverb no'ingly. With knowledge. He would not knowingly offend.

Knowledge

KNOWL'EDGE, noun nol'lej.

1. A clear and certain perception of that which exists, or of truth and fact; the perception of the connection and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of our ideas.

We can have no knowledge of that which does not exist. God has a perfect knowledge of all his works. Human knowledge is very limited, and is mostly gained by observation and experience.

2. Learning; illumination of mind.

Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

3. Skill; as a knowledge of seamanship.

4. Acquaintance with any fact or person. I have no knowledge of the man or thing.

5. Cognizance; notice. Ruth 2:10.

6. Information; power of knowing.

7. Sexual intercourse. But it is usual to prefix carnal; as carnal knowledge

KNOWLEDGE, for acknowledge or avow, is not used.

Knub

KNUB,

KNUB'BLE, verb transitive To beat; to strike with the knuckle. [Not used.]

Knubble

KNUB'BLE, v.t. To beat; to strike with the knuckle. [Not used.]

Knuckle

KNUCK'LE, noun nuk'l.

1. The joint of a finger, particularly when protuberant by the closing of the fingers.

2. The knee join of a calf; as a knuckle of veal.

3. The joint of a plant. [Not used.]

KNUCK'LE, verb intransitive nuk'l. To yield; to submit in contest to an antagonist.

Knuckled

KNUCK'LED, adjective Jointed.

Knuff

KNUFF, noun nuff. A lout; a clown. [Not used.]

Knur

KNUR, nur.

Knurle

KNURLE, noun nurle. A knot; a hard substance.

Knurled

KNURL'ED, adjective nurl'ed. Full of knots.

Knurly

KNUR'LY, adjective nur'ly. [from knur.] Full of knots; hard. This seems to be the same as gnarly.

Knurry

KNUR'RY, adjective nur'ry. Full of knots.

Koba

KOBA, noun An antelope, with horns close at the base.

Kokob

KO'KOB, noun A venomous serpent of America.

Kollyrite

KOL'LYRITE, noun [Gr.] A variety of clay whose color is pure white, or with a shade of gray, red or yellow.

Kommanic

KOM'MANIC, noun The crested lark of Germany.

Konilite

KON'ILITE, noun [Gr. dust, and a stone.]

A mineral in the form of a loose powder, consisting chiefly of silex, and remarkably fusible.

Konite

KONITE. [See Conite.]

Kopeck

KO'PECK, noun A Russian coin, about the value of a cent.

Koran

KO'RAN, noun Pronounced by oriental scholars korawn.

The Mohammedan book of faith; the alkoran.

Koret

KO'RET, noun A delicious fish of the East Indies.

Korin

KO'RIN, noun An antelope with slender smooth horns.

Koupholite

KOUPH'OLITE, noun [Gr. light, and stone.]

A mineral, regarded as a variety of prehnite. It occurs in minute rhomboidal plates, of a greenish or yellowish white, translucid, glistening and pearly. It is found in the Pyrenees.

Kraal

KRAAL, noun In the southern part of Africa, among the Hottentots, a village; a collection of huts.

Krag

KRAG, noun A species of argillaceous earth.

Kraken

KRA'KEN, noun A supposed enormous sea animal.

Krout

CROUT, KROUT noun [G., an herb.] Sour crout is made by laying minced or chopped cabbage in layers in a barrel, with a handful of salt and caraway seeds between the layers; then ramming down the whole, covering it, pressing it with a heavy weight, and suffering it to stand, till it has gone through fermentation. It is an efficacious preservative against scurvy in long voyages.

Kruka

KRU'KA, noun A bird of russia and Sweden, resembling a hedge sparrow.

Kufic

KU'FIC, adjective The kufic letters were the ancient letters of the Arabic, so called from Kufa, or the Euphrates.

Kumiss

KU'MISS, noun A liquor or drink made from mare's milk fermented and distilled; milkspirit, used by the Tartars.

Kuril

KU'RIL, noun A bird, the black petrel.

Kurilian

KURIL'IAN, adjective The kurilian isles are a chain in the Pacific, extending from the southern extremity of Kamschatka to Jesso.

Ky

KY, noun Kine. [Not in use.]

Kyanite

KY'ANITE, noun [Gr. sky colored. It is written also cyanite, but most improperly, if pronounced kyanite kyanite is doubtless the preferable orthography.]

A mineral found both massive and in regular crystals. It is frequently in broad or compressed six-sided prisms, with bases a little inclined; or this crystal may be viewed as a four sided prism, truncated on two of its lateral edges, diagonally opposite. Its prevailed color is blue, whence its name, but varying from a fine Prussian blue to sky-blue, or bluish white. It occurs also of various shades of green, and even gray, or white and reddish. It is infusible by the common blowpipe. This mineral is called by Hauy and Brongniart, disthene, and by Saussure, sappare.

Kyanogen

KYAN'OGEN, noun [Gr. blue and to beget.]

Carbureted azote; the compound base of prussic acid, called also prussine.