3. Bland; mild; softening. Through all the living regions do'st thou move, And scatter'st, where thou goest, the kindly seeds Dryden. of love. Ye heav'ns, from high the dewy nectar pour, And in soft silence shed the kindly show'r! Pope. KINDNESS. u. s. [from kind.] Benevolence; beneficence; good-will; favour; love. If there be kindness, meekness, or comfort in her tongue, then is not her husband like other men. Eccles. xxxvi 23. Old Lelius professes he had an extraordinary kindness for several young people. Collier on Friend. Ever blest be Cytherea's shrine, Since thy dear breast has felt an equal wound, Since in thy kindness my desires are crown'd. Prior. Love and inclination can be produced only by an experience or opinion of kindness to us. Rogers's Sermons. KINDRED. n. s. [from kind; cynnene, Sax.] 1. Relation by birth or marriage; cognation: consanguinity; affinity. Like her, of equal kindred to the throne, You keep her conquests,and extend your own. Dry. 2. Relation; suit. An old mothy saddle, and the stirrups of no kindred. 3. Relative. Ere the milk-maid fine Hath open'd her eyne., Dryden. Ben Jonson. Gay. A field I went, amid' the morning dew, To milk my kine. KING. n. s. [A contraction of the Teutonick word cuning, or cyning, the name of sovereign dignity. In the primitive tongue it signifies stout or valiant, the kings of most nations being, in the beginning, chosen by the people on account of their valour and strength. Verstegan.] 1. Monarch; supreme governor. The great king of kings Hath in the table of his law commanded That thou shalt do no murder. Shakesp. Rich. III. The king becoming graces, Shakesp. Macbeth. Thus states were form'd; the name of king unknown, 'Till common int'rest plac'd the sway in one: 'Twas virtue only, or in arts or arms, Diffusing blessings, or averting harms, The same which in a sire the sons obey'd, A prince the father of a people made. Pope. 2. It is taken by Bacon in the feminine; as prince also is. Ferdinand and Isabella,kings of Spain, recovered the great and rich kingdom of Granada from the Bacon Moors 13. A card with the picture of a king. The king unseen Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive Pope. queen. 4. King at Arms, a principal officer at arms, that has the pre-eminence of the society; of whom there are three in number, viz. Garter, Norroy, and Clarencieux. Phillips. A letter under his own hand was lately shewed me by sir William Dugdale, king at arms. Walton. To KING. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To supply with a king. A word rather ludicrous. England is so idly king'd, Shakesp. Henry V. 2. To make royal; to raise to royalty. Sometimes am I a king; Then treason makes me wish myself a beggar, And so I am then crushing penury Persuades me, I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again. Shakesp. Rich. II. KINGAPPLE. n. s. A kind of apple. The kingapple is preferred before the jenneting. Mortimer. KINGCRAFT. n. s. [king and craft.] The art of governing. A word commonly used by king James. KINGCUP. n. s. [king and cup. The name is properly, according to Gerard, kingcob.] The flower crowfoot. June is drawn in a mantle of dark grass green, and upon his head a garland of bents, kingcups, and maidenhair. Peacham. Gay. Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows. KINGDOM. n. s. [from king.] 1. The dominion of a king; the territories subject to a monarch. You're welcome, Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom. Shak. Moses gave unto them the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og, king of Bashan. Numb. xxxii. 2. A different class or order of beings. A word chiefly used among naturalists. The animal and vegetable kingdoms are so nearly joined, that if you take the lowest of one, and the highest of the other, there will scarce be perceived any difference. 3. A region; a tract. The wat'ry kingdom is no bar To stop the foreign spirits; but they come, KINGLY. adv. With an air of royalty; with superior dignity. Adam Dow'd low; he, kingly, from his state Inclin'd not. Milton's Par. Lost. His hat, which never vail'd to human pride, Walker with rev'rence took, and laid aside; Low bow'd the rest, he, kingly, did but nod. Dunciad. KINGSE'VIL. n. s. [king and evil.] A scrofulous distemper, in which the glands are ulcerated, commonly believed to be cured by the touch of a king. Sore eyes are frequently a species of the kingsevil, and take their beginning from vicious humours inflaming the tunica adnata. Wisem. Surg. KINGSHIP. n. s. [from king.] Royalty; monarchy. They designed and proposed to me the newmodelling of sovereignty and kingship, without any reality of power, or without any necessity of subjection and obedience. King Charles. was, against We know how successful the late while his army believed him real in his usurper kingship; but when they found out the imposture, upon his aspiring to the same himself, he was presently deserted and opposed by them, and never able to crown his usurped greatness with the addition of that title which he passionately thirsted after. South. KI'NGSPEAR. n. s. [asphodelus.] A plant. KINGSTONE. n. s. [squatina.] A fish. Ains. KI'NSFOLK. n. s. [kin and folk.] Relations; those who are of the same family. Those lords, since their first grants of those lands, have bestowed them amongst their kinsfolks. Spen. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends forgotten me. Job, xix. 14. KINSMAN. n. s. [kin and man.] A man of the same race or family. The jury he made to be chosen out of the nearest kinsmen, and their judges he made of their own fathers. Spenser Both fair, and both of royal blood they seem'd, Whom kinsmen to the crown the heralds deem'd. Dryden. Let me stand excluded from my right, Robb'd of my kinsman's arms, who first appear'd in fight. Dryden's Fables. There is a branch of the Medicis in Naples. the head of it has been owned as a kinsman by the great duke, and 'tis thought will succeed to his dominions. Addison on Italy. KI'NSWOMAN. n. s. [kin and woman.] A female relation. A young noble lady, near kinswoman to the fair Helen, queen of Corinth, was come thither. Sidn. The duke was as much in love with wit as he was with his kinswoman. Dennis's Letters O'er France, and all her almost kingly dukedoms. KIRK. n. s. [cynce, Sax. ; xvgian.] An Yet this place Shakesp. Had been thy kingly seat, and here thy race, From all the ends of peopled earth, had come To rev'rence thee. Dryden's State of Innocence. In Sparta, a kingly government, though the people were perfectly free, the administration was in the two kings and the ephori. Swift. The cities of Greece, when they drove out their tyrannical kings, either chose others from a new family, or abolished the kingly government, and Swift. 2 Belonging to a king; suitable to a king. became free states. old word for a church, yet retained in Scotland. Home they hasten the posts to dight, And all the kirk pillars ere day-light, With hawthorn buds, and sweet eglantine. Spen. Nor is it all the nation hath these spots, There is a church as well as kirk of Scots. Cleavel What one party thought to rivet by the Scots, that the other contemus, despising the kirk government and discipline of the Scots. King Charles. An upper KIRTLE. n. s. [cyɲtel, Sax.] garment; a gown. All in a kirtle of discoloured say He clothed was. Fairy Queen. To KISS. v. d. [cusan, Welsh; xúw.] 1. To touch with the lips. But who those ruddy lips can miss, Which blessed still themselves do kiss. He took Raleigh. Sidney. The bride about the neck, and kist her lips The hearts of princes kiss obedience, 8. To touch gently. Shak. The moon shines bright: in such a night as this, What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust? O envy not the dead, they feel not bliss! Dryden. These bak'd him kissingcrusts, and those Brought him small beer. KIT. n.s. [kitte, Dut.] 1. A large bottle. 2. A small diminutive fiddle. King's Cookery. Skinner. "Tis kept in a case fitted to it, almost like a dancing master's kit. Grew's Museum. n. s. Hudibras. Instead of kitchenstuff some cry Laura to his lady was but a kitchenwench. Shak. 1. A bird of prey that infests the farms, 2. More pity that the eagle should be mew'd, The heron, when she soareth high, so as some- A leopard and a cat seem to differ just as a kite doth from an eagle. Grew. Detested kite! thou liest. A name of reproach denoting rapacity. That a mare will sooner drown than an horse, is 3. A small wooden vessel, in which Newcastle salmon is sent to London and else-To where. Draw ribbands and posies. Ben Jonson's Gypsies. The knack of fast and loose passes with foolish people for a turn of wit; but they are not aware all this while of the desperate consequences of an ill habit. L'Estrange. There is a certain knack in conversation that gives a good grace by the manner and address. L'Estrange. Knaves, who in full assemblies have the knack Of turning truth to lies, and white to black. Dryd. My author has a great knack at remarks: in the end he makes another about our refining in controversy, and coming nearer and nearer to the church of Rome. Atterbury. The dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhime. 3. A nice trick. KITCHEN. n. s. [kegin, Welsh; keg, Mortimer. One part for plow-right, knacker, and smith. 2. A rope-maker. [Restio, Lat.] KNAG. n. s. [knag a wart, Dan. It is retained in Scotland.] A hard knot in wood. KNA'GGY. adj. [from knag.] Knotty; set with hard rough knots. KNAP. n.s. [cnap, Welsh, a protuberance, or a broken piece; cnæp, Sax. a protuberance.] A protuberance, a swelling prominence. You shall see many fine seats set upon a knap of ground, environed with higher hills round about it, whereby the heat of the sun is pent in, and the wind gathered as in troughs. Bacon To KNAP. v. a. [knappen, Dut.] I had much rather lie knabbing crusts, without A kitchengarden is a more pleasant sight than To KNA'BBLE. v. n. [from knab.] To bite KITCHENMAID. n. s. [kitchen and maid.] As thrifty wench scrapes kitchenstuff, Horses will knabble at walls, and rats gnaw iron. When I was young, I was wont To load my she with knacks: I would have ran- The pedlar's silken treasury, and have pour'd it He knappeth the spear in sunder. Common Praye Kna'pbottle. n. s. [papaver spumeum.] To KNAPPLE. v. n. [from knap.] To KNAPSACK. n.s. [from knappen to eat.]| The bag which a soldier carries on his back; a bag of provisions. The constitutions of this church shall not be repealed, 'till I see more religious motives than soldiers carry in their knapsacks. King Charles. If you are for a merry jaunt, I'll try for ouce who can foot it farthest: there are hedges in Summer, and barns in Winter: I with my knapsack, and you with your bottle at your back: we'll leave honour to madmen, and riches to knaves, and travel till we come to the ridge of the world. Dryden. KNA'PWEED. n. s. [jacea, Lat.] A plant. Miller. KNARE. n. s. [knor, Germ.] A hard knot. 1. A boy; a male child. 2. A servant. Both these are obsolete. For as the moon the eye doth please Sidney. He eats and drinks with his domestick slaves; A verier hind than any of his knaves. Dryden. 3. A petty rascal; a scoundrel; a dishonest fellow. Most men rather brook their being reputed knaves, than for their honesty be accounted fools; knave, in the mean time, passing for a name of credit. South. When both plaintiff and defendant happen to be crafty knaves, there's equity against both. L'Estrange. Dryden. Pope. An honest man may take a knave's advice; But idiots only may be cozen'd twice. See all our fools aspiring to be knaves. 4. A card with a soldier painted on it. For 'twill return, and turn t' account, If we are brought in play upon't, Or but by casting knaves get in, What pow'r can hinder us to win! KNAVERY. n. s. [from knave.} 1. Dishonesty; tricks; petty villany. Here's no knavery' See, to beguile the old folks, how the young folks lay their heads together! Hudibras. Shakesp. If I thought it were not a piece of honesty to acquaint the king withal, I would do it; I hold it the more knavery to conceal it. Shak. Winter's Tale. The cunning courtier should be slighted too, Who with dull knavery makes so much ado; 'Till the shrewd fool, by thriving too too fast, Like Esop's fox, becomes a prey at last. Dryden. 2. Mischievous tricks or practices. In the following passage it seems a general term for any thing put to an ill use, or perhaps of trifling things of more cost than use. We'll revel it as bravely as the best, With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry. KNA'VISH. adj. [from knave.] Shakesp. 1. Dishonest; wicked; fraudulent. "Tis foolish to conceal it at all, and knavish to do it from friends. 2. Waggish; mischievous. Here she comes curst and sad; Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad. It is a lump, where all beasts kneaded be, Wisdom makes him an ark, where all agree. Donne. Thus kneaded up with milk the new-made man His kingdom o'er his kindred world began: "Till knowledge misapply'd, misunderstood, And pride of empire, sour'd his balmy blood. Dryden. One paste of flesh on all degrees bestow'd, And kneaded up alike with moist'ning blood. Dryd. Prometheus, in the kneading up of the heart, seasoned it up with some furious particles of the Addison's Spectator. lion. No man ever reapt his corn, Or from the oven drew his bread, Ere hinds and bakers yet were born, That taught them both to sow and knead. Prior. The cake she kneaded was the sav'ry meat. Prior. KNEADINGTROUGH. n. s. [knead and trough.] A trough in which the paste of bread is worked together. Frogs shall come into thy kneadingtroughs. Exod. KNEE. n. s. [cneop, Sax. knee, Dut.] 1. The joint of the leg where the leg is joined to the thigh. KNE EPAN. n. s. [knee and pan.] A little round bone about two inches broad, pretty thick, a little convex on both sides, and covered with a smooth cartilage on its foreside. It is soft in children, but very hard in those of riper years it is called patella or mola. Over it passes the tendon of the muscles which extend the leg, to which it serves as a pully. Quincy. The kneepan must be shewn, with the knitting thereof, by a fine shadow underneath the joint. Peacham on Drawing. To KNEEL. v. n. [from knee.] To per form the act of genuflection; to bend the knee. When thou do'st ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. Shakesp. King Lear. Ere I was risen from the place that shew'd My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post, Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, panting forth From Goneril his mistress, salutations. Shakesp. A certain man kneeling down to him, said, Lord, have mercy upon my son, for he is lunatick. Matt. xvii. 14. As soon as you are dressed, kneel and say the Lord's prayer. Taylor's Guide to Devotion. KNEETRIBUTE. n. s. [knee and tribute.] Genuflection; worship or obeisance shown by kneeling. Receive from us Kneetribute yet unpaid, prostration vile. Milton Shakesp. Macbeth. KNEL. n. s. [cnil, Welsh, a funeral pile; cnýllan to ring, Sax.] The sound of a bell rung at a funeral. Scotch skink is a kind of strong nourishment, made of the knees and sinews of beef long boiled. I beg and clasp thy knces. Bacon. Milton. Wearied with length of ways, worn out with toil, Iö lay down, and leaning on her knees, Invok'd the cause of all her miseries; And cast her languishing regards above, For help from Heav'n, and her ungratefu. Jove. Dryden. 2. A knee is a piece of timber growing crooked, and so cut that the trunk and branch make an angle. Moxon's Mech. Exer Such dispositions are the fittest timber to make great politicks of: like to knee timber, that is good for ships that are to be tossed; but not for huilding houses, that shall stand firm. Bacon. KNEE. v. a. [from the noun.] To supplicate by kneeling. To Go you that banish'd him, a mile before his tent fall down, and knee the way into his mercy. Shakesp. Coriolanus. Return with her! 1. Having knees: as in-kneed, or out- 2. Having joints: as kneed grass. KNE'EDEEP. adj. [knee and deep.] 1. Rising to the knees. Pope's Letters. 2. KNA VISHLY. adj. [from knavish.] 1. Dishonestly; fraudulently. 2. Waggishly; mischievously. Shakesp. To KNEAD. v. a. [cnæban, Sax. kneden, Dut.] To beat or mingle any stuff or VOL. IL Sunk to the knees. I would not wish them to a fairer death: And so his knell is knoll'd. Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell: Hark, now I hear them. Shakesp. Shakesp. Tempest. When he was brought again to th' bar, to hear His knell rung out, his judgment, he was stirr'd With such an agony, he sweat extremely. Shak. All these motions, which we saw, Are but as ice, which crackles at a thaw: Or as a lute, which in moist weather rings Her knell alone, by cracking of her strings. Donne. Unhappy slave, and pupil to a bell, Which his hours work, as well as hours do tell; Unhappy 'till the last, the kind releasing knell. Cowley. Prior. At dawn poor Stella danc'd and sung; The am'rous youth around her bow'd: At night her fatal knell was rung; I saw, and kiss'd her in her shrowd. KNEW. The preterite of know. KNIFE. n. s. plur. knives, [cnif, Sax. kniff, Dan.] An instrument edged and pointed, wherewith meat is cut, and animals killed. Come, thick night! And pall thee in the duunest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes. Shakesp. Crashaw. Blest powers! forbid thy tender life Dryden's En. Ev'n in his sleep he starts, and fears the knife, And, trembling, in his arms takes his accomplice wife. Dryden. Pain is not in the knife that cuts us; but we call it cutting in the knife, and pain only in ourselves. Watts. KNIGHT. n. s. [cnipt, Sax. knecht, Germ. a servant, or pupil.] The country peasant meditates no harm, When clad with skins of beasts to keep him warm; In winter weather unconcern'd he goes, Almost kneedeep, through mire in clumsey shoes. KNE'EDGRASS. n. s. [gramen genicula-1. A man advanced to a certain degree of tum.] An herb. Dryden. KNE'EHOLM. n. s. [aquifolium.] An herb. Ainsworth. military rank. It was anciently the custom to knight every man of rank or fortune, that he might be qualified to C When every case in law is right, No squire in debt, and no poor knight. Shakesp. King Lear. This knight; but yet why should I call him knight, Daniel. To give impiety to this rev'rent stile? No squire with knight did better fit In parts, in manners, and in wit. Hudibras. 2. Shakespeare uses it of a female, and it must therefore be understood in its original meaning, pupil or follower. Pardon, goddess of the night, Those that slew thy virgin knight; For the which, with songs of woe, Round about her tomb they go. 3. A champion. He suddenly unties the poke, So that the knights each other lost, Did I for this my country bring Shakesp. Drayton. Denham. KNIGHT Errant. [chevalier errant.] A wandering knight; one who went about in quest of adventures. Like a bold knight errant did proclaim Won all their mistresses in fights; Hudibras. KNIGHT Errantry. [from knight errant.] The character or manners of wandering knights. That which with the vulgar passes for courage is a brutish sort of knight errantry, seeking out needless encounters. Norris. KNIGHT of the Post. A hireling evidence; a knight dubbed at the whipping post, or pillory. There are knights of the post, and holy cheats enough, to swear the truth of the broadest contradictions, where pious frauds shall give them an extraordinary call. South. KNIGHT of the Shire. One of the representatives of a county in parliament: he formerly was a military knight; but now any man having an estate in land of six hundred pounds a year is qualified. To KNIGHT. v. a. [from the noun.] To create one a knight, which is done by the king, who gives the person kneeling a blow with a sword, and bids him rise up sir. Favours came thick upon him: the next St. George's day he was knighted. Wotton. laws: How dares your pride presume against my As in a listed field to fight your cause: Unask'd the royal grant, no marshal by, As knightly rites require, nor judge to try. Dryd. KNIGHTHOOD. n. s. [from knight.] The character or dignity of a knight. The sword which Merlin made, For that his noursling, when he knighthood swore, Therewith to doen his foes eternal smart, Fairy Q. Speak truly, on thy knighthood, and thine oath, And so defend thee, Heaven, and thy valour. Shak. Is this the sir, who some waste wife to win, A knighthood bought, to go a-wooing in? B. Jonson. If you needs must write, write Caesar's praise, You'll gain at least a knighthood, or the bays. Pope. KNIGHTLESS. adj. [from knight.] Unbecoming a knight. Obsolete. Arise, thou cursed miscreant, That hast with knightless guile, and treacherous train, Fair knighthood foully shamed. Fairy Queen. To KNIT. v. a. preter. knit or knitted. [cnitzan, Sax.] 1. To make or unite by texture without a loom. Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, The birth of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds. Shakesp. Macbeth. A thousand Cupids in those curls do sit; Those curious nets thy slender fingers knit. Waller. 2. To tye. Send for the county; go tell him of this; I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning. Shak. 3. To join ; to unite. This was formerly a word of extensive use; it is now less frequent. His gall did grate for grief and high disdain, And knitting all his force, got one hand free. Spens. These, mine enemies, are all knit up In their distractions: they are in my power. Shak. And the premised flames of the last day Command upon me; to the which my duties Shakesp. Macbeth. This royal hand and mine are newly kn't, And the conjunction of our inward souls Married in league. Shakesp. K. John. By the simplicity of Venus' doves, By that whichi knitteth souls, and prospers loves. Shakesp. If ye be come peaceably, mine heart shall be knit unto you. 1 Chron. xii. 17. That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love. Col. ii. 2. He doth fundamentally and mathematically demonstrate the firmest knittings of the upper timbers, which make the roof. Wotton's Architecture. Pride and impudence, in faction knit, Usurp the chair of wit! Ben Jonson's New Inn. Ye knit my heart to you by asking this question. Bacon. These two princes were agreeable to be joined in marriage, and thereby knit both realms into Hayward. Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastick round. one. Milton. God gave several abilities to several persons, that each might help to supply the publick needs, and, by joining to, as the parts of the world are all wants, they be knit together by justice, by nature. Taylor's Rule of Living Holy. Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge. Wiseman's Surgery. 4. To contract. The lord protector knighted the king: and immediately the king stood up, took the sword fro the lord protector, and dubbed the lord mayor of London knight. Hayward. The hero William, and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pension'd 5. Quarles. Pope. KNIGHTLY. adv. [from knight.] Befitting a knight; beseeming a knight. What are the thoughts that knit thy brow in frowns, And turn thy eyes so coldly on thy prince? Addis. To tie up. He saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him as it had been a great sheet, knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth. Acts, x. 11. Let us take care of your wound, upon condition To KNIT. v. n. that a more knightly combat shall be performed between us. Sidney. 1. To weave without a loom. A young shepherdess knitting and singing: hẹ voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice's musick. Sidney. Make the world distinguish Julia's son From the vile offspring of a trull, that sits By the town-wall, and for her living knits. Dryden. 2. To join; to close; to unite. Not used. Our sever'd navy too Have knit again; and float, threat'ning most sealike. Shakesp. KNIT. n. s. [from the verb.] Texture. Let their heads be sleekly comb'd, their blue coats brush'd, and their garters of an indifferent knit. Shakesp. KNITTER. n. s. [from knit.] One who weaves or knits. The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the three maids that weave their thread with bones, Shakesp. Twelfth Night. KNITTINGNEEDLE. n.s. [knit and needle.] A wire which women use in knitting. Do use to chant it. The informers continued in a knobby kind of obstinacy, resolving still to conceal the names of the authors. Howel. To KNOCK. v. n. [cnucian, Sax. cnoce a blow, Welsh.] 1. To clash; to be driven suddenly together. Any hard body thrust forwards by another body contiguous, without knocking, giveth no noise. Bacon's Nat. Hist. They may say, the atoms of the chaos being variously moved according to this catholick law, must needs knock and interfere. Bentley. 2. To beat, as at a door for admittance; commonly with at. 3. Villain, I say knock me at this gate, And rap me well; or I'll knock your knave's pate Shakesp. Whether to knock against the gates of Rome, Or rudely visit them in parts remote, To fright them, ere destroy. Shakesp. Coriolanus. I bid the rascal knock upon your gate, And could not get him for my heart to do it. Shak. For harbour at a thousand doors they knock'd, Not one of all the thousand but was lock'd. Dryd. Knock at your own breast, and ask your soul, If those fair fatal eyes edg'd not your sword. Dryd. To knock under. A common expres sion, which denotes that a man yields or submits. Submission is expressed among good fellows by knocking under the table. Followed commonly by a particle: as, to knock up, to rouse by knocking; to knock down, to fell by a blow. To KNOCK. v. a. 1. To affect or change in any respect by blows. How do you mean removing him? -Why, by making him incapable of Othello's place; knocking out his brains. Shakesp. Othello. He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty. Locke. Time was, a sober Englishman would knock His servants up, and rise by five o'clock; Instruct his family in ev'ry rule, And send his wife to church, his son to school. Pope 2. To dash together; to strike; to collide with a sharp noise. So when the cook saw my jaws thus knock it, She would have made a pancake of my pocket. Cleaveland. At him he lanch'd his spear, and pierc'd his breast; On the hard earth the Lycian knock'd his head, And lay supine; and forth the spirit fled. Dryden. 'Tis the sport of statesmen, When heroes knock their knotty heads together, And fall by one another. Rowe. 3. To knock down. To fell by a blow. He began to knock down his fellow citizens with a great deal of zeal, and to fill all Arabia with bloodshed. Addison. A man who is gross in a woman's company, ought to be knocked down with a club. Clarissa. 4. To knock on the head. To kill by a blow; to destroy. He betook himself to his orchard, and walking there was knocked on the head by a tree. South. Excess, either with an apoplexy, knocks a man on the head; or with a fever, like fire in a strongwater shop, burns him down to the ground. Grew's Cosmology. KNOCK. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. A sudden stroke; a blow. Some men never conceive how the motion of the earth should wave them from a knock perpendicularly directed from a body in the air above. Brown's Vulg. Err. Ajax belabours there an harmless ox, And thinks that Agamemnon feels the knocks. Dryd. 2. A loud stroke at a door for admission. Guiscard, in his leathern frock, Stood ready, with his thrice-repeated knock: Thrice with a doleful sound the jarring grate Rung deaf and hollow. Dryden's Boccace. KNOCKER. n. s. [from knock.] 1. He that knocks. 2. The hammer which hangs at the door for strangers to strike. Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. Pope. To KNOLL, v. a. [from knell.] To ring the bell, generally for a funeral. Had I as many sons as I have hairs, I would not wish them to a fairer death: And so his knell is knolľd. Shakesp. Macbeth. To KNOLL. v. n. To sound as a bell. If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church. Shakesp. KNOLL. n. s. A little hill. Ainsworth. KNOP. n. s. [A corruption of knap.] Any tufty top. Ainsworth. KNOP. n. s. [ranunculus.] A flower. KNOT. n. s. [cnozza, Sax. knot, Germ. knutte, Dut. knotte, Erse.] 1. A complication of a cord or string not easily to be disentangled. He found that Reason's self now reasons found To fasten knots, which fancy first had bound. Sidn. As the fair vestal to the fountain came, Let none be startled at a vestal's name, Tir'd with the walk, she laid her down to rest, And to the winds expos'd her glowing breast, To take the freshness of the morning air, And gather'd in a knot her flowing hair. Addison. 2. Any figure of which the lines frequently intersect each other. Garden knots, the frets of houses, and all equal figures, please: whereas unequal figures are but deformities. Bacon. Our sea-wall'd garden, the whole land, Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up, Her knots disorder'd. Shakesp. Rich. II. It fed flow'rs worthy of paradise, which not niceart In beds and curious knots, but nature boon, Pour'd forth profuse on hill and dale, and plain. Milton. Their quarters are contrived into elegant knots, 3. Any bond of association or union. Richmond aims 4. A hard part in a piece of wood caused by the protuberance of a bough, and consequently by a transverse direction of the fibres. A joint in an herb. Taking the very refuse among those which served to no use, being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, he hath carved it diligently, when he had nothing else to do. Wisdom. Such knots and crossness of grain is objected here, as will hardly suffer that form, which they cry up here as the only just reformation, to go on so smoothly here as it might do in Scotland. 5. Difficulty; intricacy. K. Charles. A man shall be perplexed with knots and problems of business, and contrary affairs, where the determination is dubious, and both parts of the contrariety seem equally weighty; so that, which way soever the choice determines, a man is sure to venture a great concern. South's Sermons. 6. Any intrigue, or difficult perplexity of affairs. When the discovery was made that the king was living, which was the knot of the play untied, the rest is shut up in the compass of some few lines. Dryden's Dufresnoy. 7. A confederacy; an association; a small band. 8. Oh you panderly rascals! there's a knot, a gang, a conspiracy against me. Shakesp. Merry Wives of Windsor. What is there here in Rome that can delight thee? Where not a soul, without thine own foul knot, But fears and hates thee. Ben Jonson's Catiline. A knot of good fellows borrowed a sum of money of a gentleman upon the king's highway. L'Estrange. I am now with a knot of his admirers, who make request that you would give notice of the window where the knight intends to appear. Addison's Spectator. A cluster; a collection. The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky, which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together. Bacon's Essays. In a picture, besides the principal figures which compose it, and are placed in the midst of it, there are less groups or knots of figures disposed at proper distances, which are parts of the piece, and seem to carry on the same design in a more inferior manner. Dryden. 1. To form buds, knots, or joints in vegetation. Cut hay when it begins to knot. Mortimer's Husbandry. 2. To knit knots for fringes. KNO'TBERRY BUSH. n. s. [chamamorus.] Ainsworth. A plant. KNO'TGRASS. n. s. [knot and grass; polygonum.] A plant. You minimus of hind'ring knotgrass made. Shak. KNOTTED. adj. [from knot.] Full of knots. Drud. The knotted oaks shall show'rs of honey weep. KNOTTINESS. n. s. [from knotty.] Fulness of knots; unevenness; intricacy; difficulty. Virtue was represented by Hercules naked, with his lion's skin and knotted club: by his oaken club is signified reason ruling the appetite; the knotti ness thereof, the difficulty they have that seek after virtue. Peacham on Drawing. KNOTTY. udj. [from knot.] 1. Full of knots. 2. 3. I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds Have riv'd the knotty oaks. Shakesp. Julius Cæsar. The timber in some trees more clean, in some more knotty: try it by speaking at one end, and laying the ear at the other; for if it be knotty, the voice will not pass well. Bacon. The knotty oaks their list'ning branches bow. Roscommon. One with a brand yet burning from the flame, Arm'd with a knotty club another came. Dryd. Æn. Where the vales with violets once were crown'd, Now knotty burrs and thorns disgrace the ground. Dryden. Hard; rugged. Valiant fools Were made by nature for the wise to work with: They are their tools; and 'tis the sport of statesmen, When heroes knock their knotty heads together, And fall by one another. Rowe's Ambitious Stepm. Intricate; perplexed; difficult; embarassed. King Henry, in the very entrance of his reign, met with a point of great difficulty, and knotty to solve, able to trouble and confound the wisest kings. Bacon. Princes exercised skill in putting intricate questions; and he that was the best at the untying of knotty difficulties, carried the prize. L'Estrange. Some on the bench the knotty laws untie. Dryd. They compliment, they sit, they chat, Fight o'er the wars; reform the state; A thousand knotty points they clear, 'Till supper and iny wife appear. Prior. To KNOW. v. a. preter. I knew, I have known. [cnapan, Sax.] 1. To perceive with certainty, whether intuitive or discursive. O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! Shak. The memorial of virtue is immortal, because it is known with God and with men. Wisd. iv. 1. The gods all things know. Milton. Not from experience, for the world was new, He only from their cause their natures knew. Denh. We doubt not, neither can we properly say we think we admire and love you above al other men. |