Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter K - Page 10
Kneebrush (n.) (Zool.) A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Kneebrush (n.) (Zool.) A thick mass or collection of hairs on the legs of bees, by aid of which they carry the collected pollen to the hive or nest; -- usually in the plural.
Kneecap (n.) (Anat.) A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneepan.
Kneecap (n.) A cap or protection for the knee.
Kneecap (v. t.) To break the knees of, especially by shooting in the kneecap; -- often done by criminal or terrorist groups as a warning or punishment.
Syn: knee-cap.
Kneecap (n.) A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint [syn: patella, kneecap, kneepan].
Kneecap (v.) Shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning; "They kneecapped the industrialist".
Knee-crooking (a.) Obsequious; fawning; cringing. "Knee-crooking knave." -- Shak.
Kneed (a.) Having knees;- used chiefly in composition; as, in-kneed; out-kneed; weak-kneed.
Kneed (a.) (Bot.) Geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as, kneed grass.
Knee-deep (a.) Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep.
Grass knee-deep within a month. -- Milton.
Knee-deep (a.) Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water.
Where knee-deep the trees were standing. -- Longfellow.
Knee-deep (adv.) Up to the knees; "we were standing knee-deep in the water" [syn: knee-deep, knee-high].
Knee-deep (a.) Coming only to the ankle or knee [syn: ankle-deep, knee-deep].
Knee-high (a.) Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high.
Knee-high (adv.) Up to the knees; "we were standing knee-deep in the water" [syn: knee-deep, knee-high].
Knee-high (n.) A sock or stocking that reaches up to just below the knees [syn: knee-high, knee-hi].
Kneejoint (n.) The joint of the knee.
Kneejoint (n.) (Mach.) A toggle joint; -- so called because consisting of two pieces jointed to each other end to end, making an angle like the knee when bent.
Kneejointed (a.) (Bot.) Geniculate; kneed. See Kneed, a., 2.
Knelt (imp. & p. p.) of Kneel.
Kneeled () of Kneel.
Kneeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kneel.
Kneel (v. i.) To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down.
Note: The act of kneeling, when performed in front of a person, is often done as a sign of respect, humility, or supplication. It has a similar significance when performed in front of religious objects, such as an altar or shrine.
And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. -- Acts vii. 60.
As soon as you are dressed, kneel and say the Lord's Prayer. -- Jer. Taylor.
Kneel (n.) Supporting yourself on your knees [syn: kneel, kneeling].
Kneel (v.) Rest one's weight on one's knees; "In church you have to kneel during parts of the service".
Kneeler (n.) One who kneels or who worships by or while kneeling. --Tennyson.
Kneeler (n.) A cushion or stool to kneel on , such as one attached to a pew in a church.
Kneeler (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) A name given to certain catechumens and penitents who were permitted to join only in parts of church worship.
Kneeler (n.) A person in a kneeling position.
Kneeler (n.) A board (sometimes cushioned) for someone to kneel on.
Kneelingly (adv.) In a kneeling position.
Kneepan (n.) (Anat.) A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.
Kneepan (n.) A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint [syn: patella, kneecap, kneepan].
Kneepiece (n.) A piece shaped like a knee; as, the kneepieces or ears of a boat. Kneipp's cure Kneippism
Knell (n.) The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything ; -- also called death knell.
The dead man's knell Is there scarce asked for who. -- Shak.
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. -- Gray.
Knelled (imp. & p. p.) of Knell.
Knelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Knell.
Knell (v. i.) To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.
Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee. -- Beau. & Fl.
Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, "alone". -- Ld. Lytton.
Knell (v. t.) To summon, as by a knell.
Each matin bell, the baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death. -- Coleridge.
Knell (n.) The sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something.
Knell (v.) Ring as in announcing death.
Knell (v.) Make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church" [syn: ring, knell].
Knelt (imp. & p. p.) of Kneel.
Knew (imp.) of Know.
Knicker (n.) A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing. [Prov. Eng. & U. S.] -- Halliwell. -- Bartlett.
Knickers (n. pl.) 【英】（女用）短褲；內褲；襯褲；燈籠褲 The name for a style of loose-fitting short trousers, gathered in and ending at the knees; smallclothes; called also knickerbockers.
Syn: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers.
Knickers (n. pl.) Underpants, especially of women; panties. [British]
Syn: bloomers, pants, drawers.
Knickerbockers (n. pl.) The name for a style of short breeches; smallclothes ; called also knickers.
Knickerbockers (n.) Trousers ending above the knee [syn: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickers].
Knickknack (n.) A trifle or toy; a bawble; a gewgaw.
Knickknackatory (n.) A collection of knickknacks.
Knickknackery (n.) Knickknacks.
Knives (n. pl. ) of Knife.
Knife (n.) An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc..
Knife (n.) A sword or dagger.
Knifed (imp. & p. p.) of Knife.
Knifing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Knife.
Knife (v. t.) To prune with the knife.
Knife (v. t.) To cut or stab with a knife.
Knifeboard (n.) A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
Knife-edge (n.) 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.
Knight (n.) A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
Knight (n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.
Knight (n.) One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John.
Knight (n.) A champion; a partisan; a lover.
Knight (n.) A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.
Knight (n.) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
Knighted (imp. & p. p.) of Knight.
Knighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Knight.
Knight (v. t.) 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 ---.
A soldier, by the honor-giving hand Of C[oe]ur-de-Lion knighted in the field. -- Shak.
Knight (n.) Originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit.
Knight (n.) A chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) [syn: knight, horse].
Knight (v.) Raise (someone) to knighthood; "The Beatles were knighted" [syn: knight, dub].
Knight (n.) Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth.
Warrior, person, and fellow -- no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower.
Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy.
God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad.
Knightage (n.) To body of knights, taken collectively.
Knights bachelors (n. pl. ) of Knight bachelor.
Knight bachelor () A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
Knights bannerets (n. pl. ) of Knight banneret.
Knight banneret () A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.
Knight banneret (n.) A knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command [syn: knight banneret, knight of the square flag, banneret].
Knight baro-net () See Baronet.
Knight-errants (n. pl. ) of Knight-errant.
Knights-errant (n. pl. ) of Knight-errant.
Knight-errant (n.) A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
Knight-errantries (n. pl. ) of Knight-errantry.
Knight-errantry (n.) The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.
The rigid guardian [i. e., conscience] of a blameless heart.
Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. -- Young.
Knight-er-ratic (a.) Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry. [R.] -- Quart. Rev.
Knighthead (n.) (Naut.) A bollard timber. See under Bollard.
Knighthood (n.) The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry. "O shame to knighthood." -- Shak.
If you needs must write, write Caesar's praise; You 'll gain at least a knighthood, or the bays. -- Pope.
Knighthood (n.) The whole body of knights.
The knighthood nowadays are nothing like the knighthood of old time. -- Chapman.
Note: "When the order of knighthood was conferred with full solemnity in the leisure of a court or court or city, imposing preliminary ceremonies were required of the candidate. He prepared himself by prayer and fasting, watched his arms at night in a chapel, and was then admitted with the performance of religious rites.
Knighthood was conferred by the accolade, which, from the derivation of the name, would appear to have been originally an embrace; but afterward consisted, as it still does, in a blow of the flat of a sword on the back of the kneeling candidate." -- Brande & C.
Knighthood (n.) Aristocrats holding the rank of knight.
Knightless (a.) Unbecoming a knight. [Obs.] "Knightless guile." -- Spenser.
Knightliness (n.) The character or bearing suitable for a knight; chivalry. -- Spenser.
Knightliness (n.) The medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct [syn: chivalry, knightliness].
Knightly (a.) Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.
For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit. -- Spenser.
[Excuses] full knightly without scorn. -- Tennyson.
Knightly (adv.) In a manner becoming a knight.
And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms. -- Shak.
Knight marshal () (Eng. Law) 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. --Wharton. Knight service
Compare: Marshal
Marshal (n.) Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom. [Obs.]
Marshal (n.) An officer of high rank, charged with the arrangement of ceremonies, the conduct of operations, or the like; as, specifically:
Marshal (n.) (a) One who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment; a harbinger; a pursuivant.
Marshal (n.) (b) One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like.
Marshal (n.) (c) The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists. -- Johnson.
Marshal (n.) (d) (France) The highest military officer. In other countries of Europe a marshal is a military officer of high rank, and called field marshal.
Marshal (n.) (e) (Am. Law) A ministerial officer, appointed for each judicial district of the United States, to execute the process of the courts of the United States, and perform various duties, similar to those of a sheriff. The name is also sometimes applied to certain police officers of a city.
Earl marshal of England, The eighth officer of state; an honorary title, and personal, until made hereditary in the family of the Duke of Norfolk. During a vacancy in the office of high constable, the earl marshal has jurisdiction in the court of chivalry. -- Brande & C.
Earl marshal of Scotland, An officer who had command of the cavalry under the constable. This office was held by the family of Keith, but forfeited by rebellion in 1715.
Knight marshal, or Marshal of the King's house, Formerly, in England, the marshal of the king's house, who was authorized to hear and determine all pleas of the Crown, to punish faults committed within the verge, etc. His court was called the Court of Marshalsea.
Marshal of the Queen's Bench, Formerly the title of the officer who had the custody of the Queen's bench prison in Southwark. -- Mozley & W.
Knight service Also Knight's service (n.) (Feud. Law) The military service by rendering which a knight held his lands.
Knight service (n.) (Eng. Feud. Law) A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
By far the greater part of England [in the 13th century] is held of the king by knight's service. . . . In order to understand this tenure we must form the conception of a unit of military service. That unit seems to be the service of one knight or fully armed horseman (servitium unius militis) to be done to the king in his army for forty days in the year, if it be called for. . . . The limit of forty days seems to have existed rather in theory than practice. -- Pollock & Mait.
Knight service (n.) Service such as a knight can or should render; hence, good or valuable service.
Knights Templars (n. pl. ) of Knight Templar.
Knight Templar () See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.
Knit (imp. & p. p.) of Knit.
Knitted () of Knit.
Knitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Knit.
Knit (v. t.) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
A great sheet knit at the four corners. -- Acts x. 11.
When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows. -- Shak.
Knit (v. t.) To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings.
Knit (v. t.) To join; to cause to grow together.
Nature can not knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge. -- Wiseman.
Knit (v. t.) To unite closely; to connect; to engage; as, hearts knit together in love.
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit. -- Shak.
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round. -- Milton (Comus).
A link among the days, toknit The generations each to each. -- Tennyson.
Knit (v. t.) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
He knits his brow and shows an angry eye. -- Shak.
Knit (v. i.) To form a fabric by interlacing yarn or thread; to weave by making knots or loops.
Knit (v. i.) To be united closely; to grow together; as, broken bones will in time knit and become sound.
To knit up, To wind up; to conclude; to come to a close.
"It remaineth to knit up briefly with the nature and compass of the seas." [Obs.] -- Holland.
Knit (n.) Union knitting; texture. -- Shak.
Knit (n.) A fabric made by knitting.
Knit (n.) A basic knitting stitch [syn: knit, knit stitch, plain, plain stitch].
Knit (n.) Needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine [syn: knit, knitting, knitwork].
Knit (v.) Make (textiles) by knitting; "knit a scarf".
Knit (v.) Tie or link together [syn: knit, entwine].
Knit (v.) To gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit].
Knitback (n.) (Bot.) The plant comfrey; -- so called from its use as a restorative. -- Dr. Prier. Knitch
Knitch (n.) Alt. of Knitchet
Knitchet (n.) A number of things tied or knit together; a bundle; a fagot. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
When they [stems of asphodel] be dried, they ought to be made up into knitchets, or handfuls. -- Holland.
Knits (n. pl.) (Mining) Small particles of ore. -- Raymond.
Knitster (n.) A woman who knits. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Knitter (n.) One who, or that which, knits, joins, or unites; a knitting machine. -- Shak.
Knitter (n.) Someone who makes garments (or fabrics) by intertwining yarn or thread.
Knitting (n.) The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting.
Knitting (n.) Union formed by knitting, as of bones.
Knitting machine, One of a number of contrivances for mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like.
Knitting needle, A stiff rod, as of steel wire, with rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric, as in stockings.
Knitting sheath, A sheath to receive the end of a needle in knitting.
Knitting (n.) Needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine [syn: knit, knitting, knitwork].
Knitting (n.) Creating knitted wear.
Knittle (n.) A string that draws together a purse or bag. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.
Knittle (n.) pl. (Naut.) See Nettles.
Knives (n. pl.) of Knife. See Knife.
Knob (n.) A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.
Knob (n.) A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock, door, or drawer. -- Chaucer.