Emily Dickinson Lexicon

KNIT, n. [nit.]

Union by knitting; texture. [Little used.]

KNIT, v.i. [nit.]

1. To unite or interweave by needles.
2. To unite closely; to grow together. Broken bones will in time knit and become sound.

KNIT, v.t. [nit; pret. and pp. knit or knitted. Sax. cnyttan; Sw. knyta; Dan. knytter; probably L. 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 can not knit the bones, while the parts are under a discharge. – Wiseman.
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 x.
5. To draw together; to contract; as, to knit the brows.

KNITCH, n.

A fagot, or burden of wood.

KNIT'TA-BLE, a. [nit'table.]

That may be knit.

KNIT'TER, n. [nit'ter.]

One that knits.

KNIT'TING, n.

Junction.

KNIT'TING, ppr. [nit'ting.]

Uniting by needles; forming texture; uniting in growth.

KNIT'TING-NEE-DLE, n. [nit'ting-needle.]

A long needle usually made of wire, used for knitting threads into stockings, garters, &c.

KNIT'TLE, n. [nit'l. from knit.]

1. A string that gathers or draws together a purse.
2. A small line used in ships to sling hammocks. – Mar. Dict.

KNOB, n. [nob; Sax. cnæp; G. knopf; D. knoop; Sw. knopp; Dan. knop, knub, knap; W. cnwb, cnwpa. The word signifies a button, a top, a bunch.]

A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; as, a knob in the flesh or on a bone. – Ray.

KNOB'BED, a. [nob'bed.]

Containing knobs; full of knobs.

KNOB'BI-NESS, n. [nob'biness. from knobby.]

The quality of having knobs, or of being full of protuberances.

KNOB'BY, a. [nob'by.]

Full of knobs or hard protuberances; hard.

KNOCK, n. [nok.]

1. A blow; a stroke with something thick or heavy.
2. A stroke on a door, intended as a request for admittance; a rap.

KNOCK, v.i. [nok; Sax. cnucian; W. cnociaw; Sw. knacka.]

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. – Johnson.

KNOCK, v.t. [nok.]

1. To strike; to drive against; as, to knock the head against a post.
2. 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'ED, pp.

Beat; struck.

KNOCK'ER, n. [nok'er.]

1. One that knocks.
2. An instrument or kind of hammer, fastened to a door to used in seeking for admittance.

KNOCK'ING, n. [nok'ing.]

A beating; a rap.

KNOCK'ING, ppr. [nok'ing.]

Beating; striking.

KNOLL, n. [nōll; Sax. cnoll; Sw. knyl, knöl; W. cnol.]

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

KNOLL, v.i. [nōll.]

To sound, as a bell. – Shak. [This word, I believe, is not used in America.]

KNOLL, v.t. [nōll; Sax. cnyllan, to beat or strike. See Knell.]

To ring a bell, usually for a funeral. – Shak.

KNOLL'ED, pp.

Rung, or tolled, as a bell.