Emily Dickinson Lexicon

KNUB,

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

KNUCK'LE, n. [nuk'l. Sax. cnucl; G. knöchel; D. knukel; W. cnuc; a joint or junction; cnuciaw, to join, to couple.]

1. The joint of a finger, particularly when protuberant by the closing of the fingers.
2. The knee joint of a calf; as, a knuckle of veal.
3. The joint of a plant. [Not used.] Bacon.

KNUCK'LE, v.i. [nuk'l.]

To yield; to submit in contest to an antagonist.

KNUCK'LED, a.

Jointed. Bacon.

KNUFF, n. nuff.

A lout; a clown. [Not used.]

KNUR,

nur, or KNURL, nurle, n. [G. knorren, a knot, a knag, a gnar.] A knot; a hard substance. Woodward.

KNUR'LED, a. nurl'ed.

Full of knots.

KNUR'LY, a. nur'ly. [from knur.]

Full of knots; hard. This seems to be the same as gnarly.

KNUR'RY, a. nur'ry.

Full of knots.

KO'BA, n.

A mammal of the tribe Capridae, the Damaliskoba, an animal resembling an antelope, of a size equal to a stag, and found in Central Africa.

KOH, n. [Pers. koh, G. kuh, D. koe, Dan. koe, Sw. ko, a cow. It is remarkable that our farmers have retained the exact pronunciation of this word from the earliest ages.]

Cow; the word used in calling cows.

KO'KOB, n.

A venomous serpent of America.

KOL'LY-RITE, n. [Gr. {foreign}.]

A variety of clay whose color is pure white, or with a shade of gray, red or yellow. Cleaveland.

KOM'MA-NIC, n.

The crested lark of Germany.

KON'IL-ITE, n. [Gr. {foreign}, dust, and {foreign}, a stone.]

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

KO'NITE,

See CONITE.

KO'PECK, n.

A Russian coin, about the value of a cent.

KO'RAN, n.

Pronounced by oriental scholars korawn. [Ar. {foreign} koranan, from {foreign} kara, to read, to call, to teach.] The Mohammedan book of faith; the alkoran.

KO'RET, n.

A delicious fish of the East Indies.

KO'RIN, n.

Antilope Corinna, by some supposed to be a variety of Antilope Dorcas; an antelope of central Africa, considerably less than the roe-buck.

KOUPH'O-LITE, n. [Gr. {foreign}, light, and {foreign}, 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. Cleaveland.

KRAAL, n.

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

KRAG, n.

A species of argillaceous earth.

KRA'KEN, n.

A supposed enormous sea animal. Guthrie.

KRE'A-SOTE, n. [more correctly, CRE'A-SOTE, Gr. {foreign}, flesh, and {foreign}, saver.]

A colorless transparent liquid, with an odor like smoked meat, and a pungent taste. It is obtained from tar, and is considered to be composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. It is the antiseptic principle of smoke, and of the impure acetic acid sometimes called pyrolignous acid.