| knismogenic | Causing a tickling sensation. Origin: G. Knismos, tickling, + -gen, production (05 Mar 2000) |
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| knismolagnia | Sexual gratification from the act of tickling. Origin: G. Knismos, tickling, + lagneia, lust (05 Mar 2000) |
| knit | 1. 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) 2. 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. 3. To join; to cause to grow together. "Nature can not knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge." (Wiseman) 4. 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) "A link among the days, toknit The generations each to each." (Tennyson) 5. To draw together; to contract into wrinkles. " knits his brow and shows an angry eye." (Shak) Origin: OE. Knitten, knutten, As. Cnyttan, fr. Cnotta knot; akin to Icel. Knta, Sw. Knyta, Dan. Knytte. See Knot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| knitback | <botany> The plant comfrey; so called from its use as a restorative. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| knits | <chemical> Small particles of ore. Origin: Prob. Same word as nit a louse's egg. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| knitster | A woman who knits. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| knitting | Nonmedical term denoting the process of union of the fragments of a broken bone or of the edges of a wound. Origin: M.E., knitten, to knot, fr. A.S. Cnyttan (05 Mar 2000) |
| knob | A protuberance; a mass; a nodule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| knobber | <zoology> See Knobbler. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| knobbler | <zoology> The hart in its second year; a young deer. Alternative forms: knobber] "He has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler." (Sir W. Scott) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| knock | 1. Colloquialism for a blow, especially a blow to the head. 2. A sound simulating that of a blow or rap. (05 Mar 2000) |
| knock-knee | <medicine> A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| knock-knees | In medicalese: there are no knock-knees. The condition is genu valgum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| knock-out drops | A popular name for chloral alcoholate given with criminal intent to produce unconsciousness rapidly; it is formed by adding chloral hydrate to beer or some stronger alcoholic liquor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| knockings | <chemical> Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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Knock (An Cnoc in Irish, meaning The Hill; now more generally known in Irish as Cnoc Mhuire, "Hill of (the Virgin) Mary") is a small town in County Mayo in Ireland where Catholics believe that on 21 August 1879 the Virgin Mary, together with St Joseph and St John the Evangelist, appeared to local people. In the 20th century it became one of Europe's major Roman Catholic Marian shrines, alongside Lourdes and Fatima. One and a half million pilgrims visit Knock Shrine annually. ...
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Knitting is one of several ways to turn thread or yarn into cloth (cf weaving, crochet). Unlike woven fabric, knitted fabric consists entirely of horizontal parallel courses of yarn. The courses are joined to each other by interlocking loops in which a short loop of one course of yarn is wrapped over the bight of another course. Knitting can be done either by hand, described below, or by machine. ...
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A knot is a method for fastening or securing linear material such as rope by tying or interweaving. It may consist of a length of one or more segments of rope, cord, webbing, twine, string, strap or even chain interwoven so as to create in the line the ability to bind to itself or to some other object - the "load". Some knots are well adapted to bind to particular objects such as another rope, cleat, ring, stake or to constrict an object. ...
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Nautical measurement of speed equal to 1.15 miles per hour on land.
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| Knies' sign |
unequal dilatation of the pupils, one manifestation of Graves' orbitopathy.
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| Kn | rest one's weight on one's knees |
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| Kn | a board (sometimes cushioned) for someone to kneel on |
| Kn | a person in a kneeling position |
| Kn | supporting yourself on your knees |
| Kn | on your knees |
| Kn | a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint |
| Kn | the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something |
| Kn | make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification |
| Kn | ring, as of bells announcing death |
| Kn | the Israeli unicameral parliament |
| Kn | the Israeli unicameral parliament |
| Kn | trousers ending above the knee |