Definition of knob

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Knob (v. i.) To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed.

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Knop :: Knop (n.) Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial; -- called also knob, and knosp..
Snob :: Snob (n.) A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick..
Knappy :: Knappy (a.) Having knaps; full of protuberances or humps; knobby.
Mace :: Mace (n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
Bell Jar :: Bell jar () A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view..
Bunch :: Bunch (n.) A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
Knobby :: Knobby (a.) Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances..
Tuberous :: Tuberous (a.) Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.
Nub :: Nub (n.) A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story..
Stop :: Stop (n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop..
Capitellate :: Capitellate (a.) Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula..
Leyden Phial :: Leyden phial () A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland..
Knobby :: Knobby (a.) Irregular; stubborn in particulars.
Caput :: Caput (n.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum..
Ironheads :: Ironheads (n.) A European composite herb (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle.
Knap :: Knap (n.) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop..
Pull :: Pull (n.) A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull..
Knob :: Knob (n.) A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob..
Cobiron :: Cobiron (n.) An andiron with a knob at the top.
Knurl :: Knurl (v. t.) To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill..
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