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Quipu :: Quipu (n.) A contrivance employed by the ancient Peruvians, Mexicans, etc., as a substitute for writing and figures, consisting of a main cord, from which hung at certain distances smaller cords of various colors, each having a special meaning, as silver, gold, corn, soldiers. etc. Single, double, and triple knots were tied in the smaller cords, representing definite numbers. It was chiefly used for arithmetical purposes, and to register important facts and events..

Topknot :: Topknot (n.) A small Europen flounder (Rhoumbus punctatus). The name is also applied to allied species.

Slipknot :: Slipknot (n.) knot which slips along the rope or line around which it is made.

Snick :: Snick (n.) A knot or irregularity in yarn.

Knarl :: Knarl (n.) A knot in wood. See Gnarl.

Enodation :: Enodation (n.) The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying; hence, also, the solution of a difficulty..

Nodosity :: Nodosity (n.) The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.

Nodation :: Nodation (n.) Act of making a knot, or state of being knotted..

Node :: Node (n.) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.

Trinodal :: Trinodal (a.) Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as, a trinodal stem..

Knot :: Knot (n.) A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour..

Tortulous :: Tortulous (a.) Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.

Knotted :: Knotted (a.) Full of knots; having knots knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak..

Elflock :: Elflock (n.) Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves..

Knot :: Knot (n.) Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem.

Tye :: Tye (n.) A knot; a tie.

Grayback :: Grayback (n.) The redbreasted sandpiper or knot.

Tress :: Tress (n.) Fig.: A knot or festoon, as of flowers..

Knotty :: Knotty (superl.) Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope..

Noose :: Noose (n.) A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn..

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