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Definition of knot

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Knot (n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.

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Calculary :: Calculary (n.) A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits.

Untie :: Untie (v. t.) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot..

Noils :: Noils (n. pl.) Waste and knots of wool removed by the comb; combings.

Cicisbeo :: Cicisbeo (n.) A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking stick, etc..

Fag :: Fag (n.) A knot or coarse part in cloth.

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..

Make :: Make (v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day..

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

Sea Snipe :: Sea snipe () A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin..

Intricacy :: Intricacy (n.) The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot..

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

Knotgrass :: Knotgrass (n.) The dog grass. See under Dog.

Nowes :: Nowes (n. pl.) The marriage knot.

Knotting :: Knotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kno.

Abnodate :: Abnodate (v. t.) To clear (tress) from knots.

Abnodation :: Abnodation (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees.

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

Knag :: Knag (n.) A knot in wood; a protuberance.

Scirrhous :: Scirrhous (a.) Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease..

Snag :: Snag (n.) A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance..