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i. & t. [A. S. cnucian, from Gael. enac to crack, to crash; cnag =to crack, to knock; Ir. cnaga crack, a noise.] A. Intransitive : 1. To clash; to be driven suddenly together so as to come into collision; as, One body knocks against another. 2. To beat; to strike with something hard or heavy. B. Transitive : 1. To strike, to hit, to give a blow to, to beat. ""Twere good, you knocked him." --Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen of Verona , ii. 4. 2. To dash, to drive, to hit; as, to knock one's head against the wall. 3. To drive or force by a succe ion of blows. "The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs." Long fellow: Building of the Ship. 1. To knock about : (1) To wander here and there; to lounge. (2) To a ault violently. "He was terribly knocked about, and evidently left for dead." -Pall Mall Gazette. 2. To knock down: (1) To strike down; to fell with a blow; to prostrate. (2) To declare a thing to be bought by a person at a sale; to a ign to a bidder; as, The table was knocked down to me. (3) To embezzle; as, to knock down a fare-said of a car or omnibus conductor. IMG:content-0277.png:[blocks in formation] 6. To knock up : (1) Ordinary Language : ( a ) To arouse or awake by knocking. (b) To fatigue, to wear out, to exhaust. "She would not be knocked up so soon." - Mi Austen: Mans field Park, ch. vii. (c) To become exhausted or wearied; to be worn out with fatigue. 2. Ordn.: The cascabel of a gun. 3. Gla : The bo or central bulb of a table of printed sheets even at the edges. (2) Book bind.: To shake into order; to make the gla when cut for use. knob-latch, s. A latch in which the bolt is retractable by the knob or rotary handle, in contradistinction to one which is moved by a key. †knob-lick, s . A salt-lick. The base of the knobs, as round hills or knolls are called in Kentucky, contains shales, which furnish alum and other salts, forming licks, to which wild and domestic animals resort. One of these knob-licks in Mercer county, is a very remarkable spot, and was in former times a favorite resort of the buf faloes, . ( Bartlett.) †knob-like, a . Botany: Having an irregular, roundish figure; gongyloid. (Lindley.) *knob, v. i . [KNOB, 8.] To grow or form into knobs or bunches; to bunch. knobbed, a. [Eng. knob, s.; -ed.] Set with or full of knobs; containing knobs; knobby. knob-bing, 8. [KNOB, v.] Masonry: The rough dre ing, or knocking off the projections of stones in the quarry.