knot (1), knotte

[A. S. cnotta; cogn. with Dut. knot; Icel. knútr; Dan. knude; Sw. knat; Ger. knoten; Lat. nodus=gnodus.] IMG:content-0279.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0280.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0281.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Arch .: The same as KNOP (q. v.). 2. Bot .: An irregular or twisted course of the separate elements of wood caused by branches, buds, or any similar cause. 3. Brush - making : The brush-maker's term for a tuft of bristles ready for insertion into a hole drilled in the stock. 4. Labor : A kind of double shoulder-pad, with a loop pa ing round the forehead, the whole roughly resembling a horse-collar, used by market porters in some places for carrying burdens. It is probably a development from a length of rope knotted into a loop, worn in the same manner and for the same purpose. "Demo crit us first noticed him as a porter, who showed great addre in inventing the knot ."-Lewes: History of Philosophy , i. 120. 5. Mech.: The same as KNOTE (q. v.). 6. Mil.: An epaulet, a shoulder-knot. 7. Naut .: A nautical or geographical mile; of a degree of latitude; about 2,025 yards. The English statute mile contains 1,760 yards. [Log.] knot-horn, s. Entom. (pl.): Phycide, a family of moths. The Beautiful Knot-horn is Pempelia formosa . knot-weed, s. Bot.: The same as KNOTGRASS (q. v.). knot (2), s. [Named, it is said, after King Canute, with whom it was a favorite article of food. (See extract.)] Ornith.: Tringa canutus, a wading-bird, which has the breast deep chestnut in summer and white in winter, and the back dark with fulvous spots in summer and ashy-gray in winter. It breeds within the Arctic circle, from which it migrates in autumn to the Eastern Hemisphere, as far even as the Cape and Australia. knot, v. t. & i. [KNOT, s.] A. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language : 1. Literally : (1) To tie in a knot or knots; to form a knot or knots on. (2) To tie with a knot; to fasten. "And at his side a wretched scrip was hung Wide-patched and knotted to a twisted thong." 2. Figuratively : Pope: Homer's Ody ey, xiii. 507. (1) To intwine, to intertwist. "To knot , to twist, to range the vernal bloom, But far is cast the distaff, spinning-wheel and loom." Thomson: Castle of Indolence, i. 71 *(2) To unite, to join together, to a ociate. "The party of the papists in England are become more knotted , both in dependence toward Spain and among themselves."- Bacon : War with Spain. (3) To entangle, to perplex. II. Technically : 1. Paint .: Τo cover over the knots with red lead, preparatory to painting over. 2. Cloth - making : To remove the weft-knots from cloth by means of tweezers. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this;