Knot,not,s

the complication of a thread or cord, made by tying or interlacing; hard part of wood due to the fibres interlacing; a nodule; a figure, the lines of which frequently interlace each other; difficulty; intricacy; something not easily solved; a bond of a ociation grunion; cluster; a collection; a group, as of persons; protuberant joint of a plant; a division of the log-line, serving to measure the rate of a ve el's motion, the number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute showing the number of miles the ve el sails in anhour [Naut.); an epaulette: v.a. to complicate or tie in aknot;to entangle; to perplex; to unite closely: v.n. to form knots or joints, as in plants; to knit knots or fringe (A.S. cotta) SeeKnit.