Part 535

When heroes knock their knotty heads together.

Rowe.

2. To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.

Master, knock the door hard.

Shak.

To knock down. (a) To strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by blows; as, to knock down an assailant. (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow or knock; to knock off. -- To knock in the head, or on the head, to stun or kill by a blow upon the head; hence, to put am end to; to defeat, as a scheme or project; to frustrate; to quash. [Colloq.] -- To knock off. (a) To force off by a blow or by beating. (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow on the counter. (c) To leave off (work, etc.). [Colloq.] -- To knock out, to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out the brains. - - To knock up. (a) To arouse by knocking. (b) To beat or tire out; to fatigue till unable to do more; as, the men were entirely knocked up. [Colloq.] "The day being exceedingly hot, the want of food had knocked up my followers." Petherick. (c) (Bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form, as printed sheets.

Knock, n. 1. A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.

2. A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap. " A knock at the door." Longfellow.

A loud cry or some great knock.

Holland.

Knock off, a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.

Knock"down` (?), n. A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal.

Knock"down`, a. Of force sufficient to fell or completely overthrow; as, a knockdown blow; a knockdown argument. [Colloq.]

Knock"er (?), n. One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.

Shut, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, I said; Tie up the knocker; say I'm sick, I'm dead.

Pope.

Knock"ing, n. A beating; a rap; a series of raps.

The . . . repeated knockings of the head upon the ground by the Chinese worshiper.

H. Spencer.

Knock"ings (?), n. pl. (Mining) Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.

Knock"-knee` (?), n. (Med.) A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.

Knock"-kneed` (?), a. Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking. [Written also knack-kneed.]

Knock"stone` (?), n. (Mining) A block upon which ore is broken up.

Knoll (?), n. [AS. cnoll; akin to G. knolle, knollen, clod, lump, knob, bunch, OD. knolle ball, bunch, Sw. knöl, Dan. knold.] A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.

On knoll or hillock rears his crest, Lonely and huge, the giant oak.

Sir W. Scott.

Knoll (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Knolled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Knolling.] [OE. knollen, AS. cnyllan. See Knell.] To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing. "Knolled to church." Shak.

Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.