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Pope.

Knot"weed` (nt"wd`), n. (Bot.) See Knotgrass.

Knot"wort` (-wûrt`), n. (Bot.) A small, herbaceous, trailing plant, of the genus Illecebrum (I. verticillatum).

Knout (nout or nt), n. [Russ. knut'; prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. knut knot, knout, Icel. kntr knot: cf. F. knout. See Knot.] A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The lash is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.

Knout, v. t. To punish with the knout. Brougham.

Know (n), n. Knee. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Know (n), v. t. [imp. Knew (n); p. p. Known (nn); p. pr. & vb. n. Knowing.] [OE. knowen, knawen, AS. cnäwan; akin to OHG. chnäan (in comp.), Icel. knä to be able, Russ. znate to know, L. gnoscere, noscere, Gr. gighw`skein, Skr. jn; fr. the root of E. can, v. i., ken. √45. See Ken, Can to be able, and cf. Acquaint, Cognition, Gnome, Ignore, Noble, Note.] 1. To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's duty.

O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come!

Shak.

There is a certainty in the proposition, and we know it.

Dryden.

Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.

Longfellow.

2. To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of; as, to know things from information.

3. To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization.

He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.

2 Cor. v. 21.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

Milton.

4. To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of; as, to know a person's face or figure.

Ye shall know them by their fruits.

Matt. vil. 16.

And their eyes were opened, and they knew him.

Luke xxiv. 31.

To know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

Shak.

At nearer view he thought he knew the dead.

Flatman.