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<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A rounded hill or mountain; <as>as, the Pilot Knob</as>.</def> <mark>[U. S.]</mark>

<i>Bartlett.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>See <er>Knop</er>.</def>

<cs><col>Knob latch</col>, <cd>a latch which can be operated by turning a knob, without using a key.</cd></cs>

<h1>Knob</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knob</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Drant.</i>

<h1>Knobbed</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knobbed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See <i>Illust</i> of <er>Antenna</er>.</def>

<blockquote>The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and <b>knobbed</b> or tuberous at the bottom. <i>Grew.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Knobber</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knob"ber</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>See <er>Knobbler</er>.</def>

<h1>Knobbing</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knob"bing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Stone Quarrying)</fld> <def>Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.</def>

<h1>Knobbler</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knob"bler</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The hart in its second year; a young deer.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>knobber</asp>.]</altsp>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<blockquote>He has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed <b>knobbler</b>. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Knobbling fire</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knob"bling fire</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>. A bloomery fire. See <er>Bloomery</er>.</def>

<h1>Knobby</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knob"by</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Knob</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.</def>

<i>Dr. H. More.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Irregular; stubborn in particulars.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The informers continued in a <b>knobby</b> kind of obstinacy. <i>Howell.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<i>Bartlett.</i>