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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Difficulty of solution; intricacy; complication.</def> " <i>Knottiness</i> of his style."

<i>Hare.</i>

<h1>Knotty</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knot"ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>Compar.</tt> <er>Knottier</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>superl.</tt> <er>Knottiest</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; <as>as, <ex>knotty</ex> timber; a <ex>knotty</ex> rope.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Hard; rugged; <as>as, a <ex>knotty</ex> head</as>.</def><mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Rewe.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Difficult; intricate; perplexed.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>knotty</b> point to which we now proceed <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Knotweed</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knot"weed"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>See <er>Knot<?/rass</er>.</def>

<h1>Knotwort</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knot"wort</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A small, herbaceous, trailing plant, of the genus <spn>Illecebrum</spn> (<spn>I. verticillatum</spn>.)</def>

<h1>Knout</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knout</hw> <tt>(nout &or; n??t)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Russ. <ets>knut'</ets>; prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. <ets>knut</ets> knot, knout, Icel. <ets>kn<?/tr</ets> knot: cf. F. <ets>knout</ets>. See <er>Knot</er>.]</ety> <def>A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.</def>

<h1>Knout</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Knout</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To punish with the knout</def>

<i>Brougham.</i>

<h1>Know</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Know</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Knee.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Know</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Know</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.</tt> <er>Knew</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Known</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Knowing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>knowen</ets>, <ets>knawen</ets>, AS. <ets>cn\'84wan</ets>; akin to OHG. <ets>chn\'84an</ets> (in comp.), Icel. <ets>kn\'84</ets> to be able, Russ, <ets>znate</ets> to know, L. <ets>gnoscere</ets>, <ets>noscere</ets>, Gr. <?/, Skr. <ets>jn<?/</ets>; fr. the root of E. <ets>can</ets>, <tt>v. i.</tt>, <ets>ken</ets>. (<?/). See <er>Ken</er>, <er>Can</er> to be able, and cf. <er>Acquaint</er>, <er>Cognition</er>, <er>Gnome</er>, <er>Ignore</er>, <er>Noble</er>, <er>Note</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; <as>as, to <ex>know</ex> one's duty</as>.</def>

<blockquote>O, that a man might <b>know</b> The end of this day's business ere it come! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>There is a certainty in the proposition, and we <b>know</b> it. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Know</b> how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. <i>Longfellow.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of; <as>as, to <ex>know</ex> things from information</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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>as, to <ex>know</ex> an author; to <ex>know</ex> the rules of an organization.</as></def>

<blockquote>He hath made him to be sin for us, who <b>knew</b> no sin. <i>2 Cor. v. 21.</i></blockquote>