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Show Thrice with a doleful found the jarring grat Dryden's Boceace Rung deaf and hollow w. 7 [cnucian, Saxon; cuace, blow, Welfh. 1. To clath; t gether b driven fuddenl Kno/ckEr. 7. f. [from knock. 1. He that knocks to 2. The hammer which hangs at the doo for ftrangers to ftrike Any hard body thruft forwards by another bod contiguous, without &xzacking, giveth no noife RBacon's Natural Hiffory Shut, fhut the door, good John ! fatigu'd, I faid They may fay, the atoms of the chaos being va rioufly moved according to this catholick law, muf % Bentley needs Azock and interfere Thie up the kxocker, fay Pm fick, I''m dead Pope 70 KnoLL. @ a. [from #4#ell.] 'T the bell, generally for a funeral rin Had I as many fons as I have hairs I would not wifh them to a fairer deat as at a door for admittance beat 2. T commonly with o And fo his knell is £zo/l'd. Shakefpeare's Macketh Villain, I fay ézock me at this gate And rap me well ; or I'll knock your knaye's pate Shak Whether to kzock againft the gates of Rome Or rudely vifit them in parts remote 7 KnoLL. w. 'To found as a bell If ever you have look'd on better days If ever been where bells have £70//'d to church Shake[peare Kroru. # f Alittle hill Ainfworth Knor. z. /i [A corruption of kzap.] An Ainfworth tufty top Kwor. n /i [ranunculus.] A flower Kwxot. 7. /. [cnocea, Saxon; kuot, German; kuutte, Dutch; knotte, Erfe. 1. A complication of a cord or ftring no eafily to be difentangled Shakefp. Coriolanis. 1 bid the rafcal £zock upon your gate To fright them as will hardly fuffer that form, which they cry u Stood ready, with his thrice-repeated kzock obftinacy, refolving ftill to conceal the names of th authors Howel 70 KNock Such Axots and croffnefs of gtain is objected here, Guifcard, in his leathern frock ere deftroy And could not get him for my heart to do it Shakefpeare For harbour af a thoufand doors they Azock'd Not one of all the thoufand but was lock'd- Dryden Knack at your own breaft, and aftk your foul If thofe fair fatal eyes edg'd not your fword Diydes 3. 90 Knock under. A common expreflion which denotes that a man yields or {ubmits. Submiffion i1s expreflfed amon good fellows by knocking under the table Followed commonly by a particle : as, t kuock up, to roufe by knocking; to knec He found that Reafon's felf now reafons foun To faften knots, which fancy firlt had bound Sidney As the fair veftal to the fountain came by mokin Let none be ftartled at a veftal's name Tir'd with the walk, fhe laid heridown to reft And to the winds expos'd her glowing breaft To take the frefhnefs of the morning air Othello' o him incapabl Shakefp. Othello place; knocking out his brains He that has his chains zocked off, and the prifo doors fet open to him, is perfeétly at liberty. Locke ‘Time was, a fober Englithman would £zoc His fervants zp, and rife by five o'clock Inftruét his family in ev'ry rule And fend his wife to church, his fon to fchool. Pope A him he lanch' breaft hi an fpear Dryden "And lay fupine; and forth the fpirit fled >Tis the fport of ftatefmen When heroes kzock their knotty heads together And fall by one another Rowe 3, 7o Knock doswn To fell by a blow He began to knaock down his fellow-citizens wit a great deal of zeal, and to fill all Arabia with bloodf]‘.'lt/{.‘/bfl fhed A man who is grofs in a woman' ought to be krnocked down with a club 4. To0 Knocx oz the head blow; to deftroy company Clarifja by 'To kil an He betook himfelf to his orchard walkin South there was £nocked on the lead by a tree Lxcefs, either with an apoplexy, kzocks a ma on the head or wit a fever, like fire in a ftrong water-fhop, burns him down to the ground Grew's Cofinoal Knock 7 /. [from the verb. 1. A fudden ftroke; a blow Some me never conceive ho the motion of th earth {hould wave them from a kzock perpendicularly dire€ted from a body in the air above Brown's Vulgar Errours Ajax belabours there an harmlefs ox And thinks that Agamemnon feels the &zocks Dryden 3. Aloud firoke at a door fer admiflion wher Venus had heard the virgin's foft addrefs That, as the wound, the paflion might increafe Prier 3. Any bond of affociation or union 6. Any intrigue; or difficult perplexity o affairs When the difcovery was made that the king wasliving, which was the 4zot of the play untied, the reft is fhut up in the compafs of fome few lines Dryden's Dufrefnoy. 7 [;A‘ confederacy an affociation; a fmal and Oh you panderly rafcals! there's a Azot, a gang a confpiracy againft me. Shakefp. Merry Wivesof Windfor What is there here fRome{hat can defl;ght th/e‘eE Where not a foul, without thine own foul £zot But fears and hates thee Ben Fonfon's Catiline, A knot of good fellows borrowed a fum of money of a gentleman upon the king's highway L' Eftrange.. I am now with a 4zet of his admirers, who. make requeft that you would give notice of th window where the knight intends to appear Addifon'sSpeéiator, 8. A clufter a colle&ion fky, which is a meeting or Azot of a number o {mall ftars, not feen afunder, but giving light together. Bacon's Effays In a picture, befides the principal figures whic compofe it; and are placed in the midft of it, there- are lefs groups or 4zots of figures difpofed at proper diftrances and feem to parts of the piece which ar carry on the fame defign in a more inferior manner Diyden if thou vouchfafe to gran Shakefp. Henry VI That virtuous lady Bona Richmond aim At young Elizabeth, my brother's daughter And by that 4zor looks proudly on the crown Shakefpeare 1 would he had continued to his countr As he began, and not unknit himfel Shakefp The noble kzof he made Coriolanu left you wife and childyen Wh Happy we who from fuch queens are freed That were always telling beads Sedleys Is always Anotting thread 2. To intangle 3. To unite to perplex The party of the papifts in England-ar become more £zotted, both in dependence towards Spain, and Bacen amongft themfelves 7o KNOT. 2. 7 1. To form buds knots or joint ve i getation 2 Cut hay when it begins to 7oz Mortimer's. Hufbardrys 2. 'To knit knots for fringes Confirm that amit With nuptial &zot the determination is dubious, and both patts of th contrariety feem equally weighty; fo that, which way foever the choice determines,a man is fure t venture a great concern South's Sermons But here's a queen when fhe rides abroa Upon this tree; and as the tender mar Grew with the year, and widen'd with the batk On the hard earth the Lycian £nock'd his head affairs It fed flow'rs worthy of paradife, which not nice ar Shaefpeare's Richard 11 Pour'd forth profufe on hill and dale, and plain Miltern Their quarters are contrived into elegant £zots Aore adorned with the moft beautiful flowers Henry in 4zots involving Emma's name Had half-exprefs'd, and half-conceal'd his flam pierc'd hi lems of bufinefs, and contrar with Azots and prob. 7o KxoT. w.¢g. [from the noun. 1. To complicate in knots In beds and cutious £zots, but nature boon So when the cook faw my jaws thus kzeck it She would have made a pancake of my pocket Cleaveland A man fhall be perplexe Garden #nots, the frets of houfes, and all equa figures, pleafe: whereas unequal figures are but deBacon formities Qur fea-wall'd garden, the whole land Is full of weeds, her faireft flowers choked up Her knots diforder'd to ftrike; to collid 2. To dafh together with a fharp noife 5. Difficulty; intricacy The way of fortune is like the milky way in the doun, to fell by a blow To Knock. v. a Addifon And gather'd in a knot her flowing hair 3. To affet or change in any refpect b 2. Any figure of which the lines frequentl blows How do you mean removing him interfe¢t each other -~ Why here as the only juft reformation, to go on fo{moothly here as it might do in Scotland. _ X, Ch Thofe precions motives, thole ftrong £7zots of love szz,('ej;-b Not all that Saul could threaten or perfuade In this clofe £z0t, the fmalleft loofenefs made Coawley KNO'TBERRYBUSH. 2. fo [chamemorus. Ainfwarth. A plant Kno'terass. . fo [knot and grafs; polygonum. A plant You minimus of hind'ring tzesgrafs made Shakefpeare Full of knots Kno/t1ED. adj. [from kror. The knotted oaks {hall fhow'rs of honey weep Dyyden KNo/TTiNess. # Jfi [from duotty.] Fulnel of knots culty unevennefs intricacy ; diffi of wood caufe Virtue was reprefented by Hercules naked, wit cl k o hi b b cl t o k an fk u' li hi by the protuberance of -a bough an confequently by a tranfverfe dire@ion o Peacham on Drawing 4. A hard part in a piec the fibres A joint in an herb ‘:KNO"I‘TY Taking the very refufe among thofe which ferve to n ufe being crooke piece of wood re tt kn th te et ap th in ru fo 1¢ ie is figni tu vi e af fe th ha th ul fi di th thereof and ful of knots, he hath carved it diligently, when he ha Wifd nothing elfe to do adj. [from knot. L 1. Full of knots have feen tempefts, when the fcolding wind oaks.k cfpeare's Fulin H ave siv'div'd the the &nait knarty "';b‘ -C‘,f&: o k a knodby kin A Speier informers continued i Th KN KN KN |