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verb

Knot v. t. (past & past part. knotted; pres. part. knotting)

1.

To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle. "Knotted curls." "As tight as I could knot the noose."

2.

To unite closely; to knit together.

3.

To entangle or perplex; to puzzle. (Obs. or R.)

Knot v. i.

1.

To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled. "Cut hay when it begins to knot."

2.

To knit knots for fringe or trimming.

3.

To copulate; said of toads. (R.)

adjective

Knotted adj.

1.

Full of knots; having knots; knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak.

2.

Interwoven; matted; entangled. "Make... thy knotted and combined locks to part."

3.

Having intersecting lines or figures. "The west corner of thy curious knotted garden."

4.

(Geol.) Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks.

5.

Entangled; puzzling; knotty. (R.) "They're catched in knotted lawlike nets."

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"Knotted" Quotes from Famous Books

... the door of the hut, and the stars glimmered through the tamarind-trees. A charpoy is a bed, and everybody in Rubbulgurh puts one outside, for sociability, in the evening. Not much of a bed, only four short rickety legs held together with knotted string, but it ...

— The Story of Sonny Sahib • Sara Jeannette Duncan

... Knotted, and Pot.—Hardy annuals. Aromatic and sweet flavour. Used for stuffings and as a pot herb; leaves dried ...

— Gardening for the Million • Alfred Pink

... throe that was almost like a literal death. This—on this he had lived; the ether of ecstasy was the breath of his life. He clutched at the stained red handkerchief knotted about his throat as if he were suffocating; he tore it open as he swayed backward on his knees. He did not hear—or he did not heed—the laugh among the little crowd on the bald—satirical, rallying, zestful. He was deaf to the strains of the violin, jeeringly ...

— The Riddle Of The Rocks - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

... straight shaft Unswerving, from a coppice not far off Came to the pool from the hither bank to bathe. Amid her maiden company she moved, Their cross-thonged yellow buskins scattered off, Unloosed their knotted hair; and thus the pool Received them stepping, shrinking, ...

— In Divers Tones • Charles G. D. Roberts

... was momentarily forgotten, looked at the visitor—a big fellow of a priest, the son of a peasant evidently, and still near to the soil. He had an ungainly, bony figure, huge feet and knotted hands, with a seamy tanned face lighted by extremely keen black eyes. Five and forty and still robust, his chin and cheeks bristling, and his cassock, overlarge, hanging loosely about his big projecting bones, he suggested a bandit in disguise. Still there ...

— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

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