Knowing (a.) Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal.
Knowing (n.) Knowledge; hence, experience.
Knowingly (adv.) With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend.
Knowingly (adv.) By experience.
Knowingness (n.) The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
Knowleche (n. & v.) See Knowl, edge.
Knowleching (n.) Knowledge.
Knowledge (v. i.) The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.
Knowledge (v. i.) That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Knowledge (v. i.) That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition.
Knowledge (v. i.) That familiarity which is gained by actual experience; practical skill; as, a knowledge of life.
Knowledge (v. i.) Scope of information; cognizance; notice; as, it has not come to my knowledge.
Knowledge (v. i.) Sexual intercourse; -- usually preceded by carnal; as, carnal knowledge.
Knowledge (v. t.) To acknowledge.
Known (p. p.) of Know.
Know-nothing (n.) A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office.
Know-nothingism (n.) The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings.
Knubs (n. pl.) Waste silk formed in winding off the threads from a cocoon.
Knuckle (n.) The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers.
Knuckle (n.) The kneejoint, or middle joint, of either leg of a quadruped, especially of a calf; -- formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
Knuckle (n.) The joint of a plant.
Knuckle (n.) The joining pars of a hinge through which the pin or rivet passes; a knuckle joint.
Knuckle (n.) A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
Knuckle (n.) A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; as, brass knuckles; -- called also knuckle duster.
Knuckled (imp. & p. p.) of Knuckle
Knuckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Knuckle
Knuckle (v. i.) To yield; to submit; -- used with down, to, or under.
Knuckle (v. t.) To beat with the knuckles; to pommel.
Knuckled (a.) Jointed.
Knuff (n.) A lout; a clown.
Knur (n.) A knurl.
Knurl (n.) A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.
Knurl (n.) One who, or that which, is crossgrained.
Knurl (v. t.) To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill.
Knurled (a.) Full of knots; gnarled.
Knurled (a.) Milled, as the head of a screw, or the edge of a coin.
Knurly (superl.) Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.
Knurry (a.) Full of knots.
Koaita (n.) Same as Coaita.
Koala (n.) A tailless marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus), found in Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called also Australian bear, native bear, and native sloth.
Kob (n.) Alt. of Koba
Koba (n.) Any one of several species of African antelopes of the genus Kobus, esp. the species Kobus sing-sing.
Kobalt (n.) See Cobalt.
Kobellite (n.) A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.
Kobold (n.) A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.
Kodak (n.) A kind of portable camera.
Koel (n.) Any one of several species of cuckoos of the genus Eudynamys, found in India, the East Indies, and Australia. They deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds.
Koff (n.) A two-masted Dutch vessel.
Kohinoor (n.) Alt. of Kohnur
Kohnur (n.) A famous diamond, surrendered to the British crown on the annexation of the Punjab. According to Hindoo legends, it was found in a Golconda mine, and has been the property of various Hindoo and Persian rulers.
Kohl (n.) A mixture of soot and other ingredients, used by Egyptian and other Eastern women to darken the edges of the eyelids.
Kohl-rabies (pl. ) of Kohl-rabi
Kohl-rabi (n.) A variety of cabbage, in which the edible part is a large, turnip-shaped swelling of the stem, above the surface of the ground.
Kokama (n.) The gemsbok.
Koklass (n.) Any pheasant of the genus Pucrasia. The birds of this genus inhabit India and China, and are distinguished by having a long central and two lateral crests on the head. Called also pucras.
Kokoon (n.) The gnu.
Kolarian (n.) An individual of one of the races of aboriginal inhabitants which survive in Hindostan.
Kolarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Kolarians.
Komenic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from meconic acid.
Komtok (n.) An African freshwater fish (Protopterus annectens), belonging to the Dipnoi. It can breathe air by means of its lungs, and when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it remains till the rainy season. It is used as food.
Kon (v. t.) To know. See Can, and Con.
Konite (n.) See Conite.
Konze (n.) A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), allied to the hartbeest, but having shorter and flatter horns, and lacking a black patch on the face.
Koodoo (n.) A large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color is reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut.
Kookoom (n.) The oryx or gemsbok.
Koolokamba (n.) A west African anthropoid ape (Troglodytes koolokamba, or T. Aubryi), allied to the chimpanzee and gorilla, and, in some respects, intermediate between them.
Koolslaa (n.) See Coleslaw.
Koord (n.) See Kurd.
Koordish (n.) See Kurdish.
Koorilian (a & n.) Same as Kurilian.
Kopeck (n.) A small Russian coin. One hundred kopecks make a rouble, worth about sixty cents.
Koran (n.) The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.
Korin (n.) The gazelle.
Korrigum (n.) A West African antelope (Damalis Senegalensis), allied to the sassaby. It is reddish gray, with a black face, and a black stripe on the outside of the legs above the knees.
Kosmos (n.) See Cosmos.
Kotow (n.) The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings.
Kotowed (imp. & p. p.) of Kotow
Kotowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kotow
Kotow (v. i.) To perform the kotow.
Koulan (n.) A wild horse (Equus, / Asinus, onager) inhabiting the plants of Central Asia; -- called also gour, khur, and onager.
Koumiss (n.) An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe.
Kousso (n.) An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge.
Kowtow (n. & v. i.) The same as Kotow.
Kra (n.) A long-tailed ape (Macacus cynomolgus) of India and Sumatra. It is reddish olive, spotted with black, and has a black tail.
Kraal (n.) A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut.
Kraal (n.) An inclosure into which are driven wild elephants which are to be tamed and educated.
Krait (n.) A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish.
Kraken (n.) A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus.
Krakowiak (n.) A lively Polish dance. See Cracovienne.
Krameria (n.) A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one species of which (K. triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as a medicine, is obtained.
Krameric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, Krameria (rhatany); as, krameric acid, usually called ratanhia-tannic acid.
Krang (n.) The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed.
Kranging hook () A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away.
Kreatic (a.) See Creatic.
Kreatin (n.) See Creatin.
Kreatinin (n.) See Creatinin.
Kreel (n.) See Creel.
Kremlin (n.) The citadel of a town or city; especially, the citadel of Moscow, a large inclosure which contains imperial palaces, cathedrals, churches, an arsenal, etc.
Krems (n.) A variety of white lead. See Krems lead, under Lead, n.
Kreng (n.) See Krang.