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A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop. The highest part and knap of the same island. Holland.

Having knaps; full of protuberances or humps; knobby. [Obs.] Huloet.

The black centaury (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the knoblike heads of flowers. Called also bullweed.

A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button. Four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers. Ex. xxv. 21.

Having knops or knobs; fastened as with buttons. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance. With lips serenely placid, felt the knot Climb in her throat. Tennyson.

To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill.

coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.

A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.

A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping.

k of a capital. (Arch.) See Gorgerin. -- Neck of a cascabel (Gun.), the part joining the knob to the base of the breech. -- Neck of a gun, the small part of the piece between the chase and the swell of the muzzle. -- Neck of a tooth (Anat.), the constriction between the root and the crown. -- Neck or nothing (Fig.)…

A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story. [Colloq.]

A hard knot in wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in playing hockey. I think I'm as hard as a nur, and as tough as whitleather. W. Howitt.

A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form; as:

The cascabel, or hindmost knob, of a cannon. [R.]

urrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances (Astron.), certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which are seen to extend beyond the edge of the moon at the time of a solar eclipse. They may be discovered with the spectroscop…

A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.

Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.

ccepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick. Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being "nobs" De Quincey.