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Ignobleness. [Obs.] Bale.

Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble. I was not ignoble of descent. Shak. Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants. Shak.

State or quality of being ignoble.

In an ignoble manner; basely.

Disobedience. [Obs.] Wyclif. Chaucer.

Not obedient; disobedient. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- In`o*be"di*ent*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Not observable.

Want or neglect of observance. Bacon.

Not observant; regardless; heedless. Bp. Hurd. -- In`ob*serv"ant*ly, adv.

Neglect or want of observation. [R.]

Not obtrusive; unobtrusive. -- In`ob*tru"sive*ly, adv. -- In`ob*tru"sive*ness, n.

A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.

Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna. The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom. Grew.

See Knobbler.

Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.

The hart in its second year; a young deer. [Written also knobber.] Halliwell. He has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler. Sir W. Scott.

. A bloomery fire. See Bloomery.

Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances. Dr. H. More.

A short club with a knobbed end used as a missile weapon by Kafir and other native tribes of South Africa.

One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trades union. [Cant, Eng.]