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The cloudberry (Rudus Chamæmorus); -- so called from its knotted stems.

A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them.

Knotted. Nodated hyperbola (Geom.), a certain curve of the third order having two branches which cross each other, forming a node.

Act of making a knot, or state of being knotted. [R.]

Knotty; having numerous or conspicuous nodes.

The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness. Holland.

Nodose; knotty; knotted. [Obs.]

Shorn; shaven. [Obs.] See Nott.

Knotted; tied in a knot, as a serpent.

A corruption of Annotto.

confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely. I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails. Shak.

A rough, knotted woolen cloth, used chiefly for men's overcoats; also, a coat of that material.

The sole of the foot. [R.] "Knotty legs and plants of clay." B. Jonson.

es. I shall ryve him through the sides twain. Chaucer. The scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks. Shak. Brutus hath rived my heart. Shak.

orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto.

Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease. [Written also skirrhous.]

The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.

A knot; a protuberance; a song. [Obs.] [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain. Spenser.

ant of the genus Polygonatum, having simple erect or curving stems rising from thick and knotted rootstocks, and with white or greenish nodding flowers. The commonest European species is Polygonatum multiflorum. P. biflorum and P. giganteum are common in the Eastern United States. See Illust. of Rootstock. False Solomo…

one's sorrows. Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. Congreve. Though the sound of Fame May for a moment soothe, it can not slake The fever of vain longing. Byron.