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To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's duty. O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! Shak. There is a certainty in the proposition, and we know it. Dryden. Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. Longfell…

Full of knots; gnarled.

Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.

Full of knots. [Obs.] Drayton.

A tassel. [Obs.] Huloet. Fuller.

An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.

Milky; full of white juice like milk. [Obs.] "Lactary or milky plants." Sir T. Browne.

rbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full- grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and par…

nguage. Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense. Fuller.

as of cloth. Chaucer. If he cuts off but a lap of truth's garment, his heart smites him. Fuller.

tue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake. To lapse in fullness Is sorer than to lie for need. Shak.

Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education. Felton.

To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin. [Obs.] Fuller.

No discreet man will believe Augustine's miracles, in the latitude of monkish relations. Fuller.

ls, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass. He had a cross of latoun full of stones. Chaucer.

ing. (b) A somewhat similar set of changes taking place in the High German dialects (less fully in modern literary German) from the 6th to the 8th century, known as the second Lautverschiebung, the result of which form the striking differences between High German and The Low German Languages. The statement of these cha…

Full of sores; leprous. Shak. Bp. Hall.

Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest. "The leafy month of June." Coleridge.

Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages. "No lean wardrobe." Shak. Their lean and fiashy songs. Milton. What the land is, whether…

At least; at all events. [Colloq.] At leastways, or At leastwise, at least. [Obs.] Fuller.