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osition of the cock of a gun when retained by the first notch. -- Half hitch, a sailor's knot in a rope; half of a clove hitch. -- Half hose, short stockings; socks. -- Half measure, an imperfect or weak line of action. -- Half note (Mus.), a minim, one half of a semibreve. -- Half pay, half of the wages or salary…

To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.

A species (Polygonum Hydropiper) of knotweed with acrid foliage; water pepper; smartweed.

untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion. Lost in the wild, inextricable maze. Blackmore.

To bind up,as in a knot; to include. [Obs.] Fuller.

To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

on; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot. Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way. Milton.

The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg.

Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty; as, a jointed doll; jointed structure. "The jointed herbage." J. Philips. -- Joint"ed*ly, adv.

To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.

A knot in wood; a protuberance. Wright.

Full of knots; knaggy.

Knotty; rough; figuratively, rough in temper. Fuller. -- Knag"gi*ness, n.

A knot in wood. See Gnarl.

Knotted. See Gnarled.

Knotty; gnarled. The knarred and crooked cedar knees. Longfellow.

Knotty; gnarled. Chaucer.

A linsey-woolsey fabric having a rough knotted surface on the right side; used for women's dresses.

To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying. A great sheet knit at the four corners. Acts x. 11. When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows. Shak.

to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table. When heroes knock their knotty heads together. Rowe.