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Nodose; knotty; knotted. [Obs.]

Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.

A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

Having little knots or lumps.

Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.

A short or waste piece or knot of wool separated from the longer staple by combing; also, a similar piece or shred of waste silk.

Waste and knots of wool removed by the comb; combings.

A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.

Knotted; tied in a knot, as a serpent.

The marriage knot. [Obs.] Crashaw.

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.

Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.

the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder. Overhand knot. See Illustration of Knot.

o 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.

A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears. [Obs.] To visit islands and the plumps of men. Chapman.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of apetalous plants (Polygonaceæ), of which the knotweeds (species of Polygonum) are the type, and which includes also the docks (Rumex), the buckwheat, rhubarb, sea grape (Coccoloba), and several other genera.

A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.

aving a special meaning, as silver, gold, corn, soldiers. etc. Single, double, and triple knots were tied in the smaller cords, representing definite numbers. It was chiefly used for arithmetical purposes, and to register important facts and events. [Written also quipo.] Tylor. The mysterious science of the quipus . .…