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knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop. The highest part and knap of the same island. Holland.

The bladder campion (Silene inflata).

Snappish; peevish. [Obs.] Grafton.

To break off with an abrupt, sharp noise; to bite; to nibble. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Having knaps; full of protuberances or humps; knobby. [Obs.] Huloet.

ack a soldier's necessaries, or the clothing, etc., of a traveler. And each one fills his knapsack or his scrip With some rare thing that on the field is found. Drayton.

The black centaury (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the knoblike heads of flowers. Called also bullweed.

Knapweed. Prior.

b8 Milton. To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America. Belknap.

A hand's breadth; four inches. [Obs.] Knap the tongs together about a handful from the bottom. Bacon.

tout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack.

Knapweed.

Same as Knapweed.

The knapweed.

The knapweed (Centaurea nigra).

wfoot, a favorite food of swine. Dr. Prior. -- Saint Barnaby's thistle (Bot.), a kind of knapeweed (Centaurea solstitialis) flowering on St. Barnabas's Day, June 11th. Dr. Prior. -- Saint Bernard (Zoöl.), a breed of large, handsome dogs celebrated for strength and sagacity, formerly bred chiefly at the Hospice of St.…

A knapsack. [Obs.] South.

ack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack. [His hood] was trussed up in his walet. Chaucer.