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A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.

A jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, which causes a sudden contraction of the quadriceps muscle.

Obsequious; fawning; cringing. "Knee-crooking knave." Shak.

Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep. Grass knee-deep within a month. Milton.

Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee- high.

A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.

The kneepan.

Having knees;- used chiefly in composition; as, in-kneed; out- kneed; weak-kneed.

The joint of the knee.

Geniculate; kneed. See Kneed, a., 2.

To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. Acts vii. 60. As soon as you are dressed, kneel and say the Lord's Prayer. Jer. Taylor.

One who kneels or who worships by or while kneeling. Tennyson.

In a kneeling position.

A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.

A piece shaped like a knee; as, the kneepieces or ears of a boat.

On the knee. [R.] Southey.

Same as Knock-knee.

See Knock-kneed.

See Knock-kneed.

A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.