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A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.

Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna. The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom. Grew.

See Knobbler.

Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.

The hart in its second year; a young deer. [Written also knobber.] Halliwell. He has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler. Sir W. Scott.

. A bloomery fire. See Bloomery.

Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances. Dr. H. More.

A short club with a knobbed end used as a missile weapon by Kafir and other native tribes of South Africa.

One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trades union. [Cant, Eng.]

A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).

ssel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.

Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.

Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.

A thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end of the pipe through which it was blown.

A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump. They will carry . . . their treasures upon the bunches of camels. Isa. xxx. 6.

The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.

The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head. [Commonly written burr.] Bur oak (Bot.), a useful and ornamental species of oak (Quercus macrocarpa) with ovoid acorns inclosed in deep cups imbricated with pointed scales. It grows in the Middle and Western United States, and its wood is tough, close-grained, and dura…

A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula.

A knobike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage.