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Full of knots; having knots knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak. Dryden.

[Colloq.] -- Cat o' nine tails, an instrument of punishment consisting of nine pieces of knotted line or cord fastened to a handle; -- formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back. -- Cat's cradle, game played, esp. by children, with a string looped on the fingers so, as to resemble small cradle. The string is tr…

A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Colt's tooth, an imperfect or superfluous tooth in young horses. -- To cast one's colt's tooth, to cease from youthful wantonness. "Your colt's tooth is not cast yet." Shak. -- To have a colt's tooth, to be wanton. Chaucer…

or brownish red color, parasitic on roots of other plants, and having curious jointed or knotted roots not unlike some kinds of coral. See Illust. under Coralloid. -- Coral snake. (Zo) (a) A small, venomous, Brazilian snake (Elaps corallinus), coral-red, with black bands. (b) A small, harmless, South American snake (…

A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans.

ng to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak.

Golden seal (Bot.), a perennial ranunculaceous herb (Hydrastis Canadensis), with a thick knotted rootstock and large rounded leaves. -- Golden sulphide, or sulphuret, of antimony (Chem.), the pentasulphide of antimony, a golden or orange yellow powder. -- Golden warbler (Zoöl.), a common American wood warbler (Dendr…

Knotted. See Gnarled.

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

ie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle. "Knotted curls." Drayton. As tight as I could knot the noose. Tennyson.

The cloudberry (Rudus Chamæmorus); -- so called from its knotted stems.

Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.

A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them.

Knotted. Nodated hyperbola (Geom.), a certain curve of the third order having two branches which cross each other, forming a node.

Act of making a knot, or state of being knotted. [R.]

Nodose; knotty; knotted. [Obs.]

Knotted; tied in a knot, as a serpent.

A rough, knotted woolen cloth, used chiefly for men's overcoats; also, a coat of that material.

The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.

lant of the genus Polygonatum, having simple erect or curving stems rising from thick and knotted rootstocks, and with white or greenish nodding flowers. The commonest European species is Polygonatum multiflorum. P. biflorum and P. giganteum are common in the Eastern United States. See Illust. of Rootstock. False Solom…