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Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog. The knowing and intelligent part of the world. South.

With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype.

The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.

With foreknowledge. He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life. Jer. Taylor.

Too knowing or too cunning.

Knowing one's self, or one's own character, powers, and limitations.

Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.

Knowing; conscious; cognizant. [R.] A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it. Jer. Taylor.

he extent or degree in which or to which; equally; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden. His spiritual attendants adjured him, as he loved his soul, to emancipate his brethren. Macaulay.

Skillful; knowing; capable. Sir W. Scott.

To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of. Nearchus, . . . not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore. Sir T. Browne.

The act of knowing; knowledge; perception. I will not be myself nor have cognation Of what I feel: I am all patience. Shak.

Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. South.

Having the power of knowing. [Obs.] "An innate cognoscitive power." Cudworth.

"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons (Law), dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.

One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." Fairholt.

Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought. I. Watts.

nsultative. He that remains in the grace of God sins not by any deliberative, consultive, knowing act. Jer. Taylor.

gem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated. Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror. Sir P. Sidney.

Knowing; skillfull; dexterous. "A cunning workman." Ex. xxxviii. 23. "Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Shak. Esau was a cunning hunter. Gen xxv. 27.