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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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66 words match “NOTT”

NOTT a. 2 definitions

Having the hair cut close. [Obs.] Chapman.

Same as Nocturne.

ANNOTTO; ARNOTTO n.

ca. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc. [Written also Anatto, Anatta, Annatto, Annotta, etc.]

Same as Annotto.

KNOTTED a. 5 definitions

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

KNOTTINESS n. 2 definitions

The quality or state of being knotty or full of knots.

KNOTTY a. 3 definitions

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

NOT-PATED; NOTT-PATED a.

Same as Nott-headed. [Obs.] Shak.

SNOTTER v. 2 definitions

To snivel; to cry or whine. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Filth; abomination. [Obs.] To purge the snottery of our slimy time. Marston.

Foul with snot; hence, mean; dirty. -- Snort"ti*ly, adb. -- Snot"ti*ness, n.

When they were accorded from the fray. Spenser. All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto.

A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.

Same as Annotto.

n died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others. Nott.

[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 tra…