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The marriage knot. [Obs.] Crashaw.

One who is lame; a cripple. [Obs.] Thou knowest how lame a creeple this world is. Donne.

To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile. [Obs.] And thou knowest, conscience, I came not to chide Nor deprave thy person with a proud heart. Piers Plowman.

The act of sitting down; repose; a resting. Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising. Ps. cxxxix. 2.

de the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general. Addison. Now thou knowest my drift. Sir W. Scott.

enough to embrace the offer. I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio. Shak. Thou knowest well enough . . . that this is no time to lend money. Shak.

ch closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit. Knowest thou the way to Dover Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath. Shak. Opening a gate for a long war. Knolles.

Wottest not; knowest not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ered me of home. Chapman. Remember you of passed heaviness. Chaucer. And well thou wost [knowest] if it remember thee. Chaucer.

Following; succeeding; in continuance. What to this was sequent Thou knowest already. Shak.

Piers Plowman. Pare saffron between the two St. Mary's days, Or set or go shift it that knowest the ways. Tusser.

that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment. Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak.

Ignorant. [Obs.] I am young and uncunning, as thou wost [knowest]. Chaucer.

A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard. "Thou knowest my old ward; here I lay, and thus I bore my point." Shak.