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of the children of the Polifh nobility. Being highly gra¬ 
tified with this offer, as ;t afforded him an importunity of 
vifiting new countries, he requelled leave from the king 
torefign his profefforfhip ; but his majelty ordered him to 
remain at Halle, conferred on him the quality of privy 
counfellor, and accompanied this mark of honour with a 
confiderable addition of his falary. In the mean time he 
contracted an intimate friendlhip with Lippert, and, that 
be might recommend his excellent works, he wrote a trea- 
tife On the Ufe and • Advantage of Gems, Altenburg, 
1760 ; in which he advifes all thofe who have the direction 
of public fchools to procure Lippert’s DaClyliotheca, and 
to employ it for illuftrating gems and the ancient writers. 
He publilhed afterwards Leciiones Venujmce , Lipfiae, 1768. 
About this time, prince Jofeph Jablonlki, an eminent pa¬ 
tron of learning and learned men, had propofed a pre¬ 
mium to the perfon who Ihould compofe the belt work on 
the education of the Polifh youth. Klotz, to gratify the 
prince, undertook this talk, completed it in twenty-four 
hours, and obtained the prize by the decifion of the lite¬ 
rary men of Leipfic, to whom the adjudication had been 
referred. He then revifed every thing he had written on 
coins, and publilhed Opufcula Numaria quibus Juris Antiqui 
HiJloriaque nonulla Capita cxplicantur, which was to have 
been followed by a new work on gems; but the author 
was prevented from engaging in it by a fudden illnefs, 
which terminated in his death in the year 1771. Befides 
writing the above original works, Klotz fuperintended the 
publication of various others, to fome of which he pre¬ 
fixed prefaces or differtations. Vita C. A. Klotzii, a C. E. 
Mangelfdorjio. 
KLUCZ, a town of Croatia : eight miles ealt of Bihacs. 
KLYN'DAN BILL', a fmall illand on the eaft fide of 
the gulf of Bothnia. Lat. 60. 37. N. Ion. 2.0. 54. E. 
KLYN'DAN STOR', a lmall illand on the ealt fide of 
the gulf of Bothnia. Lat. 60. 39. N. Ion. 20.48. E. 
KLYS'SO, a town of Prulfia, in Pomerelia-. thirty-three 
miles fouth-fouth-welt of Dantzic. 
KMIDOMOU'KA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
ofKiev : thirty-two miles fouth-fouth-eall of Bialacerkiew. 
‘To KNAB, v. a. [/mappen, Dut. knaap, Erie.] To bite. 
Perhaps properly to bite lomething brittle, that makes a 
noife when it is broken ; fo that knab and knap may be the 
fame.—I had much rather lie knabbing crufts, without fear, 
an my own hole, than be miltrefs of the world with cares. 
L'EJlrange. —An afs was wilhing, in a hard winter, for a 
little warm weather, and a mouthful of frelh grafs to knab 
upon. L'EJlrange. 
KNAB'BING, f. The aCt of biting with a repeated 
noife. 
To KNAB'BLE, v. n. [from knab.~\ To bite idly, or 
wantonly ; to nibble.—Horfes will knabble at walls, and 
rats gnaw iron. Brown. 
KNACK, f. [cnapinge, lkill, Sax.] Readinefs ; habi¬ 
tual facility; lucky dexterity.—There is a certain knack in 
converfation that gives a good grace by the manner and 
addrefs. L’EJlrange. 
Knaves, who in full affemblies have the knack 
Of turning truth to lies, and white to black. Dryden. 
A nice trick : 
For how (hould equal colours do the knack ? 
Cameleons who can paint in white and black ? Pope. 
A little machine ; a pretty contrivance ; a toy : 
To load my (lie with knacks, I would have ranlack’d 
The pedlar’s filken treafury, and have pour’d it 
To her acceptance. Shakejpeare's Winter's Tale. 
'litis cap was moulded on a porringer: 
A velvet difii; fie, fie, ’tis lewd and filthy : 
Why ’tis a cockle ora walnut Ihell, 
A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby’s cap. Shakefpeare. 
He expounded both his pockets, 
And found a watch, with rings and lockets; 
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A copper-plate, with almanacs 
Engrav’d upon’t, with other knacks. lludibras. 
To KNACK, v. n. To make a {harp quick noife, as 
when a ftick breaks. 
KNACK'ER, f. A maker of fmall work.—One part 
for plow-right, knacker, and fmith. Mortimer. —A rope- 
maker. 
KNAG, f. \Jknag, a wart, Danifli.] It is retained in 
Scotland. A hard knot in wmod. 
ICNAG'GINESS, f. The ftate or quality of being full 
of hard knots. Scott. 
KNAG'GY, adj. Knotty; fet with hard rough knots. 
KNAP, f. [cnap, Wel(h, a protuberance, or a broken 
piece ; cnasp, Saxon, a protuberance.] A protuberance, a 
{welling prominence.—You {hall fee many fine feats fet 
upon a. knap of ground, environed with higher hills round 
about it, whereby the heat of the fun is pent in, and the 
wind gathered as in troughs. Bacon. 
To KNAP, v. a. \_knappen, Dut.] To bite; to break 
ffiort; to fnap.—He knappetk the fpear in funder. Common 
Prayer. —He will knap the fpears a-pieces with his 
teeth. More. — [Knaap, Erfe.] To ftrike fo as to make a 
{harp noife like that of breaking.— Knap a pair of tongs 
fome depth in a veffel of water, and you {ball hear the 
found of the tongs. Bacon's Natural Hijlory. 
To KNAP, v.n. To make a Ihort {harp noife.—I re¬ 
duced the Ihoulders fo foon, that the ftanders-by heard 
them knap in before they knew they were out. Wifeman. 
—To brouze, to feed on fnrubs; a hunting-term. 
KNAP’s BAY, a bay in Hudfon’s Bay. Lat. 61. 15. N. 
Ion. 94. 54. W. 
KNAP'-BOTTLE,/ A plant. See Papaver. 
KNAP'DALE, one of the divifions of Argylefhire in, 
Scotland. It is parted from Cowal on the eaft by Loch- 
fyn ; bounded by Kintyre on the fouth, by Lorn on the 
north, by Braidalbane on the north-eall, and on the weft 
by the Hebrides. Its length from north to fouth does not 
exceed twenty miles, and the breadth in fome places may 
amount to thirteen. It is joined to Kintyre by a neck of 
land not above a mile broad, over which the country-peo¬ 
ple draw their boats, to avoid failing round Kintyre. 
This part of Knapdale abounds with lakes, fome of them 
containing little iilands, on which there are caftles belong¬ 
ing to different proprietors. The grounds are more adapt¬ 
ed for pafturage than grain ; but that on the fide of Lo- 
cliow is fruitful in both. 
KNAP'PIA,yi [So named by Dr. Smith in honour of 
John Leonard Knapp, F. L. and A. SS. author of Gramina 
Britannica, 4to. 1804.] In botany, a genus of grafs, 
eredted by Dr. Smith. It contains but one fpecies ; and 
that is the Agrostis minima, which fee, vol. i. p. aio. 
KNAP'PING,/. The act of biting; of feeding on 
ftirubs. 
To KNAP'PLE, v. n. [from knap.~\ To break off with 
a {harp quick noife. 
KNAP'PY, adj. Having protuberances; knotty. Miller. 
KNAP'SACK,yi [from knappen, Dut. to eat.] A bag 
of provifions.—It you are for a merry jaunt. I’ll try for 
once who can foot it fartheft : there are hedges in fummer, 
and barns in winter : I with my hnapfack, and you with 
your bottle at your back : we’ll leave honour to mad¬ 
men, and riches to knaves, and travel till we come to the 
ridge of the world. Dryden. —The bag which a foldier 
carries on his back.—The conllitutions of this church 
{hall not be repealed, ’till I fee more religious motives 
than foldiers carry in their knapfacks. King Charles .— 
The military knapfack is a rough leather or canvas bag, 
which a foldier carries at his back, containing all his ne- 
ceffaries. Square knapfacks are moft convenient, and 
{hould be made with a divifion to hold the flioes, blacking- 
balls, and brufhes, feparate from the linen. White goat- 
ikins are lometimes ufed. Soldiers are put under itop- 
pages for the payment of their knapfacks, which after fix 
years become their own property. 
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