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KNOE'BED, adj. Set with knobs; having protuber¬ 
ances.—The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed 
at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom. Crew. 
KNOB'BINESS, f. The quality of having knobs. 
KNOB'BY, adj. Full of knobs. Hard ; ftubborn.— 
The informers continued in a knobby kind ol obftinacy, 
refolving (till to conceal the names of the authors. Howel. 
To KNOCK, v.n. [cnucian, Sax. from cnoce, a blow, 
Welth.] To clafh ; to be driven fuddenly together.—They 
may fay, the atoms of the chaos, being varioufly moved ac¬ 
cording to this catholic law, mull needs knock and inter¬ 
fere. Bentley. —To beat, as at a door for admittance ; com¬ 
monly with at: 
Whether to knock again ft the gates of Rome, 
Or rudely vifit them in parts remote, 
To fright them, ere deftroy. Shakefp. Coriolanus. 
For harbour at a thoufand doors they knock'd, 
Not one of all the thoufand but was lock’d. Dryden. 
To Knock under. A common expreflion, which denotes 
that a man yields or fubmits. Submifiion is exprefied 
among good fellows by knocking under the table. 
To Knock up. To tire; to roufe by knocking: 
Time was, a fober Englifhman would knock 
His fervants up, and rife by five o’clock; 
Inftruft his family in ev’ry rule, 
And fend his wife to church, his fon to fchool. Pope. 
To KNOCK, v. a. To affefl or change in any refpefl 
by blows.—I-Ie that has his chains knocked off, and the pri¬ 
son- doors fet open to him, is perfectly at liberty. Locke .— 
To dafli together; to ftrike; to collide with a fliarp noile : 
At him he lanc’d his fpear, and pierc’d his breafl; 
On the hard earth the Lycian knock'd his head. 
And lay fupine ; and forth the fpirit fled. Dryden. 
To Knock down. To fell by a blow.—He began to 
knock down his fellow-citizens with a great deal of zeal, 
and to fill all Arabia with bloodfhed. Addifon, 
To Knock cm the head. To kill by a blow ; to deftroy. 
— He betook hirnfelf to his orchard, and walking there was 
knocked on the head by a tree. South. 
■ KNOCK, / A fudden ftroke ; a blow.—Some men ne¬ 
ver conceive how the motion of the earth fliould wave 
them from a knock perpendicularly directed from a body in 
the air above. Brown's Vulgar Errors. 
Ajax belabours there an armlefs ox, 
And thinks that Agamemnon feels the knocks. Dryden. 
A loud ftroke at a door for ad million : 
Guifcard, in his leathern frock, 
Stood ready, with his thrice-repeated knock : 
Thrice with a doleful found the jarring grate 
Rung deaf and hollow. Dryden's Boccace. 
KNOCK HEAD', a cape of Scotland, on the north 
coafl of Bamfffhire : three miles wefl-north-wefl of Bamff. 
KNOCK'BRACK, a mountain of Ireland, in the 
county of Cork : ten miles north of Cork. 
KNOCKCLOG'HAN, a mountain of Ireland, in the 
county.of Londonderry: four miles north of Lough Neagh. 
KNOCKDU'AGH, a mountain of Ireland, in the 
county of Galway, eighteen miles weft of Galway. 
KNOCKE, or Knocoue. See Kenock. 
KNOCK'ER,/ He that knocks. The hammer which 
hangs at the door for llrangers to ftrike : 
Shut, fliut the door, good John! fatigu’d, I faid ; 
Tie up the knocker, fay I’m fick, I’m dead. Pope. 
KNOCK'ING,/ The ait of ftriking; the found made 
by ftriking any two bodies together. 
KNOCK'LAYD, a mountain of Ireland, in the county 
of Antrim : two miles fouth of Ballycaftle. 
KNOCKMEL'EDOWN, mountains of Ireland, be¬ 
tween the counties of Tipperary and Waterford : twenty- 
four miles welt of Waterford. 
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KNOCKNARE'A, a promontory or cape of Ireland, 
in Sligo Bay : fix miles well of Sligo. 
KNOCKNASHEE', mountains of Ireland, in the 
county of Sligo : thirteen miles fouth-wefl of Sligo. 
KNOCK'TOPHER, a town of Ireland, in the county 
of Kilkenny, which before the union lent two members to 
parliament : fifteen miles north of Waterford, and ten. 
fouth of Kilkenny. 
To KNO'LL, v. a. [from knell.'] To ring the bell, gene¬ 
rally for a funeral : 
Had I as many fons as I have hairs, 
I would not wifh them to a fairer death. 
And fo his knell is knoll'd. Shakefp. Macbeth. 
To KNO'LL, v. n. To found as a bell: 
If ever you have look’d on better days, 
If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church. Shakefp „ 
KNO'LL,/ [from cnolle, Sax.] A little round hill. 
Ray .— The mountains, the river Neath, and its fhady banks, 
form a beautiful back-ground and contraft to the bold 
craggy fliore, and the broken peninfulated knolls, which 
nof unfrequently project from it. Wyndham's Tour. 
KNO'LLING,/. Theadt of ringing a bell; the found 
of a bell. 
KNOL'LES (Richard), an Englifh hiflorian, was a na¬ 
tive of Northamptonfhire, and was entered at the univer- 
fity of Oxford about 1560. He is faid to have been a fel¬ 
low of Lincoln-college; and to have left it on being cho- 
fen mafler of the free-fehool at Sandwich. He proved his 
fitnefs for this poll by publifhing a compendium of Latin, 
Greek, and Hebrew, grammar. Aiming at a higher de¬ 
partment of literature, he compofed a Hiftory of the Turks, 
fol. 1610. This was the labour of twelve years, and was 
executed in a manner which has tranfmitted his name to 
pofterity with honour. Several editions of it have been 
made; and continuations of it have been given, of which 
the belt is that of fir Paul Rycaut. Knolles likewife 
wrote A brief Difcourfe of the Greatnefs of the Turkifh 
Empire, &c. He died at Sandwich, in 1610. Wood's 
At hen. Oxon. 
KNOL'LIS (Francis), an Englifh flatefman, was born 
at Grays, in Oxfordfhire; and, after receiving an univer- 
fity education, he went to court, and became a zealous 
friend to the reformation, in the reign of Edward VI. at 
whofe death he went abroad. On the acceffion of queen 
Elizabeth he returned, and was made a privy counlellor, 
and vice-chamberlain of the houfehold. He was employ¬ 
ed in feveral important matters of Hate : was one of the 
commiflioners who fat in judgment on Mary queen of 
Scots; was appointed treafurer of the royal houfehold, 
and a Knight of the Garter. He died in 1596. Sir Fran¬ 
cis wrote a treatife againfl the ufurpations of papal bifhops, 
printed after his death in 1608 ; and a general furvey of 
the Ifle of Wight, which has not been printed. 
KNONAU', a bailiwick of Swiflerland, in the canton 
of Zurich. 
KNOP,/ [a corruption of knap.] A tufty top ; a knob, 
KNOPH, an Egyptian divinity. 
KNORR A RUSENROTH (Chriflian), a learned Ger¬ 
man oriental fcholar and cabalift, was the fon of a Lu¬ 
theran minifler at Alt-Rauden in Silefia, where he was 
born in the year 1636. He purfued his fludies fucceffively 
at Fravenlladt, Stettin, Wittemberg, and Leiplic ; and 
travelled, for further improvement, into France, England, 
and Holland. The fubjedls which had hitherto chiefly en¬ 
gaged his attention were chemiftry and the cabaliflic art, 
of which he had been from his youth a great admirer. At 
Amllerdam he engaged in the capacity of interpreter to 
an Armenian prince; and was by him introduced to the 
knowledge of the oriental tongues. In the fame city he 
lludied Hebrew, and rabbinical learning, under a rabbi : 
and he made fuch progrefs in his favourite fludies, that 
he obtained the efleem of John Lightfoot, Henry More, 
and Van Helmont. The lafl of thofe learned men intro¬ 
duced him to the count-palatine of Sultzbach, who in 
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