K N O 
To in tangle; to perplex. To unite.—The party of the 
papifts in England are become more knotted, both in de¬ 
pendence towards Spain, and amongft themfelves. Bacon. 
To KNOT, v. n. To form buds, knots, or joints, in ve¬ 
getation.—Cut hay when it begins to knot. Mortimer's 
Hujbandry .—To knit knots for fringes. 
KNOT (Edward), a learned Englifh Jefuit, whofe real 
name was Matthias Wilfon, and who is chiefly entitled to 
notice on account of the leading part which he fuftained 
in the catholic controverfy againft the celebrated Chil¬ 
ling-worth, was born at Pegfworth, near Morpeth in Nor¬ 
thumberland, in the year 1580. Having been educated 
to the church, he took prielt’s orders, and, when he was 
twenty-fix years of age, entered among the Jefuits. Dur¬ 
ing a long time he taught divinity in the Englifh college 
at Rome, and was a rigid obferver of that difqipline him- 
felf which he has rigidly exafted from others. After¬ 
wards he was appointed fub-provincial of the province 
of England ; and, while he difeharged the duties of that 
office out of the kingdom, publifhed a Latin treatife at 
Antwerp, in 1631, in l'upport of the high claims of the pa¬ 
pal hierarchy, which drew on him the cenfures of the 
clergy of France and of the Sorbonne. His next ap¬ 
pointment was to perform the functions of provincial in 
England; with which he was twice honoured. He afliffed 
as provincial at the general affembly of the order held at 
Rome in 1646, and was elected one of the definitors. He 
died in England ten years afterwards, about the age of 
feventy-fix. His works, which are chiefly controverfial, 
prove him to have been a perfon of great acutenefs in rea- 
1'oning, and to have had no contemptible fhare of learning. 
KNOT'-BERRY, [ in botany, the name of a fhrub ; 
the fruit of the knot-berry-bufh. 
KNOT'-BERRY-BUSH,/ A plant. See Rubus. 
KNOT'-GRASS, J. A plant. See Polygonum.— 
Your minimus of hind’ring knot-grafs made. Skakefpcare. 
KNOT'-GRASS, (bafe.) See Corrigiola. 
KNOT'-GRASS, (German.) See Scleranthus. 
KNOT'-GRASS, (mountain and verticillate.) See II- 
X.ECEBRUM. 
KNOTTED, adj. Full of knots.—The knotted oaks 
iliall fhow’rs of honey weep. Dryden. 
KNOT'TESFORD. See Knutsford. 
KNOT'TINESS, f Fulnefs of knots; unevennefs; in¬ 
tricacy; difficulty.—Virtue was reprefented by Hercules 
raked, with his lion’s (kin and knotted club: by his oaken 
club is fignified reafon ruling the appetite; the knottinefs 
thereof, the difficulty they have that feek after virtue. 
Peackam on Drawing. 
KNOTTING, f. The act of tying knots. A pecu¬ 
liar kind of ladies' work. 
KNOT'TINGLEY, a town in the weft riding of York- 
fhire, on the Aire, near Ferrybridge ; noted for its trade 
in lime. The ftones of which it is made are dug up plen¬ 
tifully at Elmet, and here burnt; whence it is conveyed 
at certain feafons in great quantities to Wakefield, San¬ 
dal, and Standbridge, for fale, and fo carried into the 
weftern parts of the county for manure. 
KNOTTY, adj. Full of knots.—The timber in fome 
trees more dean, in fome more knotty-. try it by fpeaking 
at one end, and laying the ear at the other; for, if it be 
knotty, the voice will not pafs well. Bacon. 
One with a brand yet burning from the flame ; 
Arm’d with a knotty club another came. Dryden s TEn. 
Hard ; rugged : 
Valiant fools 
Were made by nature for the wife to work with : 
They are their tools; and ’tis the fport of ftatefmen, 
■When heroes knock their knotty heads together. 
And fall by one another. Rowe. 
Intricate; perplexed; difficult; embarrafled.—King Henry, 
in the very entrance of his reign, met with a point of 
great difficulty, and knotty to folve, able to trouble and 
confound the wifelt king. Bacon. 
Voi.. XI. No. 799. 
K N O £33 
They compliment, they fit, they chat. 
Fight o’er the wars, reform the ftate ; 
A thoufiind knotty points they clear, 
’Till fupper and my wife appear. Prior. 
KNO'ULTON, a lake in the ftate of Vermont, North 
America. Lat. 44. 48. N. Ion. 71. 50. W. 
KNOUT, f. The name of a punifhment inflided in 
Ruffia, with a kind of whip called knout, and made of a long 
Itrap of leather prepared for this purpofe: this ltrap, or lafli, 
is about the thicknefs of a crown-piece, and three quarters of 
an inch broad, and fixed to a Ihort wooden handle. With 
this whip the executioners dexteroufly carry off a flip of 
(kin from the neck to the bottom of the back laid bare to 
the waift, and, repeating their blows, in a little while rend 
away all the fkin of the back in parallel ftripes. In the 
common knout, the criminal receives the lathes l’ufpended 
on the Oack of one of the executioners: but in the great 
knout, which is generally ufed on the fame occafions as 
racking on the wheel in France, the criminal is raifed into 
the air by means of a pulley fixed to the gallows, and a 
cord fattened to the two wrifts tied together ; a piece of 
wood is placed between his two legs alfo tied together ; 
and another of a crucial form under his breaft. Sometimes 
his hands are tied behind over his back; and, when he is 
pulled up in this pofition, his (boulders are dillocated. 
The executioners can make this punifhment more or lefs 
fevere ; and it is faid are fo dexterous, that, when a crimi¬ 
nal is condemned to die, they can make him expire at plea- 
fure either by one or leverai lafhes. 
To KNOW, v. a. preter. I knew, l have known-, [cnapan, 
Sax.] To perceive with certainty, whether intuitive or 
dilcurfive.—The memorial of virtue is immortal, becaufc 
it is known with God and with men. Wifd. iv. 1. 
Not from experience, for the world was new; 
He only from their caufe their natures knew. Denham. 
To be informed of; to be taught.—Ye (hall be healed, 
and it (hall be known to you why his hand is not removed 
from you. 1 Sam. vi. 3. 
Truft not yourfelf; but, your defefts to know, 
Make ufe of ev’ry friend and ev’ry foe. Pope. 
To diftinguifli.—Numeration is but the adding of one 
unit more, and giving to the whole a new name, whereby 
to know it from thofe before and after, and diftinguifli it 
from every fmaller or greater multitude of units. Locke .— 
To recognife.—What art thou, thus to rail on me, that is 
neither known of thee, nor knows thee ? Shakefpeare. 
At nearer view he thought he knew the dead. 
And call’d the wretched man to mind. Flatman . 
To be no ftranger to ; to be familiar with : 
A mod poor man, made tame to fortune’s blows. 
Who, by the art of known and feeling forrows, 
Am pregnant to good pity. Shakefp. King Lear. 
To converfe with another fex.—And Adam knew Eve his 
wife. Genefis. 
To KNOW, v. n. To have clear and certain perception ; 
not to be doubtful.—I know of a furety, that the Lord 
hath fent his angel, and delivered me out of the hand of 
Herod. Ads. —Not to be ignorant.—In the other world 
there is no confideration that will (ting our confidences 
more cruelly than this, that we did wickedly, when we 
knew to have done better; and chofe to make ourfelves 
miferable, when we underftood the way to have been 
happy. Tillotfon. 
Not to know of things remote, but know 
That which before us lies in daily life. 
Is the prime wifdom. Milton. 
To be informed.—There is but one mineral body, that we 
know of, heavier than common quickfilver. Boyle. 
To Know for. To have knowledge of. A colloquial 
expreffion.—He faid the water itfelf was a good healthy 
water; but, for the party that own’d it, he might have 
more difeafes than he knew for. Shakefp, Henry IV. 
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