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reftorative, is chiefly made of knuckles of veal. Bacon's Na¬ 
tural Hijl .—The articulation or joint of a plant.—Divers 
herbs have joints or knuckles, as it were flops in their ger¬ 
mination; as gilly-flovvers, pinks, and corn. Bacon .—Part 
of the tympan of a printing-prefs. 
To KNUCK'LE, v. n. To fu'oinit: I fuppofe from an 
odd cuftom of ftriking the under fide of the table with the 
knuckles, in confeffion of an argume'ntal defeat. Joknfon. 
•—To lay the knuckle to the ground in playing at marbles. 
KNUCK'LE POINT, a cape on the north-eaft coaft of 
New Zealand, in the South Pacific Ocean. Lat. 34. 51. S. 
Ion. 186. 21. W. 
KNUCK'LED, adj. Jointed.—The reed or cane is a 
watery plant, and groweth not but in the water: it hath 
thefe properties : that it is hollow, and it is knuckled both 
ftalk and root; that, being dry, it is more hard and fragile 
than other wood ; that it putteth forth no boughs, though 
many ftalks out of one root. Bacon's Nat. Hijl. 
KNUCK'LING,yi The aft of bending; of fubmitting; 
of ftriking with the knuckles ; of laying the knuckles to 
the ground in playing at marbles. 
KNUD’s HO'VED, a cape of Denmark, on the eaft 
coaft of Slefwick : eight miles north-eaft of Haderfleben. 
Lat 55. 20. N. Ion. 9. 40. E. 
KNUD’s HO'VED, a cape of Denmark, on the eaft 
coaft of the ifland of Fyen, projefting into the Great Belt, 
and forming a bay on the fouth of the town of Nyeborg. 
Lat. 55.17. N. Ion. 10. 52. E. 
KNUD’s HO'VED, a cape of Denmark, on the foutli- 
weft coaft of the ifland of Zealand. Lat. 55. 5. N. Ion. 
11.37.E. 
KNUFF, f. [perhaps corrupted from knave, or the fame 
with chbjf .] A lout. An old word preferved in a rhyme 
of prediftion: 
The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Flick, 
With clubs and clouted fhoon. 
Shall fill up Duffendale 
With flaughter’d bodies foon. Hayward. 
KNUR, or Knurle,/! [knor. Germ.] A knot; a hard 
fubftance—The ftony nodules found lodged in the ltrata, 
are called by the workmen knurs and knots. Woodward. 
KNUTS'FORD, a market-town in Chefhire, was fo call¬ 
ed from the Danifh king Canute, and ford, a road or paf- 
fage ; becaufe that king is faid to have palled that way 
with his army, and to have been viftorious in a battle 
near that place, which afterwards was called C'nutis-ford, 
but more modernly Knutsford. It is fituated in lat. 53. 
21. N. Ion. a. 33. W. near the Merfey. It is divided, as 
it were, into two towns by a rivulet called Birken ; for 
which reafon it is called High and Low Knutsford. 
The fituation is pleafant, and the town neat. Its dif- 
tance from London is one hundred and feventy-three 
miles, from Manchefter fifteen, Stockport fixteen, Con- 
gleton fourteen, Warrington eleven, Prefcot twenty-one, 
Liverpool twenty-nine, Middlewich nine, Ilolmes-Chapel 
nine, Altringham feven, Macclesfield eleven and a half, 
Northwich feven, and Ghefter twenty-four. 
William de Tabley, who was lord of both the Knutf- 
fords, about the year 1292 granted a charter of privileges 
to his burgeffes of Knutsford, which is printed in Leicef- 
ter’s Hiftory of Bucklow Hundred; this William, about 
the fame time, procured a charter for a market on Satur¬ 
day, and a fair for three days, at the feftival of St. Peter 
and St. Paul; which are ftill continued; there is another 
on the 8th of November ; and a third has been eftablifhed 
within thefe few years on the 23d of April. A charter 
for a Wednefday’s market at Over-Knutsford, on Knuts- 
ford-Booth, was granted in 1335, to Ellen Legh, with a 
fair on Tuefday and Wednelday in Whitfun-week : this 
market has been long dilcontinued, but the fair is ftill 
holden. 
Knutsford is not a corporate town, but it appears that 
its chief .officer was called a mayor in the reign of king 
Edward I. The quarter-fefiions for the county are held 
2» this town at Miilfu miner and Michaelmas. In the year 
K O A 
1777, an account having been taken of the population of 
Knutsford, it vvas found that there were 375 families, 
and 1674 inhabitants ; according to the returns made to 
parliament under the population aft in 1801, there were 
then 543 families in Over and Nether Knutsford, and 2372 
inhabitants, of whom 782 were employed in trade, manu- 
faftures, or handicraft. A manufacture of thread has 
been long^ eftablilhed in this town. There is no cotton 
faftory, but a great deal of cotton fpinning and weaving 
is done in private houfes. Under an act of parliament 
palled in the year 1741, Knutsford was made a diftinft 
parifli and vicarage, and the ancient chapel in Nether- 
Knutsford taken down ; the new parilh-churcli, then built 
in the Tentry-eroft, was confecrated in the year 1744, and 
dedicated to St. John the Baptift; the patronage is vefted, 
by the aft, in the lords of Over-Knutsford, Nether- 
Knutsford, Ollerton, Toft, and Bexton, who prefent in 
rotation. Annual races are held in the vicinity of this 
town. 
Immediately in the neighbourhood are fome feats diftin- 
guilhed for their antiquity and pifturefque features.—To 
the north is Tatton-hall, the feat of Wilbraham Egerton, 
efq. a Large ftone manfion, recently erefted from the de- 
figns of Wyatt. The adjoining park comprifes about 
2000 acres of land, fome of which is annually in tillage.— 
Weft of the town is Tabley-houfe, the feat of fir John F. 
Leicefter, bart. a large brick manfion, in a fpacious park, 
which is ornamented with a large lake and fine foreft trees. 
The houfe is particularly noted for its noble gallery of 
piftures, all executed by Englilli artifts. Lyfons's Magna 
Britannia. 
KNUT'WEIL, a bailiwick of Swifferland, in the canton 
of Lucerne. 
KNUT'ZEN (Matthias), a native of Holftein, who 
openly profeffed and taught atlieifm. It is laid he had 
about a thoufand difciples in different parts of Germa¬ 
ny. They were called Confcitnciarians, becaufe they affect¬ 
ed there is no other God, no other religion, no other law¬ 
ful magiftracy, but confidence, which teaches every man 
the three fundamental principles of the law of nature ; 
To hurt nobody ; to live honeftly; and to give every one 
his due. Several copies of a Letter of his from Rome 
(1674) were fpread abroad, containing the fubftance of his 
iyftem. It is to be found entire in the laft edition of 
Micrtelius. 
KNUT'ZEN (Martin), a Pruflian profeffor of philolo- 
phy, and the author of numerous works, vvas born at Ko- 
niglberg in the year 1713. We have no other informa¬ 
tion concerning him, than that he filled the philofophical 
chair in the univerfity of his native place, and alfo occu¬ 
pied the poll of librarian. He died in 1751, when he was 
only about thirty-eight years of age. Some of his pro¬ 
ductions are in Latin, and others in German. The prin¬ 
cipal of the former are, 1. Syftema Caufarum efficientium. 
2. Elementa Philofophias Rationalis, Methoda Mathema- 
tico demonftrata. 3. Theoremata de Parabolis infinitis, 
&c. Of his German writings, that which has done him 
the greateft honour is A Defence of the Chriftian Religion, 
in 4to. Nouv. DiB. Hijl. 
KNYNDT, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Troki: ten miles fouth of Grodno. 
KNY'NO, a river of Wales, which runs into the Tivy 
about five miles below Cardigan. 
KNYS'ZYN, atown of Warfaw : thirty-fix miles north 
of Biellk. 
KO, a town of China, of the third rank, in Chan-fi.: 
twelve miles fouth-welt of TaL 
KO-HO'A, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 
Quang-li: 1080 miles fouth-fouth-welt of Peking. Lat. 
23. 22. N. Ion. 106. 56. E. 
KO-YANG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Koang-fi : thirty miles weft of Kouang-fin. 
KO'A, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
KOADGWA'II, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Jenhat: twenty miles weft-north-weft of Gujurat. 
KOAMEROO'. See Cape Koameroq, vol. iii. 
KO'ANG- 
