Give them title, knee, and approbation.
Shak.
Knee breeches. See under Breeches. -- Knee holly, Knee holm (Bot.),
butcher's broom. -- Knee jerk (Physiol.) a jerk or kick produced by a
blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, which
causes a sudden contraction of the quadriceps muscle; one of the
so-called tendon reflexes. -- Knee joint. See in the Vocabulary. --
Knee timber, timber with knees or angles in it. -- Knee tribute, or
Knee worship, tribute paid by kneeling; worship by genuflection. [Obs.]
"Knee tribute yet unpaid." Milton.
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