Master, knock the door hard.
Shak.
To knock down. (a) To strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or
by blows; as, to knock down an assailant. (b) To assign to a bidder at
an auction, by a blow or knock; to knock off. -- To knock in the head,
or on the head, to stun or kill by a blow upon the head; hence, to put
am end to; to defeat, as a scheme or project; to frustrate; to quash.
[Colloq.] -- To knock off. (a) To force off by a blow or by beating.
(b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow on the counter. (c)
To leave off (work, etc.). [Colloq.] -- To knock out, to force out by a
blow or by blows; as, to knock out the brains. - - To knock up. (a) To
arouse by knocking. (b) To beat or tire out; to fatigue till unable to
do more; as, the men were entirely knocked up. [Colloq.] "The day being
exceedingly hot, the want of food had knocked up my followers."
Petherick. (c) (Bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape
into book form, as printed sheets.
Knock, n. 1. A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
2. A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap. " A knock at the
door." Longfellow.
A loud cry or some great knock.
Holland.
Knock off, a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the
needles.
Knock"down` (?), n. A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an
animal.
Knock"down`, a. Of force sufficient to fell or completely overthrow;
as, a knockdown blow; a knockdown argument. [Colloq.]
Knock"er (?), n. One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an
instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in
seeking for admittance.
Shut, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, I said; Tie up the
knocker; say I'm sick, I'm dead.
Pope.
Knock"ing, n. A beating; a rap; a series of raps.
The . . . repeated knockings of the head upon the ground by the
Chinese worshiper.
H. Spencer.
Knock"ings (?), n. pl. (Mining) Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in
dressing ore.
Knock"-knee` (?), n. (Med.) A condition in which the knees are bent in
so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.
Knock"-kneed` (?), a. Having the legs bent inward so that the knees
touch in walking. [Written also knack-kneed.]
Knock"stone` (?), n. (Mining) A block upon which ore is broken up.
Knoll (?), n. [AS. cnoll; akin to G. knolle, knollen, clod, lump, knob,
bunch, OD. knolle ball, bunch, Sw. knöl, Dan. knold.] A little round
hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
On knoll or hillock rears his crest, Lonely and huge, the giant
oak.
Sir W. Scott.
Knoll (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Knolled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Knolling.]
[OE. knollen, AS. cnyllan. See Knell.] To ring, as a bell; to strike a
knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing. "Knolled to
church." Shak.
Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.
Tennyson.
Knoll, v. i. To sound, as a bell; to knell. Shak.
For a departed being's soul The death hymn peals, and the hollow
bells knoll.
Byron.
Knoll, n. The tolling of a bell; a knell. [R.] Byron.
Knoll"er, n. One who tolls a bell. [Obs.] Sherwood.
Knop (?), n. [OE. knop, knoppe; cf. D. knop, knoop, G. knopf, Dan.
knap, knop, Sw. knapp, knopp, button, bud, Icel. knappr, and E. knap,
n. Cf. Knap, Knob.] 1. A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.
Four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their
flowers.
Ex. xxv. 21.
2. (Arch.) Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the
ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial;
-- called also knob, and knosp.
Knop sedge (Bot.), the bur reed (Sparganium); -- so called from its
globular clusters of seed vessels. Prior.
Knopped (?), a. Having knops or knobs; fastened as with buttons. [Obs.]
Rom. of R.
Knop"pern (?), n. [Cf. G. knopper. See Knop.] (Zoöl.) A kind of gall
produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and
dyeing.
Knop"weed` (?), n. Same as Knapweed.