Pope.
Knot"weed` (nt"wd`), n. (Bot.) See Knotgrass.
Knot"wort` (-wûrt`), n. (Bot.) A small, herbaceous, trailing plant, of
the genus Illecebrum (I. verticillatum).
Knout (nout or nt), n. [Russ. knut'; prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Sw.
knut knot, knout, Icel. kntr knot: cf. F. knout. See Knot.] A kind of
whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The lash is
a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so
that it mangles the flesh.
Knout, v. t. To punish with the knout. Brougham.
Know (n), n. Knee. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Know (n), v. t. [imp. Knew (n); p. p. Known (nn); p. pr. & vb. n.
Knowing.] [OE. knowen, knawen, AS. cnäwan; akin to OHG. chnäan (in
comp.), Icel. knä to be able, Russ. znate to know, L. gnoscere,
noscere, Gr. gighw`skein, Skr. jn; fr. the root of E. can, v. i., ken.
√45. See Ken, Can to be able, and cf. Acquaint, Cognition, Gnome,
Ignore, Noble, Note.] 1. To perceive or apprehend clearly and
certainly; to understand; to have full information of; as, to know
one's duty.
O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it
come!
Shak.
There is a certainty in the proposition, and we know it.
Dryden.
Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Longfellow.
2. To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of; as, to know
things from information.
3. To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less
familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience
of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization.
He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.