_To_ KNEE, _v. a._

1. To press down with the knees, Ang.

2. To bend into an angular form, Ang.

3. The wind is said _to knee corn_, when it breaks it down so that it strikes root by the stalk, Ang.

Isl. _kny-a_, adigere; _hneig-ia_, flectere.

KNEEF, KNEIF, _adj._ Active, alert, S.

_Ross._

Isl. _knaef-r_, Dan. _knov_, robustus.

~Kniefly~, _adv._ With vivacity, S.

_Ferguson._

KNEEF, _adj._ Arduous, Aberd.

Su. G. _knapp_, difficult, strait.

KNEE-ILL, _s._ A disease of cattle, affecting their joints, S.

KNEESHIP.

V. ~Knawship~.

KNEEVICK, _adj._ Griping, Fife.

Isl. _hnyf-a_, to grasp with the fist.

KNEWEL, KNOOL, _s._ A wooden pin in the end of a halter for holding by

_To hadd the knewel_, to hold the reins, Ang.

Belg. _knevel_, a knot; _knevel-en_, to pinion.

KNIBLE, _adj._ Nimble, S. B.

_Ross._

Su. G. Teut. _knap_, alacer.

KNIBLOCH, KNUBLOCK, _s._

1. A small round stone or hardened clod, S.

_Ross._

2. A k.n.o.b of wood, S.

_Ramsay._

3. The swelling occasioned by a blow or fall.

_Gl. Shirr._

Belg. _k.n.o.bbel_, a k.n.o.b, a knurl.

~Knibblockie~, _adj._ Rough, applied to a road in which many small stones rise up, S. B.

KNYFF, _s._ A hanger or dagger.

_Wallace._

O. Teut. _knyf_, culter, gladius, Kilian.

KNYPSIT, _pret._ L. _knappit_.

_Knox._

KNITCH. _s._ A bundle, S.

Sw. _knyte_, id., _knyt-a_, to tie.

~Knitch.e.l.l~, _s._ A small bundle.

_Dunbar._

KNITTING, _s._ Tape, S.

_Sir J. Sinclair._

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