Volume 1

A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson.

Samuel Johnson

Date:: 1755

Credit: A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$! -'C- . ■ KNU'CKLK. n.J. [cnucle, Saxon ; knockle, Dutch.] j. The joints of the fingers protuberant when the fingers clofe. Thus often at the Temple-ftairs we’ve feen Two tritons, of a rough athletick mien, Sourly difpute fome quarrel of the flood, 1. The knee joint of a calf. We find alfo that Scotch fkinck, which is a pottage of ftrong nourifhment, is made with the knees and finews of beef, but long boiled : jelly alfo, which they ufed for a refto- rative, is chiefly made of knuckles of veal. Bacon's Nat. Hijl. 3. The articulation or joint of a plant. Divers herbs have joints or knuckles, as it were flops in their germination ; as gillyflowers, pinks, fennel, and corn. Bacon's Natural Hi/lory. To Knu'ckle. v.n. [from the noun.J Tofubmit: I fuppofe from an odd cuftom of ftriking the under fide of the table with the knuckles, in confelfion of an argumental de¬ feat. Knu'ckled. adj. [from knuckle.J Jointed. The reed or cane is a watry plant, and groweth not but in the water: it hath thefe properties, that it is hollow, and it is knuckled both ftalk and root; that, being dry, it is more hard and fragile than other wood ; that it putteth forth no boughs, though many ftalks out of one root. Bacon's Nat. Hijlory. Knuff. n. f [perhaps corrupted from knave, or the fame with chuff.] A lout. An old word preferved in a rhyme of pre- The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Hick, . With clubs and clouted fhoon, Shall fill up Duflendale With flaughtered bodies foon. Hayward. Knur. \n-f- [knor, German.] A knot; a hard fub- Knurle. J fiance. The ftony nodules found lodged in the ftrata, are called by the workmen knurs and knots. JVoodward's Met. Foff. Koned for knew. Spender. To Kyd. v. n. [corrupted probably from cuS, Saxon.] To know. But ah, unjuft and worthlefs Colin Clout, That kydjl the hidden kinds of many a weed ; Yet kydjl not one to cure thy fore heart root, Whofe rankling wound as yet doth rifely bleed. Spenjer. V t « I T-,< 'U % „ *• * * ■1 t$