List of Old English Words in the OED/KN

Old English	sp	English
Knap	n	Middle English, from Old English cnæp, akin to cnotta 'knot' 2. a protuberance; a swelling; a knob. 3. the crest of a hill. 4. a small hill
Knave	n	A male child, a boy. 2. a boy employed as a servant; hence a menial, one of low condition. 3. unprincipled man; a base and crafty rogue. 4. the lowest court of each suite; the jack.
Knave-child	n	A male-child.
Knaveship	n	Condition of being a knave, often used as a mock title. 2. a small due in meal, payable to the miller's servant, on each lot of corn at a mill.
Knavish	adj	Characteristic, or having the character of a knave. 2. low, vulgar, impertinent, obscene, unprincipled, roguish, rascally.
Knavishly	adv	In a knavish manner
Knavishness	n	The quality of being knavish.
Knead	vb	To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc. 2. (figuratively) to treat or form as if by kneading; to beat. 3. ( of cats) to make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws. 4. to mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound
Kneadingly	adv	In a manner of one who is kneading.
Knee	n	A joint in the middle of the leg and area around it. 2. a carpal joint of a horse or related animal 3. part of a garment 4. a shipbuilding: piece of timber or metal formed with an angle act of kneeling. 5. any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line. 6. blow made with the knee.
Knee	phr	"Be Weak-kneed" - be irresolute; infirm of purpose or conviction.
Knee	phr	"Bow the Knees" - to yield, submit, admit defeat.
Knee	phr	"Bring to the Knees" - to conquer, force to submit.
Knee	phr	"Go Down One's Hands and Knees" - with great humility to ask a favor of a person.
Knee	phr	"Knee-high to a Grasshopper" - small, short.
Knee	phr	"On the Knees of the Gods" - beyond human control, when anything can happen.
Knee-bend	n	The action of bending the knee, especially as a physical exercise in which the body is raised and lowered without the use of the hand.
Kneeboard	n	(Surfing) a short (often less than 6'), broad (sometimes extremely broad) surfboard designed to be ridden in the surf in a kneeling position, and often having traction pads in the central area as an alternative to wax, to help the knees grip the deck. 2.(aviation) a clipboard carried in the lap of an airplane pilot, on which basic flight data is recorded. 3. (waterskiing) a short wakeboard designed to be ridden in the kneeling position
Kneed	adj	Having some specific type of knee(s), as knocked-knees.
Knee-deep	adj	Up to the knees. 2. sunk or submerged to the knees. 3. (figuratively) deeply involved in something, preoccupied with something.
Kneedness	n	The state or quality of being a particular type of or number of knees.
Knee-high	adj	Reaching as high as the knees.
Knee-hole	n	Having a recesss place for the knees.
Kneeing	n	A blow made with the knees.
Kneel	vb	To stoop down and rest on the knees.
Kneel	phr	"Kneel Before" - to knee in front of something/someone, especially in order to worship or supplicate.
Kneel	phr	"Kneel Down" - to kneel, especially as an act of prayer; genuflect.
Knee-length	adj	Reaching the knees.
Kneeler	n	One who kneels in church.
Kneel-less	adj	Not in a kneeling position.
Kneel-like	adj	Resembling a kneel in some aspect or other.
Kneeling	n	The act of becoming on one's knees.
Kneely	adj	Somewhat like a kneel.
Knee-pan	n	The knee cap or patella.
Knee-room	n	The distance between the edge of opposite seat of a passenger carriage.
Knee-timber	n	Naturally bent timber suit for ship building.
Knee-walking drunk	adj	Extremely intoxicated, stone drunk.
Knell	n	The stroke of a bell rung at a funeral or at the death of a person. 2. a death-signal; a portend of doom.
Knell	vb	To sound as a knell; to toll. 2. to summon by tolling a bell.
Knell	phr	"Ring the Knell of" - announce or herald the end of.
Knife	n	A cutting instrument with a blade or a sharp, long-wise edge fixed in a handle, such as a table knife or sheath knife. 2. a knife used a a weapon. 3. a cutting blade for cutting things, vegetable, materials, etc. 3. 'the knife' - a surgery.
Knife	vb	To cut, slice, stab with a knife.
Knife	phr	"Before One Can Say Knife" - very quickly.
Knife	phr	"Get One's Knife Into" - to have spite against.
Knife	phr	"Go Under the Knife" - be operated on; undergo surgery.
Knife	phr	"Live On a Knife's Edge" - metaphorically, to occupy such a precarious position that the slightest false move may end in disaster.
Knife	phr	"Night Of the Long Knives" - to exhibit a malicious or vindictive spirit towards. 2. to persecute relentlessly.
Knife	phr	"On a Knife's-edge" - in a dangerous or uncertain situation
Knife	phr	"Play a Good Knife and Fork" - to eat well.
Knife	phr	"Sharpen the Knives" - get ready for a concerted attack on some principle.
Knife	phr	"Stick a Knife Into Someone" - act vindictively towards someone.
Knife	phr	"The Flaying Knife" - the emblem of St Bartholomew because he was flayed.
Knife	phr	"The Knives Are Out" - there is an active campaign against somebody.
Knife	phr	"War to the Knife" - deadly and relentless combat and strife.
Knife-board	n	A board upon which knives are cleaned.
Knife-edge	adj	The wedge-shaped piece of steel with a keen edge serving as the fulcrum of a balance.
Knife-edge ridge	n	A very narrow and steep ridge.
Knife'ful	adj	As full as a knife can hold.
Knife-grass	n	A stout American hedge, "Sceleria latifolia" with sharp-edged leaves.
Knife-grinder	n	An itinerant sharpener of knives, scissors, etc; a grindstone or emery wheel for grinding tools.
Knife-haft	n	The handle of a knife.
Knife-handle	n	The handle of a knife.
Knifeless	adj	Without a knife or knives.
Knife-like	adj	Resembling a knife or its effect.
Knifely	adv	Of, or pertaining to a knife.
Knife-maker	n	Someone who makes knives.
Knife-making	n	The manufacture of knives.
Knifeman	n	One who uses a knife as a weapon. 2. a surgeon.
Knifer	n	One who carries a knife as a weapon.
Knife-rest	n	A metal bar between two supports on which the carving-knife rests.
Knife-shaft	n	The blade or shaft of a knife.
Knife-sharp	adj	Very sharp.
Knifey	adj	Resembling the edge of a knife in narrowness and sharpness.
Knifish	adj	Malicious, spiteful.
Knight	n	In OE: a boy, youth, lad. 2. a boy as a servant or attendant, 3. military servant o follower; later use devoted to the service of a lady as her attendant or champion in war or tournament. 4. military servant of the king or other person of rank. 5. one raised by a sovereign to a honourable military rank. 6. one raised by a king or sovereign in recognition of personal need or for services rendered to the crown or country, (given the title of Sir).
Knight	vb
Knight	phr	"Knight of the Road" - a man who frequents the roads, for example a travelling sales representative, tramp, or (formerly) a highwayman.
Knight	phr	"Knight of the Shire" - a person representing the shire or county in parliament.
Knight-bairn	n	A male child.
Knighted	adj	Dubbed or create a knight.
Knightenway	n	A military road or way.
Knight-errand	n	A knight who wanders about in search of adventure.
Knight-head	n	One or two timbers rising from the keel of a vessel and supporting the bowsprit between them.
Knighthood	n	A rank of dignity of a knight. 2. boyhood, youth-hood. 3. the profession or vocation of a knight. 4. the collective body of knights, company of knights
Knighting	n	The act of making somebody a knight.
Knight-less	adj	Unbecoming of a knight; unknightly.
Knightlihood	n	The quality of being knightly.
Knight-like	adj	Like or befitting a knight.
Knightliness	n	knightly behavior; chivalry.
Knightly	adj	Having the rank or qualities of a knight, noble, chivalrous, gallant. 2. of belonging to, suitable or appropriate to a knight. 3. consisting of a knight in manner, befitting a knight: gallant, brave, chivalrous.
Knight's fee	n	The amount of land for which, under the feudal system, the services of the knight was due to the crown.
Knightship	n	That honor bestowed that makes somebody a knight. 2. a honorific formal address to a knighted person.
Knightweed	n	The clothing or dress of a knight.
Knightwered	adj	A band of knights or warriors.
Knightwort	n	Stratioles aloides or the water-soldier plant.
Knit	n	The style and stitch in which anything is knitted. 2. the process of knitting. 3 knitted work, texture, fabric. 4. a small particle of ore.
Knit	vb	To make clothes by the working wool etc. thread into a network with knitting-needles. 2. To unite; to make united together by common interests etc. 3. make close or compact. 3. to tie in or with a knot; to fasten by or as by knitting. 4. to interlock, inter-twine, weave, plait together. 5. to draw closely together. 6. to contract in wrinkles or folds. 7. to become consolidated, connected. 8. to form closely together or set. 9. to become conjoined or united closely. 10. to form a cluster together. 11. to combine intimately; to establish or cement a relationship 12.of a female animal: conceive, become pregnant.
Knit	adj	Conceived, pregnant.
Knit	phr	"Knit One's Brow" -to make lines come in skin between hair and eyes as a sign of thought or care
Knit	phr	"Knit Up" - to tie up, fasten up; to string up, to hang; to repair by knitting(lit. & fig). 2. to shut up, take up, snub. 3. to close up, conclude, finish, end. 4. to sum up, to express concisely.
Knit	phr	"Knit Up" - to tie up or fasten, to string up. 2. to compose or repair by knitting
Knitch	n	A bundle of wood, hay, corn etc. tied together; a sheaf, faggot, fascicle; a bundle of flax.
Knitchel	n	A small knitch: bundle of reeds, flowers, grass
Knitted	adj	Made by knitting, or resembling in texture something made by knitting.
Knitter	n	One who knits. 2. a knitting machine.
Knitting	n	Of the action of knit in the formation of a fabric by looping wool. 2. The action of making clothes by the working wool, thread, yarn etc. into a network with knitting-needles. 2. make united together by common interests etc.
Knitting-needle	n	Thin rod of metal or bone etc. used in knitting.
Knitting-pin	n	A long and thick needle, with a knob in place of an eye at one end.
Knittle	n	A string of cord for tightening or fastening small line made of yarn, used on board a ship.
Knitwear	n	Knitted articles of clothing.
Knitwort	n	The herb, comfrey (symphytum officinale).
Knivey	adj	Penurious, miserly, careful or cutting back to the point of meanness.
Knock	n	Late OE. an abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood. 2. an impact, as a knock on the head. 3. (figuratively) criticism. 4. (cricket) a batsman's innings. 5. (automotive) pre-ignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition or the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
Knock	vb	To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood. 2. to strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door. 3. to bump or impact. 4. (colloquial) to denigrate, undervalue. 5. (soccer) to pass, kick a ball towards another player. 6. (slang, dated, Britain) to impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
Knock	phr	"Knock About" - to strike by a succession of blows; hence, to beat roughly and without respect. 2. rough, boisterous, unseemly.. 3. characterized by being driven to and fro, or wandering irregularly around. 4. move about, travel, have one's haunts in.
Knock	phr	"Knock About With/Together" - to be a habitual friend or companion of.
Knock	phr	"Knock a (Child) Out" - fig. to make pregnant, to copulate with. 2. to copulate with.
Knock	phr	"Knock Against" - hit, strike, often causing damage to, collide with.
Knock	phr	"Knock Back" - refuse, rebuff, reject. 2. slang; eat or drink quickly. 3. cost, set back. 4. disconcert, annoy.
Knock	phr	"Knock Down" - to strike or fell with blows. 2. strike or hit with a vehicle. 3. to overcome, vanquish, cause to succumb; demolish. 4. dismantle, for ease of transport. 5. to bring down with a shot, or by artillery. 5. cause to reduce or beat down in price.
Knock	phr	"Knock Down Drag Out" - a free-for-all fight marked by extreme violence or bitterness and no show of mercy.
Knock	phr	"Knock for Six" - to completely demolish an argument or defeat an opponent literally or figuratively.
Knock	phr	"Knock Heads" - to kotow.
Knock	phr	"Knock Heads" - to congregate thickly or associate with.
Knock	phr	"Knock In" - to drive in or force in with blow. 2. drive in by means of a hammer.
Knock	phr	"Knocked Into the Middle of Next Week" - be thoroughly beaten.
Knock	phr	"Knock It Back" - to drink heavily; heartily gulp. 2.
Knock	phr	"Knock It Off" - stop it, leave off.
Knock	phr	"Knock Me Down with a Feather" - to be overcome with surprise.
Knock	phr	"Knock Off" - to leave work; to cease from one's work. 2. to stop, discontinue, give up. 3. to pirate, plagiarize, copy. 4. steal, rob. 5. kill, murder. 5. to arrest a person. 6. reduce the price of something by a stated amount. 7. to copulate with, seduce. 8. write, compose rapidly or easily; throw off.
Knock	phr	"Knock On" - strike, rap, at on (a door), window, entrance.
Knock	phr	"Knock on Doors" - to seek opportunities to do business.
Knock	phr	"Knocking on Heaven's Door" - moribund or near death.
Knock	phr	"Knock One's Head Against (a Stone Wall)" - to strike with one's head; fig. to hurt oneself by coming into collision with resisting facts or conditions.
Knock	phr	"Knock Oneself Out" - to apply oneself with great effort and energy (to the point of exhaustion).
Knock	phr	"Knock One's Socks Off" - astonish, amaze.
Knock	phr	"Knock On the Head" - to stun or kill with a blow to the head, often to kill in a summary way. 2. cancel, stop doing something; prevent the realization of; dismiss as absurd.
Knock	phr	"Knock On Wood" - expression used to fend off bad luck.
Knock	phr	"Knock Out" - to make unconscious with a blow; knock out cold. 2. 2. astound, stop with a blow. 3. overwhelm; render speechless; incapable of though or action.
Knock	phr	"Knock Out Off" - remove by a blows or repeated blows, as powder from a container; teeth from a mouth. 2. eliminate from a contest.
Knock	phr	"Knock Out of Time" - knock out an opponent in a boxing match.
Knock	phr	"Knock Over" - complete quickly.
Knock	phr	"Knock Sideways" - disconcert, astonish.
Knock	phr	"Knock (Somebody's) Head Off" - threaten to, or strike somebody by way of punishment, or retaliation.
Knock	phr	"Knock the Bottom Out Of" - to render invalid, make of no effect upon, bring to nothing, 'won't hold water'.
Knock	phr	"Knock the End Off" - to spoil the whole affair.
Knock	phr	"Knock the Living Daylights Out Off" - severely thrash; soundly beat; beat unmercifully.
Knock	phr	"Knock Through" - remove a wall, partition in order to enlarge a room, usually by combining two; or in order to make a new doorway.
Knock	phr	"Knock Together" - to bring or drive together into collision or contact. 2. put together or prepare hurriedly or hastily.
Knock	phr	"Knock Two Heads Together" - make two persons come to their senses and deal with each other in a reasonable manner.
Knock	phr	"Knock Under" - to acknowledge oneself beaten. 2. to give in, yield, submit; knuckle under.
Knock	phr	"Knock Under the Board" - to succumb in a drinking-bout. 2. to give in, submit, yield.
Knock	phr	"Knock Up" - drive or hit upwards with a blow. 2. wake up (often as a favor) by knocking on a door or a window. 3. make tired, weary or ill. 4. to make or get pregnant. 5. to put together or prepare (with little planning) hurriedly or quickly. 6. a short period of practice before certain sporting contest.
Knock	phr	"Knock Up Against" - to be driven up so as strike or hit into something. 2. to come into collision with.
Knock	phr	"Make One's Knees Knock Together" - feel, or show, great fear.
Knock	phr	"On the Death Knock" - at the last possible moment.
Knock	phr	"On the Knock-off" - to be engaged in stealing. 2. an illegal copy or reproduction of a copy-righted design or product.
Knock	phr	"Take a Knock" - hit hard financially.
Knock-about	adj	Rough, boisterous, unseemly. 2. characterized by being driven to and fro, or wandering irregularly around.
Knock-back	n	A refusal, rebuttal, rejection.
Knock-down	n	A price which an article will be reduced to at an auction or sale. 2. something that knocks somedown down, such as strong liquor. 3. an act of knocking down. 4. a blow that knocks down, a stand-up, 5. free-for-all fight.
Knock-down	adj	Irresistible, overwhelming, knocked-down. 2. adapted to be fastened by being knocked flat at the end. 2. constructed to be easily ' knock-down' or taken in pieces for removal, portable. 3. sold as, or put in a number of separate parts that require assembling.
Knocked	adj	Struck, hit, beaten.
Knocked-down	adj	Knocked down into a number of separate pieces that require to be assembled.
Knocked-kneed	n	With the knees turned inwards so they virtually knock or rub together.
Knocker	n	A fault-finder, caviler, carper, one who frequently captiously criticizes. 2. a metal door-knocker.
Knocker	phr	"On the Knocker" -engaged in selling or canvassing goods from door to door. 2. accurate, on the mark.
Knocker	phr	"Up to the Knocker" - in good condition, in the height of fashion; up to the mark.
Knocker-up	n	One who noisily goes around the streets in the early hours of the morning causing people to be awakened from sleep.
Knocking	n	An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced.
Knockingly	adv	In a knocking manner.
Knocking-shop	n	A slang term fo a brothel.
Knock-me-down	adj	Such as to knock one down, as a powerful blow or punch; (fig.). 2. riotous, overbearing, prostrating, overpowering.
Knock-off	n	The ceasing and leaving of work at the end of the working day. 2. a copy or imitation made esp. for commercial gain.
Knock-off time	n	Time to cease and leave work.
Knock-off	phr	To be engaged in stealing. 2. an illegal copy or reproduction of a copy-righted design or product.
Knock-on	n	The act of knocking on. 2. the domino effect; (the inevitable consequences of initiationg some action).
Knock-on	adj	Affecting and consequential to outcome of events.
Knock-out	n	The rendering of another unconscious with a blow
Knock-out	vb	To render another unconscious with a blow.
Knock-out drops	n	A liquid drug of which drops are put into a drink to render a person unconscious and stupified (often in order to rob or sexually assault).
Knocked-up-ness	n	Someone or something knocked-up, weakened or utterly exhausted or worn out.
Knocking-off time	n	The time at the end of a work spell.
Knocking	n	An act in which something is knocked on, or sound thus produced.
Knockless	adj	That enters without first knocking on the door.
Knock-shop	n	A brothel.
Knock-up	n	A short practice session before a tennis match.
Knocky	adj	Tending to knock.
Knoll	n	A hill top, summit, hillock. 2. a turnip, a swelling of the skin.
Knoll	vb	To ring a knell or toll.
Knolled	adj	High topped or with a high summit.
Knolling	n	Knelling
Knolly	adj	Fully or abounding in knolls or hillocks.
Knop	n	Cognate with OE. 'knap'; a knob, a flower-head. 2. a swelling upon the skin (a knoll); a pimple. 3. small round protuberances.
Knop	vb	To furnish or adorn with knops. 2. to bud, flower.
Knopped	adj	Having knops, knobbed, bearing buds, or compact flower-heads.
Knot	n	looping. 2. a tangled clump. 3. a maze-like pattern. 4. in mathematics: a closed curve. 4. a difficult situation. 5. a whorl in wood left by branch. 6. a firm swollen tissue caused by injury. 7. a protuberant joint in a plant 8. a nautical unit of speed?
Knot	n	A hill, eminence of moderate height.
Knot	vb	To form into a knot; tie in a knot. 2. form wrinkles on the forehead, 3. to tie together.
Knot	phr	"A Knot Of " - a group or collection of people, such as, ' knot of irishmen'.
Knot	phr	"Get Into a Knot" - get into a state of confusion.
Knot	phr	"Get Knotted" - stop, you are annoying me!
Knot	phr	"Knot Together" - join, link by means of a knot.
Knot	phr	"See and Find a Knot" - to look for difficulties where none exist.
Knot	phr	"Tie In Knots" - confuse, bamboozle.
Knot	phr	"Tie the Knot" - to marry.
Knotberry	n	"Rubus chamaemorus" - a local name for the cloudberry.
Knotfulness	n	The number of knots; knottness of which a knot is made up of.
Knotgrass	n	The plant, Polygonum aviculture, formerly said of to stop growth in humans.
Knothole	n	A void left by a knot in the void.
Knotless	adj	Without a knot; free from knots. 2. unknotted; a thread without knots. 3. smoothly without hindrance.
Knotlike	adj	Resembling a knot or some aspect of one.
Knotspan	n	The range of parameter value between two successive knots in a spline.
Knotted	adj	Full of knots, knotty, matted, tangled, snarled, unkempt.
Knotted	phr	"Get Knotted" - stop, you are annoying me!
Knottedness	n	The character or manner of being formed into a knot.
Knottily	adv	In a knotty manner.
Knottiness	n	The quality or condition of being knotty.
Knotting	n	The process of covering knots in woodwork with shellac and methylated spirits, before the initial coat of paint.
Knottish	adj	Knotty.
Knotty	adj	Full of knots; rugged. 2. difficult, puzzling, intricate.
Knotty-headed	adj	Stupid, silly, foolish, dull.
Knotweed	n	Polygonum, especially Fallopia japonica.
Knotwork	n	Ornamental work representing or consisting of intertwined cords.
Knotwort	n	Illecetae raceae.
Know	n	Acknowledgement, confession.
Know	vb	To acknowledge, to confess.
Know	phr	"All One Knows" - to the utmost of one's power. 2.
Know	phr	"Before One Knows Where One Is" - with baffling speed.
Know	phr	"Be in the Know" - be informed and well aware of something.
Know	phr	"Be Not to Know" - be no way of learning. 2. be not to be told.
Know	phr	"Better the Devil You Know, Than the Devil You Don't Know" - the status quo is more comfortable than change.
Know	phr	"Don't I Know It" - I am aware of it, you need not tell me.
Know	phr	"Don't You Know it!" - an expression of emphasis.
Know	phr	"Do You Know Something" - shall i tell you a surprising fact. 2. I'm going to tell you something.
Know	phr	"Father Knows Best" - as an expert I know better than you just what is suitable for you.
Know	phr	"For All I Know" - I do not know (and don't care) but.
Know	phr	"Have Known Better Days" - not to be good or wealthy as formerly.
Know	phr	"He Wouldn't Know the Time of Day" - an expression referring to someone considered stupid or ignorant.
Know	phr	"I Don't Want to Know" - please don't tell me.
Know	phr	"I Knew It" - I was sure or certain this would happen.
Know	phr	"I Know What" - I have a knew idea, suggestion etc.
Know	phr	"In the Know" - in possession of information which is not generally known.
Know	phr	"I Wouldn't Know" - I don't know.
Know	phr	"Know a Good Thing When One Sees It" - have the knowledge or shrewdness to recognize the usefulness or value of somebody, something. 2. be able o recognize something as being of a particular kind. 3. see the opportunity to do or get something profitable.
Know	phr	"Know a Hawk from a Handsaw" - be well-informed, intelligent, discerning.
Know	phr	"Know All the Answers" - to be well informed, resourceful and intelligent.
Know	phr	"Know As Well as I Do" - understand perfectly well, in spite of one's claim or pretence that one does not know. 2. know something very well.
Know	phr	"Know a Thing or Two" - be experienced or shrewd. 2. have or acquired a lifetime of experience and cunning. 2. have a good knowledge of, know what is useful, important. 4. know the answers.
Know	phr	"Know Best" - know what should be done, thought etc. better than anyone else.
Know	phr	"Know Better (than)" - to have learned better from experience; hence, to be wiser, better informed, more sensible, prudent or discreet (than to do something).
Know	phr	"Know By Name" - have heard the name. 2. be able to give the name of.
Know	phr	"Know by Sight" - recognize the appearance (only) withou being an acquaintance.
Know	phr	"Know For" - to be aware of.
Know	phr	"Know How Many Beans Make Five" - have common sense in a practical way, be astute, clear-headed.
Know	phr	"Know Inside Out" - know very well; know backwards.
Know	phr	"Know Like the Back of One's Hand" - to be intimately knowledgable about something, especially about a place.
Know	phr	"Known Knowns" - certainties of known magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics; something that we know that we know.
Know	phr	"Know Of" - have knowledge of, be somewhat knowing of;
Know	phr	"Know One's Business" - one who is very knowledgable and effective in a chosen endeavur
Know	phr	"Know One's Man" - have assessed accurately somebody one hs to deal with.
Know	phr	"Know One's Own Mind" - be decisive, not vacillate. 2. to form and adhere to an opinion. 3. know what one wants to do.
Know	phr	"Know One's Way About" - be familiar with with a locality, subject, how thing work. 2. be capable and well -informed in general.
Know	phr	"Know Somebody and His Kind" - be well aware of the kind of (usually negative) person one is.
Know	phr	"Know Something Backwards" - know very well. 2. know inside out.
Know	phr	"Know Something Inside Out" - know, be skilled in every aspect of something.
Know	phr	"Know the Ropes" - to be thoroughly familiar of waht is to be done. 2. know all all the tricks of the trade. 3. be familiar with the customs and procedures of an institution, community, business, etc.
Know	phr	"Know the Score" - be aware of the true situations. 2. know the true state of affairs or how things really are.
Know	phr	"Know Through and Through" - know, comprehend, understand totally perfectly.
Know	phr	"Know What Is to Be (Something)" - have personal experience of being ill, hungry, etc.
Know	phr	"Know What Love Is" - have personal experience of the true nature of love.
Know	phr	"Know What One Is Doing" - understand the nature and purpose of one's action. 2. to do something deliberately, whether wisely or foolishly.
Know	phr	"Know What Somebody/Something Is" - know what a person or thing is like. 2. understand how a person/thing is likely to behave or function (the implication being that he/she/ it is likely to be unreliable).
Know	phr	"Know What's What" - to be very alert and wide-awake. 2. know what should be known of the facts, arrangements, rules of behavior etc, in a given situation.
Know	phr	"Know Where One is Going" - know clearly what one's motivations and objectives are in life or in a particular line of activity.
Know	phr	"Know Where One Stands" - (with someone) - to know how one is regarded by others. 2. to know a person views on an issue.
Know	phr	"Know Which Side One's Bread is Buttered" - know where one's intersts lie; know who to please, what work to choose or continue in order to ensure one's livelihood, comfort or success.
Know	phr	"Know Which Way to Turn" - know the strategy to adopt or where to seek assistance.
Know	phr	"Know Who's Who" - be aware of who or what each person is.
Know	phr	"Left Hand Does Not Know what the Right Hand Is Doing" - one part of a large bureaucracy doesn't always know what the other part of the organization is doing.
Know	phr	"Not Know Any Better" - not be able to act appropriately, to behave well (through lack of experience), bad upbringing.
Know	phr	"Not Know From" not being able, to separate, recognize the difference between something or someone.
Know	phr	"Not Know One End of Something From the Other" - not know something about.
Know	phr	"Not Know One Is Born" - not have encountered any trouble or misfortune in life.
Know	phr	"Not Know One's Arse from One's Elbow" - be ignorant, stupid, effete.
Know	phr	"Not Know That" - be fairly sure that.
Know	phr	"Not Know the First Thing" - know nothing about.
Know	phr	"Not Know What Hit One" - be suddenly hit, hurt, injured, killed; disconcerted.
Know	phr	"Not Know is Talking Of" - not be a expert or have knowledge.
Know	phr	"Not Know When One One is Well Off" - not know how fortunate one is.
Know	phr	"Not That I Know Off" - not as far as i am aware.
Know	phr	"Not To Know Whether One is Coming Or Going" - to be totally confused.
Know	phr	"Not Want to Know" - refuse to take any notice of.
Know	phr	"So that's All You Know" - you do not know the facts. 2. you do not understand (censoriously) of a person to whom the phrase is addressed.
Know	phr	"Think One Knows It All" - have an inflated belief in ones knowledge and know-how in most or all matters.
Know	phr	"To Know How" - have the knowledge and skills to be able to do something efficiently and effectively.
Know	phr	"Unknown Knowns" - certainties of unknown magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics; something that we don't know that we know.
Know	phr	"What Do You Know" - an expression of surprize.
Know	phr	"Wouldn't You Know" - express dismay or annoyance, especially at bad luck or misfortune.
Know	phr	"You Know - Remember.
Know	phr	"You Know Something" - I am going to tell you something.
Know	phr	"You Never Know" - nothing in the future is certain. 2. perhaps, possibly.
Know-all	n	A conceited person who thinks he knows everything.
Knower	n	One who knows. 2. one who fakes cognizance.
Knowful	adj	Endowed with knowledge, well-informed.
Knowfulness	n	The state or condition of having knowledge.
Know-how	n	Knowledge how to do some particular thing; technical expertise, knowledge
Knowing	n	The act or condition of having knowledge.
Knowing-looking	adj	One wide awake.
Knowingly	adv	In a known manner; in knowledge; intelligently, consciously, intentionally
Knowing-ness	n	Quality or state of being intelligent or well informed. 2. cleverness, cunning, shrewdness. 3. appearance or air of shrewdness. 4. an affectation of knowing. 5. state of being consciousness or having knowledge of.
Knowing-one	n	A person professing to be well up in the secrets of the turf or other sports matters.
Know-it-all	n	One who thinks that he or she know everything, whilst not beening aware of their own deficiencies or shortcomings.
Knowledge	n	Middle English 'cnawlece' of uncertain formation "acknowledgment of a superior, honor, worship;" for first element see know (vb.). Second element 'ledge' is obscure, (not anglish) unlikely from Scandinavian and not cognate with the -lock "action, process," found in wedlock.
Know-little	n	Simpleton.
Known	adj	Apprehended mentally; recognized. 2. recognized understood; especially by all as the truth.
Known	n	"The Known" - that which is known. 2. that which is objective in knowledge. 3. the totality of known things
Known	phr	"Known to" - recorded, on file, or known personally to authorities; agency or organizations..
Knowness	n	Acknowledgement
Know-nothing	n	One who knows nothing, a very ignorant person, ignoramus. 2. a politician, parliamentarian --- originally one belonging to a secret society that proffered to outsider that they knew nothing, and were completely ignorant of such matters. 3. one who holds that nothing can be known; an agnostic.
Know-nothing	adj	A person or persons, or organization that claims to know nothing or indeed are ignorant of certain matters.
Know-nothingness	n	Complete ignorance; state or quality of knowing nothing. 2. oblivion, extinction.
Know-not-what	n	Something indescribable.
Know-worth	n	Information worth knowing; as in 'one must give time and thought to the know-worth9s), if he hopes to thrive in life..
Knuckle	n	Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.(by extension) 2. a mechanical joint. 3. a cut of meat. 3. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) the curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table. 4. the knee joint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the knee joint of a human being. 5. (obsolete) the joint of a plant. 6. (shipbuilding) A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom. 7. contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
Knuckle	vb	To apply pressure or rub or massage with ones knuckles.
Knuckle	phr	"Go the Knuckle" - to punch, fight, strike blows.
Knuckle	phr	"Knuckle Down" - to submit to.
Knuckle	phr	"Knuckle Under" - to acknowledge defeat; to give in, in allusion to the old custom of striking the under side of a table with the knuckles when defeated in an argument. 2. give way in the face of pressure; accept orders or directions without complaint.
Knuckle	phr	"Near the Knuckle" - near the permitted limit. 2. said of a remark, sorry, joke, performance etc that is bordering on the improper or indecent.
Knuckle-bone	n	A huckle-bone, as of sheep; also in man. 2. one of the bones of the finger. 3. a child's game.
Knuckled	adj	Having or furnished with knuckles.
Knuckle-deep	adj	Up to the knuckles; with the whole hand in; hence, fig. unto to the hilt.
Knuckle-dragger	n	A large, strong and rather dimwitted persons.
Knuckle-dust	n	to strike another with knuckled-dusted fists.
Knuckle-duster	n	A loop of heavy-shaped brass, gripped in the hand and fitting over the knuckes, used as an offensive weapn.
Knuckle-dusting	n	The act of striking another with a knuckle-duster.
Knuckle-head	adj	A dim-witted person.
Knuckleheadness	n	The quality of being dim-witted.
Knuckler	n	One who uses his fists to achieve his aims or objectives.
Knuckle-walking	n	A form of locomotion of some primates in which they move on all fours with pressure on the knuckles.
Knuckly	adj	Knuckle-like. 2. having prominent knuckles.