KNOT, n. not. [L.nodus; probably connected with knit, but perhaps from swelling or gathering.] 1. The complication of threads made by knitting; a tie; union of cords by interweaving; as a knot difficult to be untied.2. Any figure, the lines of which frequently intersect each other; as a knot in gardening. In beds and curious knots.3. A bond of association or union; as the nuptial knot.4. The part of a tree where a branch shoots.5. The protuberant joint of a plant.6. A cluster; a collection; a group; as a knot of ladies; a knot of figures in painting.7. Difficulty; intricacy; something not easily solved.8. Any intrigue or difficult perplexity of affairs.9. A bird of the genus Tringa. 10. An epaulet. 11. In seamen's language, a division of the logline, which answers to half a minute, as a mile does to an hour, or it is the hundred and twentieth part of a mile. Hence, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, she is said to go eight knots. KNOT, v.t. not. To complicate or tie in a knot or knots; to form a knot. 1. To entangle; to perplex.2. To unite closely.KNOT, v.i. not. To form knots or joints, as in plants.
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