Word Meanings - KNEEJOINTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Geniculate; kneed. See Kneed, a., 2.

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• KNEADER
  One who kneads.
• KNEW
  of Know.
• KNECK
  The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out.
• KNEECAP
  The kneepan. 2. A cap or protection for the knee.
• KNEE JERK
  A jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, which causes a sudden contraction of the quadriceps muscle.
• KNEEBRUSH
  A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.
• KNELL
  The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything. The dead man's knell Is there scarce asked for who. Shak.
• KNEBELITE
  A mineral of a gray, red, brown, or green color, and glistening luster. It is a silicate of iron and manganese.
• KNEELER
  A name given to certain catechumens and penitents who were permitted to join only in parts of church worship. (more info) 1. One who kneels or who worships by or while kneeling. Tennyson. 2. A cushion or stool to kneel on.
• KNEIPPISM; KNEIPP'S CURE; KNEIPP CURE
  Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp , a German priest.
• KNEEJOINTED
  Geniculate; kneed. See Kneed, a., 2.
• KNEEL
  To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. Acts vii. 60. As soon as you are dressed, kneel and say the Lord's Prayer. Jer. Taylor.
• KNEED
  Geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as, kneed grass. (more info) 1. Having knees;- used chiefly in composition; as, in-kneed; out- kneed; weak-kneed.
• KNEAD
  1. To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.; as, to knead dough. The kneading, the making of the cake, the heating
• KNEEJOINT
  A toggle joint; -- so called because consisting of two pieces jointed to each other end to end, making an angle like the knee when bent. (more info) 1. The joint of the knee.
• KNEE
  A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent. 4. A bending of the knee, as in respect or courtesy. Give them title, knee, and approbation. Shak. Knee breeches. See under Breeches. -- Knee holly,
• KNEE-CROOKING
  Obsequious; fawning; cringing. "Knee-crooking knave." Shak.
• KNEELINGLY
  In a kneeling position.
• KNELT
  of Kneel.
• KNEEPAN
  A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.
• COCKNEY
  child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg , AS. 1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash . This great
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• CROOKNECK
  Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• FAWKNER
  A falconer. Donne.
• SILKNESS
  Silkiness. B. Jonson.
• LOVE-SICKNESS
  The state of being love-sick.
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• BLANKNESS
  The state of being blank.
• HACKNEYMAN
  A man who lets horses and carriages for hire.
• COCKNEYFY
  To form with the manners or character of a cockney.
• WEAKNESS
  1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading
• KNOCK-KNEE
  A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.
• AERIAL SICKNESS
  A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.