Word Meanings - KNURL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection. 2. One who, or that which, is crossgrained.

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• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• CONTORTION
  A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.
• NODULED
  Having little knots or lumps.
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• PROTUBERANCE
  That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances , certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CONTORT
  To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest. The vertebral arteries are variously contorted. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.
• CONTORTIVE
  Expressing contortion.
• CONTORTED
  1. Twisted, or twisted together. "A contorted chain of icicles." Massinger. Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants. Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute æstivation.
• CONTORTUPLICATE
  Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory. Gray.
• NODULE
  A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.
• CONTORTIONIST
  One who makes or practices contortions.
• ICONODULE; ICONODULIST
  One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast. Schaff- Herzog Encyc.