Cuckold's knot () A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together |
Death's-herb (n.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). |
Herb (n.) A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering. |
Herb (n.) Grass |
Herb-women (pl. ) of Herb-woman |
Herb-woman (n.) A woman that sells herbs. |
Knot (n.) A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling. |
Knot (n.) A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself. |
Knot (n.) An ornamental tie, as of a ribbon. |
Knot (n.) A bond of union |
Knot (n.) Something not easily solved |
Knot (n.) A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc. |
Knot (n.) A cluster of persons or things |
Knot (n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth. |
Knot (n.) A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance. |
Knot (n.) A protuberant joint in a plant. |
Knot (n.) The point on which the action of a story depends |
Knot (n.) See Node. |
Knot (n.) A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour. |
Knot (n.) A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet |
Knot (n.) A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot. |
Knot (n.) A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne. |
Knot (v. t.) To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots |
Knot (v. t.) To unite closely |
Knot (v. t.) To entangle or perplex |
Knot (v. i.) To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc. |
Knot (v. i.) To knit knots for fringe or trimming. |
Knot (v. i.) To copulate |
Paris (n.) A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia) |
Paris (n.) The chief city of France. |
True (n.) Conformable to fact |
True (n.) Right to precision |
True (n.) Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince, or the like |
True (n.) Actual |
True (adv.) In accordance with truth |
True-blue (a.) Of inflexible honesty and fidelity |
True-blue (n.) A person of inflexible integrity or fidelity. |
True-born (a.) Of genuine birth |
True-bred (a.) Of a genuine or right breed |
True-bred (a.) Being of real breeding or education |
True-hearted (a.) Of a faithful heart |
True-penny (n.) An honest fellow. |
Willow-herb (n.) A perennial herb (Epilobium spicatum) with narrow willowlike leaves and showy rose-purple flowers. The name is sometimes made to include other species of the same genus. |
eubacteria eubacterium true bacteria | a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls, motile types have flagella |
sparrow true sparrow | any of several small dullolored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects |
Old World flycatcher true flycatcher flycatcher | any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing |
Old World warbler true warbler | small active brownish or greyish Old World birds |
true frog ranid | insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs |
true toad | tailless amphibian similar to a frog but more terrestrial and having drier warty skin |
true lobster | large edible marine crustaceans having large pincers on the first pair of legs |
knot greyback grayback Calidris canutus | a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere |
earless seal true seal hair seal | any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers |
cat true cat | feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats, wildcats |
vampire bat true vampire bat | any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood |
true bug | any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and especially of the suborder Heteroptera |
true marmoset | a marmoset |
barrel knot blood knot | a knot used for tying fishing leaders together, the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three times |
bowline bowline knot | a loop knot that neither slips nor jams |
fisherman's knot true lover's knot truelove knot | a knot for tying the ends of two lines together |
French knot | a stitch made by looping the thread several times around the needle before inserting it into the fabric |
Gordian knot | an intricate knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia, and cut by the sword of Alexander the Great after he heard that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asia |
granny knot granny | a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure |
herb garden | a garden for growing herbs |
knot | any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object |
loop knot | any of various knots used to make a fixed loop in a rope |
love knot lovers' knot lover's knot true lovers' knot true lover's knot | a stylized or decorative knot used as an emblem of love |
Matthew Walker Matthew Walker knot | a kind of stopper knot |
overhand knot | a simple small knot (often used as part of other knots) |
Paris University University of Paris Sorbonne | a university in Paris, intellectual center of France |
prolonge knot sailor's breastplate | a knot in the rope used to drag a gun carriage |
reef knot flat knot | a square knot used in a reef line |
sheet bend becket bend weaver's knot weaver's hitch | a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye) |
square knot | a double knot made of two half hitches and used to join the ends of two cords |
stopper knot | a knot that prevents a rope from passing through a hole |
surgeon's knot | any of several knots used in tying stitches or ligatures |
sword knot | an ornamental tassel on the hilt of a sword |
Windsor knot | a wide triangular slipknot for tying a tie |
slub knot burl | soft lump or unevenness in a yarn, either an imperfection or created by design |
yellow green yellowish green chartreuse Paris green pea green | a shade of green tinged with yellow |
true | proper alignment, the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment, out of true |
true vocal cord true vocal fold inferior vocal cord inferior vocal fold | either of the two lower vocal folds that come together to form the glottis, produce a vocal tone when they are approximated and air from the lungs passes between them |
true rib | one of the first seven ribs in a human being which attach to the sternum |
rima glottidis rima vocalis true glottis glottis vera | the space between the two true vocal folds |
truth true statement | a true statement, he told the truth, he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it |
Gordian knot | any very difficult problem, insoluble in its own terms |
true bill | an indictment endorsed by a grand jury |
herb | aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities |
comfrey healing herb | leaves make a popular tisane, young leaves used in salads or cooked |
herb tea herbal tea herbal | tea-like drink made of leaves of various herbs |
knot | a tight cluster of people or things, a small knot of women listened to his sermon, the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest |
Paris City of Light French capital capital of France | the capital and largest city of France, and international center of culture and commerce |
Paris | a town in northeastern Texas |
Paris | (Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War |