The complication of threads made by knitting; a tie; union of cords by interweaving; as a knot difficult to be untied.

Any figure, the lines of which frequently intersect each other; as a knot in gardening. In beds and curious knots.

A bond of association or union; as the nuptial knot.

The part of a tree where a branch shoots.

The protuberant joint of a plant.

A cluster; a collection; a group; as a knot of ladies; a knot of figures in painting.

Difficulty; intricacy; something not easily solved.

Any intrigue or difficult perplexity of affairs.

A bird of the genus Tringa.

An epaulet.

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.

not. To complicate or tie in a knot or knots; to form a knot.

To entangle; to perplex.

To unite closely.

not. To form knots or joints, as in plants.