Defn: A small, herbaceous, trailing plant, of the genus Illecebrum
(I. verticillatum.)
KNOUT Knout (nout or nt), n. Etym: [Russ. knut'; prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. knut knot, knout, Icel. kn knot: cf. F. knout. See Knot.]
Defn: A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.
KNOUT
Knout, v. t.
Defn: To punish with the knout Brougham.
KNOW
Know, n.
Defn: Knee. [Obs.] Chaucer.
KNOW
Know, v. t. [imp. Knew; p. p. Known; p. pr. & vb. n. Knowing.] Etym:
[OE. knowen, knawen, AS. cnäwan; akin to OHG. chnäan (in comp.),
Icel. knä to be able, Russ, znate to know, L. gnoscere, noscere, Gr.
jn; fr. the root of E. can, v. i., ken. (Ken, Can to be able, and cf.
Acquaint, Cognition, Gnome, Ignore, Noble, Note.]
1. To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's duty. O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! Shak. There is a certainty in the proposition, and we know it. Dryden. Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. Longfellow.
2. To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of; as, to know things from information.