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Word Meanings - KNOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another. Bacon. 2. To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door. For

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1. To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another. Bacon. 2. To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door. For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked. Dryden. Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matt. vii. 7. To knock about, to go about, taking knocks or rough usage; to wander about; to saunter. "Knocking about town." W. Irving. -- To knock up, to fail of strength; to become wearied or worn out, as with labor; to give out. "The horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service." De Quincey. -- To knock off, to cease, as from work; to desist. -- To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's self conquered; -- an expression probably borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table with the knuckles, when conquered. "Colonel Esmond knocked under to his fate." Thackeray.

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  • STROKER
    One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
  • BRUISEWORT
    A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
  • MISFORTUNED
    Unfortunate.
  • BLASTMENT
    A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
  • BLAST
    1. To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom. 2. To blow; to blow on a trumpet. Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste. Chaucer.
  • EXPAND
    To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
  • KNOCKSTONE
    A block upon which ore is broken up.
  • SHOCKDOG
    See 1
  • BLASTOSPHERE
    The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
  • AFFLICTION
    1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or
  • BREATHLESS
    1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath. 2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow
  • BLASTOPHORE
    That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
  • BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
    Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
  • CALAMITY
    1. Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals. Note: The word calamity was first derived from calamus when the corn could not get out of
  • STROKE
    1. The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon. His hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree. Deut. xix. 5. A fool's lips enter
  • SWELLTOAD
    A swellfish.
  • SHOCK-HEADED
    Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
  • KNOCK
    1. A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar. 2. A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap. " A knock at the door." Longfellow. A loud cry or some great knock. Holland. Knock off, a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from
  • RESTORE
    Restoration. Spenser.
  • INFLICTION
    1. The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment. 2. That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc. His severest inflictions are in themselves acts of justice and righteousness.
  • BREATHE
    Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
  • DIPLOBLASTIC
    Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
  • NEMATOBLAST
    A spermatocyte or spermoblast.
  • UPSWELL
    To swell or rise up.
  • ABLASTEMIC
    Non-germinal.
  • CRAWL STROKE
    A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
  • CNIDOBLAST
    One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.
  • BY-STROKE
    An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
  • MESOBLASTIC
    Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.
  • UPBREATHE
    To breathe up or out; to exhale. Marston.

 

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