Word Meanings - KNOCK-KNEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.

Related words: (words related to KNOCK-KNEED)

• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• WALK-MILL
  A fulling mill. Halliwell.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• INWARD; INWARDS
  1. Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward. 2. Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward. So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward. Milton.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• WALK
  akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. valka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; 1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps;
• TOUCHING
  Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv.
• TOUCHY
  Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• TOUCHBACK
  The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.
• TOUCH-NEEDLE
  A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
• TOUCHHOLE
  The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• INWARD
  1. Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward. Milton. 2. Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul. "Inward beauty." Shak. 3. Intimate; domestic; private. All my inward friends abhorred me. Job xix. 19. He had had occasion,
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• TOUCHINESS
  The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
• SHOPWALKER
  One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
• SIDEWALK
  A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• ROPEWALKER
  A ropedancer.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.