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Kaleidophone :: Kaleidophone () An instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone, consisting of a reflecting knob at the end of a vibrating rod or thin plate, for making visible, in the motion of a point of light reflected from the knob, the paths or curves corresponding with the musical notes produced by the vibrations..

Crocket :: Crocket (n.) A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler..

Warted :: Warted (a.) Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule..

Burr :: Burr (n.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.

Ironheads :: Ironheads (n.) A European composite herb (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle.

Cascabel :: Cascabel (n.) The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.].

Cobiron :: Cobiron (n.) An andiron with a knob at the top.

Knob :: Knob (v. i.) To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed.

Knobby :: Knobby (a.) Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly.

Pommel :: Pommel (v. t.) To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists..

Pommel :: Pommel (n.) A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.

Knopped :: Knopped (a.) Having knops or knobs; fastened as with buttons.

Pommelion :: Pommelion (n.) The cascabel, or hindmost knob, of a cannon..

Pommel :: Pommel (n.) The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow.

Boss :: Boss (n.) Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood..

Button :: Button (n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass..

Handle :: Handle (n.) That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc..

Snob :: Snob (n.) A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick..

Capitulum :: Capitulum (n.) A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.].

Knobbed :: Knobbed (a.) Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna.

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