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

Knop :: Knop (n.) A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.

Knob :: Knob (n.) A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob..

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

Tubercle :: Tubercle (n.) A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy..

Mouse :: Mouse (n.) A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping.

Tappit Hen :: Tappit hen () A measuring pot holding one quart (according to some, three quarts); -- so called from a knob on the lid, thought to resemble a crested hen..

Tuberosity :: Tuberosity (n.) An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance.

Knob :: Knob (n.) See Knop.

Boss :: Boss (n.) A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus..

Pommel :: Pommel (n.) A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in for.

Knobbing :: Knobbing (n.) Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.

Mace :: Mace (n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.

Stop :: Stop (n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop..

Nub :: Nub (n.) A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story..

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.].

Leyden Phial :: Leyden phial () A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland..

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

Knobstick :: Knobstick (n.) One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trades union..

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