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Node :: Node (n.) A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling..

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..

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..

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

Knop :: Knop (n.) Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial; -- called also knob, and knosp..

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

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

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

Knapweed :: Knapweed (n.) The black centaury (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the knoblike heads of flowers. Called also bullweed.

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

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.

Heel :: Heel (n.) Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.

Hair :: Hair (n.) An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar)..

Capitellate :: Capitellate (a.) Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula..

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..

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..

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

Knap :: Knap (n.) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop..

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

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

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