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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Knot \Knot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Knotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Knotting}.]
     1. To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form
        a knot on, as a rope; to entangle. "Knotted curls."
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              As tight as I could knot the noose.   --Tennyson.
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     2. To unite closely; to knit together. --Bacon.
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     3. To entangle or perplex; to puzzle. [Obs. or R.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Knotted \Knot"ted\, a.
     1. Full of knots; having knots; knurled; as, a knotted cord;
        the knotted oak. --Dryden.
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     2. Interwoven; matted; entangled.
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              Make . . . thy knotted and combined locks to part.
                                                    --Shak.
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     3. Having intersecting lines or figures.
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              The west corner of thy curious knotted garden.
                                                    --Shak.
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     4. (Geol.) Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly
        composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the
        rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered
        surface; as, knotted rocks. --Percival.
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     5. Entangled; puzzling; knotty. [R.]
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              They're catched in knotted lawlike nets. --Hudibras.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  knot
       n 1: a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women
            listened to his sermon"
       2: any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope
          (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another
          object
       3: a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a
          branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
       4: something twisted and tight and swollen; "their muscles
          stood out in knots"; "the old man's fists were two great
          gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots" [syn: {gnarl}]
       5: a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the
          distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852
          meters [syn: {nautical mile}, {mile}, {mi}, {naut mi}, {international
          nautical mile}, {air mile}]
       6: soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or
          created by design [syn: {slub}, {burl}]
       7: a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the
          southern hemisphere [syn: {grayback}, {Calidris canutus}]
       v 1: make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted der
            fingers"
       2: tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"
       3: tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" [syn: {ravel}, {tangle}]
          [ant: {unravel}, {unravel}]
       [also: {knotting}, {knotted}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  knotted
       adj 1: tied with a knot; "his carefully knotted necktie"
       2: used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or
          knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
          [syn: {gnarled}, {gnarly}, {knotty}, {knobbed}]
       3: tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string";
          "snarled thread" [syn: {snarled}, {snarly}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  knotted
       See {knot}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  221 Moby Thesaurus words for "knotted":
     Byzantine, Herculean, abstruse, accumulated, affiliate, affiliated,
     agglomerate, aggregate, alike, allied, amassed, arduous, assembled,
     associate, associated, at par, au pair, balled up, banded together,
     bound, bracketed, brutal, bunched, bundled, burled, clumped,
     clustered, cockled, cockly, collateral, collected, combined,
     commensurate, complex, complicated, confounded, confused,
     conglomerate, congregate, congregated, conjoined, conjugate,
     connected, convoluted, copulate, correlated, corrugate, corrugated,
     coupled, crabbed, creased, crimped, crimpy, crinkled, crinkly,
     critical, crumpled, cumulate, daedal, delicate, demanding, devious,
     difficile, difficult, drawn, elaborate, embrangled, entangled,
     equal, equalized, even, even stephen, exacting, fascicled,
     fasciculated, fifty-fifty, formidable, fouled up, furrowed,
     gathered, glomerate, gnarled, gnarly, hairy, half-and-half,
     hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought,
     heaped, implicated, in session, incorporated, integrated,
     interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimate, intricate,
     involuted, involved, jawbreaking, joined, joint, knitted, knobbed,
     knobbly, knobby, knoblike, knotty, knurled, knurly, laborious,
     labyrinthian, labyrinthine, leagued, level, like, linked,
     loused up, lumped, lumpy, many-faceted, massed, matched, mated,
     matted, mazy, mean, meandering, meeting, merged, messed up,
     mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, nip and tuck, no picnic, nodal,
     noded, nodiform, nodose, nodular, nodulated, noduled, not easy,
     nubbled, nubbly, nubby, of that ilk, of that kind, on a footing,
     on a level, on a par, on even ground, operose, packaged, paired,
     par, parallel, perplexed, piled, proportionate, puckered, puckery,
     pursed, pursy, quits, ramified, related, ridged, rigorous, rimpled,
     rippled, rough, roundabout, rucked, rugged, rugose, rugous,
     rumpled, screwed up, set with thorns, severe, snarled, spiny,
     spliced, square, stacked, stalemated, steep, strenuous, studded,
     subtle, tangled, tangly, thorny, ticklish, tied, toilsome, torose,
     tough, tricky, tubercular, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous,
     twinned, twisted, undivided, united, unseparated, uphill, wed,
     wedded, wicked, wrapped up, wrinkled, wrinkly, yoked
  
  

















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