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  • English Word Knee Definition A bending of the knee, as in respect or courtesy.
  • English Word Knee Definition To supplicate by kneeling.
  • English Word Knee-crooking Definition Obsequious; fawning; cringing.
  • English Word Knee-deep Definition Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep.
  • English Word Knee-deep Definition Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water.
  • English Word Knee-high Definition Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high.
  • English Word Kneebrush Definition A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  • English Word Kneebrush Definition A thick mass or collection of hairs on the legs of bees, by aid of which they carry the collected pollen to the hive or nest; -- usually in the plural.
  • English Word Kneecap Definition The kneepan.
  • English Word Kneecap Definition A cap or protection for the knee.
  • English Word Kneed Definition Having knees;- used chiefly in composition; as, in-kneed; out-kneed; weak-kneed.
  • English Word Kneed Definition Geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as, kneed grass.
  • English Word Kneejoint Definition The joint of the knee.
  • English Word Kneejoint Definition A toggle joint; -- so called because consisting of two pieces jointed to each other end to end, making an angle like the knee when bent.
  • English Word Kneejointed Definition Geniculate; kneed. See Kneed, a., 2.
  • English Word Kneel Definition To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down.
  • English Word Kneeled Definition of Kneel
  • English Word Kneeler Definition One who kneels or who worships by or while kneeling.
  • English Word Kneeler Definition A cushion or stool to kneel on.
  • English Word Kneeler Definition A name given to certain catechumens and penitents who were permitted to join only in parts of church worship.
  • English Word Kneeling Definition of Kneel
  • English Word Kneelingly Definition In a kneeling position.
  • English Word Kneepan Definition A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.
  • English Word Kneepiece Definition A piece shaped like a knee; as, the kneepieces or ears of a boat.
  • English Word Knell Definition The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything.
  • English Word Knell Definition To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.
  • English Word Knell Definition To summon, as by a knell.
  • English Word Knelled Definition of Knell
  • English Word Knelling Definition of Knell
  • English Word Knelt Definition of Kneel