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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Knot \Knot\, verb (used with an object) [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.'' --Drayton.
As tight as I could knot the noose. --Tennyson.
2. To unite closely; to knit together. --Bacon.
3. To entangle or perplex; to puzzle. [Obs. or R.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Knotted \Knot"ted\, adjective
1. Full of knots; having knots; knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak. --Dryden.
2. Interwoven; matted; entangled.
Make . . . thy knotted and combined locks to part. --Shak.
3. Having intersecting lines or figures.
The west corner of thy curious knotted garden. --Shak.
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.
5. Entangled; puzzling; knotty. [R.]
They're catched in knotted lawlike nets. --Hudibras.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
knot
noun
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}]
verb
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
adjective
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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