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."
      --Drayton.
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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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	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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	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]

	

	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]

	

	knotted
     See knot

	

	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