v. t. [ Pref. a- + know; AS. oncnāwan. ] 1. To recognize. [ Obs. ] “You will not be acknown, sir.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To acknowledge; to confess. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be acknown (often with of or on), to acknowledge; to confess. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge his fault, or, He will not be acknown of his fault. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. acknowledged p. pr. & vb. n. acknowledging ] [ Prob. fr. pref. a- + the verb knowledge. See Knowledge, and cf. Acknow. ] 1. To own or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. [ 1913 Webster ]

I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To own or recognize in a particular character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to. [ 1913 Webster ]

In all thy ways acknowledge Him. Prov. iii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

By my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor, the receipt of a letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

They his gifts acknowledged none. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To own as genuine; to assent to, as a legal instrument, to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form; as, to acknowledge a deed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To avow; proclaim; recognize; own; admit; allow; concede; confess. -- Acknowledge, Recognize. Acknowledge is opposed to keep back, or conceal, and supposes that something had been previously known to us (though perhaps not to others) which we now feel bound to lay open or make public. Thus, a man acknowledges a secret marriage; one who has done wrong acknowledges his fault; and author acknowledges his obligation to those who have aided him; we acknowledge our ignorance. Recognize supposes that we have either forgotten or not had the evidence of a thing distinctly before our minds, but that now we know it (as it were) anew, or receive and admit in on the ground of the evidence it brings. Thus, we recognize a friend after a long absence. We recognize facts, principles, truths, etc., when their evidence is brought up fresh to the mind; as, bad men usually recognize the providence of God in seasons of danger. A foreign minister, consul, or agent, of any kind, is recognized on the ground of his producing satisfactory credentials. See also Confess. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Capable of being acknowledged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>adj. Generally accepted or recognized as correct or reasonable. Opposite of unacknowledged. [ Narrower terms: given, granted; unquestionable (vs. questionable) ] Also See: known.
Syn. -- accepted, recognized [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adv. Confessedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. 1. The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. “An acknowledgment of fault.” Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of owning or recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness; a statement acknowledging something or someone. [ 1913 Webster +WordNet 1.5 ]

Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; an expression of thanks. Shak.
Syn. -- recognition [ 1913 Webster +WordNet 1.5 ]

4. Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Confession; concession; recognition; admission; avowal; recognizance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who acknowledges. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness. The nauseous symptoms similar to seasickness experienced by passengers in pressurized aircraft is called air sickness. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

. A vomiting or nauseous feeling similar to seasickness experienced by passengers in aircraft; -- it is caused by motion and distinguished from the effects of low air pressure, as it may also occur in the pressurized cabins of large aircraft. [ PJC ]

adv. On the knee. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Earlier form of Acknow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To be aknow, to acknowledge; to confess. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pot companion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. knowing everything.
Syn. -- omniscient. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

1. A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to the bearer on demand. See also sense 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States popularly called a bank bill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A promissory note payable at a bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A promissory note issued by an authorized bank, payable to the bearer on demand and intended to circulate as government-authorized money; in the United States such notes may only be issued by a Federal Reserve Bank; as, he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty banknotes.
Syn. -- bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, Federal Reserve note, greenback. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. To call knave. [ Obs. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To confess; to acknowledge. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. more familiar or renowned than the other of two. Antonym of lesser-known. the better known book of the two
Syn. -- better known(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

They're darker now than blackness. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being blank. [ 1913 Webster ]

A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A fall that breaks the neck. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A steep place endangering the neck. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A knot of ribbons worn on the breast. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A knot of ribbons worn by a guest at a wedding; a wedding favor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A knife carried in a sheath or case. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A large table knife; -- so called from being formerly kept in a case. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. knit on a circular form so as to have no seams; -- said of stockings. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. bound together by intimate ties, social, personal, cultural or political; as, closely-knit little villages; a close-knit family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

In hair dressing, a loose, low coil at the back of the head, like the knot on the head of the bust of Clytie by G. F. Watts. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Cockneys [ OE. cocknay, cokenay, a spoiled child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg (cf. Newt), AS. æg. See 1st Cock, Egg, n. ] 1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. “A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling.” Nash (1592). [ 1913 Webster ]

This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A native or resident of the city of London, especially one living in the East End district; -- sometimes used contemptuously. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. the distinctive dialect of a cockney{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

a. Of or relating to, or like, cockneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cockney + -fy. ] To form with the manners or character of a cockney. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. craquelin, fr. D. krakeling, fr. krakken to crack. See Crack, v. t. ] A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Naut.) Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sprightliness; vigor; health. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped. [ U. S. ]
Syn. -- crookneck squash. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Naut.) A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. [ 1913 Webster ]

And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A state of privacy; secrecy. [ 1913 Webster ]

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John. iii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pursue these sons of darkness: drive them out
From all heaven's bounds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A state of distress or trouble. [ 1913 Webster ]

A day of clouds and of thick darkness. Joel. ii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prince of darkness, the Devil; Satan. “In the power of the Prince of darkness.” Locke.

Syn. -- Darkness, Dimness, Obscurity, Gloom. Darkness arises from a total, and dimness from a partial, want of light. A thing is obscure when so overclouded or covered as not to be easily perceived. As tha shade or obscurity increases, it deepens into gloom. What is dark is hidden from view; what is obscure is difficult to perceive or penetrate; the eye becomes dim with age; an impending storm fills the atmosphere with gloom. When taken figuratively, these words have a like use; as, the darkness of ignorance; dimness of discernment; obscurity of reasoning; gloom of superstition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death; a knell{ 1 }. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: (figuratively) A sign or harbinger of the end, death, or passing away of anything. [ PJC ]

n. Darkness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disacknowledged p. pr. & vb. n. Disacknowledging. ] To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door, which may be swung by hand against the door to make a loud knocking sound.
Syn. -- knocker. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Like dough; soft. [ 1913 Webster ]

He demeans himself . . . like a dough-kneaded thing. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. 1. A woodworker`s and joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Carp.) A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. see drawing knife.
Syn. -- drawshave. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Duskiness. [ R. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The buffalo nut. See under Buffalo. [ 1913 Webster ]