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▪ I. kneed, a.|niːd|
[f. knee n. and v. + -ed.]
1. a. Furnished with knees: chiefly in parasynthetic compounds, as broken-kneed, feeble-kneed, weak-kneed, knock-kneed.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 186 That loose kneed, signifies lascivious, and baker kneed effeminate. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. iv, My breeches..were..open knee'd. 1904E. M. Forster in Independent Rev. Mar. 280 They are so weak-chested and anæmic and feeble-kneed.
b. Bot. Having joints like knees; bent like a knee; knee-jointed; geniculate. kneed grass, a name of Setaria verticillata.
1597Gerarde Herbal i. iii. 4 Slender bentie stalks, kneed or jointed like those of corne. Ibid. i. xii. 13 Kneed grasse hath straight and vpright strawie stalks. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 214 The branchlets..of the Oak [are] irregular, kneed, and spreading. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. VI. 57 Stem kneed at the joints.
c. Having an angle like a knee; also techn., Having a knee or knees (in senses 7, 8 of the n.).
1775Lind in Phil. Trans. LXV. 353 This cover and the kneed tube are connected together by a slip of brass. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 201 The same part of a rail may therefore be both ramped and knee'd. 1848B. Webb Continental Ecclesiol. 151 The gables are universally kneed; i.e. the lines of the gable..spread outwards in a larger angle towards the bottom.
†2. Having the knees bent, as in kneeling. (In quot. fig.) Obs.
1637N. W[hiting] Albino & Bellama Ep. Ded. (1639) A ij b, These lines, In which..shines Your worth, en-fired by my kneed quill.
3. Of trousers: Bulged at the knees.
1887Trade testimonial, If the trousers are kneed it has the effect of taking it out.
▪ II. kneed
obs. form of knead. |