A rounded knob; any sort of ornamental knob. An ornamental knob on a utensil, piece of furniture, etc. Now rare.

A small rounded protuberance, a knob (esp. one of an ornamental character, e.g. upon the stem of a chalice, a candlestick, etc.); a boss, stud…

A round prominence in hammered or carved work, etc.; e.g. a raised ornament in bookbinding (in earlier use, esp. the ‘umbo’ or round knob, often…

A knob or embossed ornamentation in carved or hammered work; a stud employed as an ornament or for fastening; a boss; also, the carved foliage on…

A stud or knob. Obsolete.

Originally: an ornamental round knob of metal or amber on a belt, bridle, or the like. In later use more generally: any boss, nail head, or other…

A knob or boss of metal; a convex ornament on a book, girdle, harness, or ring. Also attributive. Obsolete.

An ornamental knob upon a piece of furniture, as a chair or a cradle. Obsolete.

The action of boss, v.1. ornamenting with bosses.

A small projection, protuberance, or excrescence; a knot, knob, boss, nodule, etc.; a small bead or ridge, esp. one of a series worked upon a…

A rounded, often decorative, knob or pommel on the end or handle of a cane, crop, sceptre, etc.

A stud.

An architectural (or other) ornament in the form of a bud, or forming a bunch-like or rounded protuberance; a knop, knob, boss, stud.

Something shaped like the head of a nail (esp. pyramidal and also more recently flat). Church Architecture. A pyramidal ornament in stone carving…

A circular boss, rounded or flat, found in coins, architectural mouldings, etc.