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 ]

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

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

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

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Besnowed ] [ OE. bisnewen, AS. besnīwan; pref. be- + snīwan to snow. ] 1. To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes. [ R. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover with snow; to whiten with snow, or as with snow. [ 1913 Webster ]

A form of Enough. [ Archaic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. small California annual (Linanthus dichotomus) with white flowers.
Syn. -- evening snow, Linanthus dichotomus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. Foreknew p. p. Foreknown p. pr. & vb. n. Foreknowing. ] To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who would the miseries of man foreknow? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Gnaw. Gnawed. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To know mutually. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

v. t. [ imp. Knew p. p. Known p. pr. & vb. n. Knowing. ] [ OE. knowen, knawen, AS. cnäwan; akin to OHG. chnäan (in comp.), Icel. knä to be able, Russ. znate to know, L. gnoscere, noscere, Gr. gighw`skein, Skr. jnā; fr. the root of E. can, v. i., ken. √45. See Ken, Can to be able, and cf. Acquaint, Cognition, Gnome, Ignore, Noble, Note. ] 1. To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a certainty in the proposition, and we know it. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of; as, to know things from information. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. 2 Cor. v. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of; as, to know a person's face or figure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Matt. vil. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

And their eyes were opened, and they knew him. Luke xxiv. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

To know
Faithful friend from flattering foe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

At nearer view he thought he knew the dead. Flatman. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To have sexual intercourse with. [ 1913 Webster ]

And Adam knew Eve his wife. Gen. iv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Know is often followed by an objective and an infinitive (with or without to) or a participle, a dependent sentence, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

And I knew that thou hearest me always. John xi. 42. [ 1913 Webster ]

The monk he instantly knew to be the prior. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

In other hands I have known money do good. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

To know how, to understand the manner, way, or means; to have requisite information, intelligence, or sagacity. How is sometimes omitted. “ If we fear to die, or know not to be patient.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To have knowledge; to have a clear and certain perception; to possess wisdom, instruction, or information; -- often with of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Is. i. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. John vii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

The peasant folklore of Europe still knows of willows that bleed and weep and speak when hewn. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be assured; to feel confident. [ 1913 Webster ]

To know of, to ask, to inquire. [ Obs. ] “ Know of your youth, examine well your blood.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A city in India, the site of the Indian Mutiny (1857) when the British were beseiged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A minnow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. menow, cf. AS. myne; also OE. menuse, OF. menuise small fish; akin to E. minish, minute. ] [ Written also minow. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Zool.) A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Phoxinus laevis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; -- called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and related genera. They live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish, minny, and mummichog. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Minnow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To have a mistaken notion of or about. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. nou, nu, AS. nū, nu; akin to D., OS., & OHG. nu, G. nu, nun, Icel., nū, Dan., Sw., & Goth. nu, L. nunc, Gr. ny`, ny^n, Skr. nu, nū. √193. Cf. New. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Very lately; not long ago. [ 1913 Webster ]

They that but now, for honor and for plate,
Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated; at a particular time referred to. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ship was now in the midst of the sea. Matt. xiv. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. In present circumstances; things being as they are; -- hence, used as a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an explanation. [ 1913 Webster ]

How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor? L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber. John xviii. 40. [ 1913 Webster ]

The other great and undoing mischief which befalls men is, by their being misrepresented. Now, by calling evil good, a man is misrepresented to others in the way of slander. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now and again, now and then; occasionally. --
Now and now, again and again; repeatedly. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. --
Now and then, at one time and another; indefinitely; occasionally; not often; at intervals. “A mead here, there a heath, and now and then a wood.” Drayton. --
Now now, at this very instant; precisely now. [ Obs. ] “Why, even now now, at holding up of this finger, and before the turning down of this.” J. Webster (1607). --
Now . . . now, alternately; at one time . . . at another time. “Now high, now low, now master up, now miss.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Existing at the present time; present. [ R. ] “Our now happiness.” Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The present time or moment; the present. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past;
But an eternal now does ever last. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover with snow, or as with snow. [ Poetic ] Shak. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LG. snaue, or D. snaauw, from LG. snau a snout, a beak. ] (Naut.) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. snow, snaw, AS. snāw; akin to D. sneeuw, OS. & OHG. snēo, G. schnee, Icel. snær, snjōr, snajār, Sw. snö, Dan. snee, Goth. snaiws, Lith. snëgas, Russ. snieg', Ir. & Gael. sneachd, W. nyf, L. nix, nivis, Gr. acc. ni`fa, also AS. snīwan to snow, G. schneien, OHG. snīwan, Lith. snigti, L. ningit it snows, Gr. ni`fei, Zend snizh to snow; cf. Skr. snih to be wet or sticky. √172. ] 1. Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Snow is often used to form compounds, most of which are of obvious meaning; as, snow-capped, snow-clad, snow-cold, snow-crowned, snow-crust, snow-fed, snow-haired, snowlike, snow-mantled, snow-nodding, snow-wrought, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

The field of snow with eagle of black therein. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Red snow. See under Red. [ 1913 Webster ]

Snow bunting. (Zool.) See Snowbird, 1. --
Snow cock (Zool.), the snow pheasant. --
Snow flea (Zool.), a small black leaping poduran (Achorutes nivicola) often found in winter on the snow in vast numbers. --
Snow flood, a flood from melted snow. --
Snow flower (Bot.), the fringe tree. --
Snow fly, or
Snow insect (Zool.), any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus Boreus. The male has rudimentary wings; the female is wingless. These insects sometimes appear creeping and leaping on the snow in great numbers. --
Snow gnat (Zool.), any wingless dipterous insect of the genus Chionea found running on snow in winter. --
Snow goose (Zool.), any one of several species of arctic geese of the genus Chen. The common snow goose (Chen hyperborea), common in the Western United States in winter, is white, with the tips of the wings black and legs and bill red. Called also white brant, wavey, and Texas goose. The blue, or blue-winged, snow goose (Chen coerulescens) is varied with grayish brown and bluish gray, with the wing quills black and the head and upper part of the neck white. Called also white head, white-headed goose, and bald brant. --
Snow leopard (Zool.), the ounce. --
Snow line, lowest limit of perpetual snow. In the Alps this is at an altitude of 9, 000 feet, in the Andes, at the equator, 16, 000 feet. --
Snow mouse (Zool.), a European vole (Arvicola nivalis) which inhabits the Alps and other high mountains. --
Snow pheasant (Zool.), any one of several species of large, handsome gallinaceous birds of the genus Tetraogallus, native of the lofty mountains of Asia. The Himalayn snow pheasant (Tetraogallus Himalayensis) in the best-known species. Called also snow cock, and snow chukor. --
Snow partridge. (Zool.) See under Partridge. --
Snow pigeon (Zool.), a pigeon (Columba leuconota) native of the Himalaya mountains. Its back, neck, and rump are white, the top of the head and the ear coverts are black. --
Snow plant (Bot.), a fleshy parasitic herb (Sarcodes sanguinea) growing in the coniferous forests of California. It is all of a bright red color, and is fabled to grow from the snow, through which it sometimes shoots up. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Snowed p. pr. & vb. n. Snowing. ] To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow. Donne. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st un- + know. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fail of knowing; to be ignorant of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Un- not, Know. ] Unknown. [ Obs. ] “French of Paris was to her unknow.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Winnowed p. pr. & vb. n. Winnowing. ] [ OE. windewen, winewen, AS. windwian; akin to Goth. winpjan (in comp.), winpi-skauro a fan, L. ventilare to fan, to winnow; cf. L. wannus a fan for winnowing, G. wanne, OHG. wanna. √131. See Wind moving air, and cf. Fan., n., Ventilate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ho winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing floor. Ruth. iii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as bad from good. [ 1913 Webster ]

Winnow well this thought, and you shall find
This light as chaff that flies before the wind. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To beat with wings, or as with wings.[ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Now on the polar winds; then with quick fan
Winnows the buxom air. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To separate chaff from grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Winnow not with every wind. Ecclus. v. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ See Enough. ] Enough. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]