- present tense form of know (3rd person singular).
knows
Example Sentences
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The spoons have sculptured knops at the end of their handles, portraying the saints.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ladies' drawing-room, perhaps a hundred feet by forty, carried an arched and superbly enriched plaster ceiling of knops and arabesques and interlacings, which somehow seemed familiar.
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard
The trees their mournful branches lift aloft: The oak with knotty twigs is full of trust, With bud-thronged bough the cherry in the croft; The chestnut holds her gluey knops upthrust.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert
The teaching says ‘it,’ and what dost thou see to extend it to the light, and withhold it from the bowls, the knops, and the flowers?”
From Hebrew Literature by Wilson, Epiphanius
There remained three hand-breadths, in which were the bowls, the knops, and the flowers, as is said, “Three bowls made like unto almonds with a knop and a flower in one branch.”
From Hebrew Literature by Wilson, Epiphanius
