Knit

v. t.	1.	To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying. [imp. & p. p. Knit or Knitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Knitting.] A great sheet knit at the four corners. - Acts x. 11. When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows. - Shak.
	2.	To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings.
	3.	To join; to cause to grow together. Nature can not knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge. - Wiseman.
	4.	To unite closely; to connect; to engage; as, hearts knit together in love. Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit. - Shak. Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round. - Milton (Comus). A link among the days, toknit The generations each to each. - Tennyson.
	5.	To draw together; to contract into wrinkles. He knits his brow and shows an angry eye. - Shak.
v. i.	1.	To form a fabric by interlacing yarn or thread; to weave by making knots or loops.
	2.	To be united closely; to grow together; as, broken bones will in time knit and become sound. To knit up to wind up; to conclude; to come to a close. - Holland.
n.	1.	Union knitting; texture.

Noun	1.	knit - a fabric made by knitting Synonyms: knitted fabric
	2.	knit - a basic knitting stitch Synonyms: knit stitch, plain stitch, plain
	3.	knit - needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine Synonyms: knitting, knitwork
Verb	1.	knit - make (textiles) by knitting; "knit a scarf"
	2.	knit - tie or link together Synonyms: entwine
	3.	knit - to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" Synonyms: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple

abbreviate, adhere, affix, anchor, annex, attach, belay, bind, braid, cement, cicatrize, cinch, circumscribe, clamp, clinch, close up, coarct, cocker, cockle, cohere, combine, come together, communicate, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, converge, corrugate, cramp, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crumple, curtail, decrease, draw, draw in, draw together, embrace, engraft, enlace, entwine, fix, furrow, graft, granulate, grapple, grow together, hang together, heal, heal over, hold together, intercommunicate, interconnect, interknit, interlace, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, intort, knot, lace, link, loom, loop, make fast, mat, meet, merge, moor, narrow, net, noose, plait, pleach, pucker, pucker up, purse, put to, raddle, reduce, ridge, right itself, rimple, ripple, ruck, ruckle, rumple, scab over, screw up, secure, set, set to, shirr, shorten, solidify, splice, strangle, strangulate, tie up, tighten, tissue, trice up, trim, twill, twine, twist, wattle, weave, web, wimple, wreathe, wrinkle

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