knobbed

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• Their instruments include long wooden drums, kettlegongs, knobbed gongs, cymbals, bamboo beaters, flutes, and buffalo horns.
• A mandibular condyle is the knobbed ending of the lower jaw; it joins the lower jaw to the temporal bone of the skull on both sides of the head at the temporomandibular joint.
• There on the windowsill in his room were three shells, knobbed whelks, mementos of his older brother, who had been a fisherman. The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber
• Here in Massachusetts it used to be you'd be up on charges and maybe find yourself in the stocks if you weren't in your assigned pew on Sunday. of course they'd bonk you on the head if you fell asleep during the sermon (with a special knobbed clonker!) and fine you if you didn't bring a loaded musket! Are we a Christian Nation?
• Our surveys have shown that the state has over 180 species of resident birds including jabiru storks, 5 species of ibises (including the scarlet), most of Venezuela's herons, sungrebes, sunbitterns, yellow knobbed curassows, scarlet macaws, hoatzings and a great number of raptors.
• Ascalaphus, with its resplendent wings, and slender, knobbed antennæ so much like those of butterflies, and visions of these beautiful insects fill his mind's eye; or sundry dun-colored caddis flies, modest, delicate neuroptera, with finely fringed wings and slender feelers, create doubts as to whether they are not really allies of the clothes moth, so close is the resemblance. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
• She died when she was seven, a skinny little girl with knobbed knees and a bucktoothed smile. Miracles, Inc.
• a knobbed stick
• Knobbed terrets are known to have a generally northern distribution of Northern England and Scotland.
• Naked; athecate; tentacles _Dendrosomidæ_ numerous, all alike, knobbed and grouped in tufts. Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901