a. [f. KNEE sb. and v. + -ED.]
1. Furnished with knees: chiefly in parasynthetic compounds, as broken-, weak-, KNOCK-KNEED.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 186. That loose kneed, signifies lascivious, and baker kneed, effeminate.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, I. iv. My breeches … were … open knee’d.
b. Bot. Having joints like knees; bent like a knee; knee-jointed; geniculate. Kneed grass, a name of Setaria verticillata.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, I. iii. 4. Slender bentie stalks, kneed or jointed like those of corne. Ibid., I. xii. 13. Kneed grasse hath straight and vpright strawie stalks.
1853. G. Johnston, Nat. Hist. E. Bord., 214. The branchlets … of the Oak [are] irregular, kneed, and spreading.
1861. Miss Pratt, Flower. Pl., VI. 57. Stem kneed at the joints.
c. Having an angle like a knee; also techn., Having a knee or knees (in senses 7, 8 of the sb.).
1775. Lind, in Phil. Trans., LXV. 353. This cover and the kneed tube are connected together by a slip of brass.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 201. The same part of a rail may therefore be both ramped and knee’d.
1848. B. Webb, Continental Ecclesiol., 151. The gables are universally kneed; i.e., the lines of the gable … spread outwards in a larger angle towards the bottom.
† 2. Having the knees bent, as in kneeling. (In quot. fig.) Obs.
1637. N. W[hiting], Albino & Bellama, Ep. Ded. (1639), A ij b. These lines, In which … shines Your worth, en-fired by my kneed quill.
3. Of trousers: Bulged at the knees.
1887. Trade testimonial, If the trousers are kneed it has the effect of taking it out.
Kneed, obs. form of KNEAD.
