Knit

(nīt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. KNIT or KNITTED; p. pr. & vb. n. KNITTING.] [A.-S. cnytan, cnyttan, Icel. knyta, hnyta, Sw. knyta, Dan. knytte, L. Ger. knütten, knutten.] 1. To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to tie; to fasten by tying. And he saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending to him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners. Acts x. II. When your head did but ache, I knit my handkerchief about your brows. Shak.

2. To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlooping of yarn or thread in a series of connected knots, 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. Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit. Shak. Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round. Milton. Her office there to rear and teach, Becoming, as is meet and fit, A link among the days, to knit The generations each to each. Tennyson. 5. To draw together; to contract; as, to knit the brows.