[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

know \know\ n=o, v. t. imp. knew n=u; p. p. known
   n=on; p. pr.  vb. n. knowing. oe. knowen, knawen,
   as. cnaumwan; akin to ohg. chnauman in comp., icel.
   knaum to be able, russ. znate to know, l. gnoscere,
   noscere, gr. gighw`skein, skr. jn=a; fr. the root of e.
   can, v. i., ken. root45. see ken, can to be able, and
   cf. acquaint, cognition, gnome, ignore, noble,
   note.
   1. to perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to
      understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's
      duty.
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            o, that a man might know
            the end of this day's business ere it come --shak.
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            there is a certainty in the proposition, and we know
            it.                                   --dryden.
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            know how sublime a thing it is
            to suffer and be strong.              --longfellow.
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   2. to be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of;
      as, to know things from information.
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   3. to be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or
      less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to
      possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the
      rules of an organization.
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            he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.
                                                  --2 cor. v.
                                                  21.
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            not to know me argues yourselves unknown. --milton.
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   4. to recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of;
      as, to know a person's face or figure.
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            ye shall know them by their fruits.   --matt. vil.
                                                  16.
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            and their eyes were opened, and they knew him.
                                                  --luke xxiv.
                                                  31.
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            to know
            faithful friend from flattering foe.  --shak.
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            at nearer view he thought he knew the dead.
                                                  --flatman.
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   5. to have sexual intercourse with.
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            and adam knew eve his wife.           --gen. iv. 1.
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   note: know is often followed by an objective and an
         infinitive with or without to or a participle, a
         dependent sentence, etc.
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               and i knew that thou hearest me always. --john
                                                  xi. 42.
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               the monk he instantly knew to be the prior. --sir
                                                  w. scott.
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               in other hands i have known money do good.
                                                  --dickens.
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   to know how, to understand the manner, way, or means; to
      have requisite information, intelligence, or sagacity. how
      is sometimes omitted. " if we fear to die, or know not to
      be patient." --jer. taylor.
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see also:
knew known knowing ken can acquaint 
cognition gnome ignore noble note 
to know how 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

knowing \know"ing\, n.
   knowledge; hence, experience. " in my knowing." --shak.
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         this sore night
         hath trifled former knowings.            --shak.
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[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

knowing \know"ing\, a.
   1. skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a
      knowing dog.
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            the knowing and intelligent part of the world.
                                                  --south.
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   2. artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal. colloq.
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[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

knowing
     adj 1: evidencing the possession of inside information syn: wisep,
             wise top
     2: by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a
        knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time"
        syn: deliberate, intentional, willful, wilful
     3: alert and fully informed; "politically aware"; "a knowing
        collector of rare books"; "the most...technically aware of
        the novelists under thirty"- w.s.graham; "surprisingly
        knowledgeable about what was going on" syn: awarep, knowledgeable
     4: highly educated; having extensive information or
        understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing
        instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable
        audience" syn: enlightened, knowledgeable, learned,
         lettered, well-educated, well-read
     n : clear and certain mental apprehension
see also:
wisep wise top deliberate intentional willful wilful 
awarep knowledgeable enlightened learned lettered 
well-educated well-read 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

174 moby thesaurus words for "knowing":
   byzantine, machiavellian, machiavellic, acute, advised, aimed,
   aimed at, alive, all-knowing, apperceptive, appercipient,
   apprehending, apprehensive, arch, artful, astute, awake, aware,
   blase, brainy, bright, brilliant, broad-minded, cagey, calculated,
   calculating, canny, clever, cognizant, comprehending, conceptive,
   conceptual, conscious, considered, conspiratorial, conspiratory,
   contemplated, conversant, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, crafty,
   cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, deliberate, deliberated,
   designed, designing, devious, diplomatic, discerning, discursive,
   disenchanted, disillusioned, eloquent, envisaged, envisioned,
   experienced, expert, expressive, feline, foxy, gnostic, guileful,
   hep, ideational, ingenious, insidious, insightful, intellectual,
   intelligent, intended, intentional, inventive, knowledgable,
   knowledgeable, learned, mature, matured, meaningful, meant,
   meditated, mindful, mondaine, nimble-witted, noetic,
   not born yesterday, not so dumb, observant, of design, old,
   omniscient, pawky, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, planned,
   politic, practiced, prehensile, private, profound, projected,
   proposed, purposed, purposeful, purposive, qualified, quick,
   quick-witted, rational, ready, reasonable, resourceful, ripe,
   ripened, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, scheming, seasoned,
   secret, sensible, sentient, serpentine, sharp, sharp-witted,
   shifty, shrewd, significant, slick, slippery, sly, smart, smooth,
   snaky, sneaky, sophic, sophistical, sophisticate, sophisticated,
   stealthy, strategic, strong-minded, studied, subtile, subtle,
   supple, tactical, teleological, trickish, tricksy, tricky, tried,
   tried and true, understanding, veteran, vigilant, voluntary,
   vulpine, wary, watchful, well-informed, willful, wily, wise,
   wise as solomon, witting, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

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