knit

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To make (a fabric or garment) by intertwining yarn or thread in a series of connected loops either by hand, with knitting needles, or on a machine.
2. v. To form (yarn or thread) into fabric by intertwining.
3. v. To join closely; unite securely.
4. v. To draw (the brows) together in wrinkles; furrow.
5. v. To make a fabric or garment by knitting.
6. v. To become securely joined or mended together closely, as a fractured bone.
7. v. To come together in wrinkles or furrows, as the brows.
8. n. A fabric or garment made by knitting.
9. n. The way in which a fabric has been knit: a loose knit.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To tie together; tie with a knot; fasten by tying; join by making into or as into a knot or knots.
2. Hence To join the parts or ingredients of; put together; compound.
3. To weave by looping or knotting a continuous thread; form by working up yarn or thread with knitting-needles (see knitting-needle) into a fabric held together by a series of knots or interloopings: as, to knit stockings.
4. To form as if by knotting or weaving; put together; join closely; bring into intimate union.
5. To contract into folds or wrinkles: in the phrase to knit the brow or brows.
6. To make a textile fabric by interlooping yarn or thread by means of needles, etc.; make knitted work.
7. To unite closely; grow together: as, broken bones will in time knit and become sound.
8. n. Union by knitting; knitted texture.
9. n. Style or stitch of knitting; character of the work produced by knitting.
10. n. In mining, a small particle of lead ore: commonly in the plural. Also nit, nitting.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive and (intransitive) To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
2. v. figuratively (transitive) To join closely and firmly together.
3. v. intransitive To become closely and firmly joined; become compact(ed).
4. v. intransitive To grow together.
5. v. transitive To combine from various elements.
6. v. intransitive To heal (of bones) following a fracture.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
2. v. 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.
3. v. To join; to cause to grow together.
4. v. To unite closely; to connect; to engage.
5. v. To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
6. v. To form a fabric by interlacing yarn or thread; to weave by making knots or loops.
7. v. To be united closely; to grow together.
8. n. Union knitting; texture.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine
2. n. a fabric made by knitting
3. n. a basic knitting stitch
4. v. tie or link together
5. v. make (textiles) by knitting
6. v. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds