Knee-deep: alternatives and connections

Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aerial spires.

Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the risi…

Having legs that bend inward at the knees.

To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.

Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.

To cover with snow; to whiten with snow, or as with snow.

a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee)

A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a st…

A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in…

Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.

A knee, or piece of knee timber

The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearanc…

A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and o…

greater than normal in quantity or amount; "a high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his career"; "high risks"; "has hi…

Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.

To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down.