knotty Copy link • knotty: nōdōsus: a k. club, n. stipes, Ov. H. 10, 101: k. nets, n. lina, Ov. M. 3, 153; plagae, id. F. 6, 110. Fig.: k. questions, n. [et anxiae] quaestiones, Macr. S. 7, 1, med.: Val. Max. In fig. sense, also spīnosus: v. thorny. Phr.: a k. point, nodus: e. g., to settle a k. point, nodum expedire, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 3.