I.to furnish or fill with knots.
II. Transf., to tie in a knot, to knot, Cato, R. R. 32, 2: “crines nodantur in aurum,” Verg. A. 4, 138: “collum laqueo nodatus ab arto,” Ov. R. Am. 17: “animalia phalerari sibi magis quam nodari videntur,” Ambros. in Cant. Cantic. 1, § 43.—Hence, nōdātus , a, um, P. a., knotty, i. e. entangled, intricate: “rapidus nodato gurgite vortex,” Stat. Th. 9, 276.