Dictionary K

• Kaama Dictionary K - noun The hartbeest.
• Kabala Dictionary K - noun See Cabala.
• Kabassou Dictionary K - noun See Cabassou.
• Kabob Dictionary K - noun & transitive verb See Cabob, n. & verb t.
• Kabook Dictionary K - noun A clay ironstone found in Ceylon.
• Kabyle Dictionary K - noun A Berber, as in Algiers or Tunis. See Berber.
• Kadder Dictionary K - noun The jackdaw.
• Kadi Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kadiaster.
• Kadiaster Dictionary K - noun A Turkish judge. See Cadi.
• Kafal Dictionary K - noun The Arabian name of two trees of the genus Balsamodendron, which yield a gum resin and a red aromatic wood.
• Kaffir Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kafir.
• Kafir Dictionary K - noun One of a race which, with the Hottentots and Bushmen, inhabit South Africa. They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs.
• Kaffle Dictionary K - noun See Coffle.
• Kafilah Dictionary K - noun See Cafila.
• Kaftan Dictionary K - [[n & verb See Caftan.
• Kage Dictionary K - noun A chantry chapel inclosed with lattice or screen work.
• Kagu Dictionary K - noun A singular, crested, grallatorial bird (Rhinochetos jubatus), native of New Caledonia. It is gray above, paler beneath, and the feathers of the wings and tail are handsomely barred with brown, black, and gray. It is allied to the sun bittern.
• Kaguan Dictionary K - noun The colugo.
• Kahani Dictionary K - noun A kind of notary public, or attorney, in the Levant.
• Kahau Dictionary K - noun A long-nosed monkey (Semnopithecus nasalis), native of Borneo. The general color of the body is bright chestnut, with the under parts, shoulders, and sides of the head, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey.
• Kail Dictionary K - noun A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1.
• Kaimacam Dictionary K - noun Same as Caimacam.
• Kain Dictionary K - noun Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.
• Kainit Dictionary K - noun Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.
• Kainite Dictionary K - noun A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony.
• Kainozoic Dictionary K - adjective See Cenozoic.
• Kaique Dictionary K - noun See Caique.
• Kairine Dictionary K - noun A pale buff or white crystalline alkaloid derived from quinoline, and used as an antipyretic in medicine.
• Kairoline Dictionary K - noun An organic base obtained from quinoline. It is used as a febrifuge, and resembles kairine.
• Kaiser Dictionary K - noun The ancient title of emperors of Germany assumed by King William of Prussia when crowned sovereign of the new German empire in 1871.
• Kaka Dictionary K - noun A New Zealand parrot of the genus Nestor, especially the brown parrot (Nestor meridionalis).
• Kakapo Dictionary K - noun A singular nocturnal parrot (Strigops habroptilus), native of New Zealand. It lives in holes during the day, but is active at night. It resembles an owl in its colors and general appearance. It has large wings, but can fly only a short distance. Called also owl parrot, night parrot, and night kaka.
• Kakaralli Dictionary K - noun A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.
• Kakistocracy Dictionary K - noun Government by the worst men.
• Kakoxene Dictionary K - noun See Cacoxene.
• Kalan Dictionary K - noun The sea otter.
• Kalasie Dictionary K - noun A long-tailed monkey of Borneo (Semnopithecus rubicundus). It has a tuft of long hair on the head.
• Kale Dictionary K - noun A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species.
• Kaleege Dictionary K - noun One of several species of large, crested, Asiatic pheasants, belonging to the genus Euplocamus, and allied to the firebacks.
• Kaleidophon Dictionary K - Alt. of Kaleidophone.
• Kaleidophone Dictionary K - An instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone, consisting of a reflecting knob at the end of a vibrating rod or thin plate, for making visible, in the motion of a point of light reflected from the knob, the paths or curves corresponding with the musical notes produced by the vibrations.
• Kaleidoscope Dictionary K - noun An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design.
• Kaleidoscopic Dictionary K - adjective Alt. of Kaleidoscopical.
• Kaleidoscopical Dictionary K - adjective Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a kaleidoscope; variegated.
• Kalendar Dictionary K - noun See Calendar.
• Kalendarial Dictionary K - adjective See Calendarial.
• Kalender Dictionary K - noun See 3d Calender.
• Kalends Dictionary K - noun Same as Calends.
• Kali Dictionary K - noun The last and worst of the four ages of the world; - considered to have begun B. C. 3102, and to last 432,000 years.
• Kalif Dictionary K - noun See Caliph.
• Kaliform Dictionary K - adjective Formed like kali, or glasswort.
• Kaligenous Dictionary K - adjective Forming alkalies with oxygen, as some metals.
• Kalium Dictionary K - noun Potassium; - so called by the German chemists.
• Kalki Dictionary K - noun The name of Vishnu in his tenth and last avatar.
• Kalmia Dictionary K - noun A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also mountain laurel, ivy bush, lamb kill, calico bush, etc.
• Kalmuck Dictionary K - noun See Calmucks.
• Kalong Dictionary K - noun A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• Kaloyer Dictionary K - noun See Caloyer.
• Kalpa Dictionary K - noun One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated.
• Kalsomine Dictionary K - noun & transitive verb Same as Calcimine.
• Kam Dictionary K - noun Crooked; awry.
• Kama Dictionary K - noun The Hindoo Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.
• Kamala Dictionary K - noun The red dusty hairs of the capsules of an East Indian tree (Mallotus Philippinensis) used for dyeing silk. It is violently emetic, and is used in the treatment of tapeworm.
• Kame Dictionary K - noun A low ridge.
• Kami Dictionary K - noun plural A title given to the celestial gods of the first mythical dynasty of Japan and extended to the demigods of the second dynasty, and then to the long line of spiritual princes still represented by the mikado.
• Kamichi Dictionary K - noun A curious South American bird (Anhima, / Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and Screamer.
• Kamptulicon Dictionary K - noun A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.
• Kampylite Dictionary K - noun A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow.
• Kamsin Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Khamsin.
• Khamsin Dictionary K - noun A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara.
• Kamtschadales Dictionary K - noun plural An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of Kamtschatka.
• Kan Dictionary K - verb transitive To know; to ken.
• Kanacka Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kanaka.
• Kanaka Dictionary K - noun A native of the Sandwich Islands.
• Kanchil Dictionary K - noun A small chevrotain of the genus Tragulus, esp. T. pygmaeus, or T. kanchil, inhabiting Java, Sumatra, and adjacent islands; a deerlet. It is noted for its agility and cunning.
• Kand Dictionary K - noun Fluor spar; - so called by Cornish miners.
• Kangaroo Dictionary K - noun Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or fourteen feet in total length. The tree kangaroos, belonging to the genus Dendrolagus, live in trees; the rock kangaroos, of the genus Petrogale, inhabit rocky situations; and the brush kangaroos, of the genus Halmaturus, inhabit wooded districts. See Wallaby.
• Kansas Dictionary K - noun plural A tribe of Indians allied to the Winnebagoes and Osages. They formerly inhabited the region which is now the State of Kansas, but were removed to the Indian Territory.
• Kantian Dictionary K - adjective Of or pertaining to Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher; conformed or relating to any or all of the philosophical doctrines of Immanuel Kant.
• Kantianism Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kantism.
• Kantism Dictionary K - noun The doctrine or theory of Kant; the Kantian philosophy.
• Kantist Dictionary K - noun A disciple or follower of Kant.
• Kanttry Dictionary K - noun Same as Cantred.
• Kaolin Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kaoline.
• Kaoline Dictionary K - noun A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay. It is chiefly derived from the decomposition of common feldspar.
• Kaolinization Dictionary K - noun The process by which feldspar is changed into kaolin.
• Kaolinize Dictionary K - verb transitive To convert into kaolin.
• Kapelle Dictionary K - noun A chapel; hence, the choir or orchestra of a prince's chapel; now, a musical establishment, usually orchestral.
• Kapellmeister Dictionary K - noun See Capellmeister.
• Kapia Dictionary K - noun The fossil resin of the kauri tree of New Zealand.
• Kapnomar Dictionary K - noun Chem.]] ) See Capnomor.
• Karagane Dictionary K - noun A species of gray fox found in Russia.
• Karaism Dictionary K - noun Doctrines of the Karaites.
• Karaite Dictionary K - noun A sect of Jews who adhere closely to the letter of the Scriptures, rejecting the oral law, and allowing the Talmud no binding authority; - opposed to the Rabbinists.
• Karatas Dictionary K - noun A West Indian plant of the Pineapple family (Nidularium Karatas).
• Karma Dictionary K - noun One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.
• Karmathian Dictionary K - noun One of a Mohammedan sect founded in the ninth century by Karmat.
• Karn Dictionary K - noun A pile of rocks; sometimes, the solid rock. See Cairn.
• Karob Dictionary K - noun The twenty-fourth part of a grain; - a weight used by goldsmiths.
• Karpholite Dictionary K - noun A fibrous mineral occurring in tufts of a straw-yellow color. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and manganese.
• Karroos Dictionary K - pleural of Karreo.
• Karreo Dictionary K - noun One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations.
• Karstenite Dictionary K - noun Same as Anhydrite.
• Karvel Dictionary K - noun See Carvel, and Caravel.
• Karyokinesis Dictionary K - noun The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; - opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell.
• Karyokinetic Dictionary K - adjective Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division.
• Karyomiton Dictionary K - noun The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed; - in opposition to kytomiton, or the network in the body of the cell.
• Karyoplasma Dictionary K - noun The protoplasmic substance of the nucleus of a cell: nucleoplasm; - in opposition to kytoplasma, the protoplasm of the cell.
• Karyostenosis Dictionary K - noun Direct cell division (in which there is first a simple division of the nucleus, without any changes in its structure, followed by division of the protoplasm of the karyostenotic mode of nuclear division.
• Kasack Dictionary K - noun Same as Cossack.
• Kat Dictionary K - noun An Arabian shrub Catha edulis) the leaves of which are used as tea by the Arabs.
• Katabolic Dictionary K - adjective Of or pertaining to katabolism; as, katabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.
• Katabolism Dictionary K - noun Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; - opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.
• Katastate Dictionary K - noun (Physiol.) A substance formed by a katabolic process; - opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• Kate Dictionary K - noun The brambling finch.
• Kathetal Dictionary K - adjective Making a right angle; perpendicular, as two lines or two sides of a triangle, which include a right angle.
• Kathetometer Dictionary K - noun Same as Cathetometer.
• Kattinumdoo Dictionary K - noun A caoutchouc like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.
• Katydid Dictionary K - noun A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidae, common in the United States. The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did, whence the name.
• Kauri Dictionary K - noun A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, / Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin.
• Kava Dictionary K - noun A species of Macropiper (M. methysticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself.
• Kavasses Dictionary K - pleural of Kavass.
• Kavass Dictionary K - noun An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier.
• Kaw Dictionary K - [[v. i. & noun See Caw.
• Kawaka Dictionary K - noun a New Zealand tree, the Cypress cedar (Libocedrus Doniana), having a valuable, fine-grained, reddish wood.
• Kawn Dictionary K - noun An inn.
• Kayak Dictionary K - noun A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes.
• Kayaker Dictionary K - noun One who uses a kayak.
• Kayko Dictionary K - noun The dog salmon.
• Kayles Dictionary K - noun plural A game; ninepins.
• Kaynard Dictionary K - noun A lazy or cowardly person; a rascal.
• Kecked Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Keck.
• Kecking Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Keck.
• Keck Dictionary K - intransitive verb To heave or to retch, as in an effort to vomit.
• Keckle Dictionary K - [[v. i. & noun See Keck, v. i. & n.
• Keckled Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Keckle.
• Keckling Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Keckle.
• Kecklish Dictionary K - adjective Inclined to vomit; squeamish.
• Kecksies Dictionary K - pleural of Kecksy.
• Kecksy Dictionary K - noun The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock.
• Kecky Dictionary K - adjective Resembling a kecksy.
• Kedged Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kedge.
• Kedging Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kedge.
• Kedge Dictionary K - noun To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.
• Kedger Dictionary K - noun A small anchor; a kedge.
• Kedlook Dictionary K - noun See Charlock.
• Kee Dictionary K - noun plural See Kie, Ky, and Kine.
• Keech Dictionary K - noun A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
• Keel Dictionary K - verb transitive & intransitive To cool; to skim or stir.
• Keeled Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Keel.
• Keeling Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Keel.
• Keelage Dictionary K - noun The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll.
• Keeler Dictionary K - noun One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; - called also keelman.
• Keelfat Dictionary K - noun A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc.
• Keelhauled Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Keelhaul.
• Keelhauling Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Keelhaul.
• Keelhaul Dictionary K - intransitive verb To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies.
• Keelivine Dictionary K - noun A pencil of black or red lead; - called also keelyvine pen.
• men Dictionary K - pleural of Keelman.
• Keelman Dictionary K - noun See Keeler, 1.
• Keelrake Dictionary K - verb transitive Same as Keelhaul.
• Keels Dictionary K - noun plural Ninepins. See Kayles.
• Keelson Dictionary K - noun A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship.
• Keelvat Dictionary K - noun See Keelfat.
• Keen Dictionary K - superlative Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge.
• Keener Dictionary K - noun A professional mourner who wails at a funeral.
• Keenly Dictionary K - adverb In a keen manner.
• Keenness Dictionary K - noun The quality or state of being keen.
• Kept Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Keep.
• Keeping Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Keep.
• Keep Dictionary K - verb transitive To care; to desire.
• Keeper Dictionary K - noun One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything.
• Keepership Dictionary K - noun The office or position of a keeper.
• Keepsake Dictionary K - noun Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.
• Keesh Dictionary K - noun See Kish.
• Keeve Dictionary K - noun A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.
• Keeved Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Keeve.
• Keeving Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Keeve.
• Keever Dictionary K - noun See Keeve, n.
• Keffe-kil Dictionary K - noun See Kiefekil.
• Keg Dictionary K - noun A small cask or barrel.
• Keilhau-ite Dictionary K - noun A mineral of a brownish black color, related to titanite in form. It consists chiefly of silica, titanium dioxide, lime, and yttria.
• Keir Dictionary K - noun See Kier.
• Keitloa Dictionary K - noun A black, two-horned, African rhinoceros (Atelodus keitloa). It has the posterior horn about as long as the anterior one, or even longer.
• Keld Dictionary K - adjective Having a kell or covering; webbed.
• Kele Dictionary K - verb transitive To cool.
• Kell Dictionary K - noun A kiln.
• Keloid Dictionary K - adjective Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin.
• Kelotomy Dictionary K - noun See Celotomy.
• Kelp Dictionary K - noun The calcined ashes of seaweed, - formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine.
• Kelpfish Dictionary K - noun A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus.
• Kelpies Dictionary K - pleural of Kelpy.
• Kelpie Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kelpy.
• Kelpy Dictionary K - noun An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned.
• Kelpware Dictionary K - noun Same as Kelp, 2.
• Kelson Dictionary K - noun See Keelson.
• Kelt Dictionary K - noun See Kilt, n.
• Kelter Dictionary K - noun Regular order or proper condition.
• Keltic Dictionary K - adjective & noun Same as Celtic, a. & n.
• Kembed Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kemb.
• Kempt Dictionary K - of Kemb.
• Kembing Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kemb.
• Kemb Dictionary K - verb transitive To comb.
• Kemelin Dictionary K - noun A tub; a brewer's vessel.
• Kemp Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kempty.
• Kempty Dictionary K - noun Coarse, rough hair wool or fur, injuring its quality.
• Kempe Dictionary K - adjective Rough; shaggy.
• Kemps Dictionary K - noun plural The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain (Plantago Lanceolata).
• Ken Dictionary K - noun A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves.
• Kenned Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Ken.
• Kenning Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Ken.
• Kendal green Dictionary K - Alt. of Kendal.
• Kendal Dictionary K - A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England.
• Kennel Dictionary K - noun The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle.
• Kenneled Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kennel.
• Kennelled Dictionary K - of Kennel.
• Kennelling Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kennel.
• Kennel coal Dictionary K - See Cannel coal.
• Keno Dictionary K - noun A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.
• Kenogenesis Dictionary K - noun Modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment; - distinguished from palingenesis.
• Kenogenetic Dictionary K - adjective Of or pertaining to kenogenesis; as, kenogenetic processes.
• Kenspeckle Dictionary K - adjective Having so marked an appearance as easily to be recognized.
• Kent bugle Dictionary K - A curved bugle, having six finger keys or stops, by means of which the performer can play upon every key in the musical scale; - called also keyed bugle, and key bugle.
• Kentle Dictionary K - noun A hundred weight; a quintal.
• Kentledge Dictionary K - noun Pigs of iron used for ballast.
• Kentucky Dictionary K - noun One of the United States.
• Kephalin Dictionary K - noun One of a group of nitrogenous phosphorized principles, supposed by Thudichum to exist in brain tissue.
• Keramic Dictionary K - adjective Same as Ceramic.
• Keramics Dictionary K - noun Same as Ceramics.
• Keramographic Dictionary K - adjective Suitable to be written upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; - said especially of a certain kind of globe.
• Kerana Dictionary K - noun A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians.
• Kerargyrite Dictionary K - noun See Cerargyrite.
• Kerasin Dictionary K - noun A nitrogenous substance free from phosphorus, supposed to be present in the brain; a body closely related to cerebrin.
• Kerasine Dictionary K - adjective Resembling horn; horny; corneous.
• Keratin Dictionary K - noun A nitrogenous substance, or mixture of substances, containing sulphur in a loose state of combination, and forming the chemical basis of epidermal tissues, such as horn, hair, feathers, and the like. It is an insoluble substance, and, unlike elastin, is not dissolved even by gastric or pancreatic juice. By decomposition with sulphuric acid it yields leucin and tyrosin, as does albumin. Called also epidermose.
• Keratitis Dictionary K - noun Inflammation of the cornea.
• Keratode Dictionary K - noun See Keratose.
• Keratogenous Dictionary K - adjective Producing horn; as, the keratogenous membrane within the horny hoof of the horse.
• Keratoidea Dictionary K - noun plural Same as Keratosa.
• Keratome Dictionary K - noun An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations for cataract.
• Keratonyxis Dictionary K - noun The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.
• Keratophyte Dictionary K - noun A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.
• Keratosa Dictionary K - noun plural An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges.
• Keratose Dictionary K - noun A tough, horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; - called also keratode.
• Keraunograph Dictionary K - noun A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere.
• Kerb Dictionary K - noun See Curb.
• Kerbstone Dictionary K - noun See Curbstone.
• Kercher Dictionary K - noun A kerchief.
• Kerchered Dictionary K - adjective Covered, or bound round, with a kercher.
• Kerchiefs Dictionary K - pleural of Kerchief.
• Kerchief Dictionary K - noun A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; - mostly used in compounds; as, neckerchief; breastkerchief; and later, handkerchief.
• Kerchiefed Dictionary K - adjective Alt. of Kerchieft.
• Kerchieft Dictionary K - adjective Dressed; hooded; covered; wearing a kerchief.
• Kerf Dictionary K - noun A notch, channel, or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing.
• Kerite Dictionary K - noun A compound in which tar or asphaltum combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber; - used principally as an insulating material in telegraphy.
• Kerl Dictionary K - noun See Carl.
• Kermes Dictionary K - noun The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine.
• Kermesse Dictionary K - noun See Kirmess.
• Kern Dictionary K - noun A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; - distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt.
• Kerned Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kern.
• Kerning Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kern.
• Kernel Dictionary K - noun The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. See Illust. of Endocarp.
• Kerneled Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kernel.
• Kernelled Dictionary K - of Kernel.
• Kerneling Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kernel.
• Kernelling Dictionary K - of Kernel.
• Kernelly Dictionary K - adjective Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels.
• Kerish Dictionary K - adjective Clownish; boorish.
• Kerolite Dictionary K - noun Same as Cerolite.
• Kerosene Dictionary K - noun An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly by the distillation and purification of petroleum. It consists chiefly of several hydrocarbons of the methane series.
• Kers Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kerse.
• Kerse Dictionary K - noun A cress.
• Kerseys Dictionary K - pleural of Kersey.
• Kersey Dictionary K - noun A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple.
• Kerseymere Dictionary K - noun See Cassimere.
• Kerseynette Dictionary K - noun See Cassinette.
• Kerve Dictionary K - verb transitive To carve.
• Kerver Dictionary K - noun A carver.
• Kesar Dictionary K - noun See Kaiser.
• Keslop Dictionary K - noun The stomach of a calf, prepared for rennet.
• Kess Dictionary K - verb transitive To kiss.
• Kest Dictionary K - imperative of Cast.
• Kestrel Dictionary K - noun A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species.
• Ket Dictionary K - noun Carrion; any filth.
• Ketch Dictionary K - noun An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, - usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.
• Ketchup Dictionary K - noun A sauce. See Catchup.
• Ketine Dictionary K - noun One of a series of organic bases obtained by the reduction of certain isonitroso compounds of the ketones. In general they are unstable oily substances having a pungent aromatic odor.
• Ketmie Dictionary K - noun The name of certain African species of Hibiscus, cultivated for the acid of their mucilage.
• Ketol Dictionary K - noun One of a series of series of complex nitrogenous substances, represented by methyl ketol and related to indol.
• Ketone Dictionary K - noun One of a large class of organic substances resembling the aldehydes, obtained by the distillation of certain salts of organic acids and consisting of carbonyl (CO) united with two hydrocarbon radicals. In general the ketones are colorless volatile liquids having a pungent ethereal odor.
• Ketonic Dictionary K - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, a ketone; as, a ketonic acid.
• Kettle Dictionary K - noun A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.
• Kettledrum Dictionary K - noun A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.
• Kettledrummer Dictionary K - noun One who plays on a kettledrum.
• Keuper Dictionary K - noun The upper division of the European Triassic. See Chart of Geology.
• Kevel Dictionary K - noun A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.
• Kevin Dictionary K - noun The gazelle.
• Kever Dictionary K - verb transitive & intransitive To cover.
• Keverchief Dictionary K - noun A kerchief.
• Kex Dictionary K - noun A weed; a kecksy.
• Key Dictionary K - noun An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning in its place.
• Keved Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Key.
• Keying Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Key.
• Keyage Dictionary K - noun Wharfage; quayage.
• Keyboard Dictionary K - noun The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.
• Key-cold Dictionary K - adjective Cold as a metallic key; lifeless.
• Keyed Dictionary K - adjective Furnished with keys; as, a keyed instrument; also, set to a key, as a tune.
• Keyhole Dictionary K - noun A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key.
• Keynote Dictionary K - noun The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; - called also key tone.
• Keyseat Dictionary K - verb transitive To form a key seat, as by cutting. See Key seat, under Key.
• Keystone Dictionary K - noun The central or topmost stone of an arch. This in some styles is made different in size from the other voussoirs, or projects, or is decorated with carving. See Illust. of Arch.
• Key tone Dictionary K - See Keynote.
• Keyway Dictionary K - noun See Key way, under Key.
• Khaliff Dictionary K - noun See Caliph.
• Khan Dictionary K - noun A king; a prince; a chief; a governor; - so called among the Tartars, Turks, and Persians, and in countries now or formerly governed by them.
• Khanate Dictionary K - noun Dominion or jurisdiction of a khan.
• Khaya Dictionary K - noun A lofty West African tree (Khaya Senegalensis), related to the mahogany, which it resembles in the quality of the wood. The bark is used as a febrifuge.
• Khedive Dictionary K - noun A governor or viceroy; - a title granted in 1867 by the sultan of Turkey to the ruler of Egypt.
• Khenna Dictionary K - noun See Henna.
• Kholah Dictionary K - noun The Indian jackal.
• Kholsun Dictionary K - noun The dhole.
• Khutbah Dictionary K - noun An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes.
• Kiabooca wood Dictionary K - See Kyaboca wood.
• Kiang Dictionary K - noun The dziggetai.
• Kibble Dictionary K - verb transitive To bruise; to grind coarsely; as, kibbled oats.
• Kibblings Dictionary K - noun plural Portions of small fish used for bait on the banks of Newfoundland.
• Kibe Dictionary K - noun A chap or crack in the flesh occasioned by cold; an ulcerated chilblain.
• Kibed Dictionary K - adjective Chapped; cracked with cold; affected with chilblains; as kibed heels.
• Kibitkas Dictionary K - pleural of Kibitka.
• Kibitka Dictionary K - noun A tent used by the Kirghiz Tartars.
• Kiblah Dictionary K - noun See Keblah.
• Kiby Dictionary K - adjective Affected with kibes.
• Kichil Dictionary K - noun See Kechil.
• Kicred Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kick.
• Kicking Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kick.
• Kick Dictionary K - verb transitive To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog.
• Kickable Dictionary K - adjective Capable or deserving of being kicked.
• Kickapoos Dictionary K - noun plural A tribe of Indians which formerly occupied the region of Northern Illinois, allied in language to the Sacs and Foxes.
• Kicker Dictionary K - noun One who, or that which, kicks.
• Kickshaw Dictionary K - noun See Kickshaws, the correct singular.
• Kickshawses Dictionary K - pleural of Kickshaws.
• Kickshaws Dictionary K - noun Something fantastical; any trifling, trumpery thing; a toy.
• Kickshoe Dictionary K - noun A kickshaws.
• Kicksy-wicksy Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kicky-wisky.
• Kicky-wisky Dictionary K - noun That which is restless and uneasy.
• Kickup Dictionary K - noun The water thrush or accentor.
• Kid Dictionary K - noun A young goat.
• Kidded Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kid.
• Kidding Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kid.
• Kidde Dictionary K - imperative of Kythe.
• Kidderminster Dictionary K - noun A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured.
• Kiddier Dictionary K - noun A huckster; a cadger.
• Kiddle Dictionary K - noun A kind of basketwork wear in a river, for catching fish.
• Kiddow Dictionary K - noun The guillemot.
• Kiddy Dictionary K - verb transitive To deceive; to outwit; to hoax.
• Kiddyish Dictionary K - adjective Frolicsome; sportive.
• Kidfox Dictionary K - A young fox.
• Kidling Dictionary K - noun A young kid.
• Kidnaped Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kidnap.
• Kidnapped Dictionary K - of Kidnap.
• Kidnaping Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kidnap.
• Kidnapping Dictionary K - of Kidnap.
• Kidnap Dictionary K - verb transitive To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place.
• Kidnaper Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kidnapper.
• Kidnapper Dictionary K - noun One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.
• Kidneys Dictionary K - pleural of Kidney.
• Kidney Dictionary K - noun A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.
• Kidney-form Dictionary K - adjective Alt. of Kidney-shaped.
• Kidney-shaped Dictionary K - adjective Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney-shaped leaf.
• Kidneywort Dictionary K - noun A kind of saxifrage (Saxifrage stellaris).
• Kie Dictionary K - noun plural Kine; cows.
• Kiefekil Dictionary K - noun A species of clay; meerschaum.
• Kier Dictionary K - noun A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; - also called keeve.
• Kieselguhr Dictionary K - noun Siliceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth, used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite.
• Kieserite Dictionary K - noun Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt, Prussian Saxony.
• Kieve Dictionary K - noun See Keeve, n.
• Kike Dictionary K - intransitive verb To gaze; to stare.
• Kilderkin Dictionary K - noun A small barrel; an old liquid measure containing eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure.
• Kill Dictionary K - noun A kiln.
• Killed Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kill.
• Killing Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kill.
• Killdee Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Killdeer.
• Killdeer Dictionary K - noun A small American plover (Aegialitis vocifera).
• Killer Dictionary K - noun One who deprives of life; one who, or that which, kills.
• Killesse Dictionary K - noun A gutter, groove, or channel.
• Killifish Dictionary K - noun Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow.
• Killigrew Dictionary K - noun The Cornish chough. See under Chough.
• Killikinick Dictionary K - noun See Kinnikinic.
• Kill-joy Dictionary K - noun One who causes gloom or grief; a dispiriting person.
• Killock Dictionary K - noun A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together.
• Killow Dictionary K - noun An earth of a blackish or deep blue color.
• Kiln Dictionary K - noun A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.
• Kiln-dry Dictionary K - verb transitive To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain.
• Kilnhole Dictionary K - noun The mouth or opening of an oven or kiln.
• Kilos Dictionary K - pleural of Kilo.
• Kilo Dictionary K - noun An abbreviation of Kilogram.
• Kilogram Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kilogramme.
• Kilogramme Dictionary K - noun A measure of weight, being a thousand grams, equal to 2.2046 pounds avoirdupois (15,432.34 grains). It is equal to the weight of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum density, or 39 Fahrenheit.
• Kilogrammeter Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kilogrammetre.
• Kilogrammetre Dictionary K - noun A measure of energy or work done, being the amount expended in raising one kilogram through the height of one meter, in the latitude of Paris.
• Kiloliter Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kilolitre.
• Kilolitre Dictionary K - noun A measure of capacity equal to a cubic meter, or a thousand liters. It is equivalent to 35.315 cubic feet, and to 220.04 imperial gallons, or 264.18 American gallons of 321 cubic inches.
• Kilometer Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kilometre.
• Kilometre Dictionary K - noun A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.8 feet, or 62137 of a mile.
• Kilostere Dictionary K - noun A cubic measure containing 1000 cubic meters, and equivalent to 35,315 cubic feet.
• Kilowatt Dictionary K - noun One thousand watts.
• Kilt Dictionary K - p. p. from Kill.
• Kilted Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kilt.
• Kilting Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kilt.
• Kilter Dictionary K - noun See Kelter.
• Kimbo Dictionary K - adjective Crooked; arched; bent.
• Kimmerian Dictionary K - adjective See Cimmerian.
• Kimnel Dictionary K - noun A tub. See Kemelin.
• Kimry Dictionary K - noun See Cymry.
• kin Dictionary K - A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.
• Kinaesodic Dictionary K - adjective Kinesodic.
• Kinaesthesis Dictionary K - noun The perception attendant upon the movements of the muscles.
• Kinate Dictionary K - noun See Quinate.
• Kincob Dictionary K - noun India silk brocaded with flowers in silver or gold.
• Kind Dictionary K - superlative Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
• Kindergarten Dictionary K - noun A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; - a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.
• Kindergartner Dictionary K - noun One who teaches in a kindergarten.
• Kind-hearted Dictionary K - adjective Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord.
• Kind-heartedness Dictionary K - noun The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence.
• Kindle Dictionary K - verb transitive & intransitive To bring forth young.
• Kindled Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kindle.
• Kindling Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kindle.
• Kindler Dictionary K - noun One who, or that which, kindles, stirs up, or sets on fire.
• Kindless Dictionary K - adjective Destitute of kindness; unnatural.
• Kindliness Dictionary K - noun Natural inclination; natural course.
• Kinding Dictionary K - noun The of causing to burn, or of exciting or inflaming the passions.
• Kindly Dictionary K - noun According to the kind or nature; natural.
• Kindness Dictionary K - adjective The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence.
• Kindred Dictionary K - noun Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.
• Kinematic Dictionary K - adjective Alt. of Kinematical.
• Kinematical Dictionary K - adjective Of or pertaining to kinematics.
• Kinematics Dictionary K - noun The science which treats of motions considered in themselves, or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of motions.
• Kinepox Dictionary K - noun See Cowpox.
• Kinesiatrics Dictionary K - noun A mode of treating disease by appropriate muscular movements; - also termed kinesitherapy, kinesipathy, lingism, and the movement cure.
• Kinesipathy Dictionary K - noun See Kinesiatrics.
• Kinesitherapy Dictionary K - noun See Kinesiatrics.
• Kinesodic Dictionary K - adjective Conveying motion; as; kinesodic substance; - applied esp. to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntary and reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by motor impulses applied to it directly.
• Kinetic Dictionary K - q. Moving or causing motion; motory; active, as opposed to latent.
• Kinetics Dictionary K - noun See Dynamics.
• Kinetogenesis Dictionary K - noun An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; - called also kinescope.
• King Dictionary K - noun A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.
• Kinged Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of King.
• Kinging Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of King.
• Kingbird Dictionary K - noun A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles, especially when they approach its nest in the breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the head and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on the head of the adults show a bright orange basal spot when erected. Called also bee bird, and bee martin. Several Southern and Western species of Tyrannus are also called king birds.
• Kingbolt Dictionary K - noun A vertical iron bolt, by which the forward axle and wheels of a vehicle or the trucks of a railroad car are connected with the other parts.
• King Charles spaniel Dictionary K - A variety of small pet dogs, having, drooping ears, a high, dome-shaped forehead, pug nose, large, prominent eyes, and long, wavy hair. The color is usually black and tan.
• Kingcraft Dictionary K - noun The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy.
• Kingcup Dictionary K - noun The common buttercup.
• Kingdom Dictionary K - noun The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy.
• Kingdomed Dictionary K - adjective Having a kingdom or the dignity of a king; like a kingdom.
• Kingfish Dictionary K - noun An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially M. saxatilis, or M. nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; - called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb.
• Kingfisher Dictionary K - noun Any one of numerous species of birds constituting the family Alcedinidae. Most of them feed upon fishes which they capture by diving and seizing then with the beak; others feed only upon reptiles, insects, etc. About one hundred and fifty species are known. They are found in nearly all parts of the world, but are particularly abundant in the East Indies.
• Kinghood Dictionary K - noun The state of being a king; the attributes of a king; kingship.
• Kingless Dictionary K - adjective Having no king.
• Kinglet Dictionary K - noun A little king; a weak or insignificant king.
• Kinglihood Dictionary K - noun King-liness.
• Kingliness Dictionary K - noun The state or quality of being kingly.
• Kingling Dictionary K - noun Same as Kinglet, 1.
• Kingly Dictionary K - superlative Belonging to, suitable to, or becoming, a king; characteristic of, resembling, a king; directed or administered by a king; monarchical; royal; sovereign; regal; august; noble; grand.
• King-post Dictionary K - noun A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post.
• King's Bench Dictionary K - Formerly, the highest court of common law in England; - so called because the king used to sit there in person. It consisted of a chief justice and four puisne, or junior, justices. During the reign of a queen it was called the Queen's Bench. Its jurisdiction was transferred by the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875 to the high court of justice created by that legislation.
• Kingship Dictionary K - noun The state, office, or dignity of a king; royalty.
• Kingston Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kingstone.
• Kingstone Dictionary K - noun The black angel fish. See Angel fish, under Angel.
• Kingston metal Dictionary K - An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery.
• Kingston valve Dictionary K - A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line.
• Kingtruss Dictionary K - A truss, framed with a king-post; - used in roofs, bridges, etc.
• Kinic Dictionary K - adjective See Quinic.
• Kink Dictionary K - noun A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.
• Kinked Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kink.
• Kinking Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kink.
• Kinkajou Dictionary K - noun A nocturnal carnivorous mammal (Cercoleptes caudivolvulus) of South America, about as large as a full-grown cat. It has a prehensile tail and lives in trees. It is the only representative of a distinct family (Cercoleptidae) allied to the raccoons. Called also potto, and honey bear.
• Kinkhaust Dictionary K - noun Whooping cough.
• Kinkle Dictionary K - noun Same as 3d Kink.
• Kinky Dictionary K - adjective Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair.
• Kinnikinic Dictionary K - noun Prepared leaves or bark of certain plants; - used by the Indians of the Northwest for smoking, either mixed with tobacco or as a substitute for it. Also, a plant so used, as the osier cornel (Cornus stolonijra), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi).
• Kino Dictionary K - noun The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used variously in tanning, in dyeing, and as an astringent in medicine.
• Kinology Dictionary K - noun That branch of physics which treats of the laws of motion, or of moving bodies.
• Kinone Dictionary K - noun See Quinone.
• Kinoyl Dictionary K - noun See Quinoyl.
• Kinrede Dictionary K - noun Kindred.
• Kinsfolk Dictionary K - noun Relatives; kindred; kin; persons of the same family or closely or closely related families.
• Kinship Dictionary K - noun Family relationship.
• Kinsmen Dictionary K - pleural of Kinsman.
• Kinsman Dictionary K - noun A man of the same race or family; one related by blood.
• Kinsmanship Dictionary K - noun Kinship.
• Kinswomen Dictionary K - pleural of Kinswoman.
• Kinswoman Dictionary K - noun A female relative.
• Kintlidge Dictionary K - noun See Kentledge.
• Kiosk Dictionary K - noun A Turkish open summer house or pavilion, supported by pillars.
• Kioways Dictionary K - noun plural A tribe of Indians distantly related to the Shoshones. They formerly inhabited the region about the head waters of the North Platte.
• Kip Dictionary K - noun The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin.
• Kipe Dictionary K - noun An osier basket used for catching fish.
• Kipper Dictionary K - noun A salmon after spawning.
• Kippered Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kipper.
• Kippering Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kipper.
• Kippernut Dictionary K - noun A name given to earthnuts of several kinds.
• Kipskin Dictionary K - noun Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide.
• Kirk Dictionary K - noun A church or the church, in the various senses of the word; esp., the Church of Scotland as distinguished from other reformed churches, or from the Roman Catholic Church.
• Kirked Dictionary K - adjective Turned upward; bent.
• Kirkmen Dictionary K - pleural of Kirkman.
• Kirkman Dictionary K - noun A clergyman or officer in a kirk.
• Kirkyard Dictionary K - noun A churchyard.
• Kirmess Dictionary K - noun In Europe, particularly in Belgium and Holland, and outdoor festival and fair; in the United States, generally an indoor entertainment and fair combined.
• Kirschwasser Dictionary K - noun An alcoholic liquor, obtained by distilling the fermented juice of the small black cherry.
• Kirsome Dictionary K - adjective Christian; christened.
• Kirtle Dictionary K - noun A garment varying in form and use at different times, and worn doth by men and women.
• Kirtled Dictionary K - adjective Wearing a kirtle.
• Kirumbo Dictionary K - noun A bird of Madagascar (Leptosomus discolor), the only living type of a family allied to the rollers. It has a pair of loral plumes. The male is glossy green above, with metallic reflections; the female is spotted with brown and black.
• Kish Dictionary K - noun A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
• Kismet Dictionary K - noun Destiny; fate.
• Kissed Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kiss.
• Kissing Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kiss.
• Kiss Dictionary K - verb transitive To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc.
• Kisser Dictionary K - noun One who kisses.
• Kissingcrust Dictionary K - noun The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.
• Kist Dictionary K - noun A chest; hence, a coffin.
• Kistvaen Dictionary K - noun A Celtic monument, commonly known as a dolmen.
• Kitte Dictionary K - imperative of Kit.
• Kit Dictionary K - verb transitive To cut.
• Kitcat Dictionary K - adjective Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; - so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies.
• Kitchen Dictionary K - noun A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery.
• Kitchener Dictionary K - noun A kitchen servant; a cook.
• Kitchenmaid Dictionary K - noun A woman employed in the kitchen.
• Kitchen middens Dictionary K - Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians.
• Kitchen-ry Dictionary K - noun The body of servants employed in the kitchen.
• Kite Dictionary K - noun Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinae, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.
• Kiteflying Dictionary K - noun A mode of raising money, or sustaining one's credit, by the use of paper which is merely nominal; - called also kiting.
• Kiteflier Dictionary K - noun See Kite, n., 6.
• Kith Dictionary K - noun Acquaintance; kindred.
• Kithara Dictionary K - noun See Cithara.
• Kithe Dictionary K - verb transitive See Kythe.
• Kitish Dictionary K - adjective Like or relating to a kite.
• Kitling Dictionary K - noun A young kitten; a whelp.
• Kittel Dictionary K - verb transitive See Kittle, v. t.
• Kitten Dictionary K - noun A young cat.
• Kittened Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kitten.
• Kittening Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kitten.
• Kittenish Dictionary K - adjective Resembling a kitten; playful; as, a kittenish disposition.
• Kittiwake Dictionary K - noun A northern gull (Rissa tridactyla), inhabiting the coasts of Europe and America. It is white, with black tips to the wings, and has but three toes.
• Kittle Dictionary K - intransitive verb To bring forth young, as a cat; to kitten; to litter.
• Kittlish Dictionary K - adjective Ticklish; kittle.
• Kittysol Dictionary K - noun The Chinese paper parasol.
• Kive Dictionary K - noun A mash vat. See Keeve.
• Kiver Dictionary K - verb transitive To cover.
• Kivikivies Dictionary K - pleural of Kiwikiwi.
• Kiwikiwies Dictionary K - pleural of Kiwikiwi.
• Kivikivi Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kiwikiwi.
• Kiwikiwi Dictionary K - noun Any species of Apteryx, esp. A. australis; - so called in imitation of its notes. Called also kiwi. See Apteryx.
• Kjoekken moeddings Dictionary K - See Kitchen middens.
• Klamaths Dictionary K - noun plural A collective name for the Indians of several tribes formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake; - called also Clamets and Hamati.
• Kleeneboc Dictionary K - noun (Zool.) An antelope (Cerphalopus pygmaeus), found in South Africa. It is of very small size, being but one foot high at shoulder. It is remarkable for its activity, and for its mild and timid disposition. Called also guevi, and pygmy antelope.
• Kleptomania Dictionary K - noun A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility.
• Kleptomaniac Dictionary K - noun A person affected with kleptomania.
• Klick Dictionary K - noun & verb See Click.
• Klicket Dictionary K - noun A small postern or gate in a palisade, for the passage of sallying parties.
• Klinkstone Dictionary K - noun See Clinkstone.
• Klinometer Dictionary K - noun See Clinometer.
• Klipdas Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Klipdachs.
• Klipdachs Dictionary K - noun A small mammal (Hyrax Capensis), found in South Africa. It is of about the size of a rabbit, and closely resembles the daman. Called also rock rabbit.
• Klipfish Dictionary K - noun Dried cod, exported from Norway.
• Klipspringer Dictionary K - noun A small, graceful South African antelope (Nanotragus oreotragus), which, like the chamois, springs from one crag to another with great agility; - called also kainsi.
• Kloof Dictionary K - noun A glen; a ravine closed at its upper end.
• Klopemania Dictionary K - noun See Kleptomania.
• Knabbed Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Knab.
• Knabbing Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Knab.
• Knab Dictionary K - verb transitive To seize with the teeth; to gnaw.
• Knabble Dictionary K - intransitive verb To bite or nibble.
• Knack Dictionary K - intransitive verb To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink.
• Knacker Dictionary K - noun One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
• Knackish Dictionary K - adjective Trickish; artful.
• Knack-kneed Dictionary K - adjective See Knock-kneed.
• Knacky Dictionary K - adjective Having a knack; cunning; crafty; trickish.
• Knag Dictionary K - noun A knot in wood; a protuberance.
• Knagged Dictionary K - adjective Full of knots; knaggy.
• Knaggy Dictionary K - adjective Knotty; rough; figuratively, rough in temper.
• Knap Dictionary K - noun A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop.
• Knapped Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Knap.
• Knapping Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Knap.
• Knapbottle Dictionary K - noun The bladder campion (Silene inflata).
• Knappish Dictionary K - adjective Snappish; peevish.
• Knapple Dictionary K - verb To break off with an abrupt, sharp noise; to bite; to nibble.
• Knappy Dictionary K - adjective Having knaps; full of protuberances or humps; knobby.
• Knapsack Dictionary K - verb transitive A case of canvas or leather, for carrying on the back a soldier's necessaries, or the clothing, etc., of a traveler.
• Knapweed Dictionary K - noun The black centaury (Centaurea nigra); - so called from the knoblike heads of flowers. Called also bullweed.
• Knar Dictionary K - noun See Gnar.
• Knarl Dictionary K - noun A knot in wood. See Gnarl.
• Knarled Dictionary K - adjective Knotted. See Gnarled.
• Knarred Dictionary K - adjective Knotty; gnarled.
• Knarry Dictionary K - adjective Knotty; gnarled.
• Knave Dictionary K - noun A boy; especially, a boy servant.
• Knaveries Dictionary K - pleural of Knavery.
• Knavery Dictionary K - noun The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action.
• Knaveship Dictionary K - noun A small due, in meal, established by usage, which is paid to the under miller.
• Knavess Dictionary K - noun A knavish woman.
• Knavish Dictionary K - adjective Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick.
• Knavishly Dictionary K - adverb In a knavish manner; dishonestly; fraudulently.
• KNavishness Dictionary K - noun The quality or state of being knavish; knavery; dishonesty.
• Knaw Dictionary K - verb transitive See Gnaw.
• Knawel Dictionary K - noun A low, spreading weed (Scleranthus annuus), common in sandy soil.
• Kneaded Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Knead.
• Kneading Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Knead.
• Knead Dictionary K - verb transitive To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.; as, to knead dough.
• Kneadable Dictionary K - adjective That may be kneaded; capable of being worked into a mass.
• Kneader Dictionary K - noun One who kneads.
• Kneadingly Dictionary K - adverb In the manner of one kneading.
• Knebelite Dictionary K - noun A mineral of a gray, red, brown, or green color, and glistening luster. It is a silicate of iron and manganese.
• Kneck Dictionary K - noun The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out.
• Knee Dictionary K - noun In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg.
• Kneebrush Dictionary K - noun A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; - chiefly used in the plural.
• Kneecap Dictionary K - noun The kneepan.
• Knee-crooking Dictionary K - adjective Obsequious; fawning; cringing.
• Kneed Dictionary K - adjective Having knees;- used chiefly in composition; as, in-kneed; out-kneed; weak-kneed.
• Knee-deep Dictionary K - adjective Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep.
• Knee-high Dictionary K - adjective Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high.
• Kneejoint Dictionary K - noun The joint of the knee.
• Kneejointed Dictionary K - adjective Geniculate; kneed. See Kneed, a., 2.
• Knelt Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kneel.
• Kneeled Dictionary K - of Kneel.
• Kneeling Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kneel.
• Kneel Dictionary K - intransitive verb To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; - sometimes with down.
• Kneeler Dictionary K - noun One who kneels or who worships by or while kneeling.
• Kneelingly Dictionary K - adverb In a kneeling position.
• Kneepan Dictionary K - noun A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.
• Kneepiece Dictionary K - noun A piece shaped like a knee; as, the kneepieces or ears of a boat.
• Knell Dictionary K - noun The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything.
• Knelled Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Knell.
• Knelling Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Knell.
• Knew Dictionary K - imperative of Know.
• Knicker Dictionary K - noun A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing.
• Knickerbockers Dictionary K - noun plural The name for a style of short breeches; smallclothes.
• Knickknack Dictionary K - noun A trifle or toy; a bawble; a gewgaw.
• Knickknackatory Dictionary K - noun A collection of knickknacks.
• Knickknackery Dictionary K - noun Knickknacks.
• Knives Dictionary K - pleural of Knife.
• Knife Dictionary K - noun An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc..
• Knifed Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Knife.
• Knifing Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Knife.
• Knifeboard Dictionary K - noun A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
• Knife-edge Dictionary K - noun A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction.
• Knight Dictionary K - noun A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
• Knighted Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Knight.
• Knighting Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Knight.
• Knightage Dictionary K - noun To body of knights, taken collectively.
• Knights bachelors Dictionary K - pleural of Knight bachelor.
• Knight bachelor Dictionary K - A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• Knights bannerets Dictionary K - pleural of Knight banneret.
• Knight banneret Dictionary K - A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.
• Knight baro-net Dictionary K - See Baronet.
• Knight-errants Dictionary K - pleural of Knight-errant.
• Knights-errant Dictionary K - pleural of Knight-errant.
• Knight-errant Dictionary K - noun A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
• Knight-errantries Dictionary K - pleural of Knight-errantry.
• Knight-errantry Dictionary K - noun The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.
• Knight-er-ratic Dictionary K - adjective Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry.
• Knighthead Dictionary K - noun A bollard timber. See under Bollard.
• Knighthood Dictionary K - noun The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry.
• Knightless Dictionary K - adjective Unbecoming a knight.
• Knightliness Dictionary K - noun The character or bearing suitable for a knight; chivalry.
• Knightly Dictionary K - adjective Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.
• Knight marshal Dictionary K - An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties.
• Knight service Dictionary K - A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
• Knights Templars Dictionary K - pleural of Knight Templar.
• Knight Templar Dictionary K - See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.
• Knit Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Knit.
• Knitted Dictionary K - of Knit.
• Knitting Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Knit.
• Knitback Dictionary K - noun The plant comfrey; - so called from its use as a restorative.
• Knitch Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Knitchet.
• Knitchet Dictionary K - noun A number of things tied or knit together; a bundle; a fagot.
• Knits Dictionary K - noun plural Small particles of ore.
• Knitster Dictionary K - noun A woman who knits.
• Knitter Dictionary K - noun One who, or that which, knits, joins, or unites; a knitting machine.
• Knittle Dictionary K - noun A string that draws together a purse or bag.
• Knob Dictionary K - noun A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.
• Knobbed Dictionary K - adjective Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna.
• Knobber Dictionary K - noun See Knobbler.
• Knobbing Dictionary K - noun Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.
• Knobbler Dictionary K - noun The hart in its second year; a young deer.
• Knobbling fire Dictionary K - A bloomery fire. See Bloomery.
• Knobby Dictionary K - adjective Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.
• Knobstick Dictionary K - noun One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trades union.
• Knocked Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Knock.
• Knocking Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Knock.
• Knock Dictionary K - intransitive verb To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
• Knockdown Dictionary K - noun A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal.
• Knocker Dictionary K - noun One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.
• Knockings Dictionary K - noun plural Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.
• Knock-knee Dictionary K - noun A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.
• Knock-kneed Dictionary K - adjective Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.
• Knockstone Dictionary K - noun A block upon which ore is broken up.
• Knoll Dictionary K - noun A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
• Knolled Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Knoll.
• Knolling Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Knoll.
• Knoller Dictionary K - noun One who tolls a bell.
• Knop Dictionary K - noun A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.
• Knopped Dictionary K - adjective Having knops or knobs; fastened as with buttons.
• Knoppern Dictionary K - noun A kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, - used in tanning and dyeing.
• Knopweed Dictionary K - noun Same as Knapweed.
• Knor Dictionary K - noun See Knur.
• Knosp Dictionary K - noun Same as Knop,2.
• Knot Dictionary K - noun A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.
• Knotted Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Knot.
• Knotting Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Knot.
• Knotberry Dictionary K - noun The cloudberry (Rudus Chamaemorus); - so called from its knotted stems.
• Knotgrass Dictionary K - noun a common weed with jointed stems (Polygonum aviculare); knotweed.
• Knotless Dictionary K - adjective Free from knots; without knots.
• Knottiness Dictionary K - noun The quality or state of being knotty or full of knots.
• Knotty Dictionary K - superlative Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
• Knotweed Dictionary K - noun See Knot/rass.
• Knotwort Dictionary K - noun A small, herbaceous, trailing plant, of the genus Illecebrum (I. verticillatum).
• Knout Dictionary K - noun A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.
• Know Dictionary K - noun Knee.
• Known Dictionary K - past participle of Know.
• Knowing Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Know.
• Knowable Dictionary K - adjective That may be known; capable of being discovered, understood, or ascertained.
• Knowa bleness Dictionary K - noun The state or quality of being knowable.
• Know-all Dictionary K - noun One who knows everything; hence, one who makes pretension to great knowledge; a wiseacre; - usually ironical.
• Knower Dictionary K - noun One who knows.
• Knowingly Dictionary K - adverb With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend.
• Knowingness Dictionary K - noun The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
• Knowleche Dictionary K - noun & verb See Knowl, edge.
• Knowleching Dictionary K - noun Knowledge.
• Knowledge Dictionary K - intransitive verb The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.
• Know-nothing Dictionary K - noun A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office.
• Know-nothingism Dictionary K - noun The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings.
• Knubs Dictionary K - noun plural Waste silk formed in winding off the threads from a cocoon.
• Knuckle Dictionary K - noun The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers.
• Knuckled Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Knuckle.
• Knuckling Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Knuckle.
• Knuff Dictionary K - noun A lout; a clown.
• Knur Dictionary K - noun A knurl.
• Knurl Dictionary K - noun A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.
• Knurled Dictionary K - adjective Full of knots; gnarled.
• Knurly Dictionary K - superlative Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.
• Knurry Dictionary K - adjective Full of knots.
• Koaita Dictionary K - noun Same as Coaita.
• Koala Dictionary K - noun A tailless marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus), found in Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called also Australian bear, native bear, and native sloth.
• Kob Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Koba.
• Koba Dictionary K - noun Any one of several species of African antelopes of the genus Kobus, esp. the species Kobus sing-sing.
• Kobalt Dictionary K - noun See Cobalt.
• Kobellite Dictionary K - noun A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.
• Kobold Dictionary K - noun A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.
• Kodak Dictionary K - noun A kind of portable camera.
• Koel Dictionary K - noun Any one of several species of cuckoos of the genus Eudynamys, found in India, the East Indies, and Australia. They deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds.
• Koff Dictionary K - noun A two-masted Dutch vessel.
• Kohinoor Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kohnur.
• Kohnur Dictionary K - noun A famous diamond, surrendered to the British crown on the annexation of the Punjab. According to Hindoo legends, it was found in a Golconda mine, and has been the property of various Hindoo and Persian rulers.
• Kohl Dictionary K - noun A mixture of soot and other ingredients, used by Egyptian and other Eastern women to darken the edges of the eyelids.
• Kohl-rabies Dictionary K - pleural of Kohl-rabi.
• Kohl-rabi Dictionary K - noun A variety of cabbage, in which the edible part is a large, turnip-shaped swelling of the stem, above the surface of the ground.
• Kokama Dictionary K - noun The gemsbok.
• Koklass Dictionary K - noun Any pheasant of the genus Pucrasia. The birds of this genus inhabit India and China, and are distinguished by having a long central and two lateral crests on the head. Called also pucras.
• Kokoon Dictionary K - noun The gnu.
• Kolarian Dictionary K - noun An individual of one of the races of aboriginal inhabitants which survive in Hindostan.
• Komenic Dictionary K - adjective Of or pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from meconic acid.
• Komtok Dictionary K - noun An African freshwater fish (Protopterus annectens), belonging to the Dipnoi. It can breathe air by means of its lungs, and when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it remains till the rainy season. It is used as food.
• Kon Dictionary K - verb transitive To know. See Can, and Con.
• Konite Dictionary K - noun See Conite.
• Konze Dictionary K - noun A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), allied to the hartbeest, but having shorter and flatter horns, and lacking a black patch on the face.
• Koodoo Dictionary K - noun A large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color is reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut.
• Kookoom Dictionary K - noun The oryx or gemsbok.
• Koolokamba Dictionary K - noun A west African anthropoid ape (Troglodytes koolokamba, or T. Aubryi), allied to the chimpanzee and gorilla, and, in some respects, intermediate between them.
• Koolslaa Dictionary K - noun See Coleslaw.
• Koord Dictionary K - noun See Kurd.
• Koordish Dictionary K - noun See Kurdish.
• Koorilian Dictionary K - adjective & noun Same as Kurilian.
• Kopeck Dictionary K - noun A small Russian coin. One hundred kopecks make a rouble, worth about sixty cents.
• Koran Dictionary K - noun The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; - called also Alcoran.
• Korin Dictionary K - noun The gazelle.
• Korrigum Dictionary K - noun A West African antelope (Damalis Senegalensis), allied to the sassaby. It is reddish gray, with a black face, and a black stripe on the outside of the legs above the knees.
• Kosmos Dictionary K - noun See Cosmos.
• Kotow Dictionary K - noun The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings.
• Kotowed Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kotow.
• Kotowing Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kotow.
• Koulan Dictionary K - noun A wild horse (Equus, / Asinus, onager) inhabiting the plants of Central Asia; - called also gour, khur, and onager.
• Koumiss Dictionary K - noun An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe.
• Kousso Dictionary K - noun An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge.
• Kowtow Dictionary K - noun & verb intransitive The same as Kotow.
• Kra Dictionary K - noun A long-tailed ape (Macacus cynomolgus) of India and Sumatra. It is reddish olive, spotted with black, and has a black tail.
• Kraal Dictionary K - noun A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut.
• Krait Dictionary K - noun A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish.
• Kraken Dictionary K - noun A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus.
• Krakowiak Dictionary K - noun A lively Polish dance. See Cracovienne.
• Krameria Dictionary K - noun A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one species of which (K. triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as a medicine, is obtained.
• Krameric Dictionary K - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, Krameria (rhatany); as, krameric acid, usually called ratanhia-tannic acid.
• Krang Dictionary K - noun The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed.
• Kranging hook Dictionary K - A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away.
• Kreatic Dictionary K - adjective See Creatic.
• Kreatin Dictionary K - noun See Creatin.
• Kreatinin Dictionary K - noun See Creatinin.
• Kreel Dictionary K - noun See Creel.
• Kremlin Dictionary K - noun The citadel of a town or city; especially, the citadel of Moscow, a large inclosure which contains imperial palaces, cathedrals, churches, an arsenal, etc.
• Krems Dictionary K - noun A variety of white lead. See Krems lead, under Lead, n.
• Kreng Dictionary K - noun See Krang.
• Kreosote Dictionary K - noun See Creosote.
• Kreutzer Dictionary K - noun A small copper coin formerly used in South Germany; also, a small Austrian copper coin.
• Kriegsspiel Dictionary K - noun A game of war, played for practice, on maps.
• Kris Dictionary K - noun A Malay dagger. See Creese.
• Krishna Dictionary K - noun The most popular of the Hindoo divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu.
• Kritarchy Dictionary K - noun The rule of the judges over Israel.
• Krokidolite Dictionary K - noun See Crocidolite.
• Krone Dictionary K - noun A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of the value of about twenty-eight cents. See Crown, n., 9.
• Kroomen Dictionary K - pleural of Krooman.
• Krooman Dictionary K - noun One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose members are much employed on shipboard.
• Kruller Dictionary K - noun See Cruller.
• Krummhorn Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Krumhorn.
• Krumhorn Dictionary K - noun A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now obsolete (see Cornet, 1, a.).
• Krupp gun Dictionary K - A breech-loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp, at Essen in Prussia. Guns of over eight-inch bore are made up of several concentric cylinders; those of a smaller size are forged solid.
• Kryolite Dictionary K - noun See Cryolite.
• Ksar Dictionary K - noun See Czar.
• Kshatriya Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kshatruya.
• Kshatruya Dictionary K - noun The military caste, the second of the four great Hindoo castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste.
• Kuda Dictionary K - noun The East Indian tapir. See Tapir.
• Kudos Dictionary K - noun Glory; fame; renown; praise.
• Kudu Dictionary K - noun See Koodoo.
• Kufic Dictionary K - adjective See Cufic.
• Kukang Dictionary K - noun The slow lemur. See Lemur.
• Kuklux Dictionary K - noun The name adopted in the southern part of the United States by a secret political organization, active for several years after the close of the Civil War, and having for its aim the repression of the political power of the freedmen; - called also Kuklux Klan.
• Kulan Dictionary K - noun See Koulan.
• Kumish Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kumiss.
• Kumiss Dictionary K - noun See Koumiss.
• Kummel Dictionary K - noun A Russian and German liqueur, consisting of a sweetened spirit flavored with caraway seeds.
• Kumquat Dictionary K - noun A small tree of the genus Citrus (C. Japonica) growing in China and Japan; also, its small acid, orange-colored fruit used for preserves.
• Kupfernickel Dictionary K - noun Copper-nickel; niccolite. See Niccolite.
• Kurd Dictionary K - noun A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies.
• Kurdish Dictionary K - adjective Of or pertaining to the Kurds.
• Kurilian Dictionary K - adjective Of or pertaining to the Kurile Islands, a chain of islands in the Pacific ocean, extending from the southern extremity of Kamschatka to Yesso.
• Kursaal Dictionary K - noun A public hall or room, for the use of visitors at watering places and health resorts in Germany.
• Kusimanse Dictionary K - noun A carnivorous animal (Crossarchus obscurus) of tropical Africa. It its allied to the civets. Called also kusimansel, and mangue.
• Kuskus Dictionary K - See Vetiver.
• Kussier Dictionary K - noun (Mus.) A Turkish instrument of music, with a hollow body covered with skin, over which five strings are stretched.
• Kutauss Dictionary K - noun The India civet (Viverra zibetha).
• Kutch Dictionary K - noun The packet of vellum leaves in which the gold is first beaten into thin sheets.
• Ky Dictionary K - noun plural Kine.
• Kyaboca wood Dictionary K - Amboyna wood.
• Kyannite Dictionary K - noun See Cyanite.
• Kyanized Dictionary K - imperative & past particle of Kyanize.
• Kyanizing Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kyanize.
• Kyanize Dictionary K - verb transitive To render (wood) proof against decay by saturating with a solution of corrosive sublimate in open tanks, or under pressure.
• Kyanol Dictionary K - noun Aniline.
• Kyanophyll Dictionary K - noun Same as Cyanophyll.
• Kyar Dictionary K - noun Cocoanut fiber, or the cordage made from it. See Coir.
• Kyaw Dictionary K - noun A daw.
• Kyd Dictionary K - p. p. of Kythe.
• Kydde Dictionary K - imp. of Kythe, to show.
• Kyke Dictionary K - intransitive verb To look steadfastly; to gaze.
• Kyley Dictionary K - noun A variety of the boomerang.
• Kyloes Dictionary K - noun plural The cattle of the Hebrides, or of the Highlands.
• Kymnel Dictionary K - noun See Kimnel.
• Kymograph Dictionary K - noun An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; - called also kymographion.
• Kymographic Dictionary K - adjective Of or pertaining to a kymograph; as, a kymographic tracing.
• Kymric Dictionary K - adjective & noun See Cymric, a. & n.
• Kymry Dictionary K - noun See Cymry.
• Kynrede Dictionary K - noun Kindred.
• Kynurenic Dictionary K - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from the urine of dogs. By decomposition the acid yields a nitrogenous base (called kynurin) and carbonic acid.
• Kyrie Dictionary K - noun See Kyrie eleison.
• Kyrie eleison Dictionary K - Greek words, meaning "Lord, have mercy upon us," used in the Mass, the breviary offices, the litany of the saints, etc.
• Kyrielle Dictionary K - noun A litany beginning with the words.
• Kyriolexy Dictionary K - noun Alt. of Kyriology.
• Kyriology Dictionary K - noun The use of literal or simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones.
• Kyriological Dictionary K - adjective Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic.
• Kythed Dictionary K - past participle of Kithe.
• Kything Dictionary K - past particle & verb noun of Kithe.
• Kythe Dictionary K - verb transitive Alt. of Kithe.
• Kytomiton Dictionary K - noun See Karyomiton.
• Kytoplasma Dictionary K - noun See Karyoplasma.

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