| K: | the eleventh letter of the English alphabet is nonvocal consonant The form and sound of the letter K are from the Latin which used the letter but little except in the early period of the language It came into the Latin from the Greek which received it from a Phd2nician source the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian Etymologically K is most nearly related to c g h which see |
| K: | A mountain in Northern Kashmir it is one of the highest in the world 28250 feet high |
| Ka: | An unknown god an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma |
| ka: | A spiritual aspect of the individual living within the body during life and surviving the body after death It was believed to be one of two spirits inhabiting the body the other being the ba which deserts teh body at death |
| Kaaba: | The small and nearly cubical stone building in the court of the Great Mosque at Mecca toward which all Mohammedans must pray It contains a sacred black stone believed by Mohammedans to be one of the precious stones of paradise and to have been brought to Abraham when he was contructing the Kaaba by the Angel Gabriel The Kaaba itself predates Mohammed having been a pantheon which contained Arab idols which were destroyed by Mohammed |
| Kaama: | The hartbeest |
| Kabala: | See Cabala |
| Kabassou: | See Cabassou |
| Kabob: | See Cabob n v t |
| Kabook: | A clay ironstone found in Ceylon |
| Kabyle: | A Berber as in Algiers or Tunis See Berber |
| Kadder: | The jackdaw |
| Kadi: | A Turkish judge See Cadi |
| Kafal: | The Arabian name of two trees of the genus Balsamodendron which yield a gum resin and a red aromatic wood |
| Kaffir: | 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 including the Ponda Xosa and Tembu but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs |
| Kaffle: | See Coffle |
| dKafilah: | See Cafila |
| kafir: | Same as Kaffir |
| Kafka: | Franz Kafka a writer b 1883 d 1924 |
| Kafkaesque: | Frightening threating and bewildering in a vague and unexplicable way of situations or regulations Often used to describe illogical bureaucratic entanglements with no reasonable solution |
| Kaftan: | See Caftan |
| Kage: | A chantry chapel inclosed with lattice or screen work |
| dKagu: | 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: | The colugo |
| dKahani: | A kind of notary public or attorney in the Levant |
| Kahau: | A longnosed monkey Nasalis larvatus formerly 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 It is now an endangered species |
| Kail: | A kind of headless cabbage Same as Kale 1 |
| dKaimacam: | Same as Caimacam |
| Kain: | Poultry etc required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord |
| Kainit: | Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers |
| Kainite: | A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony |
| Kainozoic: | See Cenozoic |
| Kaique: | See Caique |
| Kairine: | A pale buff or white crystalline alkaloid derived from quinoline and used as an antipyretic in medicine |
| Kairoline: | An organic base obtained from quinoline It is used as a febrifuge and resembles kairine |
| Kaiser: | The ancient title of emperors of Germany assumed by King William of Prussia when crowned sovereign of the new German empire in 1871 |
| Kaka: | A New Zealand parrot of the genus Nestor especially the brown parrot Nestor meridionalis |
| Kakapo: | 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: | A kind of wood common in Demerara durable in salt water because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle |
| Kakistocracy: | Government by the worst men |
| Kakoxene: | See Cacoxene |
| Kalahari: | A desert in Southwestern Africa most of which is located in the country of Botswana |
| Kalan: | The sea otter |
| kalantas: | A Philippine timber tree Toona calantas or Cedrela calantas having hard red fragrant wood |
| Kalasie: | A longtailed monkey of Borneo Semnopithecus rubicundus It has a tuft of long hair on the head |
| Kaleege: | One of several species of large crested Asiatic pheasants belonging to the genus Euplocamus and allied to the firebacks |
| Kaleidophon: | 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: | 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: | Of pertaining to or formed by a kaleidoscope variegated |
| Kalendar: | See Calendar |
| Kalendarial: | See Calendarial |
| Kalender: | See 3d Calender |
| Kalends: | Same as Calends |
| dKali: | The last and worst of the four ages of the world considered to have begun B C 3102 and to last 432000 years |
| dKali: | The black destroying goddess called also Doorga Anna Purna |
| Kali: | The glasswort Salsola Kali |
| kalian: | A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water See also hookah |
| Kalif: | See Caliph |
| Kaliform: | Formed like kali or glasswort |
| Kaligenous: | Forming alkalies with oxygen as some metals |
| Kalium: | Potassium so called by the German chemists |
| dKalki: | The name of Vishnu in his tenth and last avatar |
| dKalmia: | 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: | See Calmucks |
| Kalong: | A fruit bat esp the Indian edible fruit bat Pteropus edulis |
| Kaloyer: | See Caloyer |
| dKalpa: | One of the Brahmanic eons a period of 4320000000 years At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated |
| Kalsomine: | Same as Calcimine |
| Kam: | Crooked awry |
| dKama: | The Hindu Cupid He is represented as a beautiful youth with a bow of sugar cane or flowers |
| Kamala: | 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: | A low ridge |
| Kamet: | A mountain in India and Tibet 25447 feet high |
| dKami: | 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: | A curious South American bird Anhima or 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: | A kind of elastic floor cloth made of India rubber guttapercha linseed oil and powdered cork |
| Kampylite: | A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow |
| Kamsin: | A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt coming from the Sahara |
| Kamtschadales: | An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of the Kamchatka peninsula called also Kamchadals and Itelmen |
| Kan: | To know to ken |
| Kan: | See Khan |
| Kanacka: | A native of the Sandwich Islands |
| Kanawha: | The Kanawha River a tributary of the Ohio River |
| kanchil: | A small chevrotain of the genus Tragulus esp Tragulus pygmus or Tragulus kanchil inhabiting Java Sumatra and adjacent islands a deerlet It is noted for its agility and cunning |
| Kanchanjanga: | same as Kanchenjunga |
| Kanchenjunga: | A mountain in India and Nepal 28146 feet high |
| kand: | Fluor spar so called by Cornish miners |
| kangaroo: | Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodid 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 |
| kangaroorat: | A jumping rodent of the genus Dipodomys of the family Heteromyidae which lives in arid regions of Mexico and the western U S |
| kangaroosfoot: | A sedgelike springflowering herb Anigozanthus manglesii of Australia having clustered flowers covered with woolly hairs |
| Kansan: | of or pertaining to Kansas |
| Kansan: | a resident of Kansas |
| Kansas: | A state of the central United States bordering the Mississippi River to the west |
| Kansas: | 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 |
| Kant: | Immanuel Kant a German philosopher 17241804 |
| Kantian: | Of or pertaining to Immanuel Kant the German philosopher conformed or relating to any or all of the philosophical doctrines of Immanuel Kant |
| Kantian: | A follower of Kant a Kantist |
| Kantianism: | The doctrine or theory of Kant the Kantian philosophy |
| Kantist: | A disciple or follower of Kant |
| Kanttry: | Same as Cantred |
| Kaolin: | 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: | The process by which feldspar is changed into kaolin |
| Kaolinize: | To convert into kaolin |
| dKapelle: | A chapel hence the choir or orchestra of a princes chapel now a musical establishment usually orchestral |
| dKapellmeister: | See Capellmeister |
| Kapia: | The fossil resin of the kauri tree of New Zealand |
| Kapnomar: | See Capnomor |
| Kapok: | A silky wool derived from the seeds of Ceiba pentandra syn Eriodendron anfractuosum a bombaceous tree of the East and West Indies |
| Karagane: | A species of gray fox found in Russia |
| Karaism: | Doctrines of the Karaites |
| Karaite: | 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 |
| dKarakul: | A type of Astrakhan esp in fine grades obtained from the Karakul sheep See sense 2 and cf Caracul |
| Karat: | the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy 18karat gold is 75 2122e314old 24karat gold is pure gold |
| Karatas: | A West Indian plant of the Pineapple family Nidularium Karatas |
| karate: | a traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat sharp blows and kicks are given to pressuresensitive points on the body of the opponent |
| Karen: | A language spoken in the ThaiBurmese borderlands |
| Karma: | Ones acts considered as fixing ones lot in the future existence |
| Karmathian: | One of a Mohammedan sect founded in the ninth century by Karmat |
| Karn: | A pile of rocks sometimes the solid rock See Cairn |
| Karob: | The twentyfourth part of a grain a weight used by goldsmiths |
| Kaross: | A native garment or rug of skin sewed together in the form of a square |
| Karpholite: | A fibrous mineral occurring in tufts of a strawyellow color It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and manganese |
| Karroo: | One of the dry tablelands of South Africa which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations |
| Karstenite: | Same as Anhydrite |
| Karvel: | See Carvel and Caravel |
| dKaryokinesis: | 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: | Of or pertaining to karyokinesis as karyokinetic changes of cell division |
| dKaryomiton: | 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 |
| karyoplasm: | The protoplasmic substance of the nucleus of a cell nucleoplasm in opposition to cytoplasm the protoplasm of the cell |
| dKaryostenosis: | 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 cell in opposition to karyokinesis |
| Karyostenotic: | Pertaining to or connected with karyostenosis as the karyostenotic mode of nuclear division |
| Kasack: | Same as Cossack |
| Kat: | An Arabian shrub Catha edulis the leaves of which are used as tea by the Arabs |
| katabolic: | Of or pertaining to catabolism same as catabolic |
| Katabolism: | Destructive or downward metabolism regressive metamorphism same as catabolism now the more common spelling opposed to anabolism See Disassimilation |
| Katastate: | A substance formed by a catabolic process opposed to anastate See catabolic |
| Kate: | The brambling finch |
| katharsis: | purging of emotional tensions usually spelled catharsis |
| Kathetal: | Making a right angle perpendicular as two lines or two sides of a triangle which include a right angle |
| Kathetometer: | Same as Cathetometer |
| Katsuwonidae: | A natural family of fish which in some classifications is considered a separate family comprising the oceanic bonitos |
| Katsuwonus: | A genus of oceanic bonitos in some classifications it is placed in its own family Katsuwonidae |
| Kattimundoo: | A caoutchouclike substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo It is used as a cement |
| Katydid: | A large green arboreal orthopterous insect Cyrtophyllus concavus of the family Locustid 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 Katydid whence the name |
| dKauri: | A tall coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis australis or Dammara australis having white straightgrained wood furnishing valuable timber and also yielding one kind of dammar resin |
| Kauri: | Kauri resin |
| Kauriresin: | A resinous product of the kauri found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown It is used for making varnish and as a substitute for amber |
| kaury: | Same as kauri |
| Kava: | A species of Macropiper Macropiper 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 |
| Kavass: | An armed constable also a government servant or courier |
| Kaw: | See Caw |
| Kawaka: | a New Zealand tree the Cypress cedar Libocedrus Doniana having a valuable finegrained reddish wood |
| Kawn: | An inn |
| Kayak: | A light canoe made of skins stretched over a frame and usually capable of carrying but one person who sits amidships and uses a doublebladed paddle It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes |
| Kayaker: | One who uses a kayak |
| Kayko: | The dog salmon |
| Kayles: | A game ninepins |
| Kaynard: | A lazy or cowardly person a rascal |
| kazoo: | A kind of toy or rude musical instrument as a tube inside of which is a stretched string or membrane made to vibrate by singing or humming into the tube |
| Kea: | A large New Zealand parrot Nestor notabilis notorious for having acquired the habit of killing sheep called also mountain parrot |
| kebab: | See kabab and kabob |
| Keck: | To heave or to retch as in an effort to vomit |
| Keck: | An effort to vomit queasiness |
| Keckle: | See Keck v i n |
| Keckle: | To wind old rope around as a cable to preserve its surface from being fretted or to wind iron chains around to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom or from the ice |
| Keckling: | Old rope or iron chains wound around a cable See Keckle v t |
| Kecklish: | Inclined to vomit squeamish |
| Kecksy: | The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock |
| Kecky: | Resembling a kecksy |
| dKeddah: | An inclosure constructed to entrap wild elephants an elephant trap |
| Kedge: | To move a vessel by carrying out a kedge in a boat dropping it overboard and hauling the vessel up to it |
| Kedge: | A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed with See Kedge v t and Anchor n |
| Kedger: | A small anchor a kedge |
| Kedlock: | See Charlock |
| Kee: | See Kie Ky and Kine |
| Keech: | A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher |
| Keel: | To cool to skim or stir |
| Keel: | A brewers cooling vat a keelfat |
| Keel: | A longitudinal timber or series of timbers scarfed together extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel It is the principal timber of the vessel and by means of the ribs attached on each side supports the vessels frame In an iron vessel a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship See Illust of Keelson |
| Keel: | To traverse with a keel to navigate |
| Keelage: | The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port also the duty or toll |
| Keeled: | Keelshaped having a longitudinal prominence on the back as a keeled leaf |
| Keeler: | One employed in managing a Newcastle keel called also keelman |
| Keelfat: | A cooler a vat for cooling wort etc |
| Keelhaul: | 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 |
| Keeling: | A cod |
| Keelivine: | A pencil of black or red lead called also keelyvine pen |
| Keelman: | See Keeler 1 |
| keelover: | To drop down in a faint or as if dead to die |
| Keelrake: | Same as Keelhaul |
| Keels: | Ninepins See Kayles |
| Keelson: | 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: | See Keelfat |
| Keen: | Sharp having a fine edge or point as a keen razor or a razor with a keen edge |
| Keen: | To sharpen to make cold |
| Keen: | A prolonged wail for a deceased person Cf Coranach |
| Keen: | To wail as a keener does |
| Keener: | A professional mourner who wails at a funeral |
| Keenly: | In a keen manner |
| Keenness: | The quality or state of being keen |
| Keep: | To care to desire |
| Keep: | To remain in any position or state to continue to abide to stay as to keep at a distance to keep aloft to keep near to keep in the house to keep before or behind to keep in favor to keep out of company or out reach |
| Keep: | The act or office of keeping custody guard care heed charge |
| Keeper: | One who or that which keeps one who or that which holds or has possession of anything |
| Keepership: | The office or position of a keeper |
| Keeping: | A holding restraint custody guard charge care preservation |
| Keepsake: | Anything kept or given to be kept for the sake of the giver a token of friendship |
| Keesh: | See Kish |
| Keeve: | A vat or tub in which the mash is made a mash tub |
| Keeve: | To set in a keeve or tub for fermentation |
| Keever: | See Keeve n |
| Keffekil: | See Kiefekil |
| Kefir: | An effervescent liquor like kumiss made from fermented milk used as a food and as a medicine in the northern Caucasus |
| Kefirgrains: | Small hard yellowish aggregations found in the Caucasus region and containing various yeasts and bacteria They are used as a ferment in preparing kefir |
| Keg: | A small cask or barrel |
| Keilhauite: | A mineral of a brownish black color related to titanite in form It consists chiefly of silica titanium dioxide lime and yttria |
| Keir: | See Kier |
| dKeitloa: | A black twohorned African rhinoceros Atelodus keitloa It has the posterior horn about as long as the anterior one or even longer |
| Keld: | Having a kell or covering webbed |
| Kele: | To cool |
| Kell: | A kiln |
| Kell: | A sort of pottage kale See Kale 2 |
| Kell: | The caul that which covers or envelops as a caul a net a fold a film |
| Keloid: | Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard flat irregular excrescences upon the skin or to keloid scar tissue |
| Keloid: | A keloid tumor |
| Kelotomy: | See Celotomy |
| Kelp: | The calcined ashes of seaweed formerly much used in the manufacture of glass now used in the manufacture of iodine |
| Kelpfish: | A small California food fish Heterostichus rostratus living among kelp The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus |
| Kelpie: | 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: | Same as Kelp 2 |
| Kelson: | See Keelson |
| Kelt: | See Kilt n |
| Kelt: | Cloth with the nap generally of native black wool |
| Kelt: | A salmon after spawning |
| Kelt: | Same as Celt one of Celtic race |
| Kelter: | Regular order or proper condition |
| Keltic: | Same as Celtic a n |
| Kelvin: | The SI unit of temperature defined as being 127316 of the triple point of water abbreviated K The melting point of water at 760 mm pressure is 27315 Kelvins and the boiling point 37315 Kelvins One degree Kelvin is equal to one degree Centigrade and frac95 degrees Fahrenheit |
| Kemb: | To comb |
| Kemelin: | A tub a brewers vessel |
| Kemp: | Coarse rough hair in wool or fur injuring its quality |
| Kempe: | Rough shaggy |
| Kemps: | The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain Plantago Lanceolata |
| Kempt: | p p of Kemb combed |
| Ken: | A house esp one which is a resort for thieves |
| Ken: | To know to understand to take cognizance of |
| Ken: | To look around |
| Ken: | Cognizance view especially reach of sight or knowledge |
| Kendalgreen: | A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woadwaxen formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal in Westmoreland England |
| Kennedia: | A genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers |
| Kennel: | The water course of a street a little canal or channel a gutter also a puddle |
| Kennel: | A house for a dog or for dogs or for a pack of hounds |
| Kennel: | To lie or lodge to dwell as a dog or a fox |
| Kennel: | To put or keep in a kennel |
| Kennelcoal: | See Cannel coal |
| Kenning: | Range of sight |
| Keno: | A gambling game a variety of the game of lotto played with balls or knobs numbered and cards also numbered |
| Kenogenesis: | 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: | Of or pertaining to kenogenesis as kenogenetic processes |
| Kenspeckle: | Having so marked an appearance as easily to be recognized |
| Kentbugle: | 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: | A hundred weight a quintal |
| Kentledge: | Pigs of iron used for ballast |
| Kentucky: | One of the United States |
| Kenya: | A country in East Africa formerly a British colony |
| Kenyan: | A native or inhabitant of Kenya |
| Kenyan: | Of or pertaining to Kenya as Kenyan mountains Kenyan coffee |
| Kenyapithecus: | A genus of extinct primates having powerful chewing muscles along with large molars and small incisors its fossils were found in Maboko in Kenya |
| kephalin: | One of a group of phospholipids nitrogenous phosphorized fatty substances present in all living cells and particularly noticeable in nervous tissue Same as cephalin which see |
| kepi: | A military cap having a closefitting band a round flat top sloping toward the front and a visor As originally worn by the French in Algeria about 1830 it was tall and stiff with a straight visor It is now lower has a curved visor and is frequently soft |
| kept: | imp p p of Keep |
| dKpviselhaz: | See Legislature |
| keramic: | Same as ceramic |
| Keramics: | Same as Ceramics |
| Keramographic: | Suitable to be written upon capable of being written upon as a slate said especially of a certain kind of globe |
| Kerana: | A kind of long trumpet used among the Persians |
| Kerargyrite: | See Cerargyrite |
| Kerasin: | A nitrogenous substance free from phosphorus supposed to be present in the brain a body closely related to cerebrin |
| Kerasine: | Resembling horn horny corneous |
| keratin: | A sulfurcontaining fibrous protein constituting the main structural protein of hard epidermal tissues such as horn hair feathers nails claws hoofs 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 leucine and tyrosine plus various other acidstable amino acids The amino acid composition varies but it usually has a high percentage of cystine which stabilizes and insolubilizes the protein by forming intrachain linkages A softer form of keratin is present in the epidermis and whalebone Called also epidermose |
| dKeratitis: | Inflammation of the cornea |
| Keratode: | See Keratose |
| Keratogenous: | Producing horn as the keratogenous membrane within the horny hoof of the horse |
| dKeratoidea: | Same as Keratosa |
| Keratome: | An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations for cataract |
| dKeratonyxis: | The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye and breaking up the opaque mass |
| Keratophyte: | A gorgonian coral having a horny axis |
| dKeratosa: | An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers It includes the commercial sponges |
| Keratose: | A tough horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges and other invertebrates called also keratode |
| Keratose: | Containing hornlike fibers or fibers of keratose belonging to the Keratosa |
| Keraunograph: | A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere |
| Kerb: | See Curb |
| Kerbstone: | See Curbstone |
| Kercher: | A kerchief |
| Kerchered: | Covered or bound round with a kercher |
| Kerchief: | 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: | Dressed hooded covered wearing a kerchief |
| Kerf: | A notch channel or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing |
| Kerite: | 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: | See Carl |
| Kermes: | The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect Kermes ilices formerly Coccus ilicis allied to the cochineal insect and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean also the dye obtained from them 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: | See Kirmess |
| Kern: | A lightarmed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland distinguished from gallowglass and often used as a term of contempt |
| Kern: | A part of the face of a type which projects beyond the body or shank such as in certain italic letters |
| Kern: | To form with a kern See 2d Kern |
| Kern: | A churn |
| Kern: | A hand mill See Quern |
| Kern: | To harden as corn in ripening |
| Kern: | Kernel corn grain |
| Kernbaby: | A doll or image decorated with corn grain flowers etc carried in the festivals of a kern or harvesthome Called also harvest queen |
| Kerned: | Having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank said of type |
| Kernel: | 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 |
| Kernel: | To harden or ripen into kernels to produce kernels |
| Kerneled: | Having a kernel |
| Kernelly: | Full of kernels resembling kernels of the nature of kernels |
| Kernish: | Clownish boorish |
| Kerolite: | Same as Cerolite |
| Kerosene: | 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 having from 10 to 16 carbon atoms in each molecule and having a higher boiling point 175 325deg C than gasoline or the petroleum ethers and a lower boling point than the oils |
| Kers: | A cress |
| Kersey: | A kind of coarse woolen cloth usually ribbed woven from wool of long staple |
| Kerseymere: | See Cassimere |
| Kerseynette: | See Cassinette |
| Kerseys: | Varieties of kersey also trousers made of kersey |
| Kerve: | To carve |
| Kerver: | A carver |
| Kesar: | See Kaiser |
| Keslop: | The stomach of a calf prepared for rennet |
| Kess: | To kiss |
| Kest: | of Cast |
| Kestrel: | 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: | Carrion any filth |
| Keta: | A small salmon Oncorhynchus keta of inferior value which in the autumn runs up all the larger rivers between San Francisco and Kamchatka |
| Ketch: | An almost obsolete form of sailing vessel with a mainmast and a mizzenmast usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden |
| Ketch: | A hangman See Jack Ketch |
| Ketch: | To catch |
| ketchup: | A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes flavored with onions sugar salt and spices called also tomato ketchup The term is also applied to pureed sauces containing mushrooms walnuts etc being called in such cases mushroom ketchup walnut ketchup etc |
| Ketine: | 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 |
| dKetmie: | The name of certain African species of Hibiscus cultivated for the acid of their mucilage |
| Ketol: | One of a series of series of complex nitrogenous substances represented by methyl ketol and related to indol |
| Ketone: | 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: | Pertaining to or derived from a ketone as a ketonic acid |
| Kettle: | A metallic vessel with a wide mouth often without a cover used for heating and boiling water or other liguids |
| Kettledrum: | A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle with parchment stretched over the mouth of it |
| Kettledrummer: | One who plays on a kettledrum |
| dKeuper: | The upper division of the European Triassic See Chart of Geology |
| Kevel: | A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed |
| Kevel: | The gazelle |
| Kever: | To cover |
| Keverchief: | A kerchief |
| Key: | 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 |
| Key: | To fasten or secure firmly to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges |
| key: | Essential most important as the key fact in the inquiry the president was the key player inthe negotiations |
| Keyage: | Wharfage quayage |
| Keyboard: | The whole arrangement or one range of the keys3 of an organ piano typewriter etc that part of a device containing the keys3 used to operate it |
| Keycold: | Cold as a metallic key lifeless |
| Keyed: | Furnished with keys as a keyed instrument also set to a key as a tune |
| Keyfruit: | A samara |
| Keyhole: | A hole or apertupe in a door or lock for receiving a key |
| keyless: | lacking or not requiring a key as a keyless lock operated by a series of pushbuttons Opposite of keyed |
| Keynes: | John Maynard Keynes the british economist 18831946 whose book bdThe General Theory of Employment Interest and Moneyb8 Macmillan 1936 had a strong influence on views of the governments role in the economy through the 1970s See Keynesian |
| Keynesian: | Of or pertaining to John Maynard Keynes conforming to the theories of Keynesianism especially the term is used to refer to the macroeconomic theories and politicoeconomic policies proposed by Keynes and his followers especially in regards to their advocacy of governmental action to maintain low unemployment through government spending Keyness book bdThe General Theory of Employment Interest and Moneyb8 Macmillan 1936 had a strong influence on views of the governments role in the economy through the 1970s |
| Keynesianism: | the macroeconomic theories and politicoeconomic policies of British economist John Maynard Keynes 18831946 and his followers used especially in reference to their advocacy of governmental action to maintain low unemployment through government spending See Keynes |
| Keynote: | 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: | To form a key seat as by cutting See Key seat under Key |
| Keystone: | 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 |
| KeystoneState: | Pennsylvania a nickname alluding to its having been the central one of the 13 original United States at the time of formation of the Constitution |
| Keytone: | See Keynote |
| Keyway: | See Key way under Key |
| keyword: | A word used as an entry point into an index which serves to identify files records texts or other data containing the key or some related word such as a synonym It is a type of key15 as a boolean combination of keywords is more effective for information retrieval than a single key15 |
| Khaki: | Of a dull brownish yellow or drab color applied to cloth originally to a stout brownish cotton cloth used in making uniforms in the AngloIndian army |
| Khaki: | Any kind of khaki cloth hence a uniform of khaki or rarely a soldier clad in khaki In the United States and British armies khaki or cloth of a very similar color is almost exclusively used for service in the field |
| Khaliff: | See Caliph |
| Khalka: | the dialect of Mongolian that is the official language of the Mongolian Peoples Republic |
| Khamsin: | Same as Kamsin |
| Khan: | 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 |
| Khan: | An Eastern inn or caravansary |
| Khanate: | Dominion or jurisdiction of a khan |
| Kharkov: | A city in Ukraine its former capital |
| Khaya: | 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 |
| dKhedive: | A governor or viceroy a title granted in 1867 by the sultan of Turkey to the ruler of Egypt |
| Khenna: | See Henna |
| Kholah: | The Indian jackal |
| Kholsun: | The dhole |
| Khond: | A Dravidian of a group of tribes of Orissa India a section of whom were formerly noted for their cruel human sacrifices to the earth goddess murder of female infants and marriage by capture |
| Khutbah: | 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 |
| Ki: | The Sumerian goddess personifying earth the counterpart of Akkadian Aruru |
| kiaat: | a deciduous South African tree Pterocarpus angolensis having large oddpinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orangeyellow flowers it yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood |
| Kiaboocawood: | See Kyaboca wood |
| Kiang: | The dziggetai |
| Kibble: | To bruise to grind coarsely as kibbled oats |
| Kibble: | A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines |
| Kibblings: | Portions of small fish used for bait on the banks of Newfoundland |
| kibbutz: | an Israeli communal2 form of agricultural settlement Originally it was predominantly agricultural and practiced a very high level of sharing including collective rearing of children More recently by 1998 industries have taken over a significant role in the Kibbutz economy and the level of sharing has dropped significantly |
| kibbutznik: | a member of a kibbutz |
| Kibe: | A chap or crack in the flesh occasioned by cold an ulcerated chilblain |
| Kibed: | Chapped cracked with cold affected with chilblains as kibed heels |
| dKibitka: | A tent used by the Kirghiz Tartars |
| Kiblah: | See Keblah |
| Kibosh: | Nonsense stuff also fashion style |
| Kiby: | Affected with kibes |
| Kichil: | See Kechil |
| Kick: | To strike thrust or hit violently with the foot as a horse kicks a groom a man kicks a dog |
| Kick: | To thrust out the foot or feet with violence to strike out with the foot or feet as in defense or in bad temper esp to strike backward as a horse does or to have a habit of doing so |
| Kick: | A blow with the foot or feet a striking or thrust with the foot |
| Kickable: | Capable or deserving of being kicked |
| Kickapoos: | A tribe of Indians which formerly occupied the region of Northern Illinois allied in language to the Sacs and Foxes |
| kickback: | recoil of a gun or machine as in older automobile engines when started by turning a crank |
| kickback: | To recoil of guns and machines |
| kickback: | To pay a kickback as they kicked back five percent of the sales price |
| Kicker: | One who or that which kicks |
| kicking: | The act of delivering a blow with the foot |
| kickoff: | A kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score |
| kickoff: | To kick the football from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score as they kicked off at two oclock |
| kickoff: | to begin to commence as they kicked off the rally with a playing of the national anthem |
| Kickshaw: | See Kickshaws the correct singular |
| Kickshaws: | Something fantastical any trifling trumpery thing a toy |
| Kickshoe: | A kickshaws |
| Kicksywicksy: | That which is restless and uneasy |
| Kicksywicksy: | Fantastic restless as kicksywicksy flames |
| Kickup: | The water thrush or accentor |
| Kid: | A young goat |
| Kid: | To bring forth a young goat |
| Kid: | A fagot a bundle of heath and furze |
| Kid: | of Kythe |
| Kid: | See Kiddy v t |
| Kidde: | imp of Kythe |
| Kidderminster: | A kind of ingrain carpeting named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured |
| Kiddier: | A huckster a cadger |
| Kiddle: | A kind of basketwork weir in a river for catching fish |
| Kiddow: | The guillemot |
| Kiddy: | To deceive to outwit to hoax |
| Kiddy: | A young fellow formerly a low thief |
| Kiddyish: | Frolicsome sportive |
| Kidfox: | A young fox |
| Kidling: | A young kid |
| Kidnap: | To take any one by force or fear and against ones will with intent to carry to another place |
| Kidnaper: | One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being a manstealer |
| kidnapping: | the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment |
| Kidneyform: | Having the form or shape of a kidney reniform as a kidneyshaped leaf a kidneyshaped swimming pool |
| Kidneywort: | A kind of saxifrage Saxifrage stellaris |
| kidskin: | A soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat kid3 |
| Kie: | Kine cows |
| Kiefekil: | A species of clay meerschaum |
| Kier: | A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor also called keeve |
| dKieselguhr: | Siliceous earth diatomaceous earth specifically porous infusorial earth used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite |
| Kieserite: | Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt Prussian Saxony |
| Kieve: | See Keeve n |
| Kiggelaria: | A small genus of South African shrubs or small trees |
| Kike: | To gaze to stare |
| Kike: | To kick |
| kike: | A derogatory name for a jew usually intended and taken as disparaging and offensive |
| kildeer: | Same as killdeer |
| Kilderkin: | A small barrel an old liquid measure containing eighteen English beer gallons or nearly twentytwo gallons United States measure |
| Kilerg: | A unit of work equal to one thousand ergs |
| kiley: | An Australian boomerang having one side flat and the other convex |
| Kilkennycats: | Two cats fabled in an Irish story to have fought till nothing was left but their tails It is probably a parable of a local contest between Kilkenny and Irishtown which impoverished both towns |
| Kill: | A kiln |
| Kill: | A channel or arm of the sea a river a stream as the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull or the Kills used also in composition as Schuylkill Catskill etc |
| Kill: | To deprive of life animal or vegetable in any manner or by any means to render inanimate to put to death to slay |
| Kill: | The act of killing |
| killable: | fit to kill especially for food |
| Killdee: | A small American plover Charadrius vociferus formerly 92gialitis vocifera of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry The adult has two black bands around the neck and upper breast but the young chick has only the breast band It ranges from Canada to Mexico and the West Indies |
| Killer: | One who deprives of life one who or that which kills |
| Killerwhale: | see killer2 |
| Killesse: | A gutter groove or channel |
| Killifish: | 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: | The Cornish chough See under Chough |
| Killikinick: | See Kinnikinic |
| Killing: | Literally that kills having power to kill fatal in a colloquial sense conquering captivating irresistible |
| killing: | The act or process of causing a living organism to die |
| Killjoy: | One who causes gloom or grief a dispiriting person a spoilsport |
| Killock: | A small anchor also a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together |
| Killow: | An earth of a blackish or deep blue color |
| Kiln: | 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 |
| Kilndry: | To dry in a kiln as to kilndry meal or grain |
| Kilnhole: | The mouth or opening of an oven or kiln |
| Kilo: | An abbreviation of Kilogram |
| Kilo: | A combining form used to signify thousand in forming the names of units of measurement as kilogram kilometer kilowatt etc |
| Kilogram: | A measure of weight being a thousand grams equal to 22046226 pounds avoirdupois 1543234 grains It is equal to the weight of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum density or 39deg Fahrenheit |
| Kilogrammeter: | 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: | A measure of capacity equal to a cubic meter or a thousand liters It is equivalent to 35315 cubic feet and to 22004 imperial gallons or 26418 American gallons of 321 cubic inches |
| Kilometer: | A measure of length being a thousand meters It is equal to 328084 feet or 062137119 of a mile |
| Kilostere: | A cubic measure containing 1000 cubic meters and equivalent to 35315 cubic feet |
| Kilovolt: | A unit of electromotive force equal to one thousand volts |
| Kilowatt: | One thousand watts |
| Kilowatthour: | A unit of work or energy equal to that done by one kilowatt acting for one hour approximately equal to 134 horsepower hour |
| Kilt: | p p from Kill |
| Kilt: | A kind of short petticoat reaching from the waist to the knees worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men and in the Lowlands by young boys a filibeg |
| Kilt: | To tuck up to truss up as the clothes |
| Kilted: | Having on a kilt |
| kilter: | Regular order or proper condition Same as kelter but kilter is the more common spelling in the U S Used chiefly in the phrase out of kilter meaning out of order or irregular in some manner |
| Kilting: | A perpendicular arrangement of flat single plaits each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one |
| Kimbo: | Crooked arched bent |
| Kimmerian: | See Cimmerian |
| Kimnel: | A tub See Kemelin |
| kimono: | A kind of loose robe or gown tied with a sash worn as a traditional outer garment by Japanese women and men Women may wear it with a broad sash called an obi having a large bow in the back At present 1998 most Japanese wear it only at home or on ceremonial occasions westernstyle clothing being more common in the workplace |
| Kimry: | See Cymry |
| kin: | A diminutive suffix as manikin lambkin |
| Kin: | A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind with from five to twentyfive silken strings |
| Kin: | Relationship consanguinity or affinity connection by birth or marriage kindred near connection or alliance as of those having common descent |
| Kin: | The unit velocity in the C G S system a velocity of one centimeter per second |
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