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word: Joke₂
definition:
Joke

Joke
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Joked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Joking.]
To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally; to banter; as, to joke a comrade.


word: Joke₃
definition:
Joke

Joke
v. i.
[L. jocari.]
To do something for sport, or as a joke; to be merry in words or actions; to jest.

He laughed, shouted, joked, and swore.
Macaulay.


word: Joker
definition:
Joker

Jok"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who makes jokes or jests.

2.
(Card Playing)
See Best bower, under 2d Bower.

3.
(Card Playing)
An extra card usually included in a deck of playing cards, having the same design as the others on the back, but on the face having a picture of a jester.  It is not included in the deck used in most games, but in certain games may be included and then takes on a special value, such as the highest-valued card, or a wild card.

4.
A clause placed in a document, such as a contract or a piece of legislation, not itself appearing significant, but in a subtle way substantially changing the effect of the document.

5.
Hence:
Any fact or condition which is unknown or not apparent, which reverses an apparently advantageous position; a kicker.

6.
A person; a fellow; a chap; -- usually used in a mildly disparaging sense; as, who's the joker who left the ice cream on the table?.


word: joking
definition:
joking

joking
adj.
intended as a joke; -- of communications.

Syn. -- jesting, jocose, jocular, jocund.

no joking matter a serious matter.


word: Jollification
definition:
Jollification

Jol`li*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[Jolly + L. -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.]
A merrymaking; noisy festivity.
[Colloq.]

We have had a jollification or so together.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Jollity
definition:
Jollity

Jol"li*ty
(?)
n.
[From Jolly: cf. OF. jolieté, joliveté.]
Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity; boisterous enjoyment.
Chaucer.

All now was turned to jollity and game.
Milton.

He with a proud jollity commanded him to leave that quarrel only for him, who was only worthy to enter into it.
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Jolly
definition:
Jolly

Jol"ly
(j&obreve_;l"l&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Jollier (-lĭ*ẽr); superl. Jolliest.]
[OF. joli, jolif, joyful, merry, F. joli pretty; of Scand. origin, akin to E. yule; cf. Icel. j&omacrl yule, Christmas feast. See Yule.]

1.
Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.

Like a jolly troop of huntsmen.
Shak.

“A jolly place,” said he, “in times of old!
But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.”
Wordsworth.

2.
Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety.

And with his jolly pipe delights the groves.
Prior.

Their jolly notes they chanted loud and clear.
Fairfax.

3.
Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant.
jolly
Sir T. North.
[Now mostly colloq.]

Full jolly knight he seemed, and fair did sit.
Spenser.

The coachman is swelled into jolly dimensions.
W. Irving.


word: Jolly₂
definition:
Jolly

Jol"ly
(j&obreve_;l"l&ybreve_;)
v. t.
To cause to be jolly; to make good-natured; to encourage to feel pleasant or cheerful; -- often implying an insincere or bantering spirit; hence, to poke fun at.
[Colloq.]
We want you to jolly them up a bit.
Brander Matthews.
At noon we lunched at the tail of the ambulance, and gently “jollied” the doctor's topography.
F. Remington.


word: Jolly₃
definition:
Jolly

Jol"ly
(j&obreve_;l"l&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Jollies (j&obreve_;l"lĭz).
[Prob. fr. Jolly, a.]
A marine in the English navy.
[Sailor's Slang]
I'm a Jolly -- 'Er Majesty's Jolly -- soldier an' sailor too!
Kipling.


word: Jolly-boat
definition:
Jolly-boat

Jol"ly-boat`
(j&obreve_;l"l&ybreve_;*b&omacrt`)
n.
[A corruption of Dan. jolle yawl, or of D. jol yawl + E. boat. See Yawl the boat.]
(Naut.)
A boat of medium size belonging to a ship.


word: Jolt
definition:
Jolt

Jolt
(j&omacrlt)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Jolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jolting.]
[Prob. fr. jole, joll, jowl, and orig. meaning, to knock on the head. See Jowl.]
To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.


word: Jolt₂
definition:
Jolt

Jolt
v. t.
1.
To cause to move with a sudden motion, especially an up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.

2.
To stun or shock a person physically, as with a blow or electrical shock; as, the earthquake jolted him out of bed.

3.
To stun or shock or change the mental state of (a person) suddenly, as if with a blow; as, the sight of the house on fire jolted him into action; his mother's early death jolted his idyllic happiness.


word: Jolt₃
definition:
Jolt

Jolt
n.
1.
A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground.

The first jolt had like to have shaken me out.
Swift.

2.
A physical or psychological shock; see jolt v. t. senses 2 and 3; as, the stock market plunge was a big jolt to his sense of affluence; he touched the casing of the ungrounded motor and got a jolt from a short inside.

3.
Something which causes a jolt{2}; as, the bad news was a jolt.


word: Jolthead
definition:
Jolthead

Jolterhead

{ Jolt"er*head`, Jolt"head`  }
(?)
n.
[See Jolt, Jowl.]
A dunce; a blockhead.
Sir T. North.


word: Jonah
definition:
Jonah

Jo"nah
(?)
n.
The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious.

Jonah crab (Zool.), a large crab (Cancer borealis) of the eastern coast of the United States, sometimes found between tides, but usually in deep water.


word: Jonesian
definition:
Jonesian

Jo*ne"sian
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Jones.

The Jonesian system, a system of transliterating Oriental words by English letters, invented by Sir William Jones.


word: Jongler
definition:
Jongler

Jongleur

{ Jon"gleur (?), Jon"gler (?), }
n.
[F. jongleur. See Juggler.]

1.
In the Middle Ages, a court attendant or other person who, for hire, recited or sang verses, usually of his own composition. See Troubadour.

Vivacity and picturesquenees of the jongleur's verse.
J R. Green.

2.
A juggler; a conjuror. See Juggler.
Milton.


word: Jonquille
definition:
Jonquille

Jonquil

{ Jon"quil, Jon"quille  }
n.
[F. jonquille, fr. L. juncus a rush, because it has rushlike leaves.]
(Bot.)
A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus (Narcissus Jonquilla), allied to the daffodil. It has long, rushlike leaves, and yellow or white fragrant flowers. The root has emetic properties. It is sometimes called the rush-leaved daffodil. See Illust. of Corona.


word: Jordan
definition:
Jordan

Jordan
prop. n.
A landlocked country of the Middle East, surrounded by Israel, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, and that  area on the west bank of the Jordan river which was once claimed by Jordan, and is at present occupied by Israel and in part governed by a Palestinian authority.  It has a population of 4,212,152 (1996) in a total area of 89,213 sq km.  The population is predominantly Arab and Moslem.  Officially known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, it was formerly called Trans-Jordan when occupied by the British.
   The government is a constitutional monarchy, with King Hussein Bin Talal Al Hashimi as its ruler since 2 May 1953.  Jordan is a small developing Arab country, having a Gross Domestic Product of $19.3 billion in 1995.
CIA Factbook 1996.


word: Jorden
definition:
Jorden

Jordan

{ Jor"dan (?), Jor"den (?), }
n.
[Prob. fr. the river Jordan, and shortened fr. Jordan bottle a bottle of water from the Jordan, brought back by pilgrims.]

1.
A pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists.
[Obs.]
Halliwell.

2.
A chamber pot.
[Obs.]
Chaucer. Shak.


word: Jordanella
definition:
Jordanella

Jordanella
prop. n.
a genus of fishes, including the American flagfish (Jordanella floridae), of Florida.

Syn. -- genus Jordanella.


word: Jordanian
definition:
Jordanian

Jordanian
adj.
1.
Of or pertaining to Jordan{1}; as, Jordanian archeological sites.

2.
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Jordan; as, Jordanian palace guards.


word: Jorum
definition:
Jorum

Jo"rum
(?)
n.
[Perh. corrupted fr. jorden an earthen pot.]
A large drinking vessel; also, its contents.
[Colloq. Eng.]
Forby.


word: Joseph
definition:
Joseph

Jo"seph
(?)
n.
An outer garment worn in the 18th century; esp., a woman's riding habit, buttoned down the front.
Fairholt.


word: Joseph's flower
definition:
Joseph's flower

Jo"seph's flow"er
(?)
(Bot.)
A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus as the salsify.


word: Joss
definition:
Joss

Joss
(j&obreve_;s)
n.
[Chinese, corrupt. fr. Pg. deos God, L. deus.]
A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.
josses
Colman (1761).

Joss house, a Chinese temple or house for the Chinese mode of worship. -- Joss stick, a reed covered with a paste made of the dust of odoriferous woods, or a cylinder made wholly of the paste; -- burned by the Chinese before an idol.


word: Joss paper
definition:
Joss paper

Joss paper
Gold and silver paper burned by the Chinese, in the form of coins or ingots, in worship and at funerals.


word: Jostle
definition:
Jostle

Jos"tle
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Jostled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Jostling (?).]
[A dim. of joust, just, v. See Joust, and cf. Justle.]
[Written also justle.]
To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; to hustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against.
jostled
Macaulay.

Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other.
I. Taylor.


word: Jostle₃
definition:
Jostle

Jos"tle
n.
A conflict by collisions; a crowding or bumping together; interference.

The jostle of South African nationalities and civilization.
The Nation.


word: Jot
definition:
Jot

Jot
(?)
n.
[L. iota, Gr. 'iw^ta the name of the letter ι (E. i, Heb. y&omacrd), the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet.  Cf. Iota.]
An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle.  Cf. Bit, n.

Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Matt. v. 18.

Neither will they bate
One jot of ceremony.
Shak.


word: Jot₂
definition:
Jot

Jot
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Jotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jotting.]
To set down; to make a brief note of; -- usually followed by down.


word: Jougs
definition:
Jougs

Jougs
(?)
n.
[F. joug a yoke, L. jugum. See Yoke.]
An iron collar fastened to a wall or post, formerly used in Scotland as a kind of pillory. [Written also juggs.] See Juke.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Jouissance
definition:
Jouissance

Jou"is*sance
(?)
n.
[F., fr. jouir to enjoy, fr. L. gaudere to rejoice.]
Jollity; merriment.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: joule
definition:
joule

joule
(jōl)
n.
[From the distinguished English physicist, James Prescott Joule (1818-1889).]
(Physics.)
A unit of work which is equal to 107 ergs (the unit of work in the C. G. S. system of units), and is equivalent to one watt-second, the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm; also called the absolute joule.  It is abbreviated J or j.  The international joule is slightly larger, being 1.000167 times the absolute joule.  The absolute joule is approximately equal to 0.737562 foot pounds, 0.239006 gram-calories (small calories),  and 3.72506 x 10-7 horsepower-hours, and 0.000948451 B.t.u.
HCP61

Joule's equivalent. See under Equivalent, n.


word: Joulemeter
definition:
Joulemeter

Joule"me`ter
(jōl"mē`tẽr; joul"mē`tẽr)
n.
An integrating wattmeter for measuring the energy in joules expended in an electric circuit or developed by a machine.


word: Joule's cycle
definition:
Joule's cycle

Joule's cycle
(?)
(Thermodynamics)
The cycle for the air engine proposed by Joule. In it air is taken by a pump from a cold chamber and compressed adiabatically until its pressure is eqal to that of the air in a hot chamber, into which it is then delivered, thereby displacing an equal amount of hot air into the engine cylinder. Here it expands adiabatically to the temperature of the cold chamber into which it is finally exhausted. This cycle, reversed, is used in refrigerating machines.


word: Joule's law
definition:
Joule's law

Joule's law
1.
(Elec.)
The law that the rate at which heat is produced in any part of an electric circuit is measured by the product of the square of the current times the resistance of that part of the circuit. If the current (i) is constant for an interval of time (t), the energy (H) in heat units equals i2Rt, R being resistance.

2.
(Thermodynamics)
The law that there is no change of temperature when a gas expands without doing external work and without receiving or rejecting heat.


word: Jounce
definition:
Jounce

Jounce
(jouns)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Jounced (jounst); p. pr. & vb. n. Jouncing (joun"sĭng).]
[Cf. Jaunce.]
To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.


word: Journal
definition:
Journal

Jour"nal
(?)
a.
[F., fr. L. diurnalis diurnal, fr. diurnus belonging to the day, fr. dies day. See Diurnal.]
Daily; diurnal.
[Obs.]

Whiles from their journal labors they did rest.
Spenser.


word: Journal₂
definition:
Journal

Jour"nal
n.
[F. journal. See Journal, a.]

1.
A diary; an account of daily transactions and events.
Specifically:
(a)
(Bookkeeping)
A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions.
(b)
(Naut.)
A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc.
(c)
(Legislature)
The record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk.
(d)
A newspaper published daily;
by extension
a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc.; a periodical; a magazine.

2.
That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey.
[Obs. & R.]
B. Jonson.

3.
(Mach.)
That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box.

Journal box, or Journal bearing (Mach.) the carrier of a journal; the box in which the journal of a shaft, axle, or pin turns.


word: Journalism
definition:
Journalism

Jour"nal*ism
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. journalisme.]

1.
The keeping of a journal or diary.
[Obs.]

2.
The periodical collection and publication of current news; the business of managing, editing, or writing for, journals, newspapers, magazines, broadcasting media such as radio or television, or other news media such as distribution over the internet; as, political journalism; broadcast journalism; print journalism.

Journalism is now truly an estate of the realm.
Ed. Rev.

3.
The branch of knowledge that studies phenomena associated with news collection, distribution, and editing; a course of study, especially in institutions of higher learning, that teaches students how to write, edit, or report news.


word: Journalist
definition:
Journalist

Jour"nal*ist
n.
[Cf. F. journaliste.]
1.
One who keeps a journal or diary; a diarist.
[Obs.]
Mickle.

2.
One whose occupation is to write for any of the public news media, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television, or internet; also, an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical.


word: Journalistic
definition:
Journalistic

Jour"nal*is"tic
(?)
a.
Pertaining to journals, journalism, or to journalists; contained in, or characteristic of, the public journals; as, journalistic literature or enterprise.


word: Journalize
definition:
Journalize

Jour"nal*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Journalized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Journalizing (?).]
To enter or record in a journal or diary.
Johnson.


word: Journalize₂
definition:
Journalize

Jour"nal*ize
v. i.
to conduct or contribute to a public journal; to follow the profession of a journalist.


word: Journey
definition:
Journey

Jour"ney
(?)
n.
pl. Journeys (#).
[OE. jornee, journee, prop., a day's journey, OF. jornée, jurnée, a day, a day's work of journey, F. journée, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See Journal.]

1.
The travel or work of a day.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

We have yet large day, for scarce the sun
Hath finished half his journey.
Milton.

2.
Travel or passage from one place to another, especially one covering a large distance or taking a long time.

The good man . . . is gone a long journey.
Prov. vii. 19.

3.
Hence:
[figurative]
A passage through life, or a passage through any significant experience, or from one state to another.

We must all have the same journey's end.
Bp. Stillingfleet.
4.
The distance that is traveled in a journey{2}, or the time taken to complete a journey{2}; as, it's a two-day journey from the oasis into Cairo by camel; from Mecca to Samarkand is quite a journey.


word: Journey₂
definition:
Journey

Jour"ney
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Journeyed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Journeying.]
To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.

Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
Gen. xii. 9. 


word: journeying
definition:
journeying

journeying
n.
the act or process of traveling from one place to another.

Syn. -- journey.


word: Journeyman
definition:
Journeyman

Jour"ney*man
(?)
n.
pl. Journeymen (_;).
1.
Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has finished an apprenticeship and is a competent worker in a handicraft or trade, but has not received recognition as a master; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman.

I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well.
Shak.

2.
Hence:
A competent and experienced worker who performs adequately but without a high level of expertise or imagination.


word: Journeywork
definition:
Journeywork

Jour"ney*work`
(?)
n.
1.
Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.

2.
Hence:
Routine or relatively unskilled work performed under direction of a supervisor.


word: Joust
definition:
Joust

Joust
(joust or jŭst; 277)
v. i.
[OE. justen, jousten, OF. jouster, jouster, joster, F. jouter, fr. L. juxta near to, nigh, from the root of jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Jostle.]
1.
To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
[Written also just.]

For the whole army to joust and tourney.
Holland.

2.
Hence:
To engage in a competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent.


word: Joust₂
definition:
Joust

Joust
n.
[OE. juste, jouste, OF. juste, jouste, joste, F. joute. See Joust, v. i.]
1.
A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.
[Written also just.]

Gorgeous knights at joust and tournament.
Milton.

2.
Hence:
Any competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent.


word: Jove
definition:
Jove

Jove
(?)
prop. n.
[L. Jupiter, gen. Jovis, OL. Jovis, nom. & gen. for Djovis; akin to E. Tuesday. See Tuesday, and cf. Jupiter.]

1.
The chief divinity of the ancient Romans; Jupiter.

2.
(Astron.)
The planet Jupiter.
[R.]
Pope.

3.
(Alchemy)
The metal tin.

Bird of Jove, the eagle.


word: jovial
definition:
jovial

jo"vi*al
(?)
a.
[F., fr. L. Jovialis pertaining to Jove. The planet Jupiter was thought to make those born under it joyful or jovial. See Jove.]

1.
[capitalized]
Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter.
[Obs.]

Our jovial star reigned at his birth.
Shak.

The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial or Jovial according to the colors whereby they answer these planets.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
Sunny; serene.
[Obs.]
joviall
Spenser.

3.
Gay; merry; joyous; jolly; mirth-inspiring; hilarious; characterized by mirth or jollity; as, a jovial youth; a jovial company; a jovial poem.

Be bright and jovial among your guests.
Shak.

His odes are some of them panegyrical, others moral; the rest are jovial or bacchanalian.
Dryden.

&hand_; This word is a relic of the belief in planetary influence. Other examples are saturnine, mercurial, martial, lunatic, etc.


word: Joviality
definition:
Joviality

Jo`vi*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. jovialité.]
The quality or state of being jovial.
Sir T. Herbert.


word: Jovian
definition:
Jovian

Jo"vi*an
(?)
prop. a.
Of or pertaining to Jove, or Jupiter (either the deity or the planet).


word: Jovicentric
definition:
Jovicentric

Jo`vi*cen"tric
(?)
a.
[See Jove, and Center.]
(Astron.)
Revolving around the planet Jupiter; appearing as viewed from Jupiter.
[R.]
J. R. Hind.


word: Jovinianist
definition:
Jovinianist

Jo*vin"ian*ist
(?)
n.
(Script. Hist.)
An adherent to the doctrines of Jovinian, a monk of the fourth century, who denied the virginity of Mary, and opposed the asceticism of his time.


word: Jowl
definition:
Jowl

Jowl
(joul or j&omacrl)
n.
[For older chole, chaul, AS. ceaft jaw.  Cf. Chaps.]
The cheek; the jaw.
[Written also jole, choule, chowle, and geoule.]

Cheek by jowl, with the cheeks close together; side by side; in close proximity. “I will go with thee cheek by jole.” Shak.  “ Sits cheek by jowl.”  Dryden.


word: Joy
definition:
Joy

Joy
(joi)
n.
[OE. joye, OF. joye, joie, goie, F. joie, L. gaudia, pl. of gaudium joy, fr. gaudere to rejoice, to be glad; cf. Gr. gai`ein to rejoice, gay^ros proud.  Cf. Gaud, Jewel.]

1.
The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.

Her heavenly form beheld, all wished her joy.
Dryden.

Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
Johnson.

Who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame.
Heb. xii. 2. 

Tears of true joy for his return.
Shak.

Joy is a delight of the mind, from the consideration of the present or assured approaching possession of a good.
Locke.

2.
That which causes joy or happiness.

For ye are our glory and joy.
1 Thess. ii. 20.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Keats.

3.
The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.

Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.
Spenser.

The roofs with joy resound.
Dryden.

&hand_; Joy is used in composition, esp. with participles, to from many self-explaining compounds; as, joy-bells, joy-bringing, joy-inspiring, joy-resounding, etc.


word: Joy₂
definition:
Joy

Joy
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Joyed (joid); p. pr. & vb. n. Joying.]
[OF. joir, F. jouir. See Joy, n.]
To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.

I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Hab. iii. 18.

In whose sight all things joy.
Milton.


word: Joy₃
definition:
Joy

Joy
v. t.
1.
To give joy to; to congratulate.
[Obs.]
Joy
Dryden.

To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe.
Prior.

2.
To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
[Obs.]

Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits.
Shak.

3.
To enjoy.
[Obs.]
See Enjoy.

Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss.
Milton.


word: Joyance
definition:
Joyance

Joy"ance
(?)
n.
[OF. joiance.]
Enjoyment; gayety; festivity; joyfulness.
Spenser.

Some days of joyance are decreed to all.
Byron.

From what hid fountains doth thy joyance flow?
Trench.


word: Joyful
definition:
Joyful

Joy"ful
(?)
a.
Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart.
Joyful
Shak.

My soul shall be joyful in my God.
Is. lxi. 10.

Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life.
Pope.


word: Joyless
definition:
Joyless

Joy"less
a.
Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable.
Joy"less*ly, adv. -- Joy"less*ness, n.

With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat.
Dryden.

Youth and health and war are joyless to him.
Addison.

[He] pining for the lass,
Is joyless of the grove, and spurns the growing grass.
Dryden.


word: Joyous
definition:
Joyous

Joy"ous
(?)
a.
[OE. joyous, joious, joios, F. joyeux.See Joy.]
Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.

Is this your joyous city?
Is. xxiii. 7.

They all as glad as birds of joyous prime.
Spenser.

And joyous of our conquest early won.
Dryden.


word: Joysome
definition:
Joysome

Joy"some
(_;)
a.
Causing joyfulness.
[R.]

Syn. -- gladsome, delightful.

This all joysome grove.
T. Browne.


word: JPEG
definition:
JPEG

JPEG
n.
[Acronym from Joint Picture Experts Group.]
(Computers)
A standardized format for storing graphic data in binary computer files, allowing over 16 million different colors.  It allows for lossy compression, i. e. the compression of data into a form which re-expands into an image close, but not identical to the original image.  Files stored in this format usually carry the extension jpg or jpeg.  Compare GIF.


word: Jub
definition:
Jub

Jub
(?)
n.
[Perh. corrupted fr. jug.]
A vessel for holding ale or wine; a jug.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: juba
definition:
juba

ju"ba
(?)
n.
pl. jubæ (-bē).
[L., a mane.]
1.
(Zool.)
The mane of an animal.

2.
(Bot.)
A loose panicle, the axis of which falls to pieces, as in certain grasses.


word: juba₂
definition:
juba

ju"ba
(?)
n.
A dance developed by slaves in the U. S., having a lively tune and accompanied by a complex rhythmic clapping, and by slapping the thighs.

Wild crap-shooters with a whoop and a call
Danced the juba in their gambling-hall.
Vachel Lindsay (The Congo).


word: Joobbeh
definition:
Joobbeh

Jubbeh

Jubbah

{ Jub"bah (?), n. Also Jub"beh, Joob"beh (?) }
[Hind. jubba, fr. Ar. jubbah.]
A long outer garment worn by both sexes of Muslims of the better class.


word: Jube
definition:
Jube

Ju`bé"
(?)
n.
[F.]
(Arch.)
(a)
A chancel screen or rood screen.
(b)
The gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read.
Rood loft
Rood


word: jubilance
definition:
jubilance

jubilance
n.
a feeling of extreme joy; jubilation.

Syn. -- exultation, jubilancy, jubilation.


word: jubilancy
definition:
jubilancy

jubilancy
n.
a feeling of extreme joy; jubilance; jubilation.

Syn. -- exultation, jubilance, jubilation.


word: Jubilant
definition:
Jubilant

Ju"bi*lant
(?)
a.
[L. jubilans, -antis, p. pr. of jubilare to shout for joy: cf. F. jubilant. See Jubilate.]
Uttering songs of triumph; shouting with joy; triumphant; exulting.
jubilant
Coleridge.

While the bright pomp ascended jubilant.
Milton.


word: Jubilar
definition:
Jubilar

Ju"bi*lar
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. jubilaire.]
Pertaining to, or having the character of, a jubilee.
[R.]
Bp. Hall.


word: Jubilate
definition:
Jubilate

Ju`bi*la"te
(?)
n.
[L., imperat. of jubilare to shout for joy.]

1.
The third Sunday after Easter; -- so called because the introit is the 66th Psalm, which, in the Latin version, begins with the words, “Jubilate Deo.”

2.
A name of the 100th Psalm; -- so called from its opening word in the Latin version.


word: Jubilate₂
definition:
Jubilate

Ju"bi*late
(?)
v. i.
[L. jubilatus, p. p. of jubilare.]
To exult; to rejoice.
[R.]
De Quincey.


word: Jubilation
definition:
Jubilation

Ju`bi*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. jubilatio: cf. F. jubilation.]
A triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation.
Jubilations
South.


word: Jubilee
definition:
Jubilee

Ju"bi*lee
(?)
n.
[F. jubilé, L. jubilaeus, Gr. _;, fr. Heb. y&omacrbel the blast of a trumpet, also the grand sabbatical year, which was announced by sound of trumpet.]

1.
(Jewish Hist.)
Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners.
[In this sense spelled also, in some English Bibles, jubile.]
Lev. xxv. 8-17.

2.
The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions.

3.
(R. C. Ch.)
A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence granted by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church.  One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist.

4.
A season of general joy.

The town was all a jubilee of feasts.
Dryden.

5.
A state of joy or exultation.
[R.]
jubilee
Sir W. Scott.


word: Jucundity
definition:
Jucundity

Ju*cun"di*ty
(?)
n.
[L. jucunditas, from jucundus.]
Pleasantness; agreeableness. See Jocundity.
[R.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Judahite
definition:
Judahite

Ju"dah*ite
(?)
n.
One of the tribe of Judah; a member of the kingdom of Judah; a Jew.
Kitto.


word: Judaical
definition:
Judaical

Judaic

{ Ju*da"ic (?), Ju*da"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. Judaïcus, fr. Judaea, the country Judea: cf. F. Judaïque. See Jew.]
Of or pertaining to the Jews.
Judaical
South.


word: Judaism
definition:
Judaism

Ju"da*ism
(?)
prop. n.
[L. Judaïsmus: cf. F. judaïsme.]
1.
The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined in the laws of Moses, and for many adherents, in the Talmud.
J. S. Mill.

2.
Conformity to the Jewish rites and ceremonies; the practise of Judaism{1}.

3.
The adherents of Judaism{1} collectively; jewry.


word: Judaization
definition:
Judaization

Ju`da*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
The act of Judaizing; a conforming to the Jewish religion or ritual.
[R.]


word: Judaize
definition:
Judaize

Ju"da*ize
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Judaized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Judaizing (?).]
[Cf. F. judaïser.]
To conform to the doctrines, observances, or methods of the Jews; to inculcate or impose Judaism.

They . . . prevailed on the Galatians to Judaize so far as to observe the rites of Moses in various instances.
They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law.
Bp. Bull.


word: Judaize₂
definition:
Judaize

Ju"da*ize
v. t.
To impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism.

The heretical Theodotion, the Judaized Symmachus.
Milton.


word: Judaizer
definition:
Judaizer

Ju"da*i`zer
(?)
n.
One who conforms to or inculcates Judaism;
specifically,
pl.
(Ch. Hist.)
those Jews who accepted Christianity but still adhered to the law of Moses and worshiped in the temple at Jerusalem.


word: Judas
definition:
Judas

Ju"das
(?)
n.
The disciple who betrayed Christ.
Hence:
A treacherous person; one who betrays under the semblance of friendship.
a. Treacherous; betraying.

Judas hole, a peephole or secret opening for spying. -- Judas kiss, (a) a deceitful and treacherous kiss. (b) an act appearing to be an act of friendship, which is in fact harmful to the recipient. -- Judas tree (Bot.), a leguminous tree of the genus Cercis, with pretty, rose-colored flowers in clusters along the branches.  Judas is said to have hanged himself on a tree of this genus (Cercis Siliquastrum).  Cercis Canadensis and Cercis occidentalis are the American species, and are called also redbud.


word: Judas-colored
definition:
Judas-colored

Ju"das-col`ored
(?)
a.
Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard.

There's treachery in that Judas-colored beard.
Dryden.


word: Juddock
definition:
Juddock

Jud"dock
(jŭd"d&obreve_;k)
n.
[For judcock; jud (equiv. to Prov. E. gid a jacksnipe, W. giach snipe) + cock.]
(Zool.)
See Jacksnipe.


word: Judean
definition:
Judean

Ju*de"an
(j&uuptack_;*dē"an)
a.
[L. Judaeus. See Jew.]
Of or pertaining to Judea.
n. A native of Judea; a Jew.


word: Judeo-Christian
definition:
Judeo-Christian

Judeo-Christian
adj.
having origins in both Judaism and Christianity; of or pertaining to Christianity; as, the Judeo-Christian tradition.


word: Judge
definition:
Judge

Judge
(jŭj)
n.
[OE. juge, OF. & F. juge, fr. OF. jugier, F. juger, to judge. See Judge, v. i.]

1.
(Law)
A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.

The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence.
Bacon.

2.
One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic.

A man who is no judge of law may be a good judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting.
Dryden.

3.
A person appointed to decide in a trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race.

4.
(Jewish Hist.)
One of the supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.

5.
pl.
The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.

Judge Advocate (Mil. & Nav.), a person appointed to act as prosecutor at a court-martial; he acts as the representative of the government, as the responsible adviser of the court, and also, to a certain extent, as counsel for the accused, when he has no other counsel. -- Judge-Advocate General, in the United States, the title of two officers, one attached to the War Department and having the rank of brigadier general, the other attached to the Navy Department and having the rank of colonel of marines or captain in the navy. The first is chief of the Bureau of Military Justice of the army, the other performs a similar duty for the navy. In England, the designation of a member of the ministry who is the legal adviser of the secretary of state for war, and supreme judge of the proceedings of courts-martial.


word: Judge₂
definition:
Judge

Judge
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Judged (jŭjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Judging.]
[OE. jugen, OF. jugier, F. juger, L. judicare, fr. judex judge; jus law or right + dicare to proclaim, pronounce, akin to dicere to say. See Just, a., and Diction, and cf. Judicial.]

1.
To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.

The Lord judge between thee and me.
Gen. xvi. 5.

Father, who art judge
Of all things made, and judgest only right!
Milton.

2.
To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3.

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
Shak.

3.
To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about.

Judge not according to the appearance.
John vii. 24.

She is wise if I can judge of her.
Shak.


word: Judge₃
definition:
Judge

Judge
v. t.
1.
To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.
judge
Milton.

2.
To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.

God shall judge the righteous and the wicked.
Eccl. iii. 7.

To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness,
And to be judged by him.
Shak.

3.
To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Matt. vii. 1.

4.
To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.

If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord.
Acts xvi. 15.

5.
To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.
[Obs.]

Make us a king to judge us.
1 Sam. viii. 5.


word: Judge-made
definition:
Judge-made

Judge"-made`
a.
Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this.  Judge-made law is contrasted with statutory law and civil law.

The law of the 13th century was judge-made law in a fuller and more literal sense than the law of any succeeding century has been.
Sir Frederick Pollock.


word: judging
definition:
judging

judging
n.
The cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions.

Syn. -- judgment, judgement.


word: Judgment
definition:
Judgment

Judg"ment
(?)
n.
[OE. jugement, F. jugement, LL. judicamentum, fr. L. judicare. See Judge, v. i.]

1.
The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of things, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.

I oughte deme, of skilful jugement,
That in the salte sea my wife is deed.
Chaucer.

2.
The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.

He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment.
Ps. lxxii. 2.

Hernia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes.
Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
Shak.

3.
The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.

She in my judgment was as fair as you.
Shak.

Who first his judgment asked, and then a place.
Pope.

4.
The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all.

In judgments between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own.
Jer. Taylor.

Most heartily I do beseech the court
To give the judgment.
Shak.

5.
(Philos.)
(a)
That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical.
(b)
That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.

A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.
Sir W. Hamilton.

The power by which we are enabled to perceive what is true or false, probable or improbable, is called by logicians the faculty of judgment.
Stewart.

6.
A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment.
Judgments
Prov. xix. 29.
judgment
Shak.

7.
(Theol.)
The final award; the last sentence.

&hand_; Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement.

&hand_; Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining combinations; as, judgment hour; judgment throne.

Judgment day (Theol.), the last day, or period when final judgment will be pronounced on the subjects of God's moral government. -- Judgment debt (Law), a debt secured to the creditor by a judge's order. -- Judgment hall, a hall where courts are held. -- Judgment seat, the seat or bench on which judges sit in court; hence, a court; a tribunal. “We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.” Rom. xiv. 10. -- Judgment summons (Law), a proceeding by a judgment creditor against a judgment debtor upon an unsatisfied judgment.

 Arrest of judgment. (Law) See under Arrest, n. -- Judgment of God, a term formerly applied to extraordinary trials of secret crimes, as by arms and single combat, by ordeal, etc.; it being imagined that God would work miracles to vindicate innocence. See under Ordeal.


word: judgmental
definition:
judgmental

judgmental
adj.
1.
depending on judgment; as, a judgmental error.

2.
Inclined to make moral judgements about the behavior of people; -- contrasted with an inclination not to judge the moral qualities of others.  Opposite of nonjudgmental.
faultfinding(prenominal) 


word: Judicable
definition:
Judicable

Ju"di*ca*ble
(?)
a.
[L. judicabilis. See Judge, v. i.]
Capable of being judged; capable of being tried or decided upon.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Judicative
definition:
Judicative

Ju"di*ca*tive
(?)
a.
Having power to judge; judicial; as, the judicative faculty.
Hammond.


word: Judicatory
definition:
Judicatory

Ju"di*ca*to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. judicatorius.]
Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals.
T. Wharton.

Power to reject in an authoritative or judicatory way.
Bp. Hall.


word: Judicatory₂
definition:
Judicatory

Ju"di*ca*to*ry
(277)
n.
[L. judicatorium.]

1.
A court of justice; a tribunal.
Milton.

2.
Administration of justice.

The supreme court of judicatory.
Clarendon.


word: Judicature
definition:
Judicature

Ju"di*ca*ture
(?; 135)
n.
[F., fr. LL. judicatura.]

1.
The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice.

The honor of the judges in their judicature is the king's honor.
Bacon.

2.
A court of justice; a judicatory.
South.

3.
The right of judicial action; jurisdiction; extent jurisdiction of a judge or court.

Our Savior disputes not here the judicature, for that was not his office, but the morality, of divorce.
Milton.


word: Judicial
definition:
Judicial

Ju*di"cial
(?)
a.
[L. judicialis, fr. judicium judgment, fr. judex judge: cf. OF. judicial. See Judge.]

1.
Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale.
Judicial
Macaulay.

Not a moral but a judicial law, and so was abrogated.
Milton.

2.
Fitted or apt for judging or deciding; as, a judicial mind; judicial temperament.

3.
Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from legislative, administrative, or executive. See Executive.

4.
Judicious.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Judiciary
definition:
Judiciary

Ju*di"cia*ry
(?; 277)
a.
[L. judiciarius, fr. judicium judgment: cf. F. judiciare. See Judicial.]
Of or pertaining to courts of judicature, or legal tribunals; judicial; as, a judiciary proceeding.
Bp. Burnet.


word: Judiciary₂
definition:
Judiciary

Ju*di"cia*ry
n.
[Cf. LL. judiciaria, F. judiciaire.]
That branch of government in which judicial power is vested; the system of courts of justice in a country; the judges, taken collectively; as, an independent judiciary; the senate committee on the judiciary.


word: Judicious
definition:
Judicious

Ju*di"cious
(?)
a.
[F. judicieux, fr. L. judicium judgment. See Judicial.]
Of or relating to a court; judicial.
[Obs.]

His last offenses to us
Shall have judicious hearing.
Shak.

2.
Directed or governed by sound judgment; having sound judgment; wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet.

He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows
The fits o' the season.
Shak.


word: Judiciousness
definition:
Judiciousness

Ju*di"cious*ness
n.
The quality or state of being judicious; sagacity; sound judgment.


word: judo
definition:
judo

judo
n.
a sport adapted from jujitsu, originally a method of self-defense without weapons, and similar to wrestling; it was developed in Japan.


word: Jug
definition:
Jug

Jug
(jŭg)
n.
[Prob. fr. Jug, a corruption of, or nickname for, Joanna; cf. 2d Jack, and Jill. See Johannes.]

1.
A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.

2.
A pitcher; a ewer.
[Eng.]

3.
A prison; a jail; a lockup.
[Slang]
Gay.

4.
(pl.)
A woman's breasts; as, nice jugs.
[vulgar slang]


word: Jug₂
definition:
Jug

Jug
(jŭg)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Jugged (jŭgd); p. pr. & vb. n. Jugging (jŭg"gĭng).]

1.
To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.

2.
To commit to jail; to imprison.
[Slang]


word: Jug₃
definition:
Jug

Jug
v. i.
(Zool.)
1.
To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

2.
To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.


word: Jugal
definition:
Jugal

Ju"gal
(?)
a.
[L. jugalis, fr. jugum yoke.]

1.
Relating to a yoke, or to marriage.
[Obs.]

2.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to, or in the region of, the malar, or cheek bone.


word: Jugata
definition:
Jugata

Ju*ga"ta
(?)
n. pl.
[Neut. pl. of L. jugatus, p. p. of jugare to join.]
(Numis.)
The figures of two heads on a medal or coin, either side by side or joined.


word: Juger
definition:
Juger

Ju"ger
(?)
n.
[L. jugerum.]
A Roman measure of land, measuring 28,800 square feet, or 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth.


word: Juggernaut₂
definition:
Juggernaut

Jug"ger*naut`
(?)
n.
[Skr. jagannātha lord of the world.]
1.
One of the names under which Vishnu, in his incarnation as Krishna, is worshiped by the Hindus.  See also Jagannath.
[Written also Juggernnath, Jaganath, Jagannath, Jaganatha, Jagannatha, etc.]

&hand_; The principal seat of the worship of Juggernaut (Jagannath) is at Pûri in Orissa. At certain times the idol is drawn from the temple by the multitude, on a high car with sixteen wheels. The idol is considered to contain the bones of Krishna and to possess a soul. The principal festivals are the Snanayatra, when the idol is bathed, and the Rathayatra, when the image is drawn upon a car adorned with obscene paintings. Formerly it was erroneously supposed that fanatical devotees threw themselves under the wheels of this car, to be crushed as a sacrifice to the god. It is now known that any death within the temple of Jagannath is considered to render the place unclean, and any spilling of blood in the presence of the idol is a pollution.  As a result of this erroneous belief, however, the word juggernaut is now used principally in the figurative sense 2.

2.
Any large, unstoppable force, power, or popular movement which defeats or destroys any person who gets in its way or attempts to stop it; as, for years the Notre Dame football team was an unstoppable juggernaut; after the early primaries, Johnson's campaign became a juggernaut, crushing all rivals.


word: Juggle
definition:
Juggle

Jug"gle
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Juggled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Juggling (?).]
[OE. juglen; cf. OF. jogler, jugler, F. jongler. See Juggler.]

1.
To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure; especially, to maintian several objects in the air at one time by tossing them up with one hand, catching them with the other hand, and passing them from the catching to the tossing hand.

2.
To practice artifice or imposture.

Be these juggling fiends no more believed.
Shak.


word: Juggle₂
definition:
Juggle

Jug"gle
v. t.
1.
To deceive by trick or artifice.

Is't possible the spells of France should juggle
Men into such strange mysteries?
Shak.

2.
To maintain (several objects) in continuous motion in the air at one time by tossing them up with one hand, catching them with the other hand, and passing them from the catching to the tossing hand; variations on this basic motion are also used.  Also used figuratively: see senses 3 and 4.

3.
To alter (financial records) secretly for the purpose of theft or deception; as, to juggle the accounts.
[Colloq.]

4.
To arrange the performance two tasks or responsibilities at alternate times, so as to be able to do both; as, to juggle the responsibilities of a job and a mother


word: Juggle₃
definition:
Juggle

Jug"gle
n.
1.
A trick by sleight of hand.

2.
An imposture; a deception.
Tennyson.

A juggle of state to cozen the people.
Tillotson.

3.
A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split.
Knight.


word: Juggler
definition:
Juggler

Jug"gler
(?)
n.
[OE. jogelour, juglur, OF. jogleor, jugleor, jongleor, F. jongleur, fr. L. joculator a jester, joker, fr. joculus a little jest or joke, dim. of jocus jest, joke. See Joke, and cf. Jongleur, Joculator.]

1.
One who juggles; one who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer.
[Archaic]
This sense is now expressed by magician or conjurer.

As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye.
Shak.

Jugglers and impostors do daily delude them.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
A deceiver; a cheat.
Shak.

3.
A person who juggles objects, i. e. who maintains several objects in the air by passing them in turn from one hand to another.


word: Jugglery
definition:
Jugglery

Jug"gler*y
(?)
n.
[OE. & OF. joglerie, F. jonglerie.]

1.
The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand.

2.
Trickery; imposture; as, political jugglery.


word: Juggling₂
definition:
Juggling

Jug"gling
n.
[p. pr. from juggle, v. t.]
1.
Jugglery; underhand practice.

2.
The act or process of keeping several objects in the air at one time by tossing them with the hands.  See juggle v. t., senses 2, 3, and 4.


word: Juglandin
definition:
Juglandin

Jug"lan*din
(?)
n.
[L. juglans, -andis, a walnut: cf. F. juglandine.]
(Chem.)
An extractive matter contained in the juice of the green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia). It is used medicinally as an alterative, and also as a black hair dye.


word: Juglans
definition:
Juglans

Jug"lans
(?)
n.
[L., walnut.]
(Bot.)
A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut.


word: Juglone
definition:
Juglone

Ju"glone
(?)
n.
[L. juglans the walnut + -one.]
(Chem.)
A yellow crystalline substance (C10H6O3) resembling quinone, extracted from green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia); -- called also nucin.  Chemically, it is 5-hydroxy-1,4-naphthalenedione.


word: Jugoslav
definition:
Jugoslav

Jugoslav
prop. n.
A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia.
[Also spelled Yugoslav.]

Syn. -- Yugoslav, Yugoslavian, Jugoslavian.


word: Jugoslavian
definition:
Jugoslavian

Jugoslavian
prop. n.
a native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia.
[Also spelled Yugoslavian.]

Syn. -- Yugoslav, Jugoslav, Yugoslavian.


word: Jugular
definition:
Jugular

Ju"gu*lar
(?)
a.
[L. jugulum the collar bone, which joins together the shoulders and the breast, the throat, akin to jungere to yoke, to join: cf. F. jugulaire. See Join.]

1.
(Anat.)
(a)
Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein.
(b)
Of or pertaining to the jugular vein; as, the jugular foramen.

2.
(Zool.)
Having the ventral fins beneath the throat; -- said of certain fishes.


word: Jugular₂
definition:
Jugular

Ju"gu*lar
n.
[Cf. F. jugulaire. See Jugular, a.]

1.
(Anat.)
One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein.

2.
(Zool.)
Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares).


word: Jugulate
definition:
Jugulate

Ju"gu*late
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Jugulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Jugulating (?).]
[L. jugulatus, p. p. of jugulare, fr. jugulatum. See Jugular.]
To cut the throat of.
[R.]
Jacob Bigelow.


word: Jugulum
definition:
Jugulum

Ju"gu*lum
(?)
n.
pl. Jugula (#).
[L.]
(Zool.)
The lower throat, or that part of the neck just above the breast.


word: Jugum
definition:
Jugum

Ju"gum
(jū"gŭm)
n.
pl. L. Juga (jū"gȧ), E. Jugums (#).
[L., a yoke, ridge.]
(Bot.)
(a)
One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
(b)
A pair of the opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant.


word: Juice
definition:
Juice

Juice
(jūs)
n.
[OE. juse, F. jus broth, gravy, juice, L. jus; akin to Skr. yūsha.]
The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking.

An animal whose juices are unsound.
Arbuthnot.

The juice of July flowers.
B. Jonson.

The juice of Egypt's grape.
Shak.

Letters which Edward Digby wrote in lemon juice.
Macaulay.

Cold water draws the juice of meat.
Mrs. Whitney.


word: juiced-up
definition:
juiced-up

juiced"-up`
(jūst"-ŭp`)
a.
1.
Drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
[Slang]

2.
Having its power or functionality increased beyond the normal; -- of machines; as, a Volkswagen with a juiced-up engine.


word: juicer
definition:
juicer

juicer
n.
1.
a utensil with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice fro citrus fruit.

Syn. -- reamer, juice reamer.

2.
A state of drunkenness; as, to throw on a juicer; to have a juicer on all night.

3.
An habitual drunkard; one who drinks alcoholic beverages frequently to the state of inebriation.


word: Juicy
definition:
Juicy

Jui"cy
(?)
a.
[Compar. Juicier; superl. Juiciest.]
1.
A bounding with juice; succulent.
Bacon.

2.
Very profitable, or presenting the prospect of much profit; as, a juicy job; a juicy sales contract; a juicy customer ripe for the plucking.
[Colloq.]

3.
Very interesting, especially due to scandalous or salacious nature; -- of information; as, juicy gossip.


word: Juise
definition:
Juise

Ju*ise"
(?)
n.
[OF. juise. L. judicium. See Judicial.]
Judgment; justice; sentence.
[Obs.]

Up [on] pain of hanging and high juise.
Chaucer.


word: juju
definition:
juju

juju
n.
1.
the magical power associated with a juju{2}.

2.
An object superstitiously believed to embody magical powers; a fetish.

Syn. -- voodoo, hoodoo, fetish.


word: Jujube
definition:
Jujube

Ju"jube
(jū"j&uuptack_;b)
n.
[F., fr. L. zizyphum, Gr. zi`zyfon, Per. zīzfūn, zizafūn, zayzafūn.]
1.
The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees, of the genus Zizyphus, especially the Zizyphus jujuba, Zizyphus vulgaris, Zizyphus mucronata, and Zizyphus Lotus. The last named is thought to have furnished the lotus of the ancient Libyan Lotophagi, or lotus eaters.

2.
A chewy gelatinous lozenge made of or in imitation of, or flavored with, the jujube fruit.

Jujube paste, the dried or inspissated jelly of the jujube; also, a confection made of gum arabic sweetened.


word: Jiujitsu
definition:
Jiujitsu

Jiujutsu

Jujitsu

Jujutsu

{ &VerbarJu"jut`su (?), Ju"jit`su (?), Jiu"jut`su, Jiu"jit`su (?) }
n.
[Jap. jūjutsu; jū soft (prob. because no weapons are used) + jutsu art.]
The Japanese art of self-defense without weapons, now widely used as a system of physical training. It depends for its efficiency largely upon the principle of making clever use of an opponent's strength, weight, and movements to disable or injure him, and by applying pressure so that his opposing movement will throw him out of balance, dislocate or break a joint, etc.  It opposes knowledge and skill to brute strength, and demands an extensive practical knowledge of human anatomy.


word: Juke
definition:
Juke

Juke
(?)
v. i.
[from Scottish jouk to bow.]
To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
[Written also jook and jouk.]

The money merchant was so proud of his trust that he went juking and tossing of his head.
L' Estrange.


word: Juke₃
definition:
Juke

Juke
v. i.
[F. juc a roost, perch, jucher to roost, to perch.]
To perch on anything, as birds do.
[Obs.]


word: Jukebox
definition:
Jukebox

Juke"box
n.
1.
A phonograph or compact disc player with multiple discs, requiring the insertion of coins prior to playing, and allowing the user to select the playing of any disc in its inventory.  An early version was called the nickelodeon.

2.
(Computers)
a data-storage device having multiple compact discs, of which only one may be on-line at any given time, which permits the user (through computer commands) to select on-line access to any disc from its inventory, in a manner reminiscent of a musical jukebox{1}.


word: Jukes, The
definition:
Jukes, The

Jukes, The
(?)
A pseudonym used to designate the descendants of two sisters, the “Jukes” sisters, whose husbands were sons of a backwoodsman of Dutch descent. They lived in the State of New York, and their history was investigated by R. L. Dugdale as an example of the inheritance of criminal and immoral tendencies, disease, and pauperism.  Sixty per cent of those traced showed, degeneracy, and they are estimated to have cost society $1,308,000 in 75 years.


word: Julep
definition:
Julep

Ju"lep
(jū"lĕp)
n.
[F., fr. Sp. julepe, fr. Ar. & Per. julāb, jullāb, fr. Per. gulāb rose water and julep; gul rose + āb water.]

1.
A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs
especially
(Med.)
a sweet, demulcent, acidulous, or mucilaginous mixture, used as a vehicle.
Milton.

Honey in woods, juleps in brooks.
H. Vaughan.

2.
An alcoholic beverage composed of brandy, whisky, or some other spirituous liquor, with sugar, pounded ice, and sprigs of mint; -- called also mint julep.
[U.S.]


word: Julian
definition:
Julian

Jul"ian
(?; 277)
a.
[L. Julianus, fr. Julius.  Cf. July, Gillian.]
Relating to, or derived from, Julius Caesar.

Julian calendar, the calendar as adjusted by Julius Caesar, in which the year was made to consist of 365 days, each fourth year having 366 days. -- Julian epoch, the epoch of the commencement of the Julian calendar, or 46 b. c. -- Julian period, a chronological period of 7,980 years, combining the solar, lunar, and indiction cycles (28 x 19 x 15 = 7,980), being reckoned from the year 4713 B. C., when the first years of these several cycles would coincide, so that if any year of the period be divided by 28, 19, or 15, the remainder will be the year of the corresponding cycle. The Julian period was proposed by Scaliger, to remove or avoid ambiguities in chronological dates, and was so named because composed of Julian years. -- Julian year, the year of 365 days, 6 hours, adopted in the Julian calendar, and in use until superseded by the Gregorian year, as established in the reformed or Gregorian calendar.


word: Julienne
definition:
Julienne

Ju`li*enne"
(?)
n.
[F.]
A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc.


word: Juliform
definition:
Juliform

Ju"li*form
(?)
a.
[Julus + -form.]
(Bot.)
Having the shape or appearance of a julus or catkin.


word: Julus
definition:
Julus

Ju"lus
(?)
n.
pl.Juli (#).
[Of the same origin as iulus.]
(Bot.)
A catkin or ament. See Ament.


word: July
definition:
July

Ju*ly"
(?)
n.
pl. Julies (#).
[L. Julius; -- named from Caius Julius Caesar, who was born in this month: cf. F. Juillet.]
The seventh month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

&hand_; This month was called Quintilis, or the fifth month, according to the old Roman calendar, in which March was the first month of the year.


word: jumbal
definition:
jumbal

jumbal
n.
A small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie having a hole in the middle.

Syn. -- jumble.


word: Jumble
definition:
Jumble

Jum"ble
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Jumbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Jumbling (?).]
[Prob. fr. jump, i. e., to make to jump, or shake.]
To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.

Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together?
Burton.

Every clime and age
Jumbled together.
Tennyson.


word: Jumble₃
definition:
Jumble

Jum"ble
n.
1.
A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words.

2.
A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
[Also spelled jumbal.]


word: jumbo
definition:
jumbo

jum"bo
(jŭm"bo̝)
a.
[From the name Jumbo, given to a very large elephant exhibited as part of P. T. Barnum's circus in 1882.]
Very large.


word: jumbo jet
definition:
jumbo jet

jum"bo jet`
(jŭm"bo̝ jĕt`)
n.
A large commercial jet airplane, usually having a passenger capacity of over 300 in normal use; also called widebody airplane.


word: Jumelle
definition:
Jumelle

Ju`melle"
(?)
a.
[F., fem. of jumeau, fr. L. gemellus. Cf. Gemel, a.]
Twin; paired; -- said of various objects made or formed in pairs, as a binocular opera glass, a pair of gimmal rings, etc.


word: Jument
definition:
Jument

Ju"ment
(?)
n.
[L. jumentum a beast of burden: cf. F. jument a mare, OF., a beast of burden.]
A beast; especially, a beast of burden.
[Obs.]

Fitter for juments than men to feed on.
Burton.


word: jump
definition:
jump

jump
(jŭmp)
n.
[Cf. F. jupe a long petticoat, a skirt.  Cf. juppon.]
(a)
A kind of loose jacket for men.
(b)
pl.
A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.


word: jump₂
definition:
jump

jump
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. jumped (jŭmt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. jumping.]
[Akin to OD. gumpen, dial. G. gumpen, jumpen.]

1.
To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap.

Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square.
Shak.

2.
To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt.
jumping
Nahum iii. 2.

A flock of geese jump down together.
Dryden.

3.
To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with.
jumps
Shak.

To jump at, to spring to; hence, fig., to accept suddenly or eagerly; as, a fish jumps at a bait; to jump at a chance.


word: Jump
definition:
Jump

Jump
(?)
v. t.
1.
To pass over by means of a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream.

2.
To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.

3.
To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
[Obs.]

To jump a body with a dangerous physic.
Shak.

4.
(Smithwork)
(a)
To join by a butt weld.
(b)
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

5.
(Quarrying)
To bore with a jumper.

To jump a claim, to enter upon and take possession of land to which another has acquired a claim by prior entry and occupation. [Western U. S. & Australia] See Claim, n., 3. -- To jump one's bail, to abscond while at liberty under bail bonds. [Slang, U. S.] -- To jump the gun, to begin to run (in a footrace) before the starting gun has fired; hence, (fig.) to begin any activity before the designated starting time.


word: Jump₂
definition:
Jump

Jump
n.
1.
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
jumps
Locke.

2.
An effort; an attempt; a venture.
[Obs.]

Our fortune lies
Upon thisjump.
Shak.

3.
The space traversed by a leap.

4.
(Mining)
A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.

5.
(Arch.)
An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.

6.
A jump-start; as, to get a jump from a passing mmotorist.

From the jump, from the start or beginning. [Colloq.] -- Jump joint. (a) A butt joint. (b) A flush joint, as of plank in carvel-built vessels. -- Jump seat. (a) A movable carriage seat. (b) A carriage constructed with a seat which may be shifted so as to make room for second or extra seat. Also used adjectively; as, a jump-seat wagon.


word: jumper
definition:
jumper

jump"er
(jŭmp"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, jumps.

2.
A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.

3.
A rude kind of sleigh; -- usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
[U.S.]
J. F. Cooper.

4.
(Zool.)
The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.

5.
(Eccl.)
A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.

6.
(Horology)
spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.

Baby jumper. See in the Vocabulary. -- Bounty jumper. See under Bounty.


word: Jumper
definition:
Jumper

Jump"er
n.
[See 1st Jump.]
1.
A loose upper garment
as:
(a)
A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it.
(b)
A fur garment worn in Arctic journeys.

2.
A sleeveless one-piece dress, either with full shoulders or straps, sometimes with only the front part of the bodice, usually worn by women with a blouse underneath.


word: jumper₂
definition:
jumper

jump"er
n.
1.
A thing that jumps; esp., any of various tools or other contrivances operating with a jumping motion;
as,
(Mining, Quarrying, etc.)
an instrument for boring holes in rocks by percussion without hammering, consisting of a bar of iron with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.

2.
(Electronics)
a short wire, or a small plastic object containing such a short wire, used to optionally connect or disconnect two points in an electronic circuit, so as to include or exclude portions of the circuit and thus modify the function of the circuit.  Such jumpers are much used to adapt add-on circuit boards for different conditions or functions within a computer.
The contacts to which jumpers connect in commercially produced circuit boards are typically two closely spaced short stiff wires standing perpendicular to the plane of the circuit board, and the jumper has two holes with spacing identical to that of the contacts wires, so as to allow convenient insertion or removal of the jumper.


word: jumper₃
definition:
jumper

jump"er
v. t.
(electronics)
to insert a jumper{2} between the two contacts in (a circuit).  See 2nd jumper.


word: Jumping
definition:
Jumping

Jump"ing
p. a. & vb. n.
of Jump, to leap.

Jumping bean, a seed of a Mexican Euphorbia, containing the larva of a moth (Carpocapsa saltitans). The larva by its sudden movements causes the seed to roll to roll and jump about. -- Jumping deer (Zool.), a South African rodent (Pedetes Caffer), allied to the jerboa. -- Jumping louse (Zool.), any of the numerous species of plant lice belonging to the family Psyllidæ, several of which are injurious to fruit trees. -- Jumping mouse (Zool.), North American mouse (Zapus Hudsonius), having a long tail and large hind legs. It is noted for its jumping powers. Called also kangaroo mouse. -- Jumping mullet (Zool.), gray mullet. -- Jumping shrew (Zool.), any African insectivore of the genus Macroscelides. They are allied to the shrews, but have large hind legs adapted for jumping. -- Jumping spider (Zool.), spider of the genus Salticus and other related genera; one of the Saltigradæ; -- so called because it leaps upon its prey.


word: Jumping disease
definition:
Jumping disease

Jump"ing dis*ease"
A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.


word: Jumping jack
definition:
Jumping jack

Jump"ing jack`
1.
A toy figure of a man, jointed and made to jump or dance by means of strings or sticks attached to it.

2.
A calisthenic exercise in which a person starts in a standing position with both feet together and with the arms at the sides, then leaps into the air while moving the arms outward and upward so that the hands touch above the head, and then returns to the original position by reversing the motion of legs and hands.


word: Jump-start
definition:
Jump-start

jumpstart

jump"start`, Jump"-start`
(?)
v. t.
1.
To start (the engine of a motor vehicle) using a temporary connection to supply electrical power from another vehicle or another source of current; -- an emergency procedure used when a vehicle's own battery has insufficient power to start the vehicle normally.
Cables used to transmit electrical current from one vehicle to another for the purpose of jump-starting are called jumper cables.

2.
To provide a speedy start to (an activity) using the assistance of some external impetus; to re-energize (an activity proceeding sluggishly); -- accomplished by application of a stimulus not normally used in the activity.
[Figurative]


word: Jump-start₂
definition:
Jump-start

Jump"-start`
(?)
n.
The action or event of jump-starting.  For motor vehicles, the jump-starting of an engine is also called a jump.


word: Jumpsuit
definition:
Jumpsuit

Jump suit

Jump" suit`, Jump"suit`
(?)
n.
1.
a one-piece coverall used by parachutists while jumping from an airplane.

2.
a one-piece garment resembling a jumpsuit{1}, having a shirt or blouse attached to trousers or shorts.


word: Jumpy
definition:
Jumpy

Jump"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Jumpier (?); superl. Jumpiest.]
Jumping, or inducing to jump; characterized by jumps;
hence,
extremely nervous; jittery.

Syn. -- edgy, fidgety, high-strung, in suspense(predicate), jittery, nervous, nervy, overstrung, restive, uneasy, uptight.


word: Juncaceae
definition:
Juncaceae

Juncaceae
n.
A natural family of tufted herbs resembling grasses, including the true rushes; called also the rush family.

Syn. -- family Juncaceae, rush family.


word: Juncaceous
definition:
Juncaceous

Jun*ca"ceous
(?)
a.
[See Juncate.]
(Bot.)
Of. pertaining to, or resembling, a natural family of plants (Juncaceæ), of which the common rush (Juncus) is the type.


word: Junco
definition:
Junco

Jun"co
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American finches; -- called also snowbird, or blue snowbird.


word: Juncous
definition:
Juncous

Jun"cous
(?)
a.
[L. juncosus, fr. juncus a rush.]
Full of rushes: resembling rushes; juncaceous.
[R.]
Johnson.


word: Junction
definition:
Junction

Junc"tion
(?)
n.
[L. junctio, fr. jungere, junctum, to join: cf. F. jonction. See Join.]

1.
The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths.

2.
The place or point of union, meeting, or junction; specifically, the place where two or more lines of railway meet or cross.

Junction plate (Boilers), a covering or break-join plate riveted to and uniting the edges of sheets which make a butt joint. -- Junction rails (Railroads), the switch, or movable, rails, connecting one line of track with another.


word: Junction box
definition:
Junction box

Junc"tion box
(Elec.)
A box through which the main conductors of a system of electric distribution pass, and where connection is made with branch circuits.


word: Juncture
definition:
Juncture

Junc"ture
(jŭ&nsmacr_;k"t&uuptack_;r; 135)
n.
[L. junctura, fr. jungere to join. See Jointure.]
1.
A joining; a union; an alliance.
[Obs.]
juncture
Eikon Basilike.

2.
The line or point at which two bodies are joined; a joint; an articulation; a seam; as, the junctures of a vessel or of the bones.
Boyle.

3.
A point of time; esp., one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances; hence, a crisis; an exigency.
junctures
Addison.

In such a juncture, what can the most plausible and refined philosophy offer?
Berkeley.


word: Juncus
definition:
Juncus

Juncus
n.
The type genus of the Juncaceae, comprising the rushes; they are perennial tufted glabrous marsh plants of temperate regions.

Syn. -- genus Juncus.


word: June
definition:
June

June
(?)
n.
[L. Junius: cf. F. Juin. So called either from Junius, the name of a Roman gens, or from Juno, the goddess.]
The sixth month of the year, containing thirty days.

And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days.
Lowell.

June beetle, June bug (Zool.), any one of several species of large brown beetles of the genus Lachnosterna and related genera; -- so called because they begin to fly, in the northern United States, about the first of June. The larvæ of the June beetles live under ground, and feed upon the roots of grasses and other plants. Called also May bug or May beetle. -- June grass (Bot.), a New England name for Kentucky blue grass. See Blue glass, and Illustration in Appendix.


word: Juneberry
definition:
Juneberry

June"ber`ry
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
(a)
The small applelike berry of American trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry.
(b)
The shrub or tree which bears this fruit; -- also called shad bush, and shad tree.


word: Jung
definition:
Jung

Jung
prop. n.
Carl Gustav Jung, a noted Swiss psychiatrist and Psychologist(1875-1961).

Syn. -- Carl Jung, Carl Gustav Jung.


word: Jungermannia
definition:
Jungermannia

Jun`ger*man"ni*a
(?)
prop. n.
pl. Jungermanniæ (#).
[NL. Named after Ludwig Jungermann, a German botanist.]
(Bot.)
A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the family, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceæ.


word: Jungermanniaceae
definition:
Jungermanniaceae

Jungermanniaceae
prop. n.
A natural family of plants comprising the leafy members of the order Jungermanniales.

Syn. -- family Jungermanniaceae.


word: Jungermanniales
definition:
Jungermanniales

Jungermanniales
prop. n.
A large order of chiefly tropical liverworts.

Syn. -- order Jungermanniales.


word: Jungle
definition:
Jungle

Jun"gle
(jŭ&nsmacr_;"g'l)
n.
[Hind. jangal desert, forest, jungle; Skr. ja&ndot_;gala desert.]
1.
A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.
The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult to penetrate.
Balfour (Cyc. of India).

2.
(Fig.)
A place of danger or ruthless competition for survival.
jungle

3.
Anything which causes confusion or difficulty due to intricacy; as, a jungle of environmental regulations.
MW10.

Jungle bear (Zool.), the aswail or sloth bear. -- Jungle cat (Zool.), the chaus. -- Jungle cock (Zool.), the male of a jungle fowl. -- Jungle fowl. (Zool.) (a) Any wild species of the genus Gallus, of which several species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the fork-tailed jungle fowl (Gallus varius) of Java, Gallus Stanleyi of Ceylon, and Gallus Bankiva of India. The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock, is supposed to be one of the original species from which the domestic fowl was derived. (b) An Australian grallatorial bird (Megapodius tumulus) which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the latter, lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter, where they are hatched by the heat produced by decomposition.


word: Jungly
definition:
Jungly

Jun"gly
(jŭ&nsmacr_;"gl&ybreve_;)
a.
Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles; of the nature of a jungle.


word: Junior
definition:
Junior

Jun"ior
(jūn"yẽr; 277)
a.
[L. contr. fr. juvenior, compar. of juvenis young. See Juvenile.]

1.
Less advanced in age than another; younger.  Abbreviated Jr.

&hand_; Junior is applied to distinguish the younger of two persons bearing the same name in the same family, and is opposed to senior or elder. Commonly applied to a son who has the same Christian name as his father.

2.
Lower in standing or in rank, or having entered later into a position or office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain; the junior Senator from New York.

3.
Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; as, the junior class; the junior baseball league; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior, n., 2.

4.
Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.

Our first studies and junior endeavors.
Sir T. Browne.

5.
of or relating to the third year of a four-year term; -- used of the third or next to final year in a U. S. high school or college.  See junior{2}, n..

Syn. -- third-year.


word: Junior₂
definition:
Junior

Jun"ior
n.
1.
A younger person.

His junior she, by thirty years.
Byron.

2.
Hence:
One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges and four-year high schools, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course.


word: Juniper
definition:
Juniper

Ju"ni*per
(?)
n.
[L. juniperus, prop., youth-producing, and so called from its evergreen appearance, from the roots of E. juvenile, and parent. Cf. Gin the liquor.]
(Bot.)
Any evergreen shrub or tree, of the genus Juniperus and order Coniferæ.

&hand_; The common juniper (Juniperus communis) is a shrub of a low, spreading form, having awl-shaped, rigid leaves in whorls of threes, and bearing small purplish blue berries (or galbuli), of a warm, pungent taste, used as diuretic and in flavoring gin. A resin exudes from the bark, which has erroneously been considered identical with sandarach, and is used as pounce. The oil of juniper is acrid, and used for various purposes, as in medicine, for making varnish, etc.  The wood of several species is of a reddish color, hard and durable, and is used in cabinetwork under the names of red cedar, Bermuda cedar, etc.

Juniper worm (Zool.), the larva of a geometrid moth (Drepanodes varus). It feeds upon the leaves of the juniper, and mimics the small twigs both in form and color, in a remarkable manner.


word: Juniperin
definition:
Juniperin

Ju"ni*per*in
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A yellow amorphous substance extracted from juniper berries.


word: Juniperite
definition:
Juniperite

Ju"ni*per*ite
(?)
n.
(Paleon.)
One of the fossil Coniferæ, evidently allied to the juniper.


word: Junk
definition:
Junk

Junk
(jŭ&nsmacr_;k)
n.
A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.
[Colloq.]
Lowell.


word: Junk₂
definition:
Junk

Junk
n.
[Pg. junco junk, rush, L. juncus a bulrush, of which ropes were made in early ages.  Cf. Junket.]

1.
Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

2.
Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.

3.
Hence:
Something worthless, or only worth its value as recyclable scrap.

4.
(Naut.)
Hard salted beef supplied to ships.

Junk bottle , a stout bottle made of thick dark-colored glass. -- Junk dealer, a dealer in old cordage, old metal, glass, etc. -- Junk hook (Whaling), a hook for hauling heavy pieces of blubber on deck. -- Junk ring. (a) A packing of soft material round the piston of a steam engine. (b) A metallic ring for retaining a piston packing in place; (c) A follower. -- Junk shop, a shop where old cordage, and ship's tackle, old iron, old bottles, old paper, etc., are kept for sale. -- Junk vat (Leather Manuf.), a large vat into which spent tan liquor or ooze is pumped. -- Junk wad (Mil.), a wad used in proving cannon; also used in firing hot shot.


word: Junk₃
definition:
Junk

Junk
n.
[Pg. junco; cf. Jav. & Malay jong, ajong, Chin. chwan.]
(Naut.)
A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.


word: junked
definition:
junked

junked
adj.
same as cast-off.  Contrasted with kept, retained, and saved.

Syn. -- cast-off(prenominal), discarded, scrap(prenominal), waste.


word: Junker
definition:
Junker

Jun"ker
(?)
n.
[G.  Cf. Yonker.]
A young German noble or squire; esp., a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia.


word: Junket
definition:
Junket

Jun"ket
(?)
n.
[Formerly also juncate, fr. It.  giuncata cream cheese, made in a wicker or rush basket, fr. L. juncus a rush. See 2d Junk, and cf. Juncate.]

1.
A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.

How Faery Mab the junkets eat.
Milton.

Victuals varied well in taste,
And other junkets.
Chapman.

2.
A feast; an entertainment.

A new jaunt or junket every night.
Thackeray.

3.
A trip made at the expense of an organization of which the traveller is an official, ostensibly to obtain information relevant to one's duties; especially, a trip made by a public official at government expense.  The term is sometimes used opprobriously, from a belief that such trips are often taken for private pleasure, and are therefore a waste of public money; as, a congressional junket to a tropical country.


word: Junket₂
definition:
Junket

Jun"ket
v. i.
To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.

Job's children junketed and feasted together often.
South.


word: Junket₃
definition:
Junket

Jun"ket
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing.]
To give entertainment to; to feast.

The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors.
Walpole.


word: Junketing
definition:
Junketing

Jun"ket*ing
n.
1.
A feast or entertainment; a revel.

All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for which the ancient magistrates were equally famous with their modern successors.
W. Irving.

The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar.
South.

2.
The act or process of taking a junket{3}.


word: Juno
definition:
Juno

Ju"no
(jū"no̝)
n.
pl. Junos (jū"no̝z).
[L.]

1.
(Rom. Myth.)
The queen of the Olympian gods, the sister and wife of Jupiter, and the goddess who presided over marriage. She corresponds to the Greek Hera.

Sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes.
Shak.

2.
(Astron.)
One of the early discovered asteroids.

Bird of Juno, the peacock.


word: Junta
definition:
Junta

Jun"ta
(jŭn"tȧ)
n.
pl. Juntas (jŭn"tȧz).
[Sp., fr. L. junctus joined, p. p. of jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Junto.]
1.
A council; a convention; a tribunal; an assembly; esp., the grand council of state in Spain.

2.
A junto.

3.
A small committee or group self-appointed to serve as the government of a country, usually just after a coup d'etat or revolution, and often composed primarily of military men.  The term is used mostly in Latin American countries.


word: Junto
definition:
Junto

Jun"to
(jŭn"to̝)
n.
pl. Juntos (jŭn"to̝s).
[Sp. junto united. See Junta.]
A secret council to deliberate on affairs of government or politics; a number of men combined for party intrigue; a faction; a cabal; as, a junto of ministers; a junto of politicians.

The puzzling sons of party next appeared,
In dark cabals and mighty juntos met.
Thomson.


word: Jupati palm
definition:
Jupati palm

Ju`pa*ti" palm`
(?)
(Bot.)
A great Brazilian palm tree (Raphia tædigera), used by the natives for many purposes.


word: Jupiter
definition:
Jupiter

Ju"pi*ter
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Jovis pater. See Jove.]

1.
(Rom. Myth.)
The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus.

2.
(Astron.)
One of the planets, being the fifth from the sun, the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean radius being about 43,345 miles (69,758 kilometers), almost exactly one-tenth that of the sun. It revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2025 from the sun (778,140,000 km), the earth's mean distance (the astronomical unit) being taken as unity.  It has a mass of 1.901 x 1027 kg, about one-thousandth that of the sun, and more than the remainder of the planets combined.  It has an average solar day equal to 9.842 earth hours.  The rapid revolution causes a noticeable flattening at the poles; the diameter at the equator is 71,370 km, and at the poles 66,644 km.
HCP61

Jupiter's beard. (Bot.) (a) A South European herb, with cymes of small red blossoms (Centranthus ruber). (b) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum); -- so called from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured beard of Jove. Prior. (c) the cloverlike Anthyllis Barba-Jovis. -- Jupiter's staff (Bot.), the common mullein; -- so called from its long, rigid spike of yellow blossoms.


word: Juppon
definition:
Juppon

Jupon

{ Ju*pon" (?), Jup*pon" (?), }
n.
[F. jupon, fr. jupe skirt, Sp. aljuba a Moorish garment, Ar. jubba.]
[Written variously jupe, jump, juppo, etc.]

1.
A sleeveless jacket worn over the armor in the 14th century. It fitted closely, and descended below the hips.
Dryden.

2.
A petticoat.
Halliwell.


word: Jura
definition:
Jura

Ju"ra
(?)
prop. n.
[F. & L.]
1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland.

2.
(Geol.)
The Jurassic period. See Jurassic.


word: Jural
definition:
Jural

Ju"ral
(?)
a.
[L. jus, juris, right.]

1.
Pertaining to natural or positive right.
[R.]

By the adjective jural we shall denote that which has reference to the doctrine of rights and obligations; as by the adjective “moral” we denote that which has reference to the doctrine of duties.
Whewell.

2.
(Law)
Of or pertaining to jurisprudence.


word: Jurassic
definition:
Jurassic

Ju*ras"sic
(?)
a.
(Geol.)
Of the age of the middle Mesozoic, about 190 to 140 million years ago, including, as divided in England and Europe, the Lias, Oölite, and Wealden; -- named from certain rocks of the Jura mountains.  It was noted for the predominance of dinosaurs on land, and the development of the first birds and mammals.
n. The Jurassic period or formation; -- called also the Jura.


word: Jurat
definition:
Jurat

Ju"rat
(?)
n.
[Prov. F. jurat, fr. L. juratus sworn, p. p. of jurare to swear. See Jury, n.]

1.
A person under oath; specifically, an officer of the nature of an alderman, in certain municipal corporations in England.
Burrill.

2.
(Law)
The memorandum or certificate at the end of an asffidavit, or a bill or answer in chancery, showing when, before whom, and (in English practice), where, it was sworn or affirmed.
Wharton. Bouvier.


word: Juratory
definition:
Juratory

Ju"ra*to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. juratorius, fr. jurare to swear: cf. F. juratoire.]
Relating to or comprising an oath; as, juratory caution.
Ayliffe.


word: Jura-trias
definition:
Jura-trias

Ju`ra-tri"as
(?)
n.
(Geol.)
A term applied to many American Mesozoic strata, in which the characteristics of the Jurassic and Triassic periods appear to be blended.
Ju`ra-tri*as"sic (#), a.


word: Jurel
definition:
Jurel

Ju"rel
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevallé, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as Caranx fallax) are also sometimes called jurel.


word: Juridical
definition:
Juridical

Juridic

{ Ju*rid"ic (?), Ju*rid"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. juridicus relating to the administration of justice; jus, juris, right, law + dicare to pronounce: cf. F. juridique. See Just, a., and Diction.]
Pertaining to a judge or to jurisprudence; acting in the distribution of justice; used in courts of law; according to law; legal; as, juridical law.
juridical
Milton.

The body corporate of the kingdom, in juridical construction, never dies.
Burke.

Juridical days, days on which courts are open.


word: Jurisconsult
definition:
Jurisconsult

Ju`ris*con"sult
(?)
n.
[L. jurisconsultus; jus, juris, right + consulere, consultum, to consult: cf. F. jurisconsulte.]
(Law)
A man learned in the civil law; an expert in juridical science; a professor of jurisprudence; a jurist.


word: Jurisdiction
definition:
Jurisdiction

Ju`ris*dic"tion
(?)
n.
[L. jurisdictio; jus, juris, right, law + dictio a saying, speaking: cf. OF. jurisdiction, F. juridiction. See Just, a., and Diction.]

1.
(Law)
The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes, are within the jurisdiction of a particular court, that is, within the limits of its authority or commission.

2.
The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate; the right of making or enforcing laws; the power or right of exercising authority.

To live exempt
From Heaven's high jurisdiction.
Milton.

You wrought to be a legate; by which power
You maim'd the jurisdiction of all bishops.
Shak.

3.
Sphere of authority; the limits within which any particular power may be exercised, or within which a government or a court has authority.

&hand_; Jurisdiction, in its most general sense, is the power to make, declare, or apply the law. When confined to the judiciary department, it is what we denominate the judicial power, the right of administering justice through the laws, by the means which the laws have provided for that purpose.  Jurisdiction is limited to place or territory, to persons, or to particular subjects.
Duponceau.


word: Jurisdictional
definition:
Jurisdictional

Ju`ris*dic"tion*al
(?)
a.
[Cf. LL. jurisdictionalis, F. juridictionnel.]
Of or pertaining to jurisdiction; as, jurisdictional rights.
Barrow.


word: Jurisprudence
definition:
Jurisprudence

Ju`ris*pru"dence
(?)
n.
[L. jurisprudentia; jus, juris, right, law +  prudentia a foreseeing, knowledge of a matter, prudence: cf. F. jurisprudence. See Just, a., and Prudence.]
The science of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws, customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due administration of justice.

The talents of Abelard were not confined to theology, jurisprudence, philosophy.
J. Warton.

Medical jurisprudence, that branch of juridical law which concerns questions of medicine.


word: Jurisprudent
definition:
Jurisprudent

Ju`ris*pru"dent
(?)
a.
[See Jurisprudence.]
Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence.
G. West.


word: Jurisprudent₂
definition:
Jurisprudent

Ju`ris*pru"dent
n.
[Cf. F. jurisprudent.]
One skilled in law or jurisprudence.
[R.]
De Quincey.


word: Jurist
definition:
Jurist

Ju`rist
(?)
n.
[F. juriste, LL. jurista, fr. L. jus, juris, right, law. See Just, a.]
One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law, such as a judge, lawyer, or legal scholar; a writer on civil and international law.

It has ever been the method of public jurists to draw a great part of the analogies on which they form the law of nations from the principles of law which prevail in civil community.
Burke.


word: Juristical
definition:
Juristical

Juristic

{ Ju*ris"tic (?), Ju*ris"tic*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to a jurist, to the legal profession, or to jurisprudence.
[R.]
Juristic
Lowell.


word: Juror
definition:
Juror

Ju"ror
(?)
n.
[F. jureur one who takes oath, L. jurator a swearer, fr.  jurare, jurari, to swear. See Jury, n.]

1.
(Law)
A member of a jury; a juryman.

I shall both find your lordship judge and juror.
Shak.

2.
A member of any jury for awarding prizes, etc.


word: Jury
definition:
Jury

Ju"ry
(?)
a.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Naut.)
For temporary use; -- applied to a temporary contrivance.

Jury rudder, a rudder constructed for temporary use.


word: Jury₂
definition:
Jury

Ju"ry
(?)
n.
pl. Juries (#).
[OF. jurée an assize, fr.  jurer to swear, L. jurare, jurari; akin to jus, juris, right, law. See Just,a., and cf. Jurat, Abjure.]

1.
(Law)
A body of people, selected according to law, impaneled and sworn to inquire into and try any matter of fact, and to render their true verdict according to the evidence legally adduced.  In criminal trials the number of such persons is usually twelve, but in civil cases and in grand juries it may different.  See Grand jury under Grand, and Inquest.

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life.
Shak.

2.
A committee for determining relative merit or awarding prizes at an exhibition or competition; as, the art jury gave him the first prize.

Jury of inquest, a coroner's jury. See Inquest.


word: Juryman
definition:
Juryman

Ju"ry*man
(?)
n.
pl. Jurymen (_;).
One who is impaneled on a jury, or who serves as a juror.


word: Jury mast
definition:
Jury mast

Ju"ry mast
(a)
A temporary mast, in place of one that has been carried away, or broken.
(b)
(Med.)
An apparatus to support the trunk and head in spinal disease.


word: Jury-rig
definition:
Jury-rig

Ju"ry-rig`
(?)
v. t.
to rig for temporary service; to construct flimsily and in makeshift fashion. See Jury, a.


word: jury-rigged
definition:
jury-rigged

ju"ry-rigged`
(?)
a.
(Naut.)
Rigged for temporary service; done or made using whatever materials are available; makeshift; as, the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear. See Jury, a.

Syn. -- improvised, makeshift.


word: Jussi
definition:
Jussi

Jus"si
(?)
n.
A delicate fiber, produced in the Philippine Islands from an unidentified plant, of which dresses, etc., are made.


word: jussive
definition:
jussive

jus"sive
(?)
a.
(Grammar)
Indicating or expressive of a mild command; as, the jussive case.
n. The jussive case; a jussive mood, form, word, or construction.


word: Just
definition:
Just

Just
(?)
a.
[F. juste, L. justus, fr. jus right, law, justice; orig., that which is fitting; akin to Skr. yu to join.  Cf. Injury, Judge, Jury, Giusto.]

1.
Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- said both of persons and things.
just
Shak.

There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Eccl. vii. 20.

Just balances, just weights, . . . shall ye have.
Lev. xix. 36.

How should man be just with God?
Job ix. 2.

We know your grace to be a man.
Just and upright.
Shak.

2.
Not transgressing the requirement of truth and propriety; conformed to the truth of things, to reason, or to a proper standard; exact; normal; reasonable; regular; due; as, a just statement; a just inference.

Just of thy word, in every thought sincere.
Pope.

The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship
To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies.
Shak.

He was a comely personage, a little above just stature.
Bacon.

Fire fitted with just materials casts a constant heat.
Jer. Taylor.

When all
The war shall stand ranged in its just array.
Addison.

Their names alone would make a just volume.
Burton.

3.
Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial; as, just judge.

Men are commonly so just to virtue and goodness as to praise it in others, even when they do not practice it themselves.
Tillotson.

Just intonation. (Mus.) (a) The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch. (b) The giving all chords and intervals in their purity or their exact mathematical ratio, or without temperament; a process in which the number of notes and intervals required in the various keys is much greater than the twelve to the octave used in systems of temperament. H. W. Poole.


word: Just₂
definition:
Just

Just
adv.
1.
Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated.

And having just enough, not covet more.
Dryden.

The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast.
Sir P. Sidney.

To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one.
Shak.

2.
Closely; nearly; almost.

Just at the point of death.
Sir W. Temple.

3.
Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late.

A soft Etesian gale
But just inspired and gently swelled the sail.
Dryden.

Just now, the least possible time since; a moment ago.


word: Justice
definition:
Justice

Jus"tice
(jŭs"tĭs)
n.
[F., fr. L. justitia, fr.  justus just. See Just, a.]

1.
The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness.

Justice and judgment are the haditation of thy throne.
Ps. ixxxix. 11.

The king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, . . . 
I have no relish of them.
Shak.

2.
Conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and in conduct; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit; honesty; fidelity; impartiality; as, the justice of a description or of a judgment; historical justice.

3.
The rendering to every one his due or right; just treatment; requital of desert; merited reward or punishment; that which is due to one's conduct or motives.

This even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips.
Shak.

4.
Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice of a claim.

5.
A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice.

&hand_; This title is given to the judges of the common law courts in England and in the United States, and extends to judicial officers and magistrates of every grade.

Bed of justice. See under Bed. -- Chief justice. See in the Vocabulary. -- Justice of the peace (Law), a judicial officer or subordinate magistrate appointed for the conservation of the peace in a specified district, with other incidental powers specified in his commission. In the United States a justice of the peace has jurisdiction to adjudicate certain minor cases, commit offenders, officiate at marriages, etc.; abbreviated JP.


word: Justicement
definition:
Justicement

Jus"tice*ment
(?)
n.
Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice.
[Obs.]
Johnson.


word: Justiciable
definition:
Justiciable

Jus*ti"ci*a*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. LL. justitiabilis, F. justiciable.]
Proper to be examined in a court of justice.
Bailey.


word: Justiciary
definition:
Justiciary

Jus*ti"ci*a*ry
(?)
n.
[Cf. LL. justitiarius, F. justicier. See Justice.]
(Old Eng. Law)
An old name for the judges of the higher English courts.

&hand_; The chief justiciary, or justiciar, in early English history, was not only the chief justice of the kingdom, but also ex officio regent in the king's absence.

Court of justiciary (Scots Law), the supreme criminal court, having jurisdiction over the whole of Scotland.


word: Justicoat
definition:
Justicoat

Justico

{ Jus"ti*co (?), Jus"ti*coat` (?) }
n.
[F. justaucorps, lit., close to the body.]
Formerly, a close coat or waistcoat with sleeves.


word: Justifiable
definition:
Justifiable

Jus"ti*fi`a*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. justifiable. See Justify.]
Capable of being justified, or shown to be just.

Just are the ways of God,
And justifiable to men.
Milton.


word: Justification
definition:
Justification

Jus`ti*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. justificatio: cf. F. justification. See Justify.]

1.
The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindication; support; as, arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits justification.

I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.
Shak.

2.
(Law)
The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to answer.

3.
(Theol.)
The act of justifying, or the state of being justified, in respect to God's requirements.

Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.
Rom. iv. 25.

In such righteousness
To them by faith imputed, they may find
Justification toward God, and peace
Of conscience.
Milton.

4.
(Print.)
Adjustment of type (in printing), or of the final spacing of printed text, by spacing it so as to make it exactly fill a line, or line up at one edge of the allotted portion of the printed page; adjustment of a cut so as to hold it in the right place; also, the leads, quads, etc., used for making such adjustment; as, left justification is the most common format for simple letters, but left and right justification is typically used in books.


word: Justificative
definition:
Justificative

Jus*tif"i*ca*tive
(?; 277)
a.
[Cf. F. justificatif.]
Having power to justify; justificatory.


word: Justificator
definition:
Justificator

Jus"ti*fi*ca`tor
(?)
n.
[LL. justificator: cf. F. justificateur.]
One who justifies or vindicates; a justifier.
Johnson.


word: justified
definition:
justified

jus"ti*fied
(?)
a.
(Printing)
Arranged and spaced so as to line up at the left side or right side of the printed page, or on both sides; as, left justified; right justified.


word: Justifier
definition:
Justifier

Jus"ti*fi`er
(?)
n.
One who justifies; one who vindicates, supports, defends, or absolves.

Justifiers of themselves and hypocrites.
Strype.

That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Rom. iii. 26.


word: Justify
definition:
Justify

Jus"ti*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Justified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Justifying (?).]
[F. justifier, L. justificare; justus just + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Just, a., and -fy.]

1.
To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty.

That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.
Milton.

Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify revolution, it would not justify the evil of breaking up a government.
E. Everett.

2.
To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to absolve; to exonerate; to clear.

I can not justify whom the law condemns.
Shak.

3.
(Theol.)
To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.

By him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Acts xiii. 39.

4.
To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
[Obs.]
Shak.

5.
(Print.)
To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to align (text) at the left (left justify) or right (right justify) margins of a column or page, or at both margins; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.

6.
(Law)
(a)
To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.
(b)
To qualify (one's self) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.

The production of bail in court, who there justify themselves against the exception of the plaintiff.
Bouvier's Law Dict.


word: Justify₂
definition:
Justify

Jus"ti*fy
v. i.
1.
(Print.)
To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly.

2.
(Law)
To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.


word: Justle
definition:
Justle

Jus"tle
(?)
v. i.
[Freq. of joust, just, v. i. See Joust, v. i., and cf. Jostle.]
To run or strike against each other; to encounter; to clash; to jostle.
Shak.

The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways.
Nahum ii. 4.


word: Justle₂
definition:
Justle

Jus"tle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Justled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Justling (?).]
To push; to drive; to force by running against; to jostle.

We justled one another out, and disputed the post for a great while.
Addison.


word: Justly
definition:
Justly

Just"ly
(?)
adv.
[From Just, a.]
In a just manner; in conformity to law, justice, or propriety; by right; honestly; fairly; accurately.
justly
Shak.

Nothing can justly be despised that can not justly be blamed: where there is no choice there can be no blame.
South.


word: Justness
definition:
Justness

Just"ness
n.
The quality of being just; conformity to truth, propriety, accuracy, exactness, and the like; justice; reasonableness; fairness; equity; as, justness of proportions; the justness of a description or representation; the justness of a cause.

In value the satisfaction I had in seeing it represented with all the justness and gracefulness of action.
Dryden.

&hand_; Justness is properly applied to things, and justice to persons; but the distinction is not always observed.


word: Jut
definition:
Jut

Jut
(jŭt)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Jutted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Jutting.]
[A corruption of jet.]

1.
To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.
jutting
Wordsworth.

It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
To butt.
[Obs.]
jutting
Mason.


word: Jute
definition:
Jute

Jute
(jūt)
n.
[Hind. jūt, Skr. jū&tsdot_;a matted hair; cf. ja&tsdot_;a matted hair, fibrous roots.]
The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and Corchorus capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc.


word: Jutes
definition:
Jutes

Jutes
(jūts)
prop. n. pl.
sing. Jute
(Ethnol.)
Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.


word: Jutty
definition:
Jutty

Jut"ty
(?)
n.
[See Jetty, Jut, Jet.]
A projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty.
Shak.


word: Juvenal
definition:
Juvenal

Ju"ve*nal
(?)
n.
[L. juvenalis youthful, juvenile, fr. juvenis young.]
A youth.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Juvenescent
definition:
Juvenescent

Ju`ve*nes"cent
(?)
a.
[L. juvenescens, p. pr. of juvenescere to grow young again, from juvenis young.]
Growing or becoming young.


word: Juvenile
definition:
Juvenile

Ju"ve*nile
(?; 277)
a.
[L. juvenilis, from juvenis young; akin to E. young: cf. F. juvénile, juvénil. See Young.]

1.
Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance.
juvenile
Glanvill.

2.
Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports.
3.
Characteristic of children; immature; childish; puerile; infantile; as, a juvenile temper tantrum.


word: juvenile delinquent
definition:
juvenile delinquent

ju"ve*nile de*lin"quent
(?)
n.
A child or person of minor age who commits acts which would be considered criminal if performed by an adult, such as theft, vandalism, or violence; especially, one who habitually acts in such an antisocial manner and cannot be controlled by parents.  Abbreviated JD.


word: juvenile hormone
definition:
juvenile hormone

juvenile hormone
(Zo/'94l.)
n.
A hormone secreted by insects which inhibits the molting of an insect from its juvenile into its adult form; also, substances having similar activity, but produced by plants.


word: Juvenility
definition:
Juvenility

Ju`ve*nil"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Juvenilities (#).
[L. juvenilitas: cf. F. juvénilité.]

1.
Youthfulness; adolescence.
Glanvill.

2.
The manners or character of youth; immaturity.
Glanvill.


word: Juvia
definition:
Juvia

Ju"vi*a
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A Brazilian name for the lofty myrtaceous tree (Bertholetia excelsa) which produces the large seeds known as Brazil nuts.


word: Juxtapose
definition:
Juxtapose

Jux`ta*pose"
(jŭks`tȧ*p&omacrz")
v. t.
[Cf. Juxtaposit, Pose.]
To place in juxtaposition.
Huxley.


word: Juxtaposit
definition:
Juxtaposit

Jux`ta*pos"it
(jŭks`tȧ*p&obreve_;z"ĭt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Juxtaposited; p. pr. & vb. n. Juxtapositing.]
[L. juxta near + positus, p. p. of ponere to put.]
To place in close connection or contiguity; to juxtapose.
Derham.


word: Juxtaposition
definition:
Juxtaposition

Jux`ta*po*si"tion
(jŭks`tȧ*po̝*zĭsh"ŭn)
n.
[L. juxta near + positio position: cf. F. juxtaposition. See Just, v. i., and Position.]
A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.

Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition.
Glanvill.

Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity.
Hare.


word: K
definition:
K

K
(kā)
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 Phœnician source, the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian.  Etymologically K is most nearly related to c, g, h (which see).
In many words of one syllable k is used after c, as in crack, check, deck, being necessary to exhibit a correct pronunciation in the derivatives, cracked, checked, decked, cracking; since without it, c, before the vowels e and i, would be sounded like s. Formerly, k was added to c in certain words of Latin origin, as in musick, publick, republick; but now it is omitted.

See Guide to Pronunciation , §§ 240, 178, 179, 185.


word: K2
definition:
K2

K2
n.
A mountain in Northern Kashmir; it is one of the highest in the world, 28,250 feet high.

Syn. -- Godwin Austen, Dapsang.


word: ka
definition:
ka

ka
n.
(Ancient Egyptian Religion)
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.


word: Kaaba
definition:
Kaaba

Ka*a"ba
(kȧ*ā"bȧ)
prop. n.
[Ar. ka'bah, lit., a square building, fr. ka'b cube.]
The small and nearly cubical stone building, in the court of the Great Mosque at Mecca, toward which all Muslims must pray.  It contains a sacred black stone, believed by Muslims 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.
[Written also caaba, kaabeh and kaabah.]


word: Kafal
definition:
Kafal

Ka*fal"
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
The Arabian name of two trees of the genus Balsamodendron, which yield a gum resin and a red aromatic wood.


word: Kafir
definition:
Kafir

Kaffir

{ Kaf"fir (kăf"fẽr), Ka"fir (kä"fẽr), }
n.
[Ar. kāfir infidel, pagan, fr. kafara to be skeptical in religious matters; -- a name given to certain infidel races by the Muslims.  Cf. Giaour.]
1.
(Ethnol.)
(a)
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.
(b)
One of a race inhabiting Kafiristan in Central Asia.
[Spelt also Caffre.]

2.
Any Black African; -- a disparaging and offensive term used by white South Africans.
[South Africa]

Syn. -- kaffir, caffer, caffre.

Kaffir corn (Bot.), a Cape Colony name for Indian millet.


word: Kafkaesque
definition:
Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque
prop. a.
[fr. Franz Kafka, novelist; especially from his novels such as "The Trial".]
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.


word: Kagu
definition:
Kagu

Ka"gu
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
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.


word: Kahau
definition:
Kahau

Ka*hau"
(?)
n.
[Native name, from its cry.]
(Zool.)
A long-nosed 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.
[Written also kaha.]


word: Kail
definition:
Kail

Kail
(?)
n.
1.
(Bot.)
A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1.

2.
Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables.
[OE. or Scot.]

3.
A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner.
[Scot.]

Kail yard, a kitchen garden. [Scot.]


word: Kain
definition:
Kain

Kain
(?)
n.
(Scots Law)
Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.
Wharton (Law Dict.).


word: Kainit
definition:
Kainit

Kai"nit
(?)
n.
[Trade name, fr. kainite.]
Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.


word: Kainite
definition:
Kainite

Kai"nite
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; recent.]
(Min.)
A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony.


word: Kairine
definition:
Kairine

Kai"rine
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A pale buff or white crystalline alkaloid derived from quinoline, and used as an antipyretic in medicine.


word: Kairoline
definition:
Kairoline

Kai`ro*line
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
An organic base obtained from quinoline. It is used as a febrifuge, and resembles kairine.


word: Kaiser
definition:
Kaiser

Kai"ser
(?)
n.
[Gr., fr. L. Caesar.  Cf. Kesar, and Czar.]
The ancient title of emperors of Germany assumed by King William of Prussia when crowned sovereign of the new German empire in 1871.


word: Kaka
definition:
Kaka

Ka"ka
(?)
n.
[Maori kaka a parrot; -- so named from its note.]
(Zool.)
A New Zealand parrot of the genus Nestor, especially the brown parrot (Nestor meridionalis).

&hand_; The mountain kaka, or kea (Nestor notabilis), is remarkable for having recently acquired carnivorous habits.  It attacks and kills lambs and pigs, sometimes doing great damage.

Night kaka. (Zool.) The kakapo.


word: Kakapo
definition:
Kakapo

Ka`ka*po"
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
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.


word: Kakaralli
definition:
Kakaralli

Kak`a*ral"li
(?)
n.
A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.


word: Kakistocracy
definition:
Kakistocracy

Kak`is*toc"ra*cy
(kăk`ĭs*t&obreve_;k"rȧ*s&ybreve_;)
n.
[Gr. ka`kistos worst + kratei^n to rule.]
Government by the worst men.


word: Kalahari
definition:
Kalahari

Kalahari
prop. n.
A desert in Southwestern Africa, most of which is located in the country of Botswana.

Syn. -- Kalahari Desert.


word: kalantas
definition:
kalantas

kalantas
n.
A Philippine timber tree (Toona calantas or Cedrela calantas) having hard red fragrant wood.

Syn. -- Philippine mahogany, Philippine cedar, Toona calantas, Cedrela calantas.


word: Kalasie
definition:
Kalasie

Ka`la*sie"
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A long-tailed monkey of Borneo (Semnopithecus rubicundus). It has a tuft of long hair on the head.


word: Kale
definition:
Kale

Kale
(?)
n.
[Scot. kale, kail, cale, colewort, Gael. cael; akin to Ir. cal, W. cawl, Armor. kaol. See Cole.]

1.
(Bot.)
A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species.
[Written also kail, and cale.]

2.
See Kail, 2.

Sea kale (Bot.), a European cruciferous herb (Crambe maritima), often used as a pot herb; sea cabbage.


word: Kaleege
definition:
Kaleege

Ka*leege"
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
One of several species of large, crested, Asiatic pheasants, belonging to the genus Euplocamus, and allied to the firebacks.


word: Kaleidophone
definition:
Kaleidophone

Kaleidophon

{ Ka*lei"do*phon (?), Ka*lei"do*phone (?), }
[Gr. _; beautiful + _; appearance, form + _; sound.]
(Physics.)
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.


word: Kaleidoscope
definition:
Kaleidoscope

Ka*lei"do*scope
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; beautiful + e'i^dos form + -scope.]
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.

Shifting like the fragments of colored glass in the kaleidoscope.
G. W. Cable.


word: Kaleidoscopical
definition:
Kaleidoscopical

Kaleidoscopic

{ Ka*lei`do*scop"ic (?), Ka*lei`do*scop"ic*al (?), }
a.
Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a kaleidoscope; variegated.


word: Kali
definition:
Kali

Ka"li
(?)
n.
[Skr. kali.]
(Hind. Cosmog.)
The last and worst of the four ages of the world; -- considered to have begun B. C. 3102, and to last 432,000 years.


word: Kali₂
definition:
Kali

Ka"li
prop. n.
[Skr. kālī.]
(Hind. Myth.)
The black, destroying goddess; -- called also Doorga, Anna Purna.


word: kalian
definition:
kalian

kalian
n.
A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water.  See also hookah.

Syn. -- hookah, hubble-bubble, narghile, water pipe.


word: Kaligenous
definition:
Kaligenous

Ka*lig"e*nous
(?)
a.
[Kali + -genous. See Alkali.]
Forming alkalies with oxygen, as some metals.


word: Kalmia
definition:
Kalmia

Kal"mi*a
(?)
n.
[NL. Named in honor of Peter Kalm, a Swedish botanist.]
(Bot.)
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.


word: Kalmuck
definition:
Kalmuck

Kal"muck
(?)
n.
1.
pl.
(Ethnol.)
See Calmucks.

2.
A kind of shaggy cloth, resembling bearskin.

3.
A coarse, dyed, cotton cloth, made in Prussia.


word: Kalpa
definition:
Kalpa

Kal"pa
(?)
n.
[Skr.]
(Hind. Myth.)
One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated.


word: Kam
definition:
Kam

Kam
(?)
a.
[From Celtic; cf. Gael., Ir., & W. cam.  Cf. Jamb, n.]
Crooked; awry.
[Obs.]
kam
Shak.


word: Kama
definition:
Kama

Ka"ma
(kä"mä)
n.
[Skr. kāma love, the god of love.]
1.
The Hindu Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.

2.
Desire; animal passion;
supposed to create the ka"ma ru"pa (rōpȧ) [Skr. rūpa shape, image], a kind of simulacrum or astral likeness of a man which exists after his death in an invisible plane of being, called ka"ma lo"ca (l&omacr"kȧ) [Skr. l&omacrka space, world], until the impulses which created it are exhausted and it finally fades away.


word: Kamala
definition:
Kamala

Ka*ma"la
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
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.
[Written also kameela.]


word: Kami
definition:
Kami

Ka"mi
(?)
n. pl.
[Japanese, god.]
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.


word: Kamichi
definition:
Kamichi

Ka"mi*chi
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
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.


word: Kamptulicon
definition:
Kamptulicon

Kamp*tu"li*con
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; to bend + _; material, fr. _; wood, matter.]
A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.


word: Kampylite
definition:
Kampylite

Kam"py*lite
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; bent, curved, fr. _; to bend.]
(Min.)
A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow.
[Written also campylite.]


word: Khamsin
definition:
Khamsin

Kamsin

{ Kam*sin", Kham*sin"  }
(?)
n.
[Ar. khamsīn, fr. khamsūn, oblique case khamsīn, fifty; -- so called because it blows for about fifty days, from April till June.]
A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara.
[Written also Khamseen.]


word: Kamtschadales
definition:
Kamtschadales

Kam"tscha*dales
(?)
n. pl.
[from the older spelling Kamtschatka for Kamchatka.]
(Ethnol.)
An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of the Kamchatka peninsula; called also Kamchadals and Itelmen.


word: Kanaka
definition:
Kanaka

Kanacka

{ Ka*nack"a (?), Ka*na"ka (?), }
n.
[Native name, prop., a man.]
A native of the Sandwich Islands.


word: Kanawha
definition:
Kanawha

Kanawha
prop. n.
The Kanawha River, a tributary of the Ohio River.

Syn. -- Kanawha River.


word: kanchil
definition:
kanchil

kan"chil
(?)
n.
[Malay canchīl.]
(Zool.)
A small chevrotain of the genus Tragulus, esp. Tragulus pygmæus, or Tragulus kanchil, inhabiting Java, Sumatra, and adjacent islands; a deerlet.  It is noted for its agility and cunning.


word: Kanchenjunga
definition:
Kanchenjunga

Kanchenjunga
prop. n.
A mountain in India and Nepal, 28,146 feet high.
[proper name]

Syn. -- Kanchanjanga, Kinchinjunga.


word: kangaroo
definition:
kangaroo

kan"ga*roo"
(?)
n.
[Said to be the native name.]
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidæ.  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.

Kangaroo apple (Bot.), the edible fruit of the Tasmanian plant Solanum aviculare. -- Kangaroo grass (Bot.), a perennial Australian forage grass (Anthistiria australis). -- Kangaroo hare (Zool.), the jerboa kangaroo. See under Jerboa. -- Kangaroo mouse. (Zool.) See Jumping mouse, under Jumping.


word: kangaroo rat
definition:
kangaroo rat

kangaroo rat
n.
(Zool.)
A jumping rodent of the genus Dipodomys of the family Heteromyidae, which lives in arid regions of Mexico and the western U. S.

2.
(Zool.)
An Australian mammal of the genus Notomys.

3.
(Zool.)
a small ratlike Australian kangaroo of the genus Potorous, also called the potoroo.


word: kangaroo's-foot
definition:
kangaroo's-foot

kangaroo's-foot
n.
A sedgelike spring-flowering herb (Anigozanthus manglesii) of Australia, having clustered flowers covered with woolly hairs.

Syn. -- kangaroo paw, kangaroo-foot plant, Australian sword lily, Anigozanthus manglesii.


word: Kansas
definition:
Kansas

Kan"sas
(?)
prop. n.
A state of the central United States, bordering the Mississippi River to the west.


word: Kansas₂
definition:
Kansas

Kan"sas
(?)
prop. n. pl.
(Ethnol.)
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.


word: Kantian
definition:
Kantian

Kant"i*an
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher; conformed or relating to any or all of the philosophical doctrines of Immanuel Kant.


word: Kantism
definition:
Kantism

Kantianism

{ Kant"i*an*ism, Kant"ism  }
(?)
n.
The doctrine or theory of Kant; the Kantian philosophy.


word: Kaoline
definition:
Kaoline

Kaolin

{ Ka"o*lin, Ka"o*line  }
(?)
n.
[Chin. kao-ling.]
(Min.)
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.

&hand_; The name is now applied to all porcelain clays which endure the fire without discoloration.


word: Kapelle
definition:
Kapelle

Ka*pel"le
(?)
n.
[G.]
(Mus.)
A chapel; hence, the choir or orchestra of a prince's chapel; now, a musical establishment, usually orchestral.
Grove.


word: Kapok
definition:
Kapok

Ka*pok"
(?)
n.
[Prob. fr. the native name.]
(Bot.)
A silky wool derived from the seeds of Ceiba pentandra (syn. Eriodendron anfractuosum), a bombaceous tree of the East and West Indies.


word: Karaite
definition:
Karaite

Ka"ra*ite
(?)
n.
[Heb. qārā to read.]
(Eccl. Hist.)
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.


word: Karakul
definition:
Karakul

Ka`ra*kul"
(?)
prop. n.
[Russ. karakul' curly fleece of Bokhara and Khiva sheep.]
1.
A type of Astrakhan, esp. in fine grades, obtained from the Karakul sheep.  See sense 2 and cf. Caracul.

2.
A hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia, bearing a soft curly fleece that is black in the young lambs, but which grows brown or gray when adult; the lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- broadtail, caracul.

3.
A large lake in the Pamirs of Central Asia, lying 13,200 feet above sea level.


word: Karat
definition:
Karat

Karat
n.
the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75 2.122e-314old; 24-karat gold is pure gold.

Syn. -- carat.


word: karate
definition:
karate

ka*ra"te
(kä*rä"ta̝)
n.
[Japanese, empty hand.]
a traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat; sharp blows and kicks are given to pressure-sensitive points on the body of the opponent.


word: Karma
definition:
Karma

Kar"ma
(?)
n.
[Skr.]
1.
(Buddhism, Hinduism)
One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence.

2.
(Theos.)
The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect, especially the principle by which a person is rewarded or punished in a subsequent incarnation for deeds in the previous incarnation; the theory of inevitable consequence.

3.
One's destiny; fate.

4.
(Mysticism)
The supposed non-physical emanations that a person gives off, which may affect other people; vibrations.


word: Karn
definition:
Karn

Karn
(?)
n.
[Cornish.  Cf. Cairn.]
(Mining)
A pile of rocks; sometimes, the solid rock. See Cairn.


word: Karob
definition:
Karob

Ka"rob
(?)
n.
[Cf. Carat.]
The twenty-fourth part of a grain; -- a weight used by goldsmiths.
Crabb.


word: Kaross
definition:
Kaross

Ka*ross"
(?)
n.
[Native name.]
A native garment or rug of skin sewed together in the form of a square.
[South Africa]
The wants of a native . . . are confined to a kaross (skin cloak) or some pieces of cotton cloth.
James Bryce.


word: Karpholite
definition:
Karpholite

Kar"pho*lite
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; rice straw + -lite: cf. F. carpholithe.]
(Min.)
A fibrous mineral occurring in tufts of a straw-yellow color. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and manganese.


word: Karroo
definition:
Karroo

Kar*roo"
(kȧr*rō")
n.
pl. Karroos (kȧr*rōz").
One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations.
[Also karoo.]

The Great Karroo, or The Karroo, a vast plateau, in Cape Colony, stretching through five degrees of longitude, at an elevation of about 3,000 feet.


word: Karyokinesis
definition:
Karyokinesis

Kar"y*o*ki*ne`sis
(kăr`ĭ*o̝*ki̝*nē"sĭs)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ka`ryon a nut, kernel + kinei^n to move.]
1.
(Biol.)
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.

2.
The changes that occur in the nucleus of a cell, especially movements of the chromosomes, in the process of cell division.


word: Karyokinetic
definition:
Karyokinetic

Kar`y*o*ki*net"ic
(kăr`ĭ*o̝*ki̝*nĕt"ĭk)
a.
(Biol.)
Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division.


word: Karyomiton
definition:
Karyomiton

Kar`y*om"i*ton
(kăr`ĭ*&obreve_;m"ĭ*t&obreve_;n)
n.
[NL., Gr. ka`ryon a nut + mi`tos a thread.]
(Biol.)
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.
W. Flemming.


word: karyoplasma
definition:
karyoplasma

karyoplasm

kar`y*o*plas"m (kăr`ĭ*o̝*plăz"'m), kar`y*o*plas"ma
(kăr`ĭ*o̝*plăz"mȧ)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ka`ryon a nut + pla`sma a thing molded.]
(Biol.)
The protoplasmic substance of the nucleus of a cell; nucleoplasm; -- in opposition to cytoplasm, the protoplasm of the cell.


word: Karyostenosis
definition:
Karyostenosis

Kar`y*o*ste*no"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ka`ryon a nut, kernel + _; a being straitened.]
(Biol.)
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.


word: Karyostenotic
definition:
Karyostenotic

Kar`y*o*ste*not"ic
(?)
a.
(Biol.)
Pertaining to, or connected with, karyostenosis; as, the karyostenotic mode of nuclear division.


word: Kat
definition:
Kat

Kat
(kät)
n.
(Bot.)
An Arabian shrub (Catha edulis) the leaves of which are used as tea by the Arabs.


word: Katabolism
definition:
Katabolism

Ka*tab"o*lism
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; down + _; to throw.]
(Physiol.)
Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; same as catabolism (now the more common spelling); -- opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.


word: Katastate
definition:
Katastate

Kat"a*state
(?)
n.
[Gr. (_;) down + (_;) to cause to stand.]
(Physiol.)
A substance formed by a catabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See catabolic.


word: katharsis
definition:
katharsis

katharsis
n.
purging of emotional tensions; -- usually spelled catharsis.

Syn. -- catharsis, abreaction.


word: Kathetal
definition:
Kathetal

Kath"e*tal
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; a perpendicular line. See Cathetus.]
(Math.)
Making a right angle; perpendicular, as two lines or two sides of a triangle, which include a right angle.


word: Katsuwonidae
definition:
Katsuwonidae

Katsuwonidae
prop. n.
A natural family of fish which in some classifications is considered a separate family comprising the oceanic bonitos.

Syn. -- family Kasuwonidae.


word: Katsuwonus
definition:
Katsuwonus

Katsuwonus
prop. n.
A genus of oceanic bonitos; in some classifications it is placed in its own family Katsuwonidae.

Syn. -- genus Katsuwonus.


word: Kattimundoo
definition:
Kattimundoo

Kat`ti*mun"doo
(?)
n.
A caoutchouc-like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.


word: Katydid
definition:
Katydid

Ka"ty*did`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidæ, 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.


word: Kauri
definition:
Kauri

Ka"u*ri
(?)
n.
[Native name.]
(Bot.)
A tall coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis australis, or Dammara australis), having white straight-grained wood furnishing valuable timber and also yielding one kind of dammar resin.
[Written also kaudi, kaury, cowdie, and cowrie.]


word: Kauri₂
definition:
Kauri

Kau"ri
(?)
n.
(a)
Kauri resin.
(b)
By extension,
any of various species of Dammara; as, the red kauri (Dammara lanceolata).


word: Kauri copal
definition:
Kauri copal

Kauri gum

Kauri resin

{ Kauri resin, Kauri gum, or Kauri copal }
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.


word: Kava
definition:
Kava

Ka"va
(?)
n.
[Polynesian.]
(Bot.)
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.
[Written also kawa, kava, and ava.]


word: Kavass
definition:
Kavass

Ka*vass"
(?)
n.
pl.
Kavasses
(#)
[Turk. kāvvās]
An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier.
[Turkey]


word: Kawaka
definition:
Kawaka

Ka*wa"ka
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
a New Zealand tree, the Cypress cedar (Libocedrus Doniana), having a valuable, fine-grained, reddish wood.


word: Kayak
definition:
Kayak

Kay"ak
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
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.


word: Kayles
definition:
Kayles

Kayles
(?)
n. pl.
[Akin to Dan. kegle, Sw. kegla, D. & G. kegel, OHG. kegil, whence F. quille.]
A game; ninepins.
[Prov Eng.]
Carew.


word: kazoo
definition:
kazoo

ka*zoo"
(?)
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
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.


word: Kea
definition:
Kea

Ke"a
(kā"ȧ; colloq. kē"ȧ)
n.
[Maori.]
(Zool.)
A large New Zealand parrot (Nestor notabilis), notorious for having acquired the habit of killing sheep; -- called also mountain parrot.


word: Keck
definition:
Keck

Keck
(kĕk)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Kecked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Kecking.]
[Cf. dial. G. köcken, köken.]
To heave or to retch, as in an effort to vomit.
[R.]
Swift.


word: Keckle₂
definition:
Keckle

Kec"kle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Keckled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Keckling (?).]
(Naut.)
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.
Totten.


word: Kecksy
definition:
Kecksy

Keck"sy
(?)
n.
pl. Kecksies (-sĭz).
[Properly pl. of kex. See Kex.]
(Bot.)
The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock.
[Written also kex, and in pl., kecks, kaxes.]

Nothing teems
But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs.
Shak.


word: Keddah
definition:
Keddah

Ked"dah
(?)
n.
[Malay kedah, fr. Ar. qadah hole.]
An inclosure constructed to entrap wild elephants; an elephant trap.
[India]


word: Kedge
definition:
Kedge

Kedge
(kĕj)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Kedged (kĕjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Kedging.]
[Cf. dial. Sw. keka to tug, to drag one's self slowly forward; or perh. fr. ked, and kedge, n., for keg anchor, named from the keg or cask fastened to the anchor to show where it lies.]
(Naut.)
To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.


word: Kedge₂
definition:
Kedge

Kedge
n.
[See Kedge, v. t.]
(Naut.)
A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed with. See Kedge, v. t., and Anchor, n.


word: Kedlock
definition:
Kedlock

Ked"lock
(kĕd"l&obreve_;k)
n.
[Cf. dial. G. köddik, küdik, kettich, keek, Dan. kidike, E. charlock, and AS. cedelc the herb mercury.]
(Bot.)
See Charlock.


word: Kee
definition:
Kee

Kee
(kē)
n. pl.
[AS. c&ymacr_;, pl. of cū cow. See Kine.]
See Kie, Ky, and Kine.
[Prov. Eng.]
Gay.


word: Keech
definition:
Keech

Keech
(?)
n.
[Cf. Prov. E. keech a cake.]
A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Keel
definition:
Keel

Keel
(kēl)
v. t. & i.
[AS. cēlan to cool, fr. c&omacrl cool. See Cool.]
To cool; to skim or stir.
[Obs.]

While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Shak.


word: Keel₃
definition:
Keel

Keel
n.
[Cf. AS. ceól ship; akin to D. & G. kiel keel, OHG. chiol ship, Icel. kj&omacrll, and perh. to Gr. gay^los a round-built Phœnician merchant vessel, gaylo`s bucket; cf. Skr. g&omacrla ball, round water vessel. But the meaning of the English word seems to come from Icel. kjölr keel, akin to Sw. köl, Dan. kjöl.]
1.
(Shipbuilding)
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 vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson.

2.
Fig.: The whole ship.

3.
A barge or lighter, used on the Tyne for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.
[Eng.]

4.
(Bot.)
The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.

5.
(Nat. Hist.)
A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.

6.
(Aeronautics)
In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aëroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.

Bilge keel (Naut.), a keel peculiar to ironclad vessels, extending only a portion of the length of the vessel under the bilges. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- False keel. See under False. -- Keel boat. (a) A covered freight boat, with a keel, but no sails, used on Western rivers. [U. S.] (b) A low, flat-bottomed freight boat. See Keel, n., 3. -- Keel piece, one of the timbers or sections of which a keel is composed. -- On even keel, in a level or horizontal position, so that the draught of water at the stern and the bow is the same. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- On an even keel a. & adv., steady; balanced; steadily.


word: Keel₄
definition:
Keel

Keel
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Keeled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Keeling.]
1.
To traverse with a keel; to navigate.

2.
To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

To keel over, to upset; to capsize. [Colloq.]


word: Keelage
definition:
Keelage

Keel"age
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. guillage, fr. guille keel; of German or Scand origin. See 3d Keel.]
The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll.
Bouvier. Wharton.


word: Keeled
definition:
Keeled

Keeled
(?)
a.
1.
(Bot.)
Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf.

2.
(Zool.)
Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled scale.


word: Keeler
definition:
Keeler

Keel"er
(?)
n.
[See 3d Keel.]
1.
One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also keelman.

2.
A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc.


word: Keelfat
definition:
Keelfat

Keel"fat`
(?)
n.
[Keel to cool + fat a large tub, a vat.]
(Brewing)
A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc.
[Written also keelvat.]
Johnson.


word: Keelhaul
definition:
Keelhaul

Keel"haul`
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Keelhauled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Keelhauling.]
[3d keel + haul: cf. LG. & D. kielhalen, G. kielholen. ]
[Written also keelhale.]
(Naut.)
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.
Totten.


word: Keelivine
definition:
Keelivine

Kee"li*vine
(?)
n.
[Cf. Gael. cil ruddle.]
A pencil of black or red lead; -- called also keelyvine pen.
[Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.


word: Keelson
definition:
Keelson

Keel"son
(?)
n.
[Akin to Sw. kölsvin, Dan. kjölsviin, G. kielschwein; apparently compounded of the words keel and swine; but cf. Norweg. kjölsvill, where svill is akin to E. sill, n. ]
(Shipbuilding)
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.

Cross keelson, a similar structure lying athwart the main keelson, to support the engines and boilers.


word: Keen
definition:
Keen

Keen
(kēn)
a.
[Compar. Keener (kēn"ẽr); superl. Keenest.]
[OE. kene sharp, bold, AS. cēne bold; akin to D. koen, OHG. kuoni, G. kühn, OSw. kyn, kön, Icel. kænn, for kœnn wise; perh. akin to E. ken, can to be able. √45.]
1.
Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge.

A bow he bare and arwes [arrows] bright and kene.
Chaucer.

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes.
Shak.

2.
Acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness; as, a man of keen understanding; a keen look; keen features.

To make our wits more keen.
Shak.

Before the keen inquiry of her thought.
Cowper.

3.
Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm.

Good father cardinal, cry thou amen
To my keen curses.
Shak.

4.
Piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc.; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen.

Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes.
Goldsmith.

5.
Eager; vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite.
kene
Piers Plowman.

So keen and greedy to confound a man.
Shak.

6.
Wonderful; delightful; marvelous; as, that would be keen.
[slang]

&hand_; Keen is often used in the composition of words, most of which are of obvious signification; as, keen-edged, keen-eyed, keen-sighted, keen-witted, etc.


word: Keen₃
definition:
Keen

Keen
n.
[Ir. caoine.]
A prolonged wail for a deceased person.  Cf. Coranach.
[Ireland]
Froude.


word: Keep
definition:
Keep

Keep
(kēp)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Kept (kĕpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Keeping.]
[OE. kēpen, AS. cēpan to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE. copnien to desire.]
1.
To care; to desire.
[Obs.]

I kepe not of armes for to yelp [boast].
Chaucer.

2.
To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain.

If we lose the field,
We can not keep the town.
Shak.

That I may know what keeps me here with you.
Dryden.

If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are considering, that would instruct us.
Locke.

3.
To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or tenor.

His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal.
Milton.

Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on.
Addison.

&hand_; In this sense it is often used with prepositions and adverbs, as to keep away, to keep down, to keep from, to keep in, out, or off, etc. “To keep off impertinence and solicitation from his superior.”
Addison.

4.
To have in custody; to have in some place for preservation; to take charge of.

The crown of Stephanus, first king of Hungary, was always kept in the castle of Vicegrade.
Knolles.

5.
To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.

Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee.
Gen. xxviii. 15.

6.
To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.

Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man.
Milton.

7.
To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.

And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it.
Gen. ii. 15.

In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
Carew.

8.
To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to keep books, a journal, etc.; also, to enter (as accounts, records, etc. ) in a book.

9.
To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.

Like a pedant that keeps a school.
Shak.

Every one of them kept house by himself.
Hayward.

10.
To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to keep boarders.

11.
To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.

I keep but three men and a boy.
Shak.

12.
To have habitually in stock for sale.

13.
To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.

Both day and night did we keep company.
Shak.

Within this portal as I kept my watch.
Smollett.

14.
To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to neglect; to be faithful to.

I have kept the faith.
2 Tim. iv. 7.

Him whom to love is to obey, and keep
His great command.
Milton.

15.
To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as, to keep one's house, room, bed, etc.; hence, to haunt; to frequent.
Shak.

'Tis hallowed ground;
Fairies, and fawns, and satyrs do it keep.
J. Fletcher.

16.
To observe duly, as a festival, etc.; to celebrate; to solemnize; as, to keep a feast.

I went with them to the house of God . . . with a multitude that kept holyday.
Ps. xlii. 4.

To keep at arm's length. See under Arm, n. -- To keep back. (a) To reserve; to withhold. “I will keep nothing back from you.” Jer. xlii. 4. (b) To restrain; to hold back. “Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins.”  Ps. xix. 13. -- To keep company with. (a) To frequent the society of; to associate with; as, let youth keep company with the wise and good. (b) To accompany; to go with; as, to keep company with one on a voyage; also, to pay court to, or accept attentions from, with a view to marriage. [Colloq.] -- To keep counsel. See under Counsel, n. -- To keep down. (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder. (b) (Fine Arts) To subdue in tint or tone, as a portion of a picture, so that the spectator's attention may not be diverted from the more important parts of the work. -- To keep good hours or To keep bad hours, to be customarily early (or late) in returning home or in retiring to rest. -- To keep house. (a) To occupy a separate house or establishment, as with one's family, as distinguished from boarding; to manage domestic affairs. (b) (Eng. Bankrupt Law) To seclude one's self in one's house in order to evade the demands of creditors. -- To keep one's hand in, to keep in practice. -- To keep open house, to be hospitable. -- To keep the peace (Law), to avoid or to prevent a breach of the peace. -- To keep school, to govern, manage and instruct or teach a school, as a preceptor. -- To keep a stiff upper lip, to keep up one's courage. [Slang] -- To keep term. (a) (Eng. Universities) To reside during a term. (b) (Inns of Court) To eat a sufficient number of dinners in hall to make the term count for the purpose of being called to the bar. [Eng.] Mozley & W. -- To keep touch. See under Touch, n. -- To keep under, to hold in subjection; hence, to oppress. -- To keep up. (a) To maintain; to prevent from falling or diminution; as, to keep up the price of goods; to keep up one's credit. (b) To maintain; to continue; to prevent from ceasing. “In joy, that which keeps up the action is the desire to continue it.”  Locke.


word: Keep₂
definition:
Keep

Keep
(?)
v. i.
1.
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.

2.
To last; to endure; to remain unimpaired.

If the malt be not thoroughly dried, the ale it makes will not keep.
Mortimer.

3.
To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
[Now disused except locally or colloquially.]

Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps.
Shak.

4.
To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
[Obs.]

Keep that the lusts choke not the word of God that is in us.
Tyndale.

5.
To be in session; as, school keeps to-day.
[Colloq.]

To keep from, to abstain or refrain from. -- To keep in with, to keep on good terms with; as, to keep in with an opponent. -- To keep on, to go forward; to proceed; to continue to advance. -- To keep to, to adhere strictly to; not to neglect or deviate from; as, to keep to old customs; to keep to a rule; to keep to one's word or promise. -- To keep up, to remain unsubdued; also, not to be confined to one's bed.


word: Keep₃
definition:
Keep

Keep
n.
1.
The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
Chaucer.

Pan, thou god of shepherds all,
Which of our tender lambkins takest keep.
Spenser.

2.
The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case; as, to be in good keep.

3.
The means or provisions by which one is kept; maintenance; support; as, the keep of a horse.

Grass equal to the keep of seven cows.
Carlyle.

I performed some services to the college in return for my keep.
T. Hughes.

4.
That which keeps or protects; a stronghold; a fortress; a castle; specifically, the strongest and securest part of a castle, often used as a place of residence by the lord of the castle, especially during a siege; the dungeon. See Illust. of Castle.

The prison strong,
Within whose keep the captive knights were laid.
Dryden.

The lower chambers of those gloomy keeps.
Hallam.

I think . . . the keep, or principal part of a castle, was so called because the lord and his domestic circle kept, abode, or lived there.
M. A. Lower.

5.
That which is kept in charge; a charge.
[Obs.]

Often he used of his keep
A sacrifice to bring.
Spenser.

6.
(Mach.)
A cap for retaining anything, as a journal box, in place.

To take keep, to take care; to heed. [Obs.] Chaucer.


word: Keeper
definition:
Keeper

Keep"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything.

2.
One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners.

3.
One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of anything; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, etc.; the keeper of attached property;
hence,
one who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver.

The Lord is thy keeper.
Ps. cxxi. 6.

4.
One who remains or keeps in a place or position.

Discreet; chaste; keepers at home.
Titus ii. 5.

5.
A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place;
as:
(a)
The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot.
(b)
A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger.
(c)
A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap.

6.
A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper.
Hence:
Anything perishable that remains in good condition longer than usual.
 Downing.

7.
An iron bar that is placed on the poles of a horseshoe magnet, and held in place there by the magnetic force, to preserve the strength of the magnet when not in use.

Keeper of the forest (O. Eng. Law), an officer who had the principal government of all things relating to the forest. -- Keeper of the great seal, a high officer of state, who has custody of the great seal. The office is now united with that of lord chancellor. [Eng.] -- Keeper of the King's conscience, the lord chancellor; -- a name given when the chancellor was an ecclesiastic. [Eng.] -- Keeper of the privy seal (styled also lord privy seal), a high officer of state, through whose hands pass all charters, pardons, etc., before they come to the great seal. He is a privy councillor, and was formerly called clerk of the privy seal. [Eng.] -- Keeper of a magnet, a piece of iron which connects the two poles, for the purpose of keeping the magnetic power undiminished; an armature; called also keeper.


word: Keeping
definition:
Keeping

Keep"ing
n.
1.
A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

His happiness is in his own keeping.
South.

2.
Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.

The work of many hands, which earns my keeping.
Milton.

3.
Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other; his levity is not in keeping with the seriousness of the occasion.

4.
(Paint.)
Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.

Keeping room, a family sitting room. [New Eng. & Prov. Eng.]


word: Keepsake
definition:
Keepsake

Keep"sake`
(?)
n.
Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.


word: Keeve
definition:
Keeve

Keeve
(?)
n.
[AS. c_;f, fr. L. cupa a tub, cask; also, F. cuve.  Cf. Kive, Coop.]
1.
(Brewing)
A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.
Ure.

2.
(Bleaching)
A bleaching vat; a kier.

3.
(Mining)
A large vat used in dressing ores.


word: Keeve₂
definition:
Keeve

Keeve
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Keeved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Keeving.]
1.
To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.

2.
To heave; to tilt, as a cart.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Kefir
definition:
Kefir

Kef"ir
(kĕf"ẽr)
n.
1.
An effervescent liquor like kumiss, made from fermented milk, used as a food and as a medicine in the northern Caucasus.
Ke*fir"ic (kĕ*fĭr"ĭk), a.

2.
A sour fermented milk drink, used in various regions of Asia, made by addition of Streptococcus or Lactobacillus cultures to cow's or goat's milk; it is considered by some as a form of yoghurt.


word: Kefir grains
definition:
Kefir grains

Kefir grains
Small hard yellowish aggregations found in the Caucasus region, and containing various yeasts and bacteria. They are used as a ferment in preparing kefir.


word: Keilhauite
definition:
Keilhauite

Keil"hau*ite
(kīl"hou*īt)
n.
(Min.)
A mineral of a brownish black color, related to titanite in form. It consists chiefly of silica, titanium dioxide, lime, and yttria.


word: Keitloa
definition:
Keitloa

Keit*lo"a
(?)
n.
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
A black, two-horned, African rhinoceros (Atelodus keitloa). It has the posterior horn about as long as the anterior one, or even longer.


word: Kell₃
definition:
Kell

Kell
n.
[Cf. Caul.]
1.
The caul; that which covers or envelops as a caul; a net; a fold; a film.
[Obs.]

I'll have him cut to the kell.
Beau. & Fl.

2.
The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect.
 B. Jonson.


word: Keloid
definition:
Keloid

Ke"loid
(?)
a.
[Also spelled cheloid.]
[F. kéloïde, from Gr. chhlh` crab's claw + -oid: cf. F. kéloïde, chéloïde.]
(Med.)
Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin, or to keloid scar tissue.


word: Keloid₂
definition:
Keloid

Ke"loid
n.
[Also spelled cheloid.]
1.
A keloid tumor.

2.
An abnormally large scar tissue growing at the site of a cut or surgical incision.


word: Kelp
definition:
Kelp

Kelp
(kĕlp)
n.
[Formerly kilpe; of unknown origin.]
1.
The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine.

2.
(Bot.)
Any large blackish seaweed.

&hand_; Laminaria is the common kelp of Great Britain; Macrocystis pyrifera and Nereocystis Lutkeana are the great kelps of the Pacific Ocean.

Kelp crab (Zool.), a California spider crab (Epialtus productus), found among seaweeds, which it resembles in color. -- Kelp salmon (Zool.), a serranoid food fish (Serranus clathratus) of California. See Cabrilla.


word: Kelpfish
definition:
Kelpfish

Kelp"fish`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus.


word: Kelpy
definition:
Kelpy

Kelpie

{ Kel"pie, Kel"py  }
n.
pl. Kelpies (#).
[Cf. Gael. cailpeach, calpach, colpach, a heifer, steer, colt, colpa a cow or horse.]
(Scotch Myth.)
An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned.
Jamieson.


word: Kelt₂
definition:
Kelt

Kelt
n.
[Cf. Icel. kult quilt.]
Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.


word: Kelter
definition:
Kelter

Kel"ter
(?)
n.
[Cf. Gael. & Ir. cealt clothes, Gael. cealltair spear, castle, cause, Prov. E. kilter tool, instrument.  Cf. Kilt.]
Regular order or proper condition.
[Usually written kilter in th U. S.]
[Colloq., chiefly British spelling]

If the organs of prayer be out of kelter or out of tune, how can we pray?
Barrow.


word: Kelvin
definition:
Kelvin

Kel"vin
(kĕl"vĭn)
n.
[from Lord Kelvin, English physicist.]
The SI unit of temperature, defined as being 1/273.16 of the triple point of water; abbreviated K.  The melting point of water at 760 mm pressure is 273.15 Kelvins, and the boiling point 373.15 Kelvins.  One degree Kelvin is equal to one degree Centigrade, and 9/5 degrees Fahrenheit.


word: Kemb
definition:
Kemb

Kemb
(kĕm)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Kembed (kĕmd) or Kempt (kĕmt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Kembing.]
[OE. kemben, AS. cemban, fr. camb comb.]
To comb.
[Obs.]

His longe hair was kembed behind his back.
Chaucer.


word: Kemelin
definition:
Kemelin

Kem"e*lin
(?)
n.
[Cf. Prov. E. kemlin, kimlin, kimmel, a salting tub, any tub, kembing a brewing tub, G. kumme bowl, basin, W. cwmman a tub, brewing tub.]
A tub; a brewer's vessel.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Kempty
definition:
Kempty

Kemp

{ Kemp (kĕmp), Kemp"ty (?), }
n.
Coarse, rough hair in wool or fur, injuring its quality.


word: Kemps
definition:
Kemps

Kemps
(kĕmps)
n. pl.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Bot.)
The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain (Plantago Lanceolata).
Dr. Prior.


word: Kempt
definition:
Kempt

Kempt
(kĕmt; 215)
1.
p. p. of Kemb; combed.
B. Jonson.

2.
Neatly kept; tidy.  Opposite of unkempt.


word: Ken
definition:
Ken

Ken
(kĕn)
n.
[Perh. from kennel.]
A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves.
[Slang, Eng.]


word: Ken₂
definition:
Ken

Ken
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Kenned (kĕnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Kenning.]
[OE. kennen to teach, make known, know, AS. cennan to make known, proclaim, or rather from the related Icel. kenna to know; akin to D. & G. kennen to know, Goth. kannjan to make known; orig., a causative corresponding to AS. cunnan to know, Goth. kunnan. √45. See Can to be able, Know.]
1.
To know; to understand; to take cognizance of.
[Archaic or Scot.]

2.
To recognize; to descry; to discern.
[Archaic or Scot.]
ken
Addison

'T is he. I ken the manner of his gait.
Shak.


word: Ken₄
definition:
Ken

Ken
n.
Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.
ken
Longfellow.

Above the reach and ken of a mortal apprehension.
South.

It was relief to quit the ken
And the inquiring looks of men.
Trench.


word: Kendal
definition:
Kendal

Kendal green

{ Ken"dal green` (?), or Ken"dal. }
A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England.
J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

How couldst thou know these men in Kendal green ?
Shak.


word: Kennedya
definition:
Kennedya

Kennedia

Kennedia, Kennedya
n.
A genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers.

Syn. -- Kennedia, genus Kennedia, genus Kennedya.


word: Kennel
definition:
Kennel

Ken"nel
(?)
n.
[See Channel, Canal.]
The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle.
Bp. Hall.


word: Kennel₂
definition:
Kennel

Ken"nel
n.
[OE. kenel, (assumed) OF. kenil, F. chenil, LL. canile, fr. L. canis a dog.  Cf. Canine.]
1.
A house for a dog or for dogs, or for a pack of hounds.

A dog sure, if he could speak, had wit enough to describe his kennel.
Sir P. Sidney.

2.
A pack of hounds, or a collection of dogs.
Shak.

3.
The hole of a fox or other beast; a haunt.


word: Kennel₃
definition:
Kennel

Ken"nel
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Kenneled (?) or Kennelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Kennelling.]
To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.

The dog kenneled in a hollow tree.
L'Estrange.


word: Kenning
definition:
Kenning

Ken"ning
(?)
n.
[See Ken, v. t.]
1.
Range of sight.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

2.
The limit of vision at sea, being a distance of about twenty miles.


word: Keno
definition:
Keno

Ke"no
(?)
n.
[F. quine five winning numbers, fr. L. quini five each, quinque five. See Five.]
A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.
[U. S.]


word: Kenogenesis
definition:
Kenogenesis

Ken`o*gen"e*sis
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; new + E. genesis.]
(Biol.)
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.
[Written also cenogenesis and cænogenesis.]


word: Kenogenetic
definition:
Kenogenetic

Ken`o*ge*net"ic
(?)
a.
(Biol.)
Of or pertaining to kenogenesis; as, kenogenetic processes.
Ken`o*ge*net"ic*al*ly (#), adv.


word: Kent bugle
definition:
Kent bugle

Kent" bu"gle
(?)
prop. n.
[Probably named after a Duke of Kent.]
(Mus.)
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.
Moore.


word: Kentledge
definition:
Kentledge

Kent"ledge
(?)
n.
[OF. cant edge, corner, D. kant. See Cant edge, angle.]
(Naut.)
Pigs of iron used for ballast.
[Written also kintlidge.]


word: Kentucky
definition:
Kentucky

Ken*tuck"y
(?)
prop. n.
One of the United States.

Kentucky blue grass (Bot.), a valuable pasture and meadow grass (Poa pratensis), found in both Europe and America. See under Blue grass. -- Kentucky coffee tree (Bot.), a tall North American tree (Gymnocladus Canadensis) with bipinnate leaves.  It produces large woody pods containing a few seeds which have been used as a substitute for coffee.  The timber is very valuable.


word: Kenyan₂
definition:
Kenyan

Kenyan
prop. a.
Of or pertaining to Kenya; as, Kenyan mountains; Kenyan coffee.

2.
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Kenya; as, Kenyan soldiers.


word: Kenyapithecus
definition:
Kenyapithecus

Kenyapithecus
prop. n.
A genus of extinct primates having powerful chewing muscles along with large molars and small incisors; its fossils were found in Maboko in Kenya.

Syn. -- genus Kenyapithecus.


word: kephalin
definition:
kephalin

keph"a*lin
(kĕf"ȧ*lĭn)
n.
[Gr. kefalh` the head; it was supposed by Thudichum to exist in brain tissue.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
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.


word: kepi
definition:
kepi

kep"i
(?)
n.
[F. képi, of G. origin.]
A military cap having a close-fitting 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.

Syn. -- peaked cap, service cap, yachting cap.


word: kept
definition:
kept

kept
(kĕpt)
imp. & p. p. of Keep.

Kept woman, Kept mistress, a concubine; a woman supported by a man as his paramour.


word: Kepviselohaz
definition:
Kepviselohaz

Kép"vi*se*lö*ház`
(?)
n.
[Hung., fr. képviselö representative + ház house.]
(Hungary)
See Legislature.


word: Keramographic
definition:
Keramographic

Ker`a*mo*graph"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. ke`ramos tile + graph + ic.]
Suitable to be written upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe.
Scudamore.


word: Kerana
definition:
Kerana

Ke*ra"na
(?)
n.
(Mus.)
A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians.
Moore (Encyc. of Music).


word: Kerasin
definition:
Kerasin

Ker"a*sin
(?)
n.
(Physiol. Chem.)
A nitrogenous substance free from phosphorus, supposed to be present in the brain; a body closely related to cerebrin.


word: keratin
definition:
keratin

ker"a*tin
(?)
n.
[Gr. ke`ras, -atos, horn.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A sulfur-containing 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 acid-stable 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.


word: Keratitis
definition:
Keratitis

Ker`a*ti"tis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ke`ras, -atos, horn + -itis.]
(Med.)
Inflammation of the cornea.


word: Keratogenous
definition:
Keratogenous

Ker`a*tog"e*nous
(?)
a.
[Gr. ke`ras, -atos, horn + -genous.]
Producing horn; as, the keratogenous membrane within the horny hoof of the horse.


word: Keratoidea
definition:
Keratoidea

Ker`a*toi"de*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. ke`ras, -atos, horn + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Same as Keratosa.


word: Keratome
definition:
Keratome

Ker"a*tome
(?)
n.
[Gr. ke`ras, horn + _; to cut.]
(Surg.)
An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations for cataract.


word: Keratonyxis
definition:
Keratonyxis

Ker`a*to*nyx"is
(?)
n.
[Gr. ke`ras, -atos, horn + _; puncture.]
(Med.)
The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.


word: Keratophyte
definition:
Keratophyte

Ker"a*to*phyte
(?)
n.
[Gr. ke`ras, -atos, a horn + _; a plant.]
(Zool.)
A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.


word: Keratosa
definition:
Keratosa

Ker`a*to"sa
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. ke`ras, -atos, a horn.]
(Zool.)
An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges.


word: Keratose
definition:
Keratose

Ker"a*tose`
(?)
n.
[Gr. ke`ras, -atos, horn.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A tough, horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also keratode.


word: Keratose₂
definition:
Keratose

Ker"a*tose`
a.
(Zool.)
Containing hornlike fibers or fibers of keratose; belonging to the Keratosa.


word: Keraunograph
definition:
Keraunograph

Ke*rau"no*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; thunderbolt + graph.]
A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere.
Ker`au*nog"ra*phy (#), n.


word: Kerchief
definition:
Kerchief

Ker"chief
(?)
n.
pl. Kerchiefs (#).
[OE. coverchef, OF. cuevrechief, couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + OF. chief head, F. chef. See Cover, Chief, and cf. Curfew.]
1.
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.

He might put on a hat, a muffler, and a kerchief, and so escape.
Shak.

Her black hair strained away
To a scarlet kerchief caught beneath her chin.
Mrs. Browning.

2.
A lady who wears a kerchief.
Dryden.


word: Kerchieft
definition:
Kerchieft

Kerchiefed

{ Ker"chiefed, Ker"chieft  }
(?)
a.
Dressed; hooded; covered; wearing a kerchief.
Milton.


word: Kerf
definition:
Kerf

Kerf
(?)
n.
[AS. cyrf a cutting off, fr. ceorfan to cut, carve. See Carve.]
A notch, channel, or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing.


word: Kerite
definition:
Kerite

Ke"rite
(?)
n.
[Gr. ke`ras,  horn.]
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.
Knight.


word: Kermes
definition:
Kermes

Ker"mes
(?)
n.
[Ar. & Per. girmiz. See Crimson, and cf. Alkermes.]
1.
(Zool.)
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.
[Written also chermes.]

2.
(Bot.)
A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect (Kermes ilices, formerly Coccus ilicis) feeds.
J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

3.
(Zool.)
[NL.]
A genus of scale insects including many species that feed on oaks. The adult female resembles a small gall.

Kermes mineral. (a) (Old Chem.) An artificial amorphous trisulphide of antimony; -- so called on account of its red color. (b) (Med. Chem.) A compound of the trioxide and trisulphide of antimony, used in medicine. This substance occurs in nature as the mineral kermesite.


word: Kern
definition:
Kern

Kern
(kẽrn)
n.
[Ir. ceatharnach.Cf. Cateran. ]
1.
A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt.
Macaulay.

Now for our Irish wars;
We must supplant those rough, rug-headed kerns.
Shak.

2.
Any kind of boor or low-lived person.
[Obs.]
Blount.

3.
(O. Eng. Law)
An idler; a vagabond.
Wharton.


word: Kern₂
definition:
Kern

Kern
n.
(Type Founding)
A part of the face of a type which projects beyond the body, or shank, such as in certain italic letters.


word: Kern₃
definition:
Kern

Kern
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Kerned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Kerning. ]
(Type Founding)
To form with a kern. See 2d Kern.


word: Kern₆
definition:
Kern

Kern
v. i.
[Cf. G. kern kernel, grain; akin to E. corn. See Corn, Kernel. ]
1.
To harden, as corn in ripening.
[Obs.]
Carew.

2.
To take the form of kernels; to granulate.
[Obs.]

It is observed that rain makes the salt kern.
Dampier.


word: Kern₇
definition:
Kern

Kern
(?)
n.
[Written also kirn.]
[Cf. D. & G. kern kernal, E. kern to harden, kernel.]
[Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
1.
Kernel; corn; grain.

2.
The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest.

3.
The harvest-home.


word: Kern baby
definition:
Kern baby

Kern baby
A doll or image decorated with corn (grain) flowers, etc., carried in the festivals of a kern, or harvest-home. Called also harvest queen.


word: Kerned
definition:
Kerned

Kerned
(kẽrnd)
a.
(Print.)
Having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type.
f
j
kerned
MacKellar.


word: Kernel
definition:
Kernel

Ker"nel
(?)
n.
[OE. kernel, kirnel, curnel, AS. cyrnel, fr. corn grain. See Corn, and cf. Kern to harden.]
1.
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.

'A were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel
Shak.

2.
A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn.

3.
A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.

4.
The central, substantial or essential part of anything; the gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument.


word: Kernel₂
definition:
Kernel

Ker"nel
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Kerneled (?) or Kernelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Kerneling or Kernelling.]
To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.


word: Kernelly
definition:
Kernelly

Ker"nel*ly
(?)
a.
Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels.
Holland.


word: Kerosene
definition:
Kerosene

Ker"o*sene`
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; wax.]
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 - 325° C) than gasoline or the petroleum ethers, and a lower boling point than the oils.


word: Kersey
definition:
Kersey

Ker"sey
(?)
n.
pl. Kerseys (#).
[Prob. from the town of Kersey in Suffolk, Eng.]
A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple.


word: Keslop
definition:
Keslop

Kes"lop
(kĕs"l&obreve_;p)
n.
[AS. cēselib, or c&ymacr_;slyb, milk curdled; cf. G. käselab, käselippe. See Cheese, and cf.Cheeselep.]
The stomach of a calf, prepared for rennet.
Halliwell.


word: Kestrel
definition:
Kestrel

Kes"trel
(kĕs"trĕl)
n.
[See Castrel.]
(Zool.)
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.

&hand_; This word is often used in contempt, as of a mean kind of hawk. “Kites and kestrels have a resemblance with hawks.”
Bacon.


word: Ket
definition:
Ket

Ket
(kĕt)
n.
[Icel. kjöt flesh; akin to Sw. kött, Dan. kjöd.]
Carrion; any filth.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Keta
definition:
Keta

Ke"ta
(?)
n.
[Perh. of Amer. Indian origin.]
(Zool.)
A small salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) of inferior value, which in the autumn runs up all the larger rivers between San Francisco and Kamchatka.


word: Ketch
definition:
Ketch

Ketch
(kĕch)
n.
[Prob. corrupted fr. Turk. qāīq : cf. F. caiche.  Cf. Caïque.]
(Naut.)
1.
An almost obsolete form of sailing vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.

2.
(Naut.)
In modern usage, a sailing vessel having two masts, with the main mast taller than the aftermost, or mizzen, mast.

Bomb ketch. See under Bomb.


word: Ketch₃
definition:
Ketch

Ketch
v. t.
[See Catch.]
To catch.
[Now obs. in spelling, and colloq. in pronunciation.]

To ketch him at a vantage in his snares.
Spenser.


word: ketchup
definition:
ketchup

ketch"up
(?)
(?)
n.
[Probably of East Indian origin, because it was originally a kind of East Indian pickles.  Cf. also Malay kĕchap fish sauce. MW10.]
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.
[Written also catsup and catchup.]


word: Ketine
definition:
Ketine

Ke"tine
(?)
n.
[See Ketone.]
(Chem.)
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.


word: Ketmie
definition:
Ketmie

Ket`mie"
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
The name of certain African species of Hibiscus, cultivated for the acid of their mucilage.
[Written also ketmia.]


word: Ketol
definition:
Ketol

Ke"tol
(kē"t&omacrl)
n.
[Ketone + indol.]
(Chem.)
One of a series of series of complex nitrogenous substances, represented by methyl ketol and related to indol.

Methyl ketol, a weak organic base, obtained as a white crystalline substance having the odor of feces.


word: Ketone
definition:
Ketone

Ke"tone
(kē"t&omacrn)
n.
[Cf. Acetone.]
(Chem.)
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.

&hand_; The ketones are named by adding the suffix-one to the stems of the organic acids from which they are respectively derived; thus, acetic acid gives acetone; butyric acid, butyrone, etc.


word: Ketonic
definition:
Ketonic

Ke*ton"ic
(ke̝*t&obreve_;n"ĭk)
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, a ketone; as, a ketonic acid.


word: Kettle
definition:
Kettle

Ket"tle
(kĕt"t'l)
n.
[OE. ketel; cf. AS. cetel, cetil, cytel; akin to D. kjedel, G. kessel, OHG. chezzil, Icel. ketill, SW. kittel, Dan. kjedel, Goth. katils; all perh. fr. L. catillus, dim. of catinus a deep vessel, bowl; but cf. also OHG. chezzī kettle, Icel. kati small ship.]
A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.

Kettle pins, ninepins; skittles. [Obs.] Shelton. -- Kettle stitch (Bookbinding), the stitch made in sewing at the head and tail of a book. Knight.


word: Kettledrum
definition:
Kettledrum

Ket"tle*drum`
(-drŭm`)
n.
1.
(Mus.)
A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.

&hand_; Kettledrums, in pairs, were formerly used in martial music for cavalry, but are now chiefly confined to orchestras, where they are called tympani.

2.
An informal social party at which a light collation is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening.  Cf. Drum, n., 4 and 5.


word: Keuper
definition:
Keuper

Keu"per
(koi"pẽr)
n.
[G.]
(Geol.)
The upper division of the European Triassic. See Chart of Geology.


word: Kevel
definition:
Kevel

Kev"el
(?)
n.
[Prov. E. kevil, cavel, rod, pole, a large hammer, horse's bit; cf. Icel. kefli cylinder, a stick, mangle, and Dan. kievle a roller.]
1.
(Naut.)
A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.

2.
A stone mason's hammer.
[Written also cavil.]

Kevel head (Naut.), a projecting end of a timber, used as a kevel.


word: Kex
definition:
Kex

Kex
(?)
n.
[W. cecys, pl., hollow stalks.]

1.
(Bot.)
A weed; a kecksy.
Bp. Gauden.

Though the rough kex break
The starred mosaic.
Tennyson.

2.
A dry husk or covering.

When the kex, or husk, is broken, he proveth a fair flying butterfly.
Holland.


word: Key
definition:
Key

Key
(kē)
n.
[OE. keye, key, kay, AS. cæg.]
1.
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.

2.
A small device which is inserted into a mechanism and turned like a key to fasten, adjust, or wind it; as, a watch key; a bed key; the winding key for a clock, etc.

3.
One of a set of small movable parts on an instrument or machine which, by being depressed, serves as the means of operating it; the complete set of keys is usually called the keyboard; as, the keys of a piano, an organ, an accordion, a computer keyboard, or of a typewriter.  The keys may operate parts of the instrument by a mechanical action, as on a piano, or by closing an electrical circuit, as on a computer keyboard.  See also senses 12 and 13.

4.
A position or condition which affords entrance, control, pr possession, etc.; as, the key of a line of defense; the key of a country; the key of a political situation.
Hence,
that which serves to unlock, open, discover, or solve something unknown or difficult; as, the key to a riddle; the key to a problem.  Similarly, see also senses 14 and 15.

Those who are accustomed to reason have got the true key of books.
Locke.

Who keeps the keys of all the creeds.
Tennyson.

5.
That part of a mechanism which serves to lock up, make fast, or adjust to position.

6.
(Arch.)
(a)
A piece of wood used as a wedge.
(b)
The last board of a floor when laid down.

7.
(Masonry)
(a)
A keystone.
(b)
That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.

8.
(Mach.)
(a)
A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their relative position; a cotter; a forelock.
Illusts
Cotter
Gib
(b)
A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc.

9.
(Bot.)
An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit.

10.
(Mus.)
(a)
A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone  (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as “ sharp four,” “flat seven,” etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key.
(b)
The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote.

Both warbling of one song, both in one key.
Shak.

11.
Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.

You fall at once into a lower key.
Cowper.

12.
(Teleg.)
A metallic lever by which the circuit of the sending or transmitting part of a station equipment may be easily and rapidly opened and closed; as, a telegraph key.

13.
any device for closing or opening an electric circuit, especially as part of a keyboard, as that used at a computer terminal or teletype terminal.

14.
A simplified version or analysis which accompanies something as a clue to its explanation, a book or table containing the solutions to problems, ciphers, allegories, or the like;
or
(Biol.)
a table or synopsis of conspicuous distinguishing characters of members of a taxonomic group.

15.
(Computers)
A word or other combination of symbols which serves as an index identifying and pointing to a particular record, file, or location which can be retrieved and displayed by a computer program; as, a database using multi-word keys.  When the key is a word, it is also called a keyword.

Key bed. Same as Key seat. -- Key bolt, a bolt which has a mortise near the end, and is secured by a cotter or wedge instead of a nut. Key bugle. See Kent bugle. -- Key of a position or Key of a country. (Mil.) See Key, 4. -- Key seat (Mach.), a bed or groove to receive a key which prevents one part from turning on the other. -- Key way, a channel for a key, in the hole of a piece which is keyed to a shaft; an internal key seat; -- called also key seat. -- Key wrench (Mach.), an adjustable wrench in which the movable jaw is made fast by a key. -- Power of the keys (Eccl.), the authority claimed by the ministry in some Christian churches to administer the discipline of the church, and to grant or withhold its privileges; -- so called from the declaration of Christ, “I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven.” Matt. xvi. 19.


word: Key₂
definition:
Key

Key
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Keved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Keying.]
1.
To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
Francis.

2.
(Computers)
To enter (text, data) using keys, especially those on a keyboard; to keyboard; as, to key the data in by hand.

3.
To adjust so as to be maximally effective in a particular situation; -- of actions, plans, or speech; as, to key one's campaign speech to each local audience.

4.
To furnish with a key or keys.

To key up. (a) (Arch.) To raise (the whole ring of an arch) off its centering, by driving in the keystone forcibly. (b) (Mus.) To raise the pitch of. (c) Hence, (fig.), to produce nervous tension in; as, the whole team was keyed up for the championship game.


word: key
definition:
key

key
(?)
a.
Essential; most important; as, the key fact in the inquiry; the president was the key player inthe negotiations.


word: Keyboard
definition:
Keyboard

Key"board`
(?)
n.
The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys{3} of an organ, piano, typewriter, etc.; that part of a device containing the keys{3} used to operate it.


word: Key-cold
definition:
Key-cold

Key"-cold`
(?)
a.
Cold as a metallic key; lifeless.
[Formerly, a proverbial expression.]
Shak. Milton.


word: Keyed
definition:
Keyed

Keyed
(kēd)
a.
Furnished with keys; as, a keyed instrument; also, set to a key, as a tune.

Keyed bugle. See Kent bugle.


word: Keyhole
definition:
Keyhole

Key"hole`
(?)
n.
1.
A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key.

2.
(a)
(Carp.)
A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them.
(b)
(Mach.)
a mortise for a key or cotter.

Keyhole limpet (Zool.), a marine gastropod of the genus Fissurella and allied genera. See Fissurella. -- Keyhole saw, a narrow, slender saw, used in cutting keyholes, etc., as in doors; a kind of compass saw or fret saw. -- Keyhole urchin (Zool.), any one of numerous clypeastroid sea urchins, of the genera Melitta, Rotula, and Encope; -- so called because they have one or more perforations resembling keyholes.


word: keyless
definition:
keyless

keyless
adj.
lacking or not requiring a key; as, a keyless lock operated by a series of pushbuttons.  Opposite of keyed.


word: Keynes
definition:
Keynes

Keynes
prop. n.
John Maynard Keynes, the british economist (1883-1946) whose book “The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money” (Macmillan, 1936) had a strong influence on views of the government's role in the economy through the 1970's.  See Keynesian.

Syn. -- John Maynard Keynes.


word: Keynesian
definition:
Keynesian

Keynesian
adj.
1.
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 politico-economic policies proposed by Keynes and his followers, especially in regards to their advocacy of governmental action to maintain low unemployment through government spending.  Keynes's book “The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money” (Macmillan, 1936) had a strong influence on views of the government's role in the economy through the 1970's.
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2.
A  believer in the theories of Keynesianism.


word: Keynesianism
definition:
Keynesianism

Keynesianism
adj.
the macroeconomic theories and politico-economic policies of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) and his followers; -- used especially in reference to their advocacy of governmental action to maintain low unemployment through government spending.  See Keynes.


word: Keynote
definition:
Keynote

Key"note`
(?)
n.
1.
(Mus.)
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.

2.
The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon.


word: Keystone
definition:
Keystone

Key"stone`
(?)
n.
(Arch.)
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.


word: Keystone State
definition:
Keystone State

Key"stone` State
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.


word: keyword
definition:
keyword

key"word`
(?)
n.
A word used as an entry point into an index which serves to identify files, records, texts, or other data containing the keyword or some related word, such as a synonym.  It is a type of key{15}; as, a boolean combination of keywords is more effective for information retrieval than a single key{15}.


word: Khaki
definition:
Khaki

Kha"ki
(kä"ke̝)
a.
[Hind. khākī, lit., dusty, dust-colored, fr. Per. khāk dust.]
Of a dull brownish yellow, or drab color; -- applied to cloth, originally to a stout brownish cotton cloth, used in making uniforms in the Anglo-Indian army.
In the United States service the summer uniform of cotton is officially designated khaki; the winter uniform of wool, olive drab.


word: Khaki₂
definition:
Khaki

Kha"ki
n.
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.


word: Khalkha
definition:
Khalkha

Khalka

Khalka, Khalkha
n.
the dialect of Mongolian that is the official language of the Mongolian People's Republic.


word: Khan
definition:
Khan

Khan
(?)
n.
[Pers. & Tart. khān.]
[Also kan, kaun.]
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.


word: Khan₂
definition:
Khan

Khan
n.
[Per. khān, khānah, house, tent, inn.]
An Eastern inn or caravansary.
[Written also kawn.]


word: Khaya
definition:
Khaya

Kha"ya
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
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.


word: Khedive
definition:
Khedive

Khe`dive"
(?)
n.
[F. khédive, Pers. khediw a prince.]
A governor or viceroy; -- a title granted in 1867 by the sultan of Turkey to the ruler of Egypt.


word: Khond
definition:
Khond

Khond
(?)
n.
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.


word: Khutbah
definition:
Khutbah

Khut"bah
(?)
n.
[Ar.]
An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Muslim mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes.


word: kiaat
definition:
kiaat

kiaat
n.
a deciduous South African tree (Pterocarpus angolensis) having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; it yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood.

Syn. -- bloodwood tree, Pterocarpus angolensis.


word: Kibble₂
definition:
Kibble

Kib"ble
n.
A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines.
[Prov. Eng.]
[Written also kibbal.]


word: Kibblings
definition:
Kibblings

Kib"blings
(?)
n. pl.
Portions of small fish used for bait on the banks of Newfoundland.


word: kibbutz
definition:
kibbutz

kib*butz"
(kĭb*bŏts; kĭb*bōts)
n.
pl. Kibbutzim.
[Modern Hebrew kibbutz gathering.]
an Israeli communal{2} 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.
Of several Modern Hebrew words designating unique Israeli forms of agricultural settlement, only the word Kibbutz found its way into English. This may reflect the fact that the Kibbutzim, and only they, have long practiced hosting foreign volunteers from all over the world: youngsters who work on the Kibbutz not for a salary but for boarding and food. Many volunteers come from English speaking countries, and probably via them the word Kibbutz entered modern English dictionaries.


word: Kibe
definition:
Kibe

Kibe
(?)
n.
[W. cib + gwst pain, sickness.]
A chap or crack in the flesh occasioned by cold; an ulcerated chilblain.
kibe
Shak.


word: Kibed
definition:
Kibed

Kibed
(?)
a.
Chapped; cracked with cold; affected with chilblains; as, kibed heels.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Kibitka
definition:
Kibitka

Ki*bit"ka
(?)
n.
pl. Kibitkas (_;).
[Russ.]
1.
A tent used by the Kirghiz Tartars.

2.
A rude kind of Russian vehicle, on wheels or on runners, sometimes covered with cloth or leather, and often used as a movable habitation.


word: Kibosh
definition:
Kibosh

Ki"bosh
(?)
n.
1.
Nonsense; stuff; also, fashion; style.
[Slang]

2.
Portland cement when thrown or blown into the recesses of carved stonework to intensify the shadows.
To put the kibosh on, to dispose of; to squelch; to terminate; put an end to; to do for. [Slang]


word: Kick
definition:
Kick

Kick
(kĭk)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Kicked (kĭkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Kicking.]
[W. cicio, fr. cic foot.]
1.
To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog.

He [Frederick the Great] kicked the shins of his judges.
Macaulay.

2.
To evict or remove from a place or position, usually with out or off; as, they kicked him off the staff; he was kicked out of the restaurant; the landlord kicked them out of the apartment for making too much noise.

3.
(Sport)
To score (goals or points) by kicking; as, they kicked three field goals in the game.

4.
To discontinue; -- usually used of habitual activities; as, to kick a habit; he kicked his drug habit.

To kick the beam, to fit up and strike the beam; -- said of the lighter arm of a loaded balance; hence, to be found wanting in weight. Milton. -- To kick the bucket, to lose one's life; to die. [Colloq. & Low] -- To kick oneself, to experience strong regret; as, he kicked himself for not investing in the stock market in 1995.


word: Kick₂
definition:
Kick

Kick
v. i.
1.
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.
Hence,
(figuratively)
To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn.

I should kick, being kicked.
Shak.

2.
To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc.; also called kick back.

3.
(Football)
To make a kick as an offensive play.

4.
To complain strenuously; to object vigorously.

5.
To resist.


word: Kick₃
definition:
Kick

Kick
n.
1.
A blow with the foot or feet; a striking or thrust with the foot.

A kick, that scarce would move a horse,
May kill a sound divine.
Cowper.

2.
The projection on the tang of the blade of a pocket knife, which prevents the edge of the blade from striking the spring. See Illust. of Pocketknife.

3.
(Brickmaking)
A projection in a mold, to form a depression in the surface of the brick.

4.
The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged.

5.
A surge of pleasure; a thrill; -- usually used in the phrase get a kick out of; as, I always get a kick out of watching an ice skater do a quadruple jump.
[informal]

Syn. -- bang{3}.


word: Kickapoos
definition:
Kickapoos

Kick`a*poos"
(?)
prop. n. pl.
sing. Kickapoo (_;)
(Ethnol.)
A tribe of Indians which formerly occupied the region of Northern Illinois, allied in language to the Sacs and Foxes.


word: kickback
definition:
kickback

kick"back`
(?)
n.
1.
recoil, of a gun or machine, as in older automobile engines when started by turning a crank.

2.
A secret, and usually illegal, payment, by a recipient of money paid for goods or services, to a facilitator of the transaction, of a portion of that money;
specifically,
any portion of a gain made by the seller in a commercial transaction which is returned surreptitiously and illegally to a person (such as a purchasing agent) who authorized or recommended the purchase.  It is generally considered a form of bribe.


word: kick back₂
definition:
kick back

kick` back"
(?)
v. t.
To pay (a kickback); as, they kicked back five percent of the sales price.


word: Kicker
definition:
Kicker

Kick"er
n.
1.
One who, or that which, kicks.

2.
A fact, condition, or circumstance, sometimes concealed or not obvious, which reduces or eliminates the benefit of an apparently advantageous situation; a joker{5}; as, under the Soviet system, bread was good and cheap, but the kicker was that you waited in line for hours to get any, if it was available.
[informal]

3.
Hence:
An unforeseen added expense or additional cost; as, the printer was cheap, but the special paper it needed was an expensive kicker.


word: kicking
definition:
kicking

kicking
n.
The act of delivering a blow with the foot.

Syn. -- kick, boot.

alive and kicking alive and vigorously active.


word: kickoff
definition:
kickoff

kickoff
n.
(Football)
1.
A kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score.

2.
the time at which an event or activity begins.

Syn. -- beginning, commencement, first, outset, start, starting time, offset.


word: kick off
definition:
kick off

kick` off"
v. i.
(Football)
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 o'clock.


word: kick off₂
definition:
kick off

kick` off"
v. t.
to begin; to commence; as, they kicked off the rally with a playing of the national anthem.

Syn. -- begin, commence, start.


word: Kickshaws
definition:
Kickshaws

Kick"shaws`
(?)
n.
pl.
Kickshawses
(#)
[Corrupt. fr. F. quelque chose something, fr. L. qualis of what kind (akin to E. which) + suffix -guam + causa cause, in LL., a thing. See Which, and Cause.]
1.
Something fantastical; any trifling, trumpery thing; a toy.

Art thou good at these kickshawses!
Shak.

2.
A fancy dish; a tidbit; a delicacy.

Some pigeons, . . . a joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws.
Shak.

Cressy was lost by kickshaws and soup-maigre.
Fenton.


word: Kicky-wisky
definition:
Kicky-wisky

Kicksy-wicksy

{ Kick"sy-wick`sy (?), Kick"y-wisk`y (?) }
n.
That which is restless and uneasy.

&hand_; Kicky-wicky, or, in some editions, Kicksy-wicksy, is applied contemptuously to a wife by Shakespeare, in “All's Well that Ends Well,” ii. 3, 297.


word: Kid
definition:
Kid

Kid
(kĭd)
n.
[Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. kið, Dan. & Sw. kid; akin to OHG. kizzi, G. kitz, kitzchen, kitzlein.]
1.
(Zool.)
A young goat.

The . . . leopard shall lie down with the kid.
Is. xi. 6.

2.
A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on.
[Slang]
Charles Reade.

3.
A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc.; kidskin.

4.
pl.
Gloves made of kidskin; kid gloves.
[Colloq. & Low]

5.
A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food.
Cooper.

6.
Among pugilists, thieves, gunfighters, etc., a youthful expert; -- chiefly used attributively; as, kid Jones.
[Cant]


word: Kid₄
definition:
Kid

Kid
v. t.
1.
To talk with in a joking or jesting manner; as, she kidded him about his freckles.  Often used with around; as, he was just kidding around about the fire 

2.
To jokingly tell a false story to; to fool; as, John told Pete that he had talked to the movie star, but he was only kidding him..


word: Kidderminster
definition:
Kidderminster

Kid"der*min`ster
(?)
n.
A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured.


word: Kiddle
definition:
Kiddle

Kid"dle
(?)
n.
[Cf. LL. kidellus, Armor. kiāel]
A kind of basketwork weir in a river, for catching fish.
[Improperly spelled kittle.]


word: Kidnap
definition:
Kidnap

Kid"nap`
(kĭd"năp`)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Kidnaped (kĭd"năpt`) or Kidnapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Kidnaping or Kidnapping.]
[Kid a child + Prov. E. nap to seize, to grasp.  Cf. Knab, Knap, Nab.]
To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place.
Abbott.

You may reason or expostulate with the parents, but never attempt to kidnap their children, and to make proselytes of them.
Whately.

&hand_; Originally used only of stealing children, but now extended in application to any human being, involuntarily abducted.


word: Kidnapper
definition:
Kidnapper

Kidnaper

{ Kid"nap`er (kĭd"năp`ẽr), or Kid"nap`per  }
n.
One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.


word: kidnapping
definition:
kidnapping

kidnapping
n.
the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment.


word: Kidney
definition:
Kidney

Kid"ney
(kĭd"n&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Kidneys (kĭd"nĭz).
[OE. kidnei, kidnere, from Icel. koiðr belly, womb (akin to Goth. gipus, AS. cwiþ womb) + OE. nere kidney; akin to D. nier, G. niere, OHG. nioro, Icel. n&ymacr_;ra, Dan. nyre, Sw. njure, and probably to Gr. nefro`s Cf. Kite belly.]

1.
(Anat.)
A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.

&hand_; In man and in other mammals there are two kidneys, one on each side of vertebral column in the back part of the abdomen, each kidney being connected with the bladder by a long tube, the ureter, through which the urine is constantly excreted into the bladder to be periodically discharged.

2.
Habit; disposition; sort; kind; as, a man of a different kidney.
Shak.

There are in later times other decrees, made by popes of another kidney.
Barrow.

Millions in the world of this man's kidney.
L'Estrange.

Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence.
Burns.

&hand_; This use of the word perhaps arose from the fact that the kidneys and the fat about them are an easy test of the condition of an animal as to fatness. “Think of that, -- a man of my kidney; -- . . . as subject to heat as butter.”
Shak.

3.
A waiter.
[Old Cant]
Tatler.

Floating kidney. See Wandering kidney, under Wandering. -- Kidney bean (Bot.), a sort of bean; -- so named from its shape. It is of the genus Phaseolus (Phaseolus vulgaris). See under Bean. -- Kidney ore (Min.), a variety of hematite or iron sesquioxide, occurring in compact kidney-shaped masses. -- Kidney stone. (Min.) See Nephrite, and Jade. -- Kidney vetch (Bot.), a leguminous herb of Europe and Asia (Anthyllis vulneraria), with cloverlike heads of red or yellow flowers, once used as a remedy for renal disorders, and also to stop the flow of blood from wounds; lady's-fingers.


word: Kidney-shaped
definition:
Kidney-shaped

Kidney-form

{ Kid"ney-form` (?), Kid"ney-shaped` (?), }
a.
Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney-shaped leaf; a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
Gray.


word: Kidneywort
definition:
Kidneywort

Kid"ney*wort`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
(a)
A kind of saxifrage (Saxifrage stellaris).
(b)
The navelwort.


word: Kiefekil
definition:
Kiefekil

Kie"fe*kil
(?)
n.
[Per. keff foam, scum + gil clay, mud.]
(Min.)
A species of clay; meerschaum.
[Also written keffekil.]


word: Kier
definition:
Kier

Kier
(?)
n.
[Icel. ker a tub.]
(Bleaching)
A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.


word: Kieselguhr
definition:
Kieselguhr

Kie"sel*guhr`
(?)
n.
[G., fr. kiesel flint + guhr an earthy deposit or sediment in water.]
Siliceous earth; diatomaceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth, used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite.


word: Kieserite
definition:
Kieserite

Kie"ser*ite
(?)
n.
[Named after Prof. Kieser, of Jena.]
(Min.)
Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt, Prussian Saxony.


word: Kiggelaria
definition:
Kiggelaria

Kiggelaria
n.
A small genus of South African shrubs or small trees.

Syn. -- genus Kiggelaria.


word: kike
definition:
kike

kike
(kīk)
n.
A derogatory name for a jew, usually intended and taken as disparaging and offensive.


word: Kilderkin
definition:
Kilderkin

Kil"der*kin
(?)
n.
[OD. kindeken, kinneken, a small barrel, orig., a little child, fr. kind child; akin to G. kind, and to E. kin.]
A small barrel; an old liquid measure containing eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure.
[Written also kinderkin.]


word: kiley
definition:
kiley

kiley
n.
An Australian boomerang, having one side flat and the other convex.

Syn. -- kylie.


word: Kilkenny cats
definition:
Kilkenny cats

Kil*ken"ny cats
(?)
n.
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.


word: Kill₂
definition:
Kill

Kill
n.
[D. kil.]
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.


word: Kill₃
definition:
Kill

Kill
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Killed (kĭld); p. pr. & vb. n. Killing.]
[OE. killen, kellen, cullen, to kill, strike; perh. the same word as cwellen, quellen, to kill (cf. Quell), or perh. rather akin to Icel. kolla to hit in the head, harm, kollr top, summit, head, Sw. kulle, D. kollen to kill with the ax.]
1.
To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.

Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words !
Shak.

2.
To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.
kill
Shak.

Her lively color kill'd with deadly cares.
Shak.

3.
To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind; new sound insultation killed the loud noises from outside.

Be comforted, good madam; the great rage,
You see, is killed in him.
Shak.

4.
To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.

5.
To waste or spend unprofitably; -- usually used of time; as, he killed an hour waiting for the doctor to see him.

6.
To cancel or forbid publication of (a report, article, etc.), after it has been written; as, they killed the article after getting threats of a lawsuit.

To kill time, to busy one's self with something which occupies the attention, or makes the time pass without tediousness.


word: Kill₄
definition:
Kill

Kill
(?)
n.
1.
The act of killing.
“There is none like to me!” says the cub in the pride of his earliest kill.
Kipling.

2.
An animal killed in the hunt, as by a beast of prey.
If ye plunder his kill from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride.
Kipling.


word: Killdeer
definition:
Killdeer

Killdee

{ Kill"dee` (?), Kill"deer` (?), }
n.
[So named from its notes.]
(Zool.)
A small American plover (Charadrius vociferus, formerly Aegialitis 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.

Syn. -- kildeer, killdeer plover, Charadrius vociferus.

&hand_; It is dark grayish brown above; the rump and upper tail coverts are yellowish rufous; the belly, throat, and a line over the eyes, white; a ring round the neck and band across the breast, black.


word: Killer
definition:
Killer

Kill"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who deprives of life; one who, or that which, kills.

2.
(Zool.)
A voracious, toothed whale of the genus Orca, of which several species are known; called also killer whale.

&hand_; The killers have a high dorsal fin, and powerful jaws armed with large, sharp teeth. They capture, and swallow entire, large numbers of seals, porpoises, and dolphins, and are celebrated for their savage, combined attacks upon the right whales, which they are said to mutilate and kill. The common Atlantic species (Orca gladiator), is found both on the European and the American coast. Two species (Orca ater and Orca rectipinna) occur on the Pacific coast.


word: Killesse
definition:
Killesse

Kil*lesse"
(?)
n.
[Cf. Coulisse.]
(Arch.)
(a)
A gutter, groove, or channel.
(b)
A hipped roof.
[Prov. Eng.]
Parker.


word: Killifish
definition:
Killifish

Kil"li*fish`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
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.


word: Killing
definition:
Killing

Kill"ing
(?)
a.
Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible.
Kill"ing*ly, adv.

Those eyes are made so killing.
Pope.

Nothing could be more killingly spoken.
Milton.


word: killing
definition:
killing

kill"ing
(?)
n.
1.
The act or process of causing a living organism to die.

2.
An unusually large gain in a financial or business transaction or enterprise; as, she made a killing trading cattle futures.


word: Kill-joy
definition:
Kill-joy

Kill"-joy`
(?)
n.
One who causes gloom or grief; a dispiriting person; a spoilsport.
W. Black.


word: Killock
definition:
Killock

Kil"lock
(?)
n.
[Cf. Scot. killick “the flue [fluke] of an anchor.” Jamieson.]
A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together.
[Written also killick.]


word: Killow
definition:
Killow

Kil"low
(?)
n.
[Prov. E. kollow the smut or grime on the backs of chimneys.]
An earth of a blackish or deep blue color.
Woodward.


word: Kiln
definition:
Kiln

Kiln
(kĭln or kĭl)
n.
[OE. kilne, kulne, AS. cyln, cylen; akin to Icel. kylna; prob. from the same source as coal. See Coal.]
1.
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.

2.
A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.


word: Kilo-
definition:
Kilo-

Kil"o-
(?)
pref.
[F. kilo-. See Kilogram.]
A combining form used to signify thousand in forming the names of units of measurement; as, kilogram, kilometer, kilowatt, etc.


word: Kilogramme
definition:
Kilogramme

Kilogram

{ Kil"o*gram (?), Kil"o*gramme  }
n.
[F. kilogramme; pref. kilo- (fr. Gr. chi`lioi a thousand ) + gramme. See 3d Gram.]
A measure of mass and weight, being a thousand grams, equal to 2.2046226 pounds avoirdupois (15,432.34 grains).  It is nearly equal to the mass of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum density, or 39° Fahrenheit.  See 3rd gram.


word: Kilogrammetre
definition:
Kilogrammetre

Kilogrammeter

{ Kil"o*gram*me`ter (?), Kil"o*gram*me`tre  }
n.
(Mech.)
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.


word: Kilolitre
definition:
Kilolitre

Kiloliter

{ Kil"o*li`ter (?), Kil"o*li`tre  }
n.
[F. kilolitre. See Kilogram, and Liter.]
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.


word: Kilometre
definition:
Kilometre

Kilometer

{ Kil"o*me`ter (?), Kil"o*me`tre  }
n.
[F. kilometre. See Kilogram, and Meter.]
A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.84 feet, or 0.62137119 of a mile.


word: Kilostere
definition:
Kilostere

Kil"o*stere`
(?)
n.
[F. kilostere. See Kilogram, and Stere.]
A cubic measure containing 1000 cubic meters, and equivalent to 35,315 cubic feet.


word: Kilovolt
definition:
Kilovolt

Kil"o*volt`
(?)
n.
[Kilo- + volt.]
(Elec.)
A unit of electromotive force equal to one thousand volts.


word: Kilowatt hour
definition:
Kilowatt hour

Kil"o*watt` hour
(Elec.)
A unit of work or energy equal to that done by one kilowatt acting for one hour; -- approximately equal to 1.34 horse-power hour.


word: Kilt₂
definition:
Kilt

Kilt
n.
[OGael. cealt clothes, or rather perh. fr. Dan. kilte op to truss, tie up, tuck up.]
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.
[Written also kelt.]


word: Kilt₃
definition:
Kilt

Kilt
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Kilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Kilting.]
To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes.
[Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.


word: Kilted
definition:
Kilted

Kilt"ed
a.
1.
Having on a kilt.

2.
Plaited after the manner of kilting.

3.
Tucked or fastened up; -- said of petticoats, etc.


word: kilter
definition:
kilter

kil"ter
(kĭl"tẽr)
n.
[Cf. Gael. & Ir. cealt clothes, Gael. cealltair spear, castle, cause, Prov. E. kilter tool, instrument.  Cf. Kilt.]
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.
[Also spelled kelter.]


word: Kilting
definition:
Kilting

Kilt"ing
(?)
n.
(Dressmaking)
A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one.


word: kimono
definition:
kimono

ki*mo"no
(kĭ*m&omacr"n&omacr; Jap. kĭm"&omacr*n&omacr)
n.
pl. -nos (kĭ*m&omacr"n&omacrz)
[Jap., article of clothing, fr. ki to wear + mono thing.]
1.
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, western-style clothing being more common in the workplace.

2.
A similar gown worn as a dressing gown by women of Western nations.


word: -kin
definition:
-kin

-kin
(-kĭn)
suff.
[Of Low German origin; cf. G. -chen, LG. -- ken.]
A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.


word: Kin
definition:
Kin

Kin
(kĭn)
n.
(Mus.)
A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
Riemann.


word: Kin₂
definition:
Kin

Kin
n.
[OE. kin, cun, AS. cynn kin, kind, race, people; akin to cennan to beget, D. kunne sex, OS. & OHG. kunni kin, race, Icel. kyn, Goth. kuni, G. & D. kind a child, L. genus kind, race, L. gignere to beget, Gr. gi`gnesqai to be born, Skr. jan to beget.  √44.  Cf. Kind, King, Gender kind, Nation.]
1.
Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.

2.
Relatives; persons of the same family or race.

The father, mother, and the kin beside.
Dryden.

You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons.
Bacon.


word: Kine
definition:
Kine

Kin

{ Kin (kĭn), n. Also Kine (kīn) }
[Gr. kinei^n to move.]
(Physics)
The unit velocity in the C. G. S. system -- a velocity of one centimeter per second.


word: kinaesthesis
definition:
kinaesthesis

kinaesthesia

kin`aes*the"sia, kin`aes*the"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. kinei^n to move + _; perception.]
(Physiol.)
The perception attendant upon the movements of the muscles; the sensation accompanying movement of the muscles.
[Also spelled kin`es*the"sia and kin`es*the"sis.]
Bastian.


word: Kinesthetic
definition:
Kinesthetic

Kinaesthetic

{ Kin`æs*thet"ic (?), Kin`es*thet"ic  }
a.
Of, pertaining to, or involving, kinaesthesia.


word: kinase
definition:
kinase

ki"nase
(kī"nās)
n.
(Biochemistry)
One of a class of enzymes that catalyze transfer of a phosphate group from ATP to another molecule; it is a type of phosphorylase.


word: Kincob
definition:
Kincob

Kin"cob
(?)
n.
India silk brocaded with flowers in silver or gold.
a. Of the nature of kincob; brocaded. Thackeray.


word: Kind
definition:
Kind

Kind
(kīnd)
a.
[Compar. Kinder (kīnd"ẽr); superl. Kindest.]
[AS. cynde, gecynde, natural, innate, prop. an old p. p. from the root of E. kin. See Kin kindred.]
1.
Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste.
Holland.

2.
Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.

Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was his fault.
Goldsmith.

3.
Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.

He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil.
Luke vi 35.

O cruel Death, to those you take more kind
Than to the wretched mortals left behind.
Waller.

A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind.
Garrick.

4.
Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act.
kind
Tennyson.

5.
Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.


word: Kind₂
definition:
Kind

Kind
n.
[OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See Kind, a.]
1.
Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
[Obs.]

He knew by kind and by no other lore.
Chaucer.

Some of you, on pure instinct of nature,
Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.
Dryden.

2.
Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind.
kind
Chaucer.

Every kind of beasts, and of birds.
James iii.7.

She follows the law of her kind.
Wordsworth.

Here to sow the seed of bread,
That man and all the kinds be fed.
Emerson.

3.
Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.

How diversely Love doth his pageants play,
And snows his power in variable kinds !
Spenser.

There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
I Cor. xv. 39.

Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers?
Bacon.

A kind of, something belonging to the class of; something like to; -- said loosely or slightingly. In kind, in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money.

Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn.
Arbuthnot.


word: Kindergarten
definition:
Kindergarten

Kin"der*gar`ten
(?)
n.
[G., lit., children's garden; kinder (pl. of kind child, akin to E. kin kindred) + garten garden.]
1.
A class within a primary school or a separate school for young children, usually between the ages of four and six years, designed to adapt children to the classroom environment before beginning academic training, 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.


word: Kind-hearted
definition:
Kind-hearted

Kind"-heart`ed
(?)
a.
Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord.

To thy self at least kind-hearted prove.
Shak.


word: Kindle
definition:
Kindle

Kin"dle
(?)
v. t. & i.
[OE. kindlen, cundlen. See Kind.]
To bring forth young.
[Obs.]
Shak.

The poor beast had but lately kindled.
Holland.


word: Kindle₂
definition:
Kindle

Kin`dle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Kindled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Kindling (?).]
[Icel. kyndill candle, torch; prob. fr. L. candela; cf. also Icel. kynda to kindle.  Cf. Candle.]
1.
To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to ignite; to cause to begin burning; to start; to light; as, to kindle a match, or shavings.

His breath kindleth coals.
Job xii. 21.

2.
Fig.: To inflame, as the passions; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; to incite; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame.

So is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Prov. xxvi. 21.

Nothing remains but that I kindle the boy thither.
Shak.

Kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
Milton.

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Dryden.


word: Kindle₃
definition:
Kindle

Kin"dle
(kĭn"d'l)
v. i.
1.
To take fire; to begin to burn with flame; to start as a flame.

When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Is. xliii. 2.

2.
(Fig.)
To begin to be excited; to grow warm or animated; to be roused or exasperated.

On all occasions where forbearance might be called for, the Briton kindles, and the Christian gives way.
I. Taylor.


word: Kindliness
definition:
Kindliness

Kind"li*ness
(?)
n.
1.
Natural inclination; natural course.
[Obs.]
Milton.

2.
The quality or state of being kindly; benignity; benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of treatment, or of words.

In kind a father, but not in kindliness.
Sackville.

3.
Softness; mildness; propitiousness; as, kindliness of weather, or of a season.

Fruits and corn are much advanced by temper of the air and
kindliness of seasons.
Whitlock.


word: Kindling
definition:
Kindling

Kin"dling
(kĭn"dlĭng)
n.
1.
The act of causing to burn, or of exciting or inflaming the passions.
2.
Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire, such as small twigs or paper; -- also used in the pl..


word: Kindly
definition:
Kindly

Kind"ly
(kīnd"l&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Kindlier (kīnd"lĭ*ẽr); superl. Kindliest.]
[AS. cyndelic. See Kind, n. ]

1.
According to the kind or nature; natural.
[R.]

The kindly fruits of the earth.
Book of Com. Prayer.

An herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting.
Spenser.

Whatsoever as the Son of God he may do, it is kindly for
Him as the Son of Man to save the sons of men.
L. Andrews.

2.
Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc.

The shade by which my life was crossed, . . . 
Has made me kindly with my kind.
Tennyson.

3.
Favorable; mild; gentle; auspicious; beneficent.

In soft silence shed the kindly shower.
Pope.

Should e'er a kindlier time ensue.
Wordsworth.

&hand_; “Nothing ethical was connoted in kindly once: it was simply the adjective of kind. But it is God's ordinance that kind should be kindly, in our modern sense of the word as well; and thus the word has attained this meaning.”
Trench.


word: Kindly₂
definition:
Kindly

Kind"ly
adv.
1.
Naturally; fitly.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Examine how kindly the Hebrew manners of speech mix and incorporate with the English language
Addison.

2.
In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a disposition to make others happy, or to oblige.

Be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love.
Rom. xii. 10. 


word: Kindness
definition:
Kindness

Kind"ness
(?)
n.
[From Kind. a.]
1.
The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence.

I do fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.
Shak.

Unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
Wordsworth.

2.
A kind act; an act of good will; as, to do a great kindness.


word: Kindred
definition:
Kindred

Kin"dred
(?)
n.
[OE. kinrede, kynrede, kunreden (with excrescent d), fr. AS. cynn kin, race + the termination -r&aemacr_;den, akin to AS. r&aemacr_;dan to advise, G. rathen.  Cf. Hatred.]
1.
Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.

Like her, of equal kindred to the throne.
Dryden.

2.
Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other.

I think there's no man is secure
But the queen's kindred.
Shak.


word: Kindred₂
definition:
Kindred

Kin"dred
a.
Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions.

True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
Wordsworth.


word: Kine₂
definition:
Kine

Kine
(kīn)
n. pl.
[For older kyen, formed like oxen, fr. AS. c&ymacr_;, itself pl. of cū cow. See Cow, and cf. Kee, Kie.]
Cows.
kine
Milton.


word: Kinematical
definition:
Kinematical

Kinematic

{ Kin`e*mat"ic (?), Kin`e*mat"ic*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to kinematics.

Kinematic curves, curves produced by machinery, or a combination of motions, as distinguished from mathematical curves.


word: Kinematics
definition:
Kinematics

Kin`e*mat"ics
(?)
n.
[Gr. (_;),(_;) motion, fr. kinei^n to move.]
(Physics)
The science which treats of motions considered in themselves, or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of motions.

&hand_; Kinematics forms properly an introduction to mechanics, as involving the mathematical principles which are to be applied to its data of forces.
Nichol.


word: Kinesiatrics
definition:
Kinesiatrics

Kin`e*si*at"rics
(?)
n.
[Gr. (_;) motion (fr. kinei^n to move) + (_;) pertaining to medicine, fr. (_;) a physician.]
(Med.)
A mode of treating disease by appropriate muscular movements; -- also termed kinesitherapy, kinesipathy, lingism, and the movement cure.


word: Kinesodic
definition:
Kinesodic

Kin`e*sod"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; motion + _; way: cf. F. kinésodigue.]
(Physiol.)
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.


word: kinetic
definition:
kinetic

ki*net"ic
(kĭ*nĕt"ĭk or ki̝*nĕt"ĭk)
a.
[Gr. kinhtiko`s, from kinei^n to move.]
(Physics)
Moving or causing motion; motory; active, as opposed to latent.

Kinetic energy. See Energy, n. 4.


word: kinesthetic
definition:
kinesthetic

kinesthesis

kinesthesia

kin`es*the"sia
kin`es*the"sis
kin`es*thet"ic
See kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, and kinaesthetic.


word: kinesthetics
definition:
kinesthetics

kin`es*thet"ics
(kĭn`ĕs*thĕt"ĭks)
n.
The ability to feel movements of the limbs and body.

Syn. -- kinesthesis, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, muscle sense, sense of movement.


word: kinetogenesis
definition:
kinetogenesis

ki*ne`to*gen"e*sis
(ki̝*nē`to̝*jĕn"e̝*sĭs)
n.
[Gr. kinhto`s movable + E. genesis.]
(Biol.)
The doctrine or hypothesis that animal structures have been produced, directly or indirectly, by animal movements.


word: kinetoscope
definition:
kinetoscope

ki*ne"to*scope
(ki̝*nē`to̝*sk&omacrp; 277)
n.
[Gr. kinhto`s movable + -scope.]
An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope.
Cope.


word: kinetograph
definition:
kinetograph

ki*ne"to*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; movable + -graph.]
(Physics)
(a)
A camera for making chronophotographs.
[obsolescent]
(b)
A machine for the projection of chronophotographs upon a screen for the purpose of producing the effect of an animated picture.
[obsolescent]
(c)
A combined animated-picture machine and phonograph in which sounds appropriate to the scene are automatically uttered by the latter instrument.  It has been superseded by recording techniques allowing the sounds to be recorded directly on the motion-picture film.
[obsolescent]


word: kinetophone
definition:
kinetophone

ki*ne"to*phone
(?)
n.
[See Kinetic, Phone.]
A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds.  It has been superseded by recording techniques allowing the sounds to be recorded directly on the motion-picture film.
[obsolescent]


word: Kinetoscope
definition:
Kinetoscope

Ki*ne"to*scope
(?)
n.
[Originally a tradename, 1894.]
An obsolete form of moving picture viewer, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision, give the impression of continuous motion.  It has been superseded by more recent versions of movie projector and electronic video viewers.


word: kinfolk
definition:
kinfolk

kin"folk`
(?)
n.
Relatives; kindred; kin; kinsfolk; persons of the same family or closely related families.


word: King
definition:
King

King
(kĭng)
n.
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.


word: King₂
definition:
King

King
n.
[AS. cyng, cyning; akin to OS. kuning, D. koning, OHG. kuning, G. könig, Icel. konungr, Sw. konung, Dan. konge; formed with a patronymic ending, and fr. the root of E. kin; cf. Icel. konr a man of noble birth. √44. See Kin.]
1.
A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince.
king
Shak.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Burke.

There was a State without king or nobles.
R. Choate.

But yonder comes the powerful King of Day,
Rejoicing in the east
Thomson.

2.
One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank; a chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of the lobby; the king of beasts.

3.
A playing card having the picture of a king{1}; as, the king of diamonds.

4.
The chief piece in the game of chess.

5.
A crowned man in the game of draughts.

6.
pl.
The title of two historical books in the Old Testament.

&hand_; King is often used adjectively, or in combination, to denote preëminence or superiority in some particular; as, kingbird; king crow; king vulture.

Apostolic king. See Apostolic. -- King-at-arms, or King-of-arms, the chief heraldic officer of a country. In England the king-at-arms was formerly of great authority. His business is to direct the heralds, preside at their chapters, and have the jurisdiction of armory.  There are three principal kings-at-arms, viz., Garter, Clarencieux, and Norroy. The latter (literally north roy or north king) officiates north of the Trent. -- King auk (Zool.), the little auk or sea dove. -- King bird of paradise. (Zool.), See Bird of paradise. -- King card, in whist, the best unplayed card of each suit; thus, if the ace and king of a suit have been played, the queen is the king card of the suit. -- King Cole , a legendary king of Britain, who is said to have reigned in the third century. -- King conch (Zool.), a large and handsome univalve shell (Cassis cameo), found in the West Indies. It is used for making cameos. See Helmet shell, under Helmet. -- King Cotton, a popular personification of the great staple production of the southern United States. -- King crab. (Zool.) (a) The limulus or horseshoe crab. See Limulus. (b) The large European spider crab or thornback (Maia squinado). (c) A large crab of the northern Pacific (Paralithodes camtshatica), especially abundant on the coasts of Alaska and Japan, and popular as a food; called also Alaskan king crab.  -- King crow. (Zool.) (a) A black drongo shrike (Buchanga atra) of India; -- so called because, while breeding, they attack and drive away hawks, crows, and other large birds. (b) The Dicrurus macrocercus of India, a crested bird with a long, forked tail. Its color is black, with green and blue reflections. Called also devil bird. -- King duck (Zool.), a large and handsome eider duck (Somateria spectabilis), inhabiting the arctic regions of both continents. -- King eagle (Zool.), an eagle (Aquila heliaca) found in Asia and Southeastern Europe. It is about as large as the golden eagle. Some writers believe it to be the imperial eagle of Rome. -- King hake (Zool.), an American hake (Phycis regius), found in deep water along the Atlantic coast. -- King monkey (Zool.), an African monkey (Colobus polycomus), inhabiting Sierra Leone. -- King mullet (Zool.), a West Indian red mullet (Upeneus maculatus); -- so called on account of its great beauty. Called also goldfish. -- King of terrors, death. -- King parrakeet (Zool.), a handsome Australian parrakeet (Platycercys scapulatus), often kept in a cage. Its prevailing color is bright red, with the back and wings bright green, the rump blue, and tail black. -- King penguin (Zool.), any large species of penguin of the genus Aptenodytes; esp., Aptenodytes longirostris, of the Falkland Islands and Kerguelen Land, and Aptenodytes Patagonica, of Patagonia. -- King rail (Zool.), a small American rail (Rallus elegans), living in fresh-water marshes. The upper parts are fulvous brown, striped with black; the breast is deep cinnamon color. -- King salmon (Zool.), the quinnat. See Quinnat. -- King's counsel, or Queen's counsel (Eng. Law), barristers learned in the law, who have been called within the bar, and selected to be the king's or queen's counsel. They answer in some measure to the advocates of the revenue (advocati fisci) among the Romans. They can not be employed against the crown without special license. Wharton's Law Dict. -- King's cushion, a temporary seat made by two persons crossing their hands. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- The king's English, correct or current language of good speakers; pure English. Shak. -- King's evidence or Queen's evidence, testimony in favor of the Crown by a witness who confesses his guilt as an accomplice. See under Evidence. [Eng.] -- King's evil, scrofula; -- so called because formerly supposed to be healed by the touch of a king. -- King snake (Zool.), a large, nearly black, harmless snake (Ophiobolus getulus) of the Southern United States; -- so called because it kills and eats other kinds of snakes, including even the rattlesnake. -- King's spear (Bot.), the white asphodel (Asphodelus albus). -- King's yellow, a yellow pigment, consisting essentially of sulphide and oxide of arsenic; -- called also yellow orpiment. -- King tody (Zool.), a small fly-catching bird (Eurylaimus serilophus) of tropical America. The head is adorned with a large, spreading, fan-shaped crest, which is bright red, edged with black. -- King vulture (Zool.), a large species of vulture (Sarcorhamphus papa), ranging from Mexico to Paraguay, The general color is white. The wings and tail are black, and the naked carunculated head and the neck are briliantly colored with scarlet, yellow, orange, and blue. So called because it drives away other vultures while feeding. -- King wood, a wood from Brazil, called also violet wood, beautifully streaked in violet tints, used in turning and small cabinetwork. The tree is probably a species of Dalbergia. See Jacaranda.


word: King₃
definition:
King

King
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Kinged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Kinging). ]
To supply with a king; to make a king of; to raise to royalty.
[R.]
Shak.

Those traitorous captains of Israel who kinged themselves by slaying their masters and reigning in their stead.
South.


word: King, Martin Luther, jr.
definition:
 King, Martin Luther, jr.

 King, Martin Luther, jr. 
 Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968):  Martin Luther King stands alongside John F. Kennedy as one of the strikingly iconic images of 1960s America, one of the figures who inspired a revolution of political will and social perception. 
      Born on 15 January 1929, to Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Christine King in Atlanta, Georgia, King was a gifted student. It was while studying towards his Divinity degree in 1951, that King first discovered the teachings of Mahatma Ghandi, whose inspiration would be seen in many of King's future ideas.
      In 1953, King married Coretta Scott.  The world that Martin Luther King and his new family found themselves in during the late 1950s was one where racial segregation was an accepted norm, whether in schools, churches, or on public transport. 
      When Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus for a white man - in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 - the black civil rights movement found an unexpected opportunity to begin a push that would eventually remove all officially sanctioned segregation throughout the United States . And Dr. King was at the forefront of that push. (http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html)
        Four days after Rosa Parks was arrested, on the first day of a boycott of the buses by black passengers, King was appointed as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association. Placing himself so publicly at the forefront of the movement, he soon found himself and his family to be targets for white hate.  In January of the next year, a bomb was thrown at his house.  The King family would face similar threats and acts of violence all through Martin's lifetime. 
      On 21 February 1956, King was one of those arrested as a consequence of the boycott.  By 4 June, however, a US District Court ruled that such segregation on city bus lines was unconstitutional, a decision confirmed in November by the Supreme Court.  Before the end of the year, Federal injunctions had been served, and the Montgomery bus system was officially unsegregated. 
      This was the first of King's victories. Although the success was by no means solely his, the methods of non-violent opposition utilised for this protest were to become a trademark of Dr. King.   This ideology contrasted sharply with that represented by the other prominent black civil rights leader of the time, Malcolm X, (http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/) but many people responded strongly to King's gifts as an orator, to his message of optimism and compassion, and to his sheer presence as a human being. 
      Throughout his lifetime, King's activities were closely monitored by the FBI, under the control of the controversial J. Edgar Hoover.  Evidence collected by Hoover's agents, combined with rumour and innuendo, has cast a shadow over the official view of Martin Luther King.  Hoover was looking for dirt, and compiled a dossier that accused King of infidelity, beating women and of being a Communist. (http://archive.aclu.org/features/f011702a.html). 
      From 1957 onwards, King's reputation as a civil rights leader and powerful orator grew.  He appeared on the cover of Time in February and met then-Vice President Richard Nixon in June. (http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/king.html).  1958 saw the publication of his first book, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, his version of the incidents surrounding the bus boycott.
      By 1960, Dr. King was a major voice in US political life. He met with Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to discuss racial policy. In keeping with his belief in non-violent protest, King's continued civil rights demonstrations would take the form of sit-ins and obstructions, often leading to his arrest. The sight of Martin Luther King being bundled off to jail brought the causes he was helping much public sympathy and support. 
     August 28 1963 saw the 'March on Washington', regarded as the first major, integrated protest march in American history. (http://www.life.com/Life/mlk/mlk06.html).   At the end of the march, Dr. King delivers the I Have A Dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC. (http://www.mecca.org/~crights/dream.html)   Racial tension, however, was increasing; 1964 saw riots all across the country, notably in New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Pennsylvania. 
     King was growing as an international figure. In 1964, he visited West Berlin, invited by the then-mayor, Willy Brandt, had an audience with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, then, most significantly, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. (http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1964/index.html) 
      The following year, Malcolm X was assassinated in New York.  Violence was escalating in areas of racial tension, including Montgomery, Alabama.  Protesters were regularly beaten by police officers, often resulting in serious injuries or even fatalities.  In Watts, Los Angeles, riots left 35 people dead.  In March a protest rally reached Montgomery, under the protection of federal troops. Starting at an estimated 3,000 marchers, by the time they reach their destination, it's believed they numbered nearly 30,000 people. On reaching the capitol, the marchers were addressed by Dr. King. 
      1966 saw King talk openly about more than racial issues. He began to discuss his opposition to the Vietnam war and issues such as housing - arguing for protection for poor people, regardless of their race. 
      In 1967, the rioting was worsening growing to be some of the worst in American history.  Fuelled by the uncertainty and anger created by the shootings of figures such as Malcolm X and John F. Kennedy, the sense of helpless rage directed at the nation's social structure and America's involvement in Vietnam,  already strained civil relations were heading towards what seemed to be an inevitably violent conclusion.
      In Mississippi, one black student was killed in a riot at Jackson State College; 23 people died in riots in New Jersey; and 43 died, with another 324 injured in riots in  Detroit riots, labelled as the worst of the century. 
     The last year of Martin Luther King's life saw him cast his net even wider, including taking part in a march in support of sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee.  This part of King's career is often glossed over or undervalued by historians and commentators of the time. (http://www.fair.org/media-beat/950104.html). 
    On April 3, he delivered his last speech, entitled “I See the Promised Land”.  The contents of the speech seem eerily prescient in retrospect.  (http://www.mlkonline.com/promised.html).  The next day, April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead as he stood talking on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel, Memphis.  James Earl Ray was charged and found guilty of his murder. 
     King was buried on April 9, aged 39.  After his death, Dr. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, established The King Center as 'the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  (http://thekingcenter.com/).
      King's legacy is represented by Martin Luther King Day, celebrated in the United States on the third Monday in January every year.  http://www.holidays.net/mlk/
Carl Gillingham


word: Kingbird
definition:
Kingbird

King"bird
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
1.
A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or Tyrannus 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 bead 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.

2.
The king tody. See under King.


word: Kingbolt
definition:
Kingbolt

King"bolt`
(?)
n.
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.


word: King Charles spaniel
definition:
King Charles spaniel

King Charles span"iel
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
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.


word: Kingcraft
definition:
Kingcraft

King"craft
(?)
n.
The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy.
Prescott.


word: Kingdom
definition:
Kingdom

King"dom
(?)
n.
[AS. cyningd&omacrm. See 2d King, and -dom.]
1.
The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy.

Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
Ps. cxiv. 13. 

When Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself.
2 Chron. xxi. 4. 

2.
The territory or country subject to a king or queen; the dominion of a monarch; the sphere in which one is king or has control.

Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
Shak.

You're welcome,
Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom.
Shak.

3.
An extensive scientific division distinguished by leading or ruling characteristics; a principal division; a department; as, the mineral kingdom.  In modern biology, the division of life into five kingdoms is widely used for classification.
kingdoms
Locke.

Animal kingdom. See under Animal. -- Kingdom of God. (a) The universe. (b) That spiritual realm of which God is the acknowledged sovereign. (c) The authority or dominion of God. -- Mineral kingdom. See under Mineral. -- United Kingdom. See under United. -- Vegetable kingdom. See under Vegetable.


word: Kingdomed
definition:
Kingdomed

King"domed
(kĭng"dŭmd)
a.
Having a kingdom or the dignity of a king; like a kingdom.
[R.]

Twixt his mental and his active parts,
Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages
And batters down himself.
Shak.


word: Kingfish
definition:
Kingfish

King"fish`
(kĭng"fĭsh`)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially Menticirrus saxatilis, or Menticirrus nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb.
(b)
The opah.
(c)
The common cero; also, the spotted cero. See Cero.
(d)
The queenfish.


word: Kingfisher
definition:
Kingfisher

King"fish`er
(kĭng"fĭsh`ẽr)
n.
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of birds constituting the family Alcedinidæ. Most of them feed upon fishes which they capture by diving and seizing them 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.

&hand_; The belted king-fisher of the United States (Ceryle alcyon) feeds upon fishes. It is slate-blue above, with a white belly and breast, and a broad white ring around the neck. A dark band crosses the breast. The common European species (Alcedo ispida), which is much smaller and brighter colored, is also a fisher. See Alcedo. The wood kingfishers (Halcyones), which inhabit forests, especially in Africa, feed largely upon insects, but also eat reptiles, snails, and small Crustacea, as well as fishes. The giant kingfisher of Australia feeds largely upon lizards and insects. See Laughing jackass, under Laughing.


word: Kinglet
definition:
Kinglet

King"let
(?)
n.
1.
A little king; a weak or insignificant king.
Carlyle.

2.
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of small singing birds of the genus Regulus and family Sylviidæ.

&hand_; The golden-crowned kinglet (Regulus satrapa), and the rubycrowned kinglet (Regulus calendula), are the most common American species. The common English kinglet (Regulus cristatus) is also called golden-crested wren, moonie, and marigold finch. The kinglets are often popularly called wrens, both in America and England.


word: Kingly
definition:
Kingly

King"ly
(?)
a.
[Compar. Kinglier (?); superl. Kingliest.]
Belonging to, suitable to, or becoming, a king; characteristic of, or resembling, a king; directed or administered by a king; monarchical; royal; sovereign; regal; august; noble; grand.
Kingly
Sir P. Sidney.
kingly
Swift.
kingly
Shak.

The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn.
G. Massey.

Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares.
Cowper.


word: Kingly₂
definition:
Kingly

King"ly
adv.
In a kingly or kinglike manner.
Shak.

Low bowed the rest; he, kingly, did but nod.
Pore.

&hand_; Although this citation, one from Paradise Lost, and one from Shakespeare's ll4th Sonnet are given by lexicographers as examples of adverbial use, it is by no means clear that the word is not an adjective in each instance.


word: King-post
definition:
King-post

King"-post`
(?)
n.
(Carp.)
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.


word: King's Bench
definition:
King's Bench

King's Bench
(?)
n.
(Law)
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.


word: king-sized
definition:
king-sized

king-size

king-size king-sized
adj.
1.
extra large; as, a king-size bed.
[wns=1]

&hand_;  A king-size bed is the largest size generally sold commercially; it is larger than a queen-size, which in turn is larger than a full-size (or double) bed, and that in turn is larger than a twin-size (or single) bed.  The mattress for a king-size bed is typically about 76 inches wide and 80 inches long.

2.
Of or pertaining to a king-size bed; suitable for a king-size bed; as, a king-size bedcover.


word: Kingstone
definition:
Kingstone

Kingston

{ King"ston (?), King"stone` (?), }
n.
(Zool.)
The black angel fish. See Angel fish, under Angel.


word: Kingston metal
definition:
Kingston metal

King"ston met"al
(?)
n.
An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery.
McElrath.


word: Kingston valve
definition:
Kingston valve

King"ston valve
(?)
n.
(Marine Steam Engin.)
A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line.


word: Kingtruss
definition:
Kingtruss

King"truss`
(?)
n.
(Carp.)
A truss, framed with a king-post; -- used in roofs, bridges, etc.


word: Kink
definition:
Kink

Kink
(?)
n.
[D. kink a bend or turn, or Sw. kink.]

1.
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.

2.
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
[Colloq.]
Cozzens.


word: Kink₂
definition:
Kink

Kink
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Kinked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Kinking.]
To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.


word: Kink₃
definition:
Kink

Kink
n.
[Cf. Chincough, Kink-haust.]
A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter.
[Scot.]


word: Kinkajou
definition:
Kinkajou

Kin"ka*jou`
(?)
n.
[F. kinkajou, quincajou, from the native American name.]
(Zool.)
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 (Cercoleptidæ) allied to the raccoons. Called also potto, and honey bear.


word: Kinkhaust
definition:
Kinkhaust

Kink"haust`
(?)
n.
[Prov. E. kink to gasp (cf. Chin cough) + haust a cough (akin to E. wheeze).]
Whooping cough.
[Obs.or Prov. Eng.]


word: Kinky
definition:
Kinky

Kink"y
(?)
a.
1.
Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair.

2.
Queer; eccentric; unconventional; crotchety.
[Colloq. U.S.]


word: Kinnikinic
definition:
Kinnikinic

Kin`ni*ki*nic"
(?)
n.
[Indian, literally, a mixture.]
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).
[Spelled also kinnickinnick and killikinick.]


word: Kinit
definition:
Kinit

Kin"it
(?)
n.
[Gr. kinei^n to move.]
(Physics)
A unit of force equal to the force which, acting for one second, will give a pound a velocity of one foot per second; -- proposed by J. D. Everett, an English physicist.


word: Kino
definition:
Kino

Ki"no
(?)
n.
The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used variously in tanning, in dyeing, and as an astringent in medicine.

&hand_; The chief supply is from an East Indian leguminous tree, the Pterocarpus Marsupium. Other sources are the African Pterocarpus erinaceus, the tropical American sea grape (Coccoloba uvifera), and several Australian Eucalypti. See Botany bay kino, under Botany bay, Gum butea, under Gum, and Eucalyptus.


word: Kinology
definition:
Kinology

Ki*nol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. kinei^n to move + -logy.]
That branch of physics which treats of the laws of motion, or of moving bodies.


word: Kinsfolk
definition:
Kinsfolk

Kins"folk`
(?)
n.
Relatives; kindred; kin; kinfolk; persons of the same family or closely related families.

They sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
Luke ii. 44. 


word: Kinshasa
definition:
Kinshasa

Kinshasa
prop. n.
the capital city of Zaire, formerly named Leopoldville.

Syn. -- Leopoldville.


word: Kinsman
definition:
Kinsman

Kins"man
(kĭnz"man)
n.
pl. Kinsmen (kĭnz"men).
A man of the same race or family; one related by blood.


word: Kiosk
definition:
Kiosk

Ki*osk"
(?)
n.
[Turk. kiushk, kiöshk, Per. k_;shk.]
A Turkish open summer house or pavilion, supported by pillars.
2.
A light ornamental structure used as a news stand, band stand, etc.

3.
A small roofed structure, typically located on a sidewalk and sometimes in a parking lot, with one or more open sides, used to vend merchandise, such as newspapers or beverages, or services, such as key duplication or film developing.
(MW10 s. 2)


word: Kioways
definition:
Kioways

Ki"o*ways`
(?)
n. pl.
sing. Kioway (_;).
(Ethnol.)
A tribe of Indians distantly related to the Shoshones.  They formerly inhabited the region about the head waters of the North Platte.


word: Kip
definition:
Kip

Kip
(?)
n.
The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin.

Kip leather. See Kipskin.


word: Kip₂
definition:
Kip

Kip
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. kippe.]
1.
A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
[Scot.]

2.
(Gymnastics)
A method or feat of raising the body when hanging or swinging by the arms, as for the purpose of mounting upon the horizontal bar. The legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.


word: Kipe
definition:
Kipe

Kipe
(?)
n.
[Cf. OE. kipen to catch, Icel. kippa to pull, snatch.  Cf. Kipper.]
An osier basket used for catching fish.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Kipling
definition:
Kipling

Kipling
prop. n.
Rudyard Kipling, English author (1865-1936).  He was born at Bombay, India in 1865, the son of John Lockwood Kipling, who was formerly head of the Lahore School of Industrial Art.  He was educated in England and returned to India in 1880 as editor of the “Lahore Civil and Military Gazette.”   He returned to England about 1889, and lived several years in the United States.   While in India he published stories, sketches, and poems descriptive of India and Anglo-Indian military and civil life: “ Departmental Ditties, etc.”, “Plain Tales from the Hills”, “Mine Own People”, “Soldiers Three”, “Barrack-room Ballads, etc.”, and others.  After leaving India he published “The Light That Failed,” “Naulahka” (with Balestier), “Many Inventions,” “The Jungle Book,”  “The Second Jungle Book,” “The Seven Seas,” “Captains Courageous,” “The White Man's Burden,” “Kim,” “The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories,” and others.

Syn. -- Rudyard Kipling.


word: Kipper
definition:
Kipper

Kip"per
(?)
n.
[D. kippen to hatch, snatch, seize.  Cf. Kipe.]
1.
(Zool.)
A salmon after spawning.

2.
A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.
[Scot.]

Kipper time, the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden. [Eng. & Scot.]


word: Kipper₂
definition:
Kipper

Kip"per
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Kippered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Kippering.]
To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.
Kippered
Dickens.


word: Kipper₃
definition:
Kipper

Kip"per
a.
Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Kipskin
definition:
Kipskin

Kip"skin`
(?)
n.
[Kip + skin.]
Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide.


word: Kirghizia
definition:
Kirghizia

Kirghizia
n.
A country in Central Asia, formerly an Asian Soviet.  It borders on Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China, and Tajikistan.

Syn. -- Kirghiz, Kyrgyzstan, Kirghizstan.


word: Kirk
definition:
Kirk

Kirk
(kẽrk)
n.
[Scot.; cf. Icel. kirkja, of Greek origin. See Church.]
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.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.


word: Kirkman
definition:
Kirkman

Kirk"man
(?)
n.
pl. Kirkmen (_;).

1.
A clergyman or officer in a kirk.
[Scot.]

2.
A member of the Church of Scotland, as distinguished from a member of another communion.
[Scot.]


word: Kirmess
definition:
Kirmess

Kir"mess
(?)
n.
[D. kermis; cf. G. kirmes; prop., church mass. See Church, and Mass a religious service.]
In Europe, particularly in Belgium and Holland, and outdoor festival and fair; in the United States, generally an indoor entertainment and fair combined.


word: Kirschwasser
definition:
Kirschwasser

Kirsch"was`ser
(?)
n.
[G., fr. kirsche cherry + wasser water.]
An alcoholic liquor, obtained by distilling the fermented juice of the small black cherry.


word: Kirsome
definition:
Kirsome

Kir"some
a.
[Corrupted from chrisom.]
Christian; christened.
[Obs.]

I am a true kirsome woman.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Kirtle
definition:
Kirtle

Kir"tle
(?)
n.
[OE. kirtel, curtel, AS. cyrtel; skin to Icel. kyrtill, Sw. kjortel, Dan. kiortel, kiole.]
A garment varying in form and use at different times, and worn both by men and women.

Wearing her Norman car, and her kirtle of blue.
Longfellow.

&hand_; The term is still retained in the provinces, in the sense of “an outer petticoat.”
Halliwell.


word: Kirumbo
definition:
Kirumbo

Ki*rum"bo
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
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.


word: Kish
definition:
Kish

Kish
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. kies gravel, pyrites.]
(Min.)
A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.


word: Kislev
definition:
Kislev

Kislev
(kĭs"lŭf; kĭs"lŭv; kēs*lĕv")
n.
[Heb.]
the third month of the Jewish civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, occupying a part of November and a part of December.
[Also spelled Chislev.]


word: Kiss
definition:
Kiss

Kiss
(kĭs)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Kissed (kĭst);p. pr. & vb. n. Kissing.]
[OE. kissen, cussen, AS. cyssan, fr. coss a kiss; of uncertain origin; akin to D. kus, G. kuss, Icel. koss.]
1.
To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc.

He . . . kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack,
That at the parting all the church echoed.
Shak.

2.
To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly.

When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees.
Shak.


word: Kiss₂
definition:
Kiss

Kiss
v. i.
1.
To make or give salutation with the lips in token of love, respect, etc.; as, kiss and make friends.

2.
To meet; to come in contact; to touch fondly.

Like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.
Shak.

Rose, rose and clematis,
Trail and twine and clasp and kiss.
Tennyson.

Kissing comfit, a perfumed sugarplum to sweeten the breath. [Obs or Prov. End.] Shak.


word: Kiss₃
definition:
Kiss

Kiss
n.
[OE. kiss, derived under the influence of the verb from the older form coss, AS. coss. See Kiss, v.]

1.
A salutation with the lips, as a token of affection, respect, etc.; as, a parting kiss; a kiss of reconciliation.

Last with a kiss, she took a long farewell.
Dryden.

Dear as remembered kisses after death.
Tennyson.

2.
A small piece of confectionery.


word: Kissing bug
definition:
Kissing bug

Kiss"ing bug`
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of blood-sucking, venomous Hemiptera that sometimes bite the lip or other parts of the human body, causing painful sores, as the cone-nose (Conorhinus sanguisuga).
[U. S.]


word: kissing cousin
definition:
kissing cousin

kiss"ing cous"in
A cousin sufficiently well acquainted to be greeted with a kiss; a type of kissing kin.


word: Kissingcrust
definition:
Kissingcrust

Kiss"ing*crust`
(?)
n.
(Cookery)
The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.
Lamb.

A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf.
W. Howitt.


word: kissing disease
definition:
kissing disease

kiss"ing dis*ease"
Infectious mononucleosis; -- so called because often spread by kissing.


word: kissing kin
definition:
kissing kin

kiss"ing kin`
Any relative more distant than the immediate family, sufficiently well acquainted to be greeted with a kiss, such as a kissing cousin.


word: Kissing strings
definition:
Kissing strings

Kiss"ing strings`
(?)
n.
Cap or bonnet strings made long to tie under the chin.
One of her ladyship's kissing strings, once pink and fluttering and now faded and soiled.
Pall Mall Mag.


word: kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
definition:
kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate

kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
n.
An annual (Polygonum orientale) with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; it is native to Southeastern Asia and Australia, and naturalized in North America.

Syn. -- prince's-feather, prince's feather, princess feather, prince's-plume, Polygonum orientale.


word: Kist
definition:
Kist

Kist
(kĭst)
n.
[See Chest.]
A chest; hence, a coffin.
[Scot. & Prov. End.]
Jamieson. Halliwell.


word: Kist₂
definition:
Kist

Kist
n.
[Ar. gist.]
A stated payment, especially a payment of rent for land; hence, the time for such payment.
[India]


word: kistvaen
definition:
kistvaen

kist"vaen
(kĭst"vān)
n.
[W. cist-faen.]
(Archaeol.)
A Celtic monument, commonly known as a dolmen.


word: kit₂
definition:
kit

kit
n.
[See Kitten.]
A kitten.

Kit fox (Zool.), a small burrowing fox (Vulpes velox), inhabiting the region of the Rocky Mountains. It is brownish gray, reddish on the breast and flanks, and white below. Called also swift fox.


word: Kit
definition:
Kit

Kit
n.
[Gf. AS. cytere harp, L. cithara.  Cf. Guitar.]
A small violin.
kit
Grew.

Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance.
Dickens.


word: Kit₂
definition:
Kit

Kit
n.
[Cf. D. kit a large bottle, OD. kitte beaker, decanter.]
1.
A large bottle.

2.
A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel.
Wright.

3.
A straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

4.
A box for working implements.

5.
Hence:
A collection of tools or other objects to be used for a specific purpose, often contained in a box which may be carried conveniently; a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like; as, a plumber's kit; a doctor's kit; a cosmetic kit; a first-aid kit.

6.
A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them; the whole kit and kaboodle.


word: kitambilla
definition:
kitambilla

kitambilla
n.
1.
A small shrubby spiny tree (Dovyalis hebecarpa) cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasking like gooseberries; it is native to Sri Lanka and India.

Syn. -- ketembilla, kitembilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa.

2.
A maroon-purple gooseberrylike fruit of India having a tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves.

Syn. -- ketembilla, kitembilla.


word: Kitcat
definition:
Kitcat

Kit"cat`
(?)
a.
1.
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.

2.
Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-eight or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club.
Fairholt.


word: Kitcat₂
definition:
Kitcat

Kit"cat`
n.
A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat.
Cotton.

Kitcat roll (Agric.), a roller somewhat in the form of two cones set base to base. [Prov. Eng.]


word: Kitchen
definition:
Kitchen

Kitch"en
(kĭch"ĕn)
n.
[OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.]
1.
A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house, restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery.

Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot.
Dryden.

A fat kitchen makes a lean will.
Franklin.

2.
A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.

3.
The staff that works in a kitchen.

Kitchen garden. See under Garden. -- Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. [Obs.] “A brazen tub of kitchen lee.” Ford. -- Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. Donne.


word: Kitchen₂
definition:
Kitchen

Kitch"en
v. t.
To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Kitchenette
definition:
Kitchenette

Kitch`en*ette"
(?)
n.
[Kitchen + -ette.]
A room combining a very small kitchen and a pantry, with the kitchen conveniences compactly arranged, sometimes so that they fold up out of sight and allow the kitchen to be made a part of the adjoining room by opening folding doors.


word: Kitchen middens
definition:
Kitchen middens

Kitch"en mid`dens
(kĭch"ĕn mĭd`d'nz)
n. pl.
[Dan. kjök-kenmöddings kitchen leavings; cf. Scot. midden a dunghill.]
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.


word: Kitchenry
definition:
Kitchenry

Kitch"en*ry
(kĭch"ĕn*r&ybreve_;)
n.
The body of servants employed in the kitchen; the staff of a kitchen.
[Obs.]
Holland.


word: kitchenware
definition:
kitchenware

kitchenware
n.
Implements for use in a kitchen, or for cooking, such as pots, pans, ladles, measuring cups, etc.


word: Kite
definition:
Kite

Kite
(kīt)
n.
[OE. kyte, AS. c&ymacr_;ta; cf. W. cud, cut.]

1.
(Zool.)
Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinæ, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.

&hand_; The European species are Milvus ictinus and Milvus migrans; the pariah kite of India is Milvus govinda; the sacred or Brahmany kite of India is Haliastur Indus; the American fork-tailed kite is the Nauclerus furcatus.

2.
Fig.: One who is rapacious.

Detested kite, thou liest.
Shak.

3.
A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.

4.
(Naut.)
A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.

5.
(Geom.)
A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry.
Henrici.

6.
Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill.
[Cant]

7.
(Zool.)
The brill.
[Prov. Eng.]

8.
(Naut.)
A form of drag to be towed under water at any depth up to about forty fathoms, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface; -- called also sentry.

Flying kites. (Naut.) See under Flying. -- Kite falcon (Zool.), an African falcon of the genus Avicida, having some resemblance to a kite.


word: Kiteflier
definition:
Kiteflier

Kiteflying

Kite"fly`ing
(?)
n.
A mode of raising money, or sustaining one's credit, by the use of paper which is merely nominal; -- called also kiting.
Kite"fli`er
n.
See Kite, n., 6.
[Cant]
McElrath. Thackeray.


word: Kith
definition:
Kith

Kith
(kĭth)
n.
[OE. kith, cuð, AS. c&ymacr_;ððe, c&ymacr_;ð, native land, fr. cūð known. √45.  See Uncouth, Can, and cf. Kythe.]
Acquaintance; kindred.

And my near kith for that will sore me shend.
W. Browne.

The sage of his kith and the hamlet.
Longfellow.

Kith and kin, kindred more or less remote.


word: Kitling
definition:
Kitling

Kit"ling
(?)
n.
[Kit a kitten + -ling: cf. Icel. ketlingr.]
A young kitten; a whelp.
[Obs. or Scot.]
B. Jonson.


word: Kitten
definition:
Kitten

Kit"ten
(kĭt"t'n)
n.
[OE. kiton, a dim. of cat; cf. G. kitze a young cat, also a female cat, and F. chaton, dim. of chat cat, also E. kitling. See Cat.]
A young cat.


word: Kitten₂
definition:
Kitten

Kit"ten
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Kittened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Kittening.]
To bring forth young, as a cat; to bring forth, as kittens.
Shak. H. Spencer.


word: Kittiwake
definition:
Kittiwake

Kit"ti*wake
(kĭt"tĭ*wāk)
n.
(Zool.)
A northern gull (Rissa tridactyla), inhabiting the coasts of Europe and America.  It is white, with black tips to the wings, and has only three toes.


word: Kittle
definition:
Kittle

Kit"tle
(kĭt"t'l)
v. i.
[Cf. Kit a kitten.]
(Zool.)
To bring forth young, as a cat; to kitten; to litter.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]


word: Kittle₂
definition:
Kittle

Kit"tle
v. t.
[Cf. AS. citelian; akin to D. kittelen, G. kitzeln, Icel. kitla, Sw. kittla, kittsla, Dan. kildre.  Cf. Tickle.]
To tickle.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
[Written also kittel.]
Halliwell. Jamieson.


word: Kittle₃
definition:
Kittle

Kit"tle
a.
Ticklish; not easily managed; troublesome; difficult; variable.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Halliwell. Sir W. Scott.


word: Kitty
definition:
Kitty

Kit"ty
(?)
n.
1.
A kitten; also, a pet name or calling name for the cat.

2.
[Etym. uncertain.]
(Gaming)
The percentage taken out of a pool to pay for refreshments, or for the expenses of the table;
by extension,
any pool of money aggregated from small contributions.
R. F. Foster.


word: Kiva
definition:
Kiva

Ki"va
(?)
n.
[Hopi name, sacred chamber.]
A large chamber built under, or in, the houses of a Pueblo village, used as an assembly room in religious rites or as a men's dormitory. It is commonly lighted and entered from an opening in the roof.


word: Kiwikiwi
definition:
Kiwikiwi

Kivikivi

{ Ki`vi*ki"vi (?), Ki`wi*ki"wi (?), }
n.
pl. Kivikivies (_;), Kiwikiwies (_;).
(Zool.)
Any species of Apteryx, esp. Apteryx australis; -- so called in imitation of its notes.  More commonly called kiwi. See Apteryx.


word: Klamaths
definition:
Klamaths

Kla"maths
(?)
prop. n. pl.
sing. Klamath
(Ethnol.)
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.


word: klatsch
definition:
klatsch

klatch

klatch, klatsch
n.
An informal group that gathers more or less frequently, especially for conversation; as, a coffee klatsch; a sewing klatsch.


word: klavier
definition:
klavier

klavier
n.
a stringed instrument that has a keyboard, especially a piano, harpsichord, or clavichord; also, the keyboard of such an instrument.  Same as clavier.

Syn. -- clavier.


word: Kleeneboc
definition:
Kleeneboc

Kleene"boc`
(klēn"b&obreve_;k`)
n.
[D. kleen little, small + bok buck.]
(Zool.)
An antelope (Cerphalopus pygmæus), found in South Africa. It is of very small size, being but one foot high at the shoulder. It is remarkable for its activity, and for its mild and timid disposition. Called also guevi, and pygmy antelope.


word: Kleenex
definition:
Kleenex

Kleenex
prop. n.
[Trademark]
A piece of soft absorbent tissue paper (usually two or more thin layers) used as a disposable handkerchief; -- still a current trademark, but often used generically.
[Trademark]

Syn. -- tissue.


word: Kleptomania
definition:
Kleptomania

Klep`to*ma"ni*a
(?)
n.
[Gr. kle`pths thief + E. mania.]
A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility.
Wharton.


word: Klicket
definition:
Klicket

Klick"et
(?)
n.
[Cf. Clicket.]
(Mil.)
A small postern or gate in a palisade, for the passage of sallying parties.
[Written also klinket.]


word: Klipdachs
definition:
Klipdachs

Klipdas

{ Klip"das (?), Klip"dachs` (?) }
n.
[D. klip cliff + das badger, akin to G. dachs.]
(Zool.)
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.


word: Klipspringer
definition:
Klipspringer

Klip"spring`er
(?)
n.
[D., lit., cliff springer.]
(Zool.)
A small, graceful South African antelope (Nanotragus oreotragus), which, like the chamois, springs from one crag to another with great agility; -- called also kainsi.
[Written also klippspringer.]


word: Kloof
definition:
Kloof

Kloof
(?)
n.
[D. See Clove a cleft.]
A glen; a ravine closed at its upper end.
[South Africa]


word: Knab
definition:
Knab

Knab
(năb)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Knabbed (năbd); p. pr. & vb. n. Knabbing.]
[See Nab, v. t., and cf. Knap, v. t.]
1.
To seize with the teeth; to gnaw.
Knabbing
[Obs.]
L'Estrange.

2.
To nab. See Nab, v. t.
[Colloq.]


word: Knabble
definition:
Knabble

Knab"ble
(năb"b'l)
v. i.
[Freq. of knab.]
To bite or nibble.
[Obs.]

Horses will knabble at walls, and rats gnaw iron.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Knack
definition:
Knack

Knack
(năk)
v. i.
[Prob. of imitative origin; cf. G. knacken to break, Dan. knage to crack, and E. knock.]
1.
To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Bp. Hall.

2.
To speak affectedly.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Knack₂
definition:
Knack

Knack
n.
1.
A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.

A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap.
Shak.

2.
A readiness in performance; aptness at doing a specific task; skill; aptitude; facility; dexterity; -- often used with for; as, a knack for playing the guitar.

The fellow . . . has not the knack with his shears.
B. Jonson.

The dean was famous in his time,
And had a kind of knack at rhyme.
Swift.

3.
Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device.
knacks
Chaucer.

For how should equal colors do the knack !
Pope.


word: Knacker
definition:
Knacker

Knack"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
Mortimer.

2.
One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper.
Halliwell.


word: Knacker₂
definition:
Knacker

Knack"er
n.
[Cf. Icel. hnakkr a saddle.]
1.
a harness maker.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

2.
One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog's meat.
[Eng.]


word: Knag
definition:
Knag

Knag
(năg)
n.
[Cf. Prov. G. knagge a knot in wood, Sw. knagg, Dan. knag a hook to hand clothes on, a bracket; Gael. & Ir. cnag peg, knob.]
1.
A knot in wood; a protuberance.
Wright.

2.
A wooden peg for hanging things on.
Wright.

3.
The prong of an antler.
Holland.

4.
The rugged top of a hill.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Knap
definition:
Knap

Knap
(năp)
n.
[AS. cnæp, cnæpp, top, knob, button; cf. Icel. knappr knob, Sw. knapp, Dan. knap button, W., Gael., & Ir. cnap knob, button, and E. knop.]
A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop.

The highest part and knap of the same island.
Holland.


word: Knap₂
definition:
Knap

Knap
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Knapped (?); p. pr. &  vb. n. Knapping.]
[D. knappen to chew, bite, crack, take hold of; prob. of imitative origin.]
1.
To bite; to bite off; to break short.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng. ]

He will knap the spears apieces with his teeth.
Dr. H. More.

He breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder.
Ps. xlvi. 9 (Book of Common Prayer.)

2.
To strike smartly; to rap; to snap.
[Chiefly Brit.]
Bacon.


word: Knapple
definition:
Knapple

Knap"ple
(?)
v. i.
[Freq. of knap, v., cf. D. knabbelen to gnaw.]
To break off with an abrupt, sharp noise; to bite; to nibble.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]


word: Knapsack
definition:
Knapsack

Knap"sack`
(?)
n.
[D. knapzak; knappen to eat + zak a bag. See Knap, v. t., and Sack.]
A case of canvas, leather, nylon, or other sturdy fabric, fitted with straps, for carrying on the back the food, clothing, or other supplies for a soldier or a traveler; as, to hike up the mountain with lunch in a knapsack.

And each one fills his knapsack or his scrip
With some rare thing that on the field is found.
Drayton.


word: Knapweed
definition:
Knapweed

Knap"weed`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
The black centaury (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the knoblike heads of flowers. Called also bullweed.


word: Knave
definition:
Knave

Knave
(nāv)
n.
[OE., boy, servant, knave, AS. cnafa boy, youth; cf. AS. cnapa boy, youth, D. knaap, G. knabe boy, knappe esquire, Icel. knapi, Sw. knape esquire, knäfvel knave.]
1.
A boy; especially, a boy servant.
[Obs.]
Wyclif. Chaucer.

O murderous slumber,
Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy
That plays thee music ? Gentle knave, good night.
Shak.

2.
Any male servant; a menial.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

He's but Fortune's knave,
A minister of her will.
Shak.

3.
A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain.
knaves
Shak.

In defiance of demonstration, knaves will continue to proselyte fools.
Ames.

&hand_; “How many serving lads must have been unfaithful and dishonest before knave -- which meant at first no more than boy -- acquired the meaning which it has now !”
Trench.

4.
A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack; as, the knave of hearts.

Knave child, a male child. [Obs.] Chaucer.


word: Knavery
definition:
Knavery

Knav"er*y
(?)
n.
pl. Knaveries (_;).
1.
The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action.

This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name.
Shak.

2.
pl.
Roguish or mischievous tricks.
Shak.


word: Knaveship
definition:
Knaveship

Knave"ship
n.
A small due, in meal, established by usage, which is paid to the under miller.
[Scot.]


word: Knavish
definition:
Knavish

Knav"ish
a.
1.
Like or characteristic of a knave{3}; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick.
Knavish
Macaulay.

2.
Mischievous; roguish; waggish; rascally.

Cupid is knavish lad,
Thus to make poor females mad.
Shak.


word: Knavishly
definition:
Knavishly

Knav"ish*ly
adv.
1.
In a knavish manner; dishonestly; fraudulently.
Holland.

2.
Mischievously; waggishly; roguishly.
Knavishly
Gayton.


word: Knawel
definition:
Knawel

Knaw"el
(n&asuml_;"ĕl)
n.
[Akin to G. knauelk, knäuel, prop., a ball of thread, coil.  Cf. Clew.]
(Bot.)
A low, spreading weed (Scleranthus annuus), common in sandy soil.


word: Knead
definition:
Knead

Knead
(nēd)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Kneaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Kneading.]
[OE. kneden, As. cnedan; akin to D. kneden, G. kneten, Sw. knåda, Icel. knoða; cf. OSlav. gnesti.]
1.
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.

The kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking.
Shak.

2.
Fig.: To treat or form as by kneading; to beat.

I will knead him : I'll make him supple.
Shak.

3.
To press repeatedly with the hands or knuckles, sometimes with a twisting or squeezing motion; -- performed for example on the body of a person as a form of massage.

Kneading trough, a trough or tray in which dough is kneaded. Ex. viii. 3.


word: knead
definition:
knead

knead
(?)
v. i.
To perform movements like kneading, with the paws; -- said of cats, which may knead{3} a master's body when stroked, presumably a sign of contentment; as, a cat kneading and purring in his master's lap.


word: Knebelite
definition:
Knebelite

Kne"bel*ite
(?)
n.
[From Major von Knebel.]
(Min.)
A mineral of a gray, red, brown, or green color, and glistening luster. It is a silicate of iron and manganese.


word: Kneck
definition:
Kneck

Kneck
(nĕk)
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Naut.)
The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out.
[Eng.]


word: Knee
definition:
Knee

Knee
(nē)
n.
[OE. kne, cneo, As. cneó, cneów; akin to OS. knio, kneo, OFries. knī, G. & D. knie, OHG. chniu, chneo, Icel. knē, Sw. knä, Dan. knæ, Goth. kniu, L. genu, Gr. go`ny, Skr. jānu, √231.  Cf. Genuflection.]
1.
In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg.

2.
(Anat.)
(a)
The joint, or region of the joint, between the thigh and leg.
(b)
In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in man.

3.
(Mech. & Shipbuilding)
A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.

4.
A bending of the knee, as in respect or courtesy.

Give them title, knee, and approbation.
Shak.

Knee breeches. See under Breeches. -- Knee holly, Knee holm (Bot.), butcher's broom. -- Knee joint. See in the Vocabulary. -- Knee timber, timber with knees or angles in it. -- Knee tribute, or Knee worship, tribute paid by kneeling; worship by genuflection. [Obs.] “Knee tribute yet unpaid.”  Milton.


word: Knee₂
definition:
Knee

Knee
(nē)
v. t.
To supplicate by kneeling.
[Obs.]

Fall down, and knee
The way into his mercy.
Shak


word: Kneebrush
definition:
Kneebrush

Knee"brush`
(nē"brŭsh`)
n.
1.
(Zool.)
A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.

2.
(Zool.)
A thick mass or collection of hairs on the legs of bees, by aid of which they carry the collected pollen to the hive or nest; -- usually in the plural.


word: kneecap
definition:
kneecap

knee"cap`
(?)
n.
1.
(Anat.)
A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneepan.

2.
A cap or protection for the knee.


word: kneecap₂
definition:
kneecap

knee"cap
v. t.
to break the knees of, especially by shooting in the kneecap; -- often done by criminal or terrorist groups as a warning or punishment.


Syn. -- knee-cap.


word: Kneed
definition:
Kneed

Kneed
(?)
a.
1.
Having knees;- used chiefly in composition; as, in-kneed; out-kneed; weak-kneed.

2.
(Bot.)
Geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as, kneed grass.


word: Knee-deep
definition:
Knee-deep

Knee"-deep`
(?)
a.
1.
Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep.

Grass knee-deep within a month.
Milton.

2.
Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water.

Where knee-deep the trees were standing.
Longfellow.


word: Knee jerk
definition:
Knee jerk

Knee jerk
(Physiol.)
A jerk or forward kick of the lower part of the leg produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, which causes a sudden contraction of the quadriceps muscle; the patellar reflex.


word: Knee jerk₂
definition:
Knee jerk

Knee jerk
n.
emotional and predictable; -- of certain people and their reactions to events.


word: Knee jerk liberal
definition:
Knee jerk liberal

Knee jerk liberal
a person of strong liberal convictions who reacts predictably and emotionally to certain events.


word: Knee jerk reaction
definition:
Knee jerk reaction

Knee jerk reaction
an immediate unthinking emotional reaction produced by an event or statement to which the reacting person is highly sensitive; -- in persons with strong feelings on a topic, it may be very predictable.


word: Kneejoint
definition:
Kneejoint

Knee"joint`
(?)
n.
1.
The joint of the knee.

2.
(Mach.)
A toggle joint; -- so called because consisting of two pieces jointed to each other end to end, making an angle like the knee when bent.


word: Kneel
definition:
Kneel

Kneel
(nēl)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Knelt (nĕlt) or Kneeled (nēld); p. pr. & vb. n. Kneeling.]
[OE. knelen, cneolien; akin to D. knielen, Dan. knæle. See Knee.]
To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down.

&hand_;  The act of kneeling, when performed in front of a person, is often done as a sign of respect, humility, or supplication.  It has a similar significance when performed in front of religious objects, such as an altar or shrine.

And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.
Acts vii. 60.

As soon as you are dressed, kneel and say the Lord's Prayer.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Kneeler
definition:
Kneeler

Kneel"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who kneels or who worships by or while kneeling.
Tennyson.

2.
A cushion or stool to kneel on, such as one attached to a pew in a church.

3.
(Eccl. Hist.)
A name given to certain catechumens and penitents who were permitted to join only in parts of church worship.


word: Kneepan
definition:
Kneepan

Knee"pan`
(?)
n.
(Anat.)
A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.


word: Kneipp cure
definition:
Kneipp cure

Kneipp's cure

Kneippism

Kneipp"ism (?), n. Also Kneipp's cure, or Kneipp cure
(_;)
Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest.


word: Knell
definition:
Knell

Knell
(?)
n.
[OE. knel, cnul, AS. cnyll, fr. cnyllan to sound a bell; cf. D. & G. knallen to clap, crack, G. & Sw. knall a clap, crack, loud sound, Dan. knalde to clap, crack.  Cf. Knoll, n. & v.]
The stroke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell;
hence,
(figuratively)
a warning or harbinger of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything; -- also called death knell.

The dead man's knell
Is there scarce asked for who.
Shak.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.
Gray.


word: Knell₂
definition:
Knell

Knell
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Knelled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Knelling.]
[OE. knellen, knillen, As. cnyllan. See Knell, n.]
To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.

Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee.
Beau. & Fl.

Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, “alone”.
Ld. Lytton.


word: Knell₃
definition:
Knell

Knell
v. t.
To summon, as by a knell.

Each matin bell, the baron saith,
Knells us back to a world of death.
Coleridge.


word: Knicker
definition:
Knicker

Knick"er
(?)
n.
[D. knikker.]
A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing.
[Prov. Eng. & U. S.]
Halliwell. Bartlett.


word: Knickerbocker
definition:
Knickerbocker

Knick"er*bock`er
n.
A linsey-woolsey fabric having a rough knotted surface on the right side; used for women's dresses.


word: Knickerbocker₂
definition:
Knickerbocker

Knick"er*bock`er
[capitalized]
prop. n.
[From Diedrich KNickerbocker, the fictional author of  The History of New York, in fact written by Washington Irving.]
A descendent of the early Dutch colonists of the New York City area; --  used mostly as a nickname for an inhabitant of New York state or especially New York City.


word: Knickerbockers
definition:
Knickerbockers

Knick"er*bock`ers
(?)
n. pl.
The name for a style of short breeches; smallclothes; called also knickers.


word: knickers
definition:
knickers

knick"ers
(?)
n. pl.
1.
The name for a style of loose-fitting short trousers, gathered in and ending at the knees; smallclothes; called also knickerbockers.

Syn. -- breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers.

2.
Underpants, especially of women; panties.
[British]

Syn. -- bloomers, pants, drawers.


word: Knife
definition:
Knife

Knife
(nīf)
n.
pl. Knives (nīvz).
[OE. knif, AS. cnīf; akin to D. knijf, Icel. knīfr, Sw. knif, Dan. kniv.]
1.
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..

2.
A sword or dagger.

The coward conquest of a wretch's knife.
Shak.

Knife grass (Bot.) a tropical American sedge (Scleria latifolia), having leaves with a very sharp and hard edge, like a knife. -- War to the knife, mortal combat; a conflict carried to the last extremity.


word: Knife₂
definition:
Knife

Knife
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Knifed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Knifing (?).]
1.
(Hort.)
To prune with the knife.

2.
To cut or stab with a knife.
[Low]

3.
Fig.: To stab in the back; to try to defeat by underhand means, esp. in politics; to vote or work secretly against (a candidate of one's own party).
[Slang, U. S.]


word: Knife-edge
definition:
Knife-edge

Knife"-edge`
(?)
n.
(Mech.)
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.

Knife-edge file. See Illust. of File.


word: Knife switch
definition:
Knife switch

Knife switch
(Elec.)
A switch consisting of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs.


word: Knight
definition:
Knight

Knight
(?)
n.
[OE. knight, cniht, knight, soldier, AS. cniht, cneoht, a boy, youth, attendant, military follower; akin to D. & G. knecht servant; perh. akin to E. kin.]
1.
A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
[Obs.]

2.
(a)
In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.
(b)
One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John.
[Eng.]
Hence:
(c)
A champion; a partisan; a lover.
knight
knight
Tennyson.

Knights, by their oaths, should right poor ladies' harms.
Shak.

&hand_; Formerly, when a knight's name was not known, it was customary to address him as Sir Knight.  The rank of a knight is not hereditary.

3.
A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.

4.
A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
[Obs.]

Carpet knight. See under Carpet. -- Knight of industry. See Chevalier d'industrie, under Chevalier. -- Knight of Malta, Knight of Rhodes, Knight of St. John of Jerusalem. See Hospitaler. -- Knight of the post, one who gained his living by giving false evidence on trials, or false bail; hence, a sharper in general. Nares. “A knight of the post, . . . quoth he, for so I am termed; a fellow that will swear you anything for twelve pence.” Nash. -- Knight of the shire, in England, one of the representatives of a county in Parliament, in distinction from the representatives of cities and boroughs. -- Knights commanders, Knights grand cross, different classes of the Order of the Bath. See under Bath, and Companion. Knights of labor, a secret organization whose professed purpose is to secure and maintain the rights of workingmen as respects their relations to their employers. [U. S.] -- Knights of Pythias, a secret order, founded in Washington, D. C., in 1864, for social and charitable purposes. -- Knights of the Round Table, knights belonging to an order which, according to the legendary accounts, was instituted by the mythical King Arthur. They derived their common title from the table around which they sat on certain solemn days. Brande & C.


word: Knight₂
definition:
Knight

Knight
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Knighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Knighting.]
To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---.

A soldier, by the honor-giving hand
Of Cœur-de-Lion knighted in the field.
Shak.


word: Knight bachelor
definition:
Knight bachelor

Knight" bach"e*lor
(?)
pl. Knights bachelors (_;).
A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.


word: Knight banneret
definition:
Knight banneret

Knight" ban"ner*et
(?)
pl. Knights bannerets.
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.


word: Knight-errant
definition:
Knight-errant

Knight"-er`rant
(?)
n.
pl. Knight-errants, or Knights-errant.
A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.


word: Knight-errantry
definition:
Knight-errantry

Knight"-er`rant*ry
(?)
n.
pl. Knight-errantries (_;).
The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.

The rigid guardian [i. e., conscience] of a blameless heart
Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun.
Young.


word: Knight-er-ratic
definition:
Knight-er-ratic

Knight"-er-rat"ic
(?)
a.
Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry.
[R.]
Quart. Rev.


word: Knighthood
definition:
Knighthood

Knight"hood
(?)
n.
[Knight + hood: cf. AS. chihthād youth.]
1.
The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry.
knighthood
Shak.

If you needs must write, write Caesar's praise;
You 'll gain at least a knighthood, or the bays.
Pope.

2.
The whole body of knights.

The knighthood nowadays are nothing like the knighthood of old time.
Chapman.

&hand_; “When the order of knighthood was conferred with full solemnity in the leisure of a court or court or city, imposing preliminary ceremonies were required of the candidate. He prepared himself by prayer and fasting, watched his arms at night in a chapel, and was then admitted with the performance of religious rites. Knighthood was conferred by the accolade, which, from the derivation of the name, would appear to have been originally an embrace; but afterward consisted, as it still does, in a blow of the flat of a sword on the back of the kneeling candidate.”
Brande & C.


word: Knightliness
definition:
Knightliness

Knight"li*ness
(?)
n.
The character or bearing suitable for a knight; chivalry.
Spenser.


word: Knightly
definition:
Knightly

Knight`ly
a.
[AS. cnihtlic boyish.]
Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.

For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit.
Spenser.

[Excuses] full knightly without scorn.
Tennyson.


word: Knightly₂
definition:
Knightly

Knight"ly
adv.
In a manner becoming a knight.

And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms.
Shak.


word: Knight marshal
definition:
Knight marshal

Knight" mar"shal
(?)
n.
(Eng. Law)
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.
Wharton.


word: Knight's service
definition:
Knight's service

Knight service

Knight" serv"ice (?) Also Knight's service
(_;)
n.
1.
(Feud. Law)
The military service by rendering which a knight held his lands.
2.
(Eng. Feud. Law)
A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.

By far the greater part of England [in the 13th century] is held of the king by knight's service. . . . In order to understand this tenure we must form the conception of a unit of military service. That unit seems to be the service of one knight or fully armed horseman (servitium unius militis) to be done to the king in his army for forty days in the year, if it be called for. . . . The limit of forty days seems to have existed rather in theory than practice.
Pollock & Mait.

3.
Service such as a knight can or should render; hence, good or valuable service.


word: Knight's fee
definition:
Knight's fee

Knight's fee
(Feudal Law)
The fee of a knight; specif., the amount of land the holding of which imposed the obligation of knight service, being sometimes a hide{1}(b) or less, sometimes six or more hides.


word: Knight Templar
definition:
Knight Templar

Knight" Tem"plar
(?)
pl. Knights Templars (_;).
See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.


word: knish
definition:
knish

knish
(k'nĭsh")
n.
(Russian and Jewish Cookery)
A fried, or sometimes baked, turnover made from a round or square sheet of dough containing a filling, usually of meat or potatoes.


word: Knit
definition:
Knit

Knit
(nĭt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Knit or Knitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Knitting.]
[OE. knitten, knutten, As. cnyttan, fr. cnotta knot; akin to Icel. kn&ymacr_;ta, Sw. knyta, Dan. knytte. See Knot.]
1.
To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.

A great sheet knit at the four corners.
Acts x. 11.

When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows.
Shak.

2.
To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings.

3.
To join; to cause to grow together.

Nature can not knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.
Wiseman.

4.
To unite closely; to connect; to engage; as, hearts knit together in love.

Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit.
Shak.

Come, knit hands, and beat the ground,
In a light fantastic round.
Milton (Comus).

A link among the days, toknit
The generations each to each.
Tennyson.

5.
To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.

He knits his brow and shows an angry eye.
Shak.


word: Knit₂
definition:
Knit

Knit
v. i.
1.
To form a fabric by interlacing yarn or thread; to weave by making knots or loops.

2.
To be united closely; to grow together; as, broken bones will in time knit and become sound.

To knit up, to wind up; to conclude; to come to a close. “It remaineth to knit up briefly with the nature and compass of the seas.” [Obs.] Holland.


word: Knitback
definition:
Knitback

Knit"back`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
The plant comfrey; -- so called from its use as a restorative.
Dr. Prier.


word: Knitchet
definition:
Knitchet

Knitch

{ Knitch (?), Knitch"et (?), }
n.
[Cf. Knit.]
A number of things tied or knit together; a bundle; a fagot.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

When they [stems of asphodel] be dried, they ought to be made up into knitchets, or handfuls.
Holland.


word: Knits
definition:
Knits

Knits
(?)
n. pl.
[Prob. same word as nit a louse's egg.]
(Mining)
Small particles of ore.
Raymond.


word: Knitter
definition:
Knitter

Knit"ter
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, knits, joins, or unites; a knitting machine.
Shak.


word: Knitting
definition:
Knitting

Knit"ting
(?)
n.
1.
The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting; knitwork.

2.
Union formed by knitting, as of bones.

Knitting machine, one of a number of contrivances for mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like. -- Knitting needle, a stiff rod, as of steel wire, with rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric, as in stockings. -- Knitting sheath, a sheath to receive the end of a needle in knitting.


word: Knittle
definition:
Knittle

Knit"tle
(?)
n.
[From Knit.]
1.
A string that draws together a purse or bag.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.

2.
pl.
(Naut.)
See Nettles.


word: knitwork
definition:
knitwork

knit"work`
(nĭt"wûrk`)
n.
A network of yarn created by interlacing threads of yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine; knitting.

Syn. -- knit, knitting.


word: Knob
definition:
Knob

Knob
(?)
n.
[A modification of knop.  Cf. Nob.]
1.
A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.

2.
A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock, door, or drawer.
Chaucer.

3.
A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob.
[U. S.]
Bartlett.

4.
(Arch.)
See Knop.

Knob latch, a latch which can be operated by turning a knob, without using a key.


word: Knobbed
definition:
Knobbed

Knobbed
(?)
a.
Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna.

The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom.
Grew.


word: Knobbler
definition:
Knobbler

Knob"bler
n.
(Zool.)
The hart in its second year; a young deer.
[Written also knobber.]
Halliwell.

He has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Knobby
definition:
Knobby

Knob"by
a.
[From Knob.]
1.
Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.
Dr. H. More.

2.
Irregular; stubborn in particulars.
[Obs.]

The informers continued in a knobby kind of obstinacy.
Howell.

3.
Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly.
[U.S.]
Bartlett.


word: knobkerry
definition:
knobkerry

knobkerrie

knob"ker`rie, knob"ker`ry
(?)
n.
[Boer D. knopkirie, fr. D. knop-hout, knotty stick + Hottentot kïrri  club.]
A short wooden club with a knobbed end used as a missile weapon by Kafir and other native tribes of South Africa.


word: Knobstick
definition:
Knobstick

Knob"stick`
(?)
n.
1.
One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trade union.
[Cant, Eng.]

2.
A stick, cane, or club terminating in a knob; esp., such a stick or club used as a weapon or missile; a knobkerrie.


word: Knock
definition:
Knock

Knock
(n&obreve_;k)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Knocked (n&obreve_;kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Knocking.]
[OE. knoken, AS. cnocian, cnucian; prob. of imitative origin; cf. Sw. knacka.  Cf. Knack.]
1.
To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
Bacon.

2.
To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.

For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked.
Dryden.

Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Matt. vii. 7.

3.
To practice evil speaking or fault-finding; to criticize habitually or captiously.
[Slang, U. S.]

To knock about, to go about, taking knocks or rough usage; to wander about; to saunter. [Colloq.] “Knocking about town.” W. Irving. -- To knock up, to fail of strength; to become wearied or worn out, as with labor; to give out. “The horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service.” De Quincey. -- To knock off, to cease, as from work; to desist. -- To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's self conquered; -- an expression probably borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table with the knuckles, when conquered. “Colonel Esmond knocked under to his fate.” Thackeray.


word: Knock₂
definition:
Knock

Knock
(n&obreve_;k)
v. t.
1.
To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table.

When heroes knock their knotty heads together.
Rowe.

2.
To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.

Master, knock the door hard.
Shak.

3.
To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
[Slang, Eng.]

4.
To criticise; to find fault with; to disparage.
knock

To knock in the head, or To knock on the head, to stun or kill by a blow upon the head; hence, to put am end to; to defeat, as a scheme or project; to frustrate; to quash. [Colloq.] -- To knock off. (a) To force off by a blow or by beating. (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow on the counter. (c) To leave off (work, etc.). [Colloq.] -- To knock out, to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out the brains. -- To knock up. (a) To arouse by knocking. (b) To beat or tire out; to fatigue till unable to do more; as, the men were entirely knocked up. [Colloq.] “The day being exceedingly hot, the want of food had knocked up my followers.” Petherick. (c) (Bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form, as printed sheets. (d) To make pregnant.  Often used in passive, "she got knocked up". [vulgar]


word: Knock₃
definition:
Knock

Knock
n.
1.
A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.

2.
A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.
knock
Longfellow.

A loud cry or some great knock.
Holland.

Knock off, See knock off in the vocabulary.


word: Knockabout
definition:
Knockabout

Knock"a*bout`
(?)
n.
1.
(Naut.)
A small yacht, generally from fifteen to twenty-five feet in length, having a mainsail and a jib; a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit.  All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard.  The original type was twenty-one feet in length.  The next larger type is called a raceabout.

2.
A knockabout performer or performance.
[Theat. Slang]

3.
A man hired on a sheep station to do odd jobs.
[Colloq., Australia]


word: knockabout
definition:
knockabout

knock"a*bout`
(?)
a.
1.
Marked by knocking about or roughness.

2.
Of noisy and violent character; marked by farce, pratfalls, and horseplay; as, knockabout comedy.
[Theat. Slang]

Syn. -- boisterous, slapstick.

3.
Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither; suitable for use in rough activity; suited for everyday use; -- used especially of  clothing.

Syn. -- casual, everyday.

4.
That does odd jobs; -- said of a class of hands or laborers on a sheep station.
[Collog., Australia]


word: Knock down
definition:
Knock down

Knock" down`
(?)
n.
1.
To strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by blows; as, to knock down an assailant.

2.
To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow or knock of the auctioneer's hammer; to sell at an auction; as, the vase was knocked down at two thousand dollars.

3.
To take apart; to dissassemble; as, to knock down a rifle for cleaning.

4.
To reduce or discount the price of; as, the dresses were knocked down to twenty dollars.

5.
To earn (an income).
knock down


word: Knockdown
definition:
Knockdown

Knock"down`
(?)
n.
1.
That which knocks one down; something that overpowers or overwhelms, as strong liquor; specif., a kind of ale or beer that is very strong.
[Slang.]

2.
A knocking down; a felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal; a blow that overwhelms; also, a fist fight.

3.
Something that knocks down, or takes apart, for packing or removal, as a piece of furniture; also, state of being knocked down, or taken apart.


word: Knockdown₂
definition:
Knockdown

Knock"down`
(?)
a.
1.
Of force sufficient to fell or completely overthrow; as, a knockdown blow; a knockdown argument..

2.
Designating a rivet end to be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening.

3.
Of or pertaining to the act of knocking down at an auction; specif., designating the price below which an article will not be disposed by the auctioneer.

4.
Made or constructed so as to be capable of being knocked down or taken apart, as for transportation.


word: knockdown-dragout
definition:
knockdown-dragout

knock-down-and-drag-out

knock-down-and-drag-out, knockdown-dragout
adj.
marked by extreme violence; -- of fights; also used metaphorically of fierce contests; as, a knock-down-and-drag-out fight; a knockdown-dragout competition for the browser market.

Syn. -- ferocious, fierce, knockdown-dragout, tearing.


word: knocked-out
definition:
knocked-out

knocked-out
adj.
damaged; -- not used of persons; as, the gym has some of the most knocked-out equipment since Vic Tanny.  Opposite of undamaged.
[prenominal]

Syn. -- knocked out.


word: knocker
definition:
knocker

knock"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.

Shut, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, I said;
Tie up the knocker; say I'm sick, I'm dead.
Pope.

2.
A person strikingly handsome, beautiful, or fine; one who wins admiration; a “stunner.”
[Slang.]

3.
A species of large cockroach, especially Blabera gigantea, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.

4.
[usually used in pl.]
a woman's breast.
[vulgar]


word: Knocking
definition:
Knocking

Knock"ing
n.
A beating; a rap; a series of raps.

The . . . repeated knockings of the head upon the ground by the Chinese worshiper.
H. Spencer.


word: knock-knee
definition:
knock-knee

knock"-knee`
(?)
n.
(Med.)
A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.

Syn. -- knock-knees, genu valgum.


word: knock-kneed
definition:
knock-kneed

knock"-kneed`
(?)
a.
Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.
[Written also knack-kneed.]


word: knock off₂
definition:
knock off

knock off
(?)
v. i. & t.
1.
to quit (working).

2.
to accomplish; -- frequently used when the task is accomplished rapidly.

3.
to kill; to defeat (opponents).
[Colloq.]

4.
to discount, to deduct (a sum from a price).

5.
to rob.

Syn. -- knock over.

6.
to make a knockoff of; to copy or imitate, usually without permission or admission of copying.
[MW10]


word: knockoff
definition:
knockoff

knock"off
(?)
n.
A cheap imitation of something popular, produced illegally without a license from the trademark owner, and of inferior materials.
[Also spelled knock-off.]


word: Knock-off
definition:
Knock-off

Knock"-off`
n.
1.
Act or place of knocking off; that which knocks off;
specif.
(Mach.)
a cam or the like for disconnecting something, as a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.

2.
A knockoff.


word: Knock-out
definition:
Knock-out

Knock"-out`
a.
That knocks out; characterized by knocking out; as, a knock-out blow; a knock-out key for knocking out a drill from a collet.


word: knock-out
definition:
knock-out

knockout

knock"out`, knock"-out`
(?)
n.
Act of knocking out, or state of being knocked out; the act of rendering a person unconscious by a blow.
[wns=1]

2.
a blow which causes a person to become unconscious.

Syn. -- knockout blow, knockout punch.

3.
(Boxing)
the winning of a boxing contest by rendering the opponent unable to stand for a specified period, usually a count of ten; -- in contrast to a win by a decision; as, Muhammed Ali won by a knockout in the first round.

4.
a strikingly beautiful woman.
[Informal]


word: knock-out drops
definition:
knock-out drops

knockout drops

knockout drops, knock-out drops
n. pl.
Drops of any drug, used to a person to fall asleep or become unconscious or stupefied for the purpose of robbery, etc.; they are usually mixed into a drink so that the person consuming it does so unknowingly.  One compound used for this purpose is chloral hydrate.
[Slang, U. S.]


word: Knoll
definition:
Knoll

Knoll
(n&omacrl)
n.
[AS. cnoll; akin to G. knolle, knollen, clod, lump, knob, bunch, OD. knolle ball, bunch, Sw. knöl, Dan. knold.]
A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.

On knoll or hillock rears his crest,
Lonely and huge, the giant oak.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Knoll₂
definition:
Knoll

Knoll
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Knolled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Knolling.]
[OE. knollen, AS. cnyllan. See Knell.]
To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing.
Knolled
Shak.

Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.
Tennyson.


word: Knoll₃
definition:
Knoll

Knoll
v. i.
To sound, as a bell; to knell.
Shak.

For a departed being's soul
The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll.
Byron.


word: Knop
definition:
Knop

Knop
(n&obreve_;p)
n.
[OE. knop, knoppe; cf. D. knop, knoop, G. knopf, Dan. knap, knop, Sw. knapp, knopp, button, bud, Icel. knappr, and E. knap, n. Cf. Knap, Knob.]
1.
A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.

Four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
Ex. xxv. 21.

2.
(Arch.)
Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial; -- called also knob, and knosp.

Knop sedge (Bot.), the bur reed (Sparganium); -- so called from its globular clusters of seed vessels. Prior.


word: Knoppern
definition:
Knoppern

Knop"pern
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. knopper. See Knop.]
(Zool.)
A kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing.


word: Knot
definition:
Knot

Knot
(n&obreve_;t)
n.
[OE. knot, knotte, AS. cnotta; akin to D. knot, OHG. chnodo, chnoto, G. knoten, Icel. knūtr, Sw. knut, Dan. knude, and perh. to L. nodus.  Cf. Knout, Knit.]
1.
(a)
A fastening together of the parts or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.
(b)
A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself.
(c)
An ornamental tie, as of a ribbon.

&hand_; The names of knots vary according to the manner of their making, or the use for which they are intended; as, dowknot, reef knot, stopper knot, diamond knot, etc.

2.
A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
knot
Shak.

Ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed.
Bp. Hall.

3.
Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem.

Knots worthy of solution.
Cowper.

A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs.
South.

4.
A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc.
knots
Bacon.

Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art
In beds and curious knots, but nature boon
Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
Milton.

5.
A cluster of persons or things; a collection; a group; a hand; a clique; as, a knot of politicians.
Knots
Tennyson.

His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries.
Shak.

Palms in cluster, knots of Paradise.
Tennyson.

As they sat together in small, separate knots, they discussed doctrinal and metaphysical points of belief.
Sir W. Scott. 

6.
A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.

7.
A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.

With lips serenely placid, felt the knot
Climb in her throat.
Tennyson.

8.
A protuberant joint in a plant.

9.
The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
[Obs.]

I shoulde to the knotte condescend,
And maken of her walking soon an end.
Chaucer.

10.
(Mech.)
See Node.

11.
(Naut.)
(a)
A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour.
(b)
A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship goes nautical eight miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots.

12.
A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot.

13.
(Zool.)
A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne.

&hand_; The name is said to be derived from King Canute, this bird being a favorite article of food with him.

The knot that called was Canutus' bird of old,
Of that great king of Danes his name that still doth hold,
His appetite to please that far and near was sought.
Drayton.


word: Knot₂
definition:
Knot

Knot
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Knotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Knotting.]
1.
To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle.
Knotted
Drayton.

As tight as I could knot the noose.
Tennyson.

2.
To unite closely; to knit together.
Bacon.

3.
To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
[Obs. or R.]


word: Knot₃
definition:
Knot

Knot
v. i.
1.
To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled.

Cut hay when it begins to knot.
Mortimer.

2.
To knit knots for fringe or trimming.

3.
To copulate; -- said of toads.
[R.]
Shak.


word: Knotberry
definition:
Knotberry

Knot"ber`ry
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
The cloudberry (Rudus Chamæmorus); -- so called from its knotted stems.


word: Knotgrass
definition:
Knotgrass

Knot"grass`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
(a)
a common weed with jointed stems (Polygonum aviculare); knotweed.
(b)
The dog grass. See under Dog.

&hand_; An infusion of Polygonum aviculare was once supposed to have the effect of stopping the growth of an animal, and hence it was called, as by Shakespeare, “hindering knotgrass.”

We want a boy extremely for this function,
Kept under for a year with milk and knotgrass.
Beau. &  Fl.


word: Knotted
definition:
Knotted

Knot"ted
(?)
a.
1.
Full of knots; having knots; knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak.
Dryden.

2.
Interwoven; matted; entangled.

Make . . . thy knotted and combined locks to part.
Shak.

3.
Having intersecting lines or figures.

The west corner of thy curious knotted garden.
Shak.

4.
(Geol.)
Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks.
Percival.

5.
Entangled; puzzling; knotty.
[R.]

They're catched in knotted lawlike nets.
Hudibras.


word: Knottiness
definition:
Knottiness

Knot"ti*ness
(?)
n.
[From Knotty.]
1.
The quality or state of being knotty or full of knots.

2.
Difficulty of solution; intricacy; complication.
Knottiness
Hare.


word: Knotty
definition:
Knotty

Knot"ty
(?)
a.
[Compar. Knottier (?); superl. Knottiest.]
1.
Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.

2.
Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
[R.]
Rewe.

3.
Difficult; intricate; perplexed.

A knotty point to which we now proceed
Pope.


word: Knotwort
definition:
Knotwort

Knot"wort`
(n&obreve_;t"wûrt`)
n.
(Bot.)
A small, herbaceous, trailing plant, of the genus Illecebrum (Illecebrum verticillatum).


word: Knout
definition:
Knout

Knout
(nout or nōt)
n.
[Russ. knut'; prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. knut knot, knout, Icel. knūtr knot: cf. F. knout. See Knot.]
A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The lash is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.


word: Know₂
definition:
Know

Know
(n&omacr)
v. t.
[imp. Knew (nū); p. p. Known (n&omacrn); p. pr. & vb. n. Knowing.]
[OE. knowen, knawen, AS. cnäwan; akin to OHG. chnäan (in comp.), Icel. knä to be able, Russ. znate to know, L. gnoscere, noscere, Gr. gighw`skein, Skr. jnā; fr. the root of E. can, v. i., ken. √45.  See Ken, Can to be able, and cf. Acquaint, Cognition, Gnome, Ignore, Noble, Note.]
1.
To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's duty.

O, that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come!
Shak.

There is a certainty in the proposition, and we know it.
Dryden.

Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
Longfellow.

2.
To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of; as, to know things from information.

3.
To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization.

He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.
2 Cor. v. 21.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
Milton.

4.
To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of; as, to know a person's face or figure.

Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Matt. vil. 16. 

And their eyes were opened, and they knew him.
Luke xxiv. 31.

To know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.
Shak.

At nearer view he thought he knew the dead.
Flatman.

5.
To have sexual intercourse with.

And Adam knew Eve his wife.
Gen. iv. 1.

&hand_; Know is often followed by an objective and an infinitive (with or without to) or a participle, a dependent sentence, etc.

And I knew that thou hearest me always.
John xi. 42.

The monk he instantly knew to be the prior.
Sir W. Scott.

In other hands I have known money do good.
Dickens.

To know how, to understand the manner, way, or means; to have requisite information, intelligence, or sagacity. How is sometimes omitted. “ If we fear to die, or know not to be patient.”  Jer. Taylor.


word: Know₃
definition:
Know

Know
v. i.
1.
To have knowledge; to have a clear and certain perception; to possess wisdom, instruction, or information; -- often with of.

Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Is. i. 3.

If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
John vii. 17.

The peasant folklore of Europe still knows of willows that bleed and weep and speak when hewn.
Tylor.

2.
To be assured; to feel confident.

To know of, to ask, to inquire. [Obs.] “ Know of your youth, examine well your blood.”  Shak.


word: Knowable
definition:
Knowable

Know"a*ble
(?)
a.
That may be known; capable of being discovered, understood, or ascertained.

Thus mind and matter, as known or knowable, are only two different series of phenomena or qualities.
Sir W. Hamilton. 


word: Know-all
definition:
Know-all

Know"-all`
(?)
n.
One who knows everything; hence, one who makes pretension to great knowledge; a wiseacre; a know-it-all; -- usually ironical.
[Colloq. or R.]


word: know-how
definition:
know-how

knowhow

know"how`, know"-how`
(n&omacr"hou`)
n.
the knowledge and skill required to do something; practical knowledge for a specific task.

Syn. -- knowhow.


word: Knowing
definition:
Knowing

Know"ing
a.
1.
Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog.

The knowing and intelligent part of the world.
South.

2.
Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal.
[Colloq.]


word: Knowing₂
definition:
Knowing

Know"ing
n.
Knowledge; hence, experience.
knowing
Shak.

This sore night
Hath trifled former knowings.
Shak.


word: Knowingly
definition:
Knowingly

Know"ing*ly
adv.
1.
With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend.
Strype.

2.
By experience.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Knowingness
definition:
Knowingness

Know"ing*ness
n.
The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.


word: Know-it-all
definition:
Know-it-all

Know"-it-all`
(?)
n.
One who knows everything;
hence,
a person who makes pretension to great knowledge, especially one whose didactic conversational habit conspicuously reveals his belief that he has superior knowledge on many subjects; a wiseacre; a know-all; -- usually ironical.
[Colloq. & pejorative]
the use of this term implies that the speaker disapproves of this behavior, and may think that it is unjustified


word: Knowleche
definition:
Knowleche

Knowl"eche
(?)
n. & v.
[Obs.]
See Knowledge.

We consider and knowleche that we have offended.
Chaucer.


word: Knowledge
definition:
Knowledge

Knowl"edge
(?)
n.
[OE. knowlage, knowlege, knowleche, knawleche. The last part is the Icel. suffix -leikr, forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as Icel. leikr game, play, sport, akin to AS. lāc, Goth. laiks dance. See Know, and cf. Lake, v. i., Lark a frolic.]

1.
The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.

Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of the truth of affirmative or negative propositions.
Locke.

2.
That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; -- chiefly used in the plural.

There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges.
Bacon.

Knowledges is a term in frequent use by Bacon, and, though now obsolete, should be revived, as without it we are compelled to borrow “cognitions” to express its import.
Sir W. Hamilton.

To use a word of Bacon's, now unfortunately obsolete, we must determine the relative value of knowledges.
H. Spencer.

3.
That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition.

Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
1 Cor. viii. 1.

Ignorance is the curse of God;
Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Shak.

4.
That familiarity which is gained by actual experience; practical skill; as, a knowledge of life.

Shipmen that had knowledge of the sea.
1 Kings ix. 27.

5.
Scope of information; cognizance; notice; as, it has not come to my knowledge.

Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldst take knowledge of me?
Ruth ii. 10.

6.
Sexual intercourse; -- usually preceded by carnal; same as carnal knowledge.


word: knowledgeable
definition:
knowledgeable

knowledgeable
adj.
1.
thoroughly acquainted with and skilled in something through study or experience; as, knowledgeable in classical languages.  Opposite of unversed, unacquainted, and unfamiliar.

Syn. -- versed.

2.
fully informed.

3.
highly educated; having information or understanding.

Syn. -- enlightened, learned, lettered, literate, well-educated, well-read.


word: knowledge engineering
definition:
knowledge engineering

knowledge engineering
n.
The application of computerized data and text manipulation to manage and interpret large bodies of knowledge, or find useful information in large bodies of data.  The study of methods for knowledge engineering is generally considered as a branch of artificial intelligence.


word: knowledge-intensive
definition:
knowledge-intensive

knowledge-intensive
a.
Requiring access to and manipulation of large quantities of knowledge; as, knowledge-intensive labor.


word: knowledge worker
definition:
knowledge worker

knowledge worker
n.
A person whose occupation is predominantly concerned with generating or interpreting information, as contrasted with manual labor.


word: Know-nothing
definition:
Know-nothing

Know"-noth`ing
(?)
n.
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.

&hand_; The party originated in 1853, and existed for about three years. The members of it were called Know-nothings, because they replied “I don't know,” to any questions asked them in reference to the party.


word: Know-nothingism
definition:
Know-nothingism

Know"-noth`ing*ism
(?)
n.
The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings.


word: Knuckle
definition:
Knuckle

Knuc"kle
(?)
n.
[OE. knokel, knokil, AS. cuncel; akin to D. knokkel, OFries. knokele, knokle, G. knöchel, Sw. knoge, Dan. knokkel, G. knochen bone, and perh. to E. knock.]
1.
The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers.
Davenant.

2.
The kneejoint, or middle joint, of either leg of a quadruped, especially of a calf; -- formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.

With weary knuckles on thy brim she kneeled sadly down.
Golding.

3.
The joint of a plant.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

4.
(Mech.)
The joining parts of a hinge through which the pin or rivet passes; a knuckle joint.

5.
(Shipbuilding)
A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.

6.
A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck;  -- called also knuckle duster, knuckles or brass knuckles.
[Slang.]

Knuckle joint (Mach.), a hinge joint, in which a projection with an eye, on one piece, enters a jaw between two corresponding projections with eyes, on another piece, and is retained by a pin which passes through the eyes and forms the pivot. -- Knuckle of veal (Cookery), the lower part of a leg of veal, from the line of the body to the knuckle.


word: Knuckle₂
definition:
Knuckle

Knuc"kle
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Knuckled (?);; p. pr. & vb. n. Knuckling (?).]
To yield; to submit; -- used with down, to, or under.

To knuckle to. (a) To submit to in a contest; to yield to. [Colloq.] See To knock under, under Knock, v. i. (b) To apply one's self vigorously or earnestly to; as, to knuckle to work. [Colloq.]


word: knuckles
definition:
knuckles

knuc"kles
n. pl.
a small metal weapon, worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand; called also brass knuckles and knuckle duster.

Syn. -- brass knucks, knucks, brass knuckles, knuckle duster.


word: knucks
definition:
knucks

knucks
n. pl.
same as knuckles.

Syn. -- brass knucks, brass knuckles, knuckles, knuckle duster.


word: Knuff
definition:
Knuff

Knuff
(nŭf)
n.
[Cf. Gnof a churl.]
A lout; a clown.
[Obs.]

The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Hick,
With clubs and clouted shoon.
Hayward.


word: Knurl
definition:
Knurl

Knurl
(nûrl)
n.
[See Knar, Gnar.]
A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.

2.
One who, or that which, is crossgrained.


word: Knurl₂
definition:
Knurl

Knurl
(nûrl)
v. t.
To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill.


word: Knurled
definition:
Knurled

Knurled
(nûrld)
a.
1.
Full of knots; gnarled.

2.
Milled, as the head of a screw, or the edge of a coin.


word: Knurly
definition:
Knurly

Knurl"y
(nûrl"&ybreve_;)
[Compar. Knurlier (nûrl"ĭ*ẽr); superl. Knurliest.]
[See Knur, and cf. Gnarly.]
Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.


word: k.o.
definition:
k.o.

K.O.

KO

KO, K.O., k.o.
n.
a knockout; a blow that renders the opponent unconscious; -- used especially in boxing.
[acronym]

Syn. -- knockout.


word: KO
definition:
KO

KO
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. KO'd (?); p. pr. & vb. n. KO'ing.]
To knock out; to deliver a blow that renders (the opponent) unconscious; -- used especially in boxing.
[acronym]

Syn. -- knockout.


word: Koala
definition:
Koala

Ko*a"la
(?)
n.
A tailless furry marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus), found in Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called also Australian bear, koala bear, native bear, and native sloth.  The koala lives almost all of its life in trees, moves sluggishly like a sloth, and eats eucalyptus leaves almost exclusively.


word: Koba
definition:
Koba

Kob

{ Kob (?), Ko"ba (?) }
n.
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of African antelopes of the genus Kobus, esp. the species Kobus sing-sing.


word: Kobellite
definition:
Kobellite

Ko"bel*lite
n.
[From Franz von Kobell, of Munich.]
(Min.)
A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.


word: Kobold
definition:
Kobold

Ko"bold
(?)
n.
[G., perh. orig., house god, hose protector. See Cobalt]
A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.


word: KO'd
definition:
KO'd

KO'd
adj.
[from KO, v. t.]
rendered unconscious, usually by a blow.

Syn. -- knocked out(predicate), kayoed, out(predicate), stunned.


word: Kodachrome
definition:
Kodachrome

Ko"da*chrome`
(k&omacr"dă*kr&omacrm`)
n.
[A trademark.]
A brand of photographic transparency bearing a positive color image.


word: Kodak
definition:
Kodak

Ko"dak
(k&omacr"dăk)
n.
[An invented name.]
1.
A kind of portable photographic camera, esp. adapted for snapshot work, in which a succession of negatives is made upon a continuous roll of sensitized film; -- originally a trademark name of the Eastman Kodak Company, but from early 1900's through the 1930's it was popularly applied to almost any hand camera.
[Trademark]

2.
A photograph taken with a kodak.


word: Kodak₂
definition:
Kodak

Ko"dak
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Kodaked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Kodaking.]
To photograph with a kodak; hence, to describe or characterize briefly and vividly.
[obsolescent]


word: Kodiak bear
definition:
Kodiak bear

Kodiak bear
n.
A large brown bear (Ursus middendorffi syn. Ursus arctos middendorffi) of coastal Alaska and British Columbia related to the grizzly bear; called also Kodiak bear.

Syn. -- Alaskan brown bear, Kodiak, Ursus middendorffi, Ursus arctos middendorffi.


word: Koel
definition:
Koel

Ko"el
(?)
n.
[Native name in India.]
(Zool.)
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.


word: Koellia
definition:
Koellia

Koellia
n.
(Bot.)
The genus comprising the American mountain mint, synonymous with Pycnanthemum.

Syn. -- Pycnanthemum, genus Pycnanthemum, genus Koellia.


word: Koftgari
definition:
Koftgari

Koft`ga*ri"
(?)
a.
[Hind. koft garï goldbeating. fr. Per. koft beating + garï trade.]
Ornamental work produced by inlaying steel with gold, -- a variety of damascening much used in the arts of India.


word: Kohnur
definition:
Kohnur

Kohinoor

{ Koh`i*noor", Koh`*nur  }
(k&omacr`ĭ*nōr")
n.
[Per. koh-i-nūr, lit., mountain of light.]
A famous diamond, surrendered to the British crown on the annexation of the Punjab.  According to Hindu legends, it was found in a Golconda mine, and has been the property of various Hindu and Persian rulers.


word: Kohl
definition:
Kohl

Kohl
(?)
n.
[See Alcohol.]
A mixture of soot and other ingredients, used by Egyptian and other Eastern women to darken the edges of the eyelids.


word: Kohl-rabi
definition:
Kohl-rabi

Kohl"-ra`bi
(?)
n.
pl. Kohl-rabies (#).
[G.  Cf. Cole, Rape the plant.]
(Bot.)
A variety of cabbage, in which the edible part is a large, turnip-shaped swelling of the stem, above the surface of the ground.


word: Koklass
definition:
Koklass

Ko"klass
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
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.


word: Kolarian
definition:
Kolarian

Ko*la"ri*an
(?)
n.
(Ethnol.)
An individual of one of the races of aboriginal inhabitants which survive in Hindustan.
a. Of or pertaining to the Kolarians.


word: Kolinsky
definition:
Kolinsky

Ko*lin"sky
(?)
n.
[Russ. kolinski of Kola, a district in northeasten Russia where the finest minks abound.]
Among furriers, any of several Asiatic minks; esp., Putorius sibiricus, the yellowish brown pelt of which is valued, esp. for the tail, used for making artists' brushes. Trade names for the fur are red sable and Tatar sable.


word: kolkhoz
definition:
kolkhoz

kol*khoz"
n.
[Russian, concatenated from kollektivnoye khozyaistvo, collective farm.]
A collective farm owned by the communist state, in the former USSR.


word: Kolushan
definition:
Kolushan

Koluschan

{ Ko*lusch"an, Ko*lush"an  }
(?)
a.
[From Russ. kalyushka piece of wood (worn in the nether lip).]
Designating, or pertaining to, a linguistic stock of North American Indians comprising the Tlinkit tribes of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska and adjacent coast lands. Their language bears some affinity to Mexican tongues.


word: Kolkwitzia
definition:
Kolkwitzia

Kolkwitzia
prop. n.
A Chinese genus having only one species, the beauty bush.

Syn. -- genus Kolkwitzia.


word: Komenic
definition:
Komenic

Ko*me"nic
(?)
a.
[Prob. G. mekonin (by transposition of letters) + -ic.]
(Chem.)
Of or pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from meconic acid.
[Written also comenic.]


word: komondor
definition:
komondor

komondor
n.
A Hungarian breed of large powerful shaggy-coated white dog, used also as guard dog.


word: Komtok
definition:
Komtok

Kom"tok
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
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.


word: Kon
definition:
Kon

Kon
(?)
v. t.
To know. See Can, and Con.
[Obs.]

Ye konnen thereon as much as any man.
Chaucer.


word: konini
definition:
konini

konini
n.
An erect deciduous shrub or tree (Fuchsia excorticata), native to New Zealand, growing up to 10 feet, with maroon-flushed flowers.

Syn. -- tree fuchsia, native fuchsia, Fuchsia excorticata.


word: Konseal
definition:
Konseal

Kon*seal"
(?)
n.
[Prob. formed from conceal.]
(Med.)
A form of capsule for inclosing a dose of medicine that is offensive, caustic, or the like.


word: Konze
definition:
Konze

Konze
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), allied to the hartbeest, but having shorter and flatter horns, and lacking a black patch on the face.


word: Koodoo
definition:
Koodoo

Koo"doo
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
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.
[Written also kudu.]


word: Koolokamba
definition:
Koolokamba

Koo`lo*kam"ba
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A west African anthropoid ape (Troglodytes koolokamba, or Troglodytes Aubryi), allied to the chimpanzee and gorilla, and, in some respects, intermediate between them.


word: Kop
definition:
Kop

Kop
(?)
n.
[South Afr. D., fr. D. kop head, akin to G. kopf and prob. to E. cop top.]
Hill; mountain.
[South Africa]


word: kopeck
definition:
kopeck

ko"peck
(?)
n.
pl. Eng. kopecks, Russ. kopeek.
[Russ. kopeika.]
A small Russian coin, continued as a unit of currency within the Soviet Union.  One hundred kopecks make a ruble.  The ruble was worth about sixty cents (U. S.) in 1910; in 1991 a two-kopeck coin could be used for a local telephone call at a pay telephone.  After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1993, the exchange value of the ruble declined rapidly and by the end of 1994 the ruble was worth three hundredths of a cent, and by 1997 two hundredths of a cent. By 1993, the kopek had become of such small value that it was obsolete and no longer minted.
[Written also kopek, copec, and copeck.]


word: koppie
definition:
koppie

kopje

kop"je, kop"pie
(k&obreve_;p"ĭ)
n.
[South African D., dim. of kop. See Kop.]
A hillock; a small kop, especially a small hill rising up from the African veld.
[South Africa]

&hand_; The colloqual Dutch pronunciation as here given is the usual one in South Africa.


word: Koran
definition:
Koran

Ko"ran
(k&omacr"ran or ko̝*rän"; 277)
n.
[Ar. qorān; with the Ar. article, Alkoran, Alcoran; = Turk. Pers. qurân, from Ar. quran, qoran, book, reading, from qârâ,  read. See Alcoran.]
The Scriptures of the Muslims, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.
[Written also Kuran or Quran, Also rarely Coran and Core.]
&hand_;  The Koran is the sacred book of the Muslims (sometimes called Mohammedans by non-Muslims, a term considered offensive by some Muslims).  It is the most important foundation on which Islam rests and it is held in the highest veneration by all Islamic sects.  When being read it must be kept on a stand elevated above the floor.  No one may read it or touch it without first making a legal ablution.  It is written in the Arabic language, and its style is considered a model.  The substance of the Koran is held to be uncreated and eternal.  Mohammed was merely the person to whom the work was revealed.  At first the Koran was not written, but entirely committed to memory.  But when a great many of the best Koran reciters had been killed in battle, Omar suggested to Abu-Bekr (the successor of Mohammed) that it should be written down.  Abu-Bekr accordingly commanded Zeid, an amanuensis of the prophet, to commit it to writing.  This was the authorized text until 23 years after the death of the prophet.  A number of variant readings had, however, crept into use.  By order of the calif Osman in the year 30 of the Hejira, Zeid and three assistants made a careful revision which was adopted as the standard, and all the other copies were ordered to be burned.  The Koran consists of 114 suras or divisions.  These are not numbered, but each one has a separate name.  They are not arranged in historical order.  These suras purport to be the addresses delivered by Mohammed during his career at Mecca and Medina.  As a general rule the shorter suras, which contain the theology of Islam, belong to the Meccan period; while the longer ones, relating to social duties and relationships, to Medina.  The Koran is largely drawn from Jewish and Christian sources, the former prevailing.  Moses and Jesus are reckoned among the prophets.  The biblical narratives are interwoven with rabbinical legends.  The customs of the Jews are made to conform to those of the Arabians.  Islamic theology consists in the study of the Koran and its commentaries.  A very fine collection of Korans, including one in Cufic (the old Arabic character), is to be found in the Khedival Library at Cairo, Egypt.


word: Korinthos
definition:
Korinthos

Korinthos
prop. prop. n.
[Greek.]
A city in Greece, called Corinth in English; the modern city is near the site of the ancient city that was 2nd only to Athens in size and power in ancient Greece.

Syn. -- Corinth.


word: Korrigum
definition:
Korrigum

Kor"ri*gum
(?)
n.
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
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.


word: kos
definition:
kos

kos
n.
an Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.

Syn. -- coss.


word: Kosher
definition:
Kosher

Ko"sher
(?)
a.
[heb. koshër fit, proper.]
1.
Ceremonially clean, according to Jewish law; -- applied to food, esp. to meat of animals slaughtered according to the requirements of Jewish law. Opposed to tref.  For food to be officially kosher, it must be certified fit to eat by a Rabbi, according to Jewish ritual law; as, kosher food.
Hence,
designating a shop, store, house, etc., where such food is sold or used; as, a kosher restaurant.

Syn. -- cosher, ritually fit, sanctioned.

2.
Hence:
Proper; seemly; appropriate; legitimate; as, it's not kosher to do it that way.
[colloq.]

3.
Genuine.
[colloq.]


word: Kosher₂
definition:
Kosher

Ko"sher
n.
Kosher food; also, a kosher shop.

2.
the practise of adherence to the Jewish ritual law; used mostly in the phrase keep kosher, v. i..

keep kosher To adhere to the rules for eating only kosher food and handling it properly.


word: Kosher₃
definition:
Kosher

Ko"sher
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Koshered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Koshering.]
To prepare in conformity with the requirements of the Jewish law, as meat.


word: Kosteletzya
definition:
Kosteletzya

Kosteletzya
n.
A small genus of herbs of the Southeastern U. S. and tropical America and Africa.

Syn. -- genus Kosteletzya.


word: Kotow
definition:
Kotow

Ko*tow"
(?)
n.
[Chinese, knock head.]
Same as kowtow, the more common spellings.
[China]
[Also spelled kowtow.]
S. W. Williams.


word: Kotow₂
definition:
Kotow

Ko*tow"
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Kotowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Kotowing.]
1.
To perform the kotow.  Now usually spelled kowtow.
[Also spelled kowtow.]

2.
To defer to another in a servile or humiliating manner; to act obsequiously.


word: Koulan
definition:
Koulan

Kou"lan
(?)
n.
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
A wild horse (Equus onager or Asinus onager) inhabiting the plains of Central Asia; -- called also gour, khur, and onager.
[Written also kulan.]

&hand_; It is sometimes confounded with the dziggetai, to which it is closely related. It is gray in winter, but fulvous in summer. It has a well defined, dark, dorsal stripe, and a short, erect mane. In size, it is intermediate between the horse and ass.


word: Koumiss
definition:
Koumiss

Kou"miss
(?)
n.
[Russ. kumys; of Mongolian origin.]
An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars of central Asia from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe.
[Written also koumyss, kumiss, kumis, kumish, and kumys.]

Koumiss has from time immemorial served the Tartar instead of wine or spirits.
J. H. Newman.


word: Kousso
definition:
Kousso

Kous"so
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge.
[Written also cusso and kosso.]


word: kowhai
definition:
kowhai

kowhai
n.
A shrub or small tree (Sophora tetraptera) of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; it yields a hard strong wood.

Syn. -- Sophora tetraptera.


word: Kowtow
definition:
Kowtow

Kow*tow"
(?)
n.
[Chinese, knock head.]
The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground; same as Kotow.  There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings.
[China]
[Also spelled kotow.]
S. W. Williams.


word: Kowtow₂
definition:
Kowtow

Kow*tow"
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Kowtowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Kowtowing.]
To perform the kowtow.  Same as Kotow

I have salaamed and kowtowed to him.
H. James.

2.
To defer to another in a servile or humiliating manner; to act obsequiously.

Syn. -- kotow.


word: Kr
definition:
Kr

Kr
prop. n.
(Chem.)
The chemical symbol for the element krypton, one of the six noble gases.
[abbrev.]

Syn. -- krypton.


word: Kra
definition:
Kra

Kra
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A long-tailed ape (Macacus cynomolgus) of India and Sumatra. It is reddish olive, spotted with black, and has a black tail.


word: Kraal
definition:
Kraal

Kraal
(kräl or kr&asuml_;l; 277)
n.
[D., a village, inclosure, park, prob. fr. Pg. curral a cattle pen; the same word as Sp. corral. See Corral.]
1.
A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut.
[South Africa]

2.
An inclosure into which are driven wild elephants which are to be tamed and educated.
[Ceylon]


word: Krait
definition:
Krait

Krait
(?)
n.
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
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.


word: Kraken
definition:
Kraken

Kra"ken
(?)
n.
[Prob. from OSw. krake, or ODan. krage the trunk of a tree, the branches of which are not entirely cut off, to which it was likened by the Norwegian mariners.]
A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus.

To believe all that has been said of the sea serpent or kraken, would be credulity; to reject the possibility of their existence, would be presumption.
Goldsmith.

Like a kraken huge and black.
Longfellow.


word: Krameria
definition:
Krameria

Kra*me"ri*a
(?)
prop. n.
[NL. So called after the German botanists, J. G. H. Kramer & W. H. Kramer.]
(Bot.)
A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one species of which (Krameria triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as a medicine, is obtained.


word: Krameric
definition:
Krameric

Kra*mer"ic
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, Krameria (rhatany); as, krameric acid, usually called ratanhia-tannic acid.


word: Krang
definition:
Krang

Krang
(?)
n.
[Cf. D. kreng a carcass.]
The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed.
[Written also crang and kreng.]


word: Kranging hook
definition:
Kranging hook

Krang"ing hook`
(?)
n.
(Whaling)
A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away.
[Written also cranging hook.]


word: Kremlin
definition:
Kremlin

Krem"lin
(?)
n.
[Russ. kremle.]
1.
The citadel of a town or city; especially, the citadel of Moscow, a large inclosure which contains imperial palaces, cathedrals, churches, an arsenal, etc.
[Russia]
2.
Hence:
The government of Russia (or, 1920-1992, of the Soviet Union).
[metonymical]


word: Kreutzer
definition:
Kreutzer

Kreut"zer
(kroit"sẽr)
n.
[G. kreuzer.]
A small copper coin formerly used in South Germany; also, a small Austrian copper coin.
[Written also kreuzer.]


word: Kriegsspiel
definition:
Kriegsspiel

Kriegs"spiel`
(_;)
n.
[G., fr. krieg war + spiel play.]
A game of war, played for practice, on maps.
Farrow.


word: Krishna
definition:
Krishna

Krish"na
(krĭsh"nȧ)
n.
[Skr. k&rsdot_;sh&nsdot_;a ' The black.'.]
(Hindu Myth.)
The most popular of the Hindu divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu.

&hand_;  Krishna is a well-known Hindu deity.  Originally the ethnic god of some powerful confederation of Rajput clans, by fusion with the Vishnu of the older theology Krishna becomes one of the chief divinities of Hinduism.  He is indeed an avatar of Vishnu, or Vishnu himself. In his physical character mingle myths of fire, lightning, and storm, of heaven and the sun. In the epic he is a hero invincible in war and love, brave, but above all crafty.  He was the son of Vasudeva and Devaki, and born at Mathura, on the Yamuna, between Delhi and Agra, among the Yadavas.  Like that of many solar heroes, his birth was beset with peril.  On the night when it took place, his parents had to remove him from the reach of his uncle, King Kansa, who sought his life because he had been warned by a voice from heaven that the eighth son of Devaki would kill him, and who had regularly made away with his nephews at their birth.  Conveyed across the Yamuna, Krishna was brought up as their son by the shepherd Nanda and his wife Yashoda, together with his brother Balarama, 'Rama the strong,' who had been likewise saved from massacre.  The two brothers grew up among the shepherds, slaying monsters and demons and sporting with the Gopis, the female cowherds of Vrindavana.  Their birth and infancy, their juvenile exploits, and their erotic gambols with the Gopis became in time the essential portion of the legend of Krishna, and their scenes are today the most celebrated centers of his worship.  When grown, the brothers put their uncle Kansa to death, and Krishna became king of the Yadavas.  He cleared the land of monsters, warred against impious kings, and took part in the war of the sons of Pandu against those of Dhritarashtra, as described in the Mahabharata.  He transferred his capital to Dvaraka ('the city of gates'), the gates of the West, since localized in Gujarat.  There he and his race were overtaken by the final catastrophe.  After seeing his brother slain, and the Yadavas kill each other to the last man, he himself perished, wounded in the heel, like Achilles, by the arrow of a hunter.  The bible of the worshipers of Vishnu in his most popular manifestation, that of Krishna, consists of the Bhagavatapurana and the Bhagavadgita. See these words.

Hare Krishnas A popular name for the group International Society for Krishna Consciousness (abbreviated ISKCON), devotees of Krishna, founded in 1966 by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (born 1896, died 1977).  They are called thus because of their frequent public chanting of the words “Hare Krishna”.


word: Kritarchy
definition:
Kritarchy

Kri"tarch*y
(krī"tärk*&ybreve_;)
n.
[Gr. krith`s judge + 'archh` beginning, government.]
The rule of the judges over Israel.

Samson, Jephthah, Gideon, and other heroes of the kritarchy.
Southey.


word: Krone
definition:
Krone

Kro"ne
(kr&omacr"na̝)
n.
[Dan.]
A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of the value of about twenty-eight cents (in 1913). See Crown, n., 9.


word: Krooman
definition:
Krooman

Kroo"man
(krō"man)
n.
pl. Kroomen (krō"men).
One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose members are much employed on shipboard.


word: Krumhorn
definition:
Krumhorn

Krummhorn

{ Krumm"horn`, Krum"horn`  }
(krōm"hôrn`)
n.
[G. krummhorn cornet; krumm crooked + horn horn.]
(Mus.)
(a)
A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now obsolete (see Cornet, 1, a.).
(b)
A reed stop in the organ; -- sometimes called cremona.


word: Krupp gun
definition:
Krupp gun

Krupp` gun"
(krŏp`gŭn")
n.
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.
[obsolescent]
Knight.


word: Kruppize
definition:
Kruppize

Krupp"ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Kruppized (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Kruppizing.]
(Metal.)
To treat by, or subject to, the Krupp process.


word: Krupp process
definition:
Krupp process

Krupp process
(krŏp)
n.
(Iron Metal.)
(a)
A process practiced by Friedrich Krupp, Essen, Germany, for washing pig iron, differing from the Bell process in using manganese as well as iron oxide, and performed in a Pernot furnace.  Called also the Bell-Krupp process.
(b)
A process for the manufacture of steel armor plates, invented or practiced by Krupp, the details of which are secret.  It is understood to involve the addition of chromium as well as nickel to the metal, and to include a treatment like that of the Harvey process with unknown variations or additions.  The product is mentioned by some authors, as improved Harvey, or Harvey-Krupp armor plate.


word: Krypton
definition:
Krypton

Kryp"ton
(krĭp"t&obreve_;n)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. krypto`n, neut. of krypto`s hidden.]
(Chem.)
An inert gaseous element of the argon (noble gas) group, of atomic number 36, occurring in air to the extent of about one volume in a million.  It was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1898.  Boiling point, -152.3° C.; melting point, -156.6° C.; symbol, Kr; atomic weight, 83.8.


word: Kshatruya
definition:
Kshatruya

Kshatriya

{ Ksha"tri*ya (kshȧ"tre̝*yȧ), Ksha"tru*ya (?), }
n.
[Skr. kshatriya one belonging to the military caste.]
The military caste, the second of the four great Hindu castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste.
[India]


word: Kudos
definition:
Kudos

Ku"dos
(kū"d&obreve_;s)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ky^dos glory.]
Glory; fame; renown; praise.
W. H. Russel.


word: Ku Klux Klan
definition:
Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux

Kuklux

Ku`klux", Ku` Klux", Ku` Klux" Klan
(?)
n.
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 freed negroes; -- called also Kuklux Klan and the Klan.  It exerienced a revival in the 1920's, in the north as well as the south, and persists as a weak organization into the 1990's.  Its goals were primarily anti-negro and anti-Catholic, and its tactics included terrorist attacks on negroes for the purpose of intimidation with the goal of continuing segregation.  The signature activity of the Klan was the burning of a cross, either at rallies of Klansmen, or on the property of African-Americans which they hoped to intimidate.


word: Kulturkampf
definition:
Kulturkampf

Kul*tur"kampf`
(?)
n.
[G., fr. kultur, cultur, culture + kampf fight.]
(Ger. Hist.)
Lit., culture war; -- a name, originating with Virchow (1821 - 1902), given to a struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and the German government, chiefly over the latter's efforts to control educational and ecclesiastical appointments in the interest of the political policy of centralization. The struggle began with the passage by the Prussian Diet in May, 1873, of the so-called May laws, or Falk laws, aiming at the regulation of the clergy.  Opposition eventually compelled the government to change its policy, and from 1880 to 1887 laws virtually nullifying the May laws were enacted.


word: Kummel
definition:
Kummel

Kum"mel
(?)
n.
[G. kümmel cumin, caraway seed, L. cuminum.  Cf. Cumin.]
A Russian and German liqueur, consisting of a sweetened spirit flavored with caraway seeds.


word: kumquat
definition:
kumquat

kum"quat
(?)
n.
[Chin. kin keu.]
(Bot.)
any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella (formerly Citrus) of the rue family (Rutaceae) (especially Citrus Japonica) growing in China and Japan bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp; also, any of the small acid, orange-colored citrus fruits of such plants, used mostly for preserves.
[Also spelled cumquat.]


word: Kupfernickel
definition:
Kupfernickel

Kup"fer*nick"el
(?)
n.
[G. See Copper, and Nickel.]
(Min.)
Copper-nickel; niccolite. See Niccolite.


word: kurakkan
definition:
kurakkan

kurakkan
n.
An East Indian cereal grass (Eleusine coracana) whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.

Syn. -- finger millet, ragi, ragee, African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana.


word: kurchatovium
definition:
kurchatovium

kurchatovium
n.
[From Igor Kurchatov, a Russian scientist who worked on the atomic bomb.]
A transuranic element of atomic number 104, symbol Ku; also called rutherfordium, symbol Rf.  It is produced in very small quantities by nuclear reactions.  In November 1993 the nomenclature committe of the American Chemical Society approved the name rutherfordium for element 104.  Russsian investigators who claim to have first discovered element 104, isotope 260 (half-life 0.3 seconds) in 1964 at Dubna proposed the name kurchatovium.  However, investigators at Berkely in 1969 produced several isotopes of element 104 but were unable to produce isotope 260; they reported finding isotope 257, with a half-life of 4-5 seconds, isotope 259 with a half-life of 3-4 seconds, and isotope 258 with a shorter half-life.

Syn. -- rutherfordium, Rf, Ku, unnilquadium, Unq, element 104, atomic number 104.


word: kurchi
definition:
kurchi

kurchee

kurchee, kurchi
n.
A tropical Asian tree (Holarrhena antidysenterica syn. Holarrhena pubescens) with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea.

Syn. -- ivory tree, conessi, kurchee, Holarrhena pubescens, Holarrhena antidysenterica.


word: Kurd
definition:
Kurd

Kurd
(?)
prop. n.
A member of a people who inhabit a mountainous region of Western Asia, sometimes referred to as Kurdistan, spread over an area including adjoining parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Syria.  The people of this region speak Kurdish and are mostly Moslem.
[Written also Koord.]


word: Kurdish
definition:
Kurdish

Kurd"ish
prop. a.
Of or pertaining to the Kurds, the Kurdish language, or Kurdistan.
[Written also Koordish.]


word: Kurdish₂
definition:
Kurdish

Kurd"ish
prop. n.
The language of the Kurds; it is related to Farsi, the modern Iranian language.
[Written also Koordish.]


word: Kurilian
definition:
Kurilian

Ku*ril"i*an
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to the Kurile Islands, a chain of islands in the Pacific ocean, extending from the southern extremity of Kamchatka to Yesso.
n. A native or an inhabitant of the Kurile Islands.
[Written also Koorilian.]


word: Kursaal
definition:
Kursaal

Kur"saal`
(?)
n.
[G.]
A public hall or room, for the use of visitors at watering places and health resorts in Germany.


word: Kusimanse
definition:
Kusimanse

Ku`si*man"se
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A carnivorous animal (Crossarchus obscurus) of tropical Africa. It its allied to the civets. Called also kusimansel, and mangue.


word: Kussier
definition:
Kussier

Kus"si*er
(?)
n.
(Mus.)
A Turkish instrument of music, with a hollow body covered with skin, over which five strings are stretched.
[Written also kussir.]


word: Kutch
definition:
Kutch

Kutch
(?)
n.
(Goldbeating)
The packet of vellum leaves in which the gold is first beaten into thin sheets.


word: kvass
definition:
kvass

kvass
(?)
n.
[Russ. kvas'.]
A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians.
[written also quas and quass.]


word: Kwajalein
definition:
Kwajalein

Kwajalein
prop. n.
A battle of World War II (January 1944); American forces landed and captured a Japanese airbase.


word: Kwan-yin
definition:
Kwan-yin

Kwan yin

Kwan yin, Kwan-yin
prop. n.
(Buddhism)
A female Bodhisattva; often called Goddess of Mercy and considered an aspect of the Bodisattva Avalokitesvara; identified with Japanese Kwannon.

Syn. -- Kuan Yin.


word: kweek
definition:
kweek

kweek
n.
A trailing grass (Cynodon dactylon) native to Europe, now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in the Southern U. S. and India.  Called also Bahama grass and Bermuda grass.

Syn. -- Bermuda grass, devil grass, Bahama grass, doob, scutch grass, star grass, Cynodon dactylon.


word: kwela
definition:
kwela

kwela
n.
A kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans; it includes a whistle among its instruments.


word: Kyack
definition:
Kyack

Ky"ack
(kī"ăk)
n.
1.
A pack sack to be swung on either side of a packsaddle.
[Western U. S.]
2.
A kayak.


word: Kyanize
definition:
Kyanize

Ky"an*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Kyanized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Kyanizing (?).]
[From Mr. Kyan, the inventor of the process.]
To render (wood) proof against decay by saturating with a solution of corrosive sublimate in open tanks, or under pressure.


word: Kyanol
definition:
Kyanol

Ky"a*nol
(?)
n.
[See Cyanite.]
(Chem.)
(a)
Aniline.
[Obs.]
(b)
A base obtained from coal tar.
Ure.


word: Kydde
definition:
Kydde

Kyd"de
(_;)
imp. of Kythe, to show.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

&hand_; Spenser erroneously uses kydst to mean “knowest.”


word: Kyke
definition:
Kyke

Kyke
(?)
v. i.
[See 1st Kike.]
To look steadfastly; to gaze.
[Obs.]
[Written also kike, keke.]

This Nicholas sat ever gaping upright,
As he had kyked on the newe moon.
Chaucer.


word: kylie
definition:
kylie

Kyley

Ky"ley, ky"lie
(kī"l&ybreve_;)
n.
1.
an Australian boomerang, having one side flat and the other convex.

Syn. -- kiley.


word: Kymograph
definition:
Kymograph

Ky"mo*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; wave + -graph.]
(Physiol.)
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.


word: Kymographic
definition:
Kymographic

Ky`mo*graph"ic
(?)
a.
(Physiol.)
Of or pertaining to a kymograph; as, a kymographic tracing.


word: Kynurenic
definition:
Kynurenic

Ky`nu*ren"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;, _;, dog + _; urine.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
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.
[Written also cynurenic.]


word: Kyrie eleison
definition:
Kyrie eleison

Kyr"i*e e*lei"son
(?)
n. & interj.
[Gr. ky`rie 'elei^son .]

1.
(R. C. Ch.)
Greek words, meaning “Lord, have mercy upon us,” used in the Mass, the breviary offices, the litany of the saints, etc.
Addis & Arnold.

2.
The name given to the response to the Commandments, in the service of the Church of England and of the Protestant Episcopal Church.


word: Kyrielle
definition:
Kyrielle

Kyr`i*elle
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. kyrielle.]
A litany beginning with the words, “Kyrie eleison.”
Shipley.


word: Kyriology
definition:
Kyriology

Kyriolexy

{ Kyr"i*o*lex`y (?), Kyr`i*ol"o*gy (?), }
n.
[Gr. _;, _;. See Curiologic.]
The use of literal or simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones.
Krauth-Fleming.


word: Kyriological
definition:
Kyriological

Kyr`i*o*log"ic*al
(?)
a.
[See Curiologic.]
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.
[Written also curiologic and kuriologic.]

&hand_; The term is also applied, as by Warburton, to those Egyptian hieroglyphics, in which a part is put conventionally for the whole, as in depicting a battle by two hands, one holding a shield and the other a bow.


word: Kithe₂
definition:
Kithe

Kythe

{ Kythe, Kithe (kī&thlig_;) }
v. t.
[imp. Kydde, Kidde (kĭd"de); p. p. Kythed (?), Kid; p. pr. & vb. n. Kything.]
[OE. kythen, kithen, cuðen, to make known, AS. c&ymacr_;ðan, fr. cūð known. √45.  See Uncouth, Can to be able, and cf. Kith.]
To make known; to manifest; to show; to declare.
[Obs. or Scot.]

For gentle hearte kytheth gentilesse.
Chaucer.


word: Kythe
definition:
Kythe

Kythe
v. t.
To come into view; to appear.
[Scot.]

It kythes bright . . . because all is dark around it.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Kytomiton
definition:
Kytomiton

Ky*tom"i*ton
(ki̝*t&obreve_;m"ĭ*t&obreve_;n)
n.
[NL., from Gr. ky`tos a hollow vessel + mi`tos a thread.]
(Biol.)
See Karyomiton.


word: Kytoplasma
definition:
Kytoplasma

Ky`to*plas"ma
(kī`to̝*plăz"mȧ)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ky`tos a hollow vessel + pla`sma thing molded.]
(Biol.)
See Karyoplasma.


word: L
definition:
L

L
(ĕl)
n.
1.
L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liquid. Its form and value are from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being from the Phœnician, and the ultimate origin prob. Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to r and u; as in pilgrim, peregrine, couch (fr. collocare), aubura (fr. LL. alburnus).

    At the end of monosyllables containing a single vowel, it is often doubled, as in fall, full, bell; but not after digraphs, as in foul, fool, prowl, growl, foal. In English words, the terminating syllable le is unaccented, the e is silent, and l is preceded by a voice glide, as in able, eagle, pronounced ā"b'l, ē"g'l.
    See Guide to Pronunciation, §241.

2.
As a numeral, L stands for fifty in the English, as in the Latin language.

For 50 the Romans used the Chalcidian chi, _;, which assumed the less difficult lapidary type, _;, and was then easily assimilated to L.
I. Taylor (The Alphabet).


word: L₂
definition:
L

L
(ĕl)
n.
1.
An extension at right angles to the length of a main building, giving to the ground plan a form resembling the letter L; sometimes less properly applied to a narrower, or lower, extension in the direction of the length of the main building; a wing.
[Written also ell.]

2.
(Mech.)
A short right-angled pipe fitting, used in connecting two pipes at right angles.
[Written also ell.]


word: L₃
definition:
L

L
a.
1.
Having the general shape of the (capital) letter L; as, an L beam, or L-beam.

2.
Elevated; -- a symbol for el. as an abbreviation of elevated in  elevated road or  railroad.
n. An elevated road; as, to ride on the L. [Colloq., U. S.]


word: La
definition:
La

La
(lä)
n.
(Mus.)
(a)
A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.
(b)
The tone A; -- so called among the French and Italians.


word: La₂
definition:
La

La
(?)
interj.
[Cf. Lo.]
1.
Look; see; behold; -- sometimes followed by you.
[Obs.]
Shak.

2.
An exclamation of surprise; -- commonly followed by me; as, La me!
[Low]


word: laager
definition:
laager

laa"ger
(l&asuml_;"gẽr or lä"gẽr)
n.
[D., also leger. Cf. 2d Leaguer, Lair.]
A camp, especially one surrounded by a circular formation of travelers' wagons for temporary defense.
[South Africa]

Syn. -- lager.

Wagons . . . can be readily formed into a laager, a camp, by being drawn into a circle, with the oxen placed inside and so kept safe from the attacks of wild beasts.
James Bryce.


word: Laager
definition:
Laager

Laa"ger
v. t. & i.
[From Laager, n.]
To form into, or camp in, a laager, or protected camp.


word: Lab
definition:
Lab

Lab
(?)
v. i.
[Cf. OD. labben to babble.]
To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: lab
definition:
lab

lab
n.
1.
A telltale; a prater; a blabber.
[Obs.]
lab
Chaucer.

2.
[By truncation of laboratory.]
Laboratory.
[Colloq.]


word: Labadist
definition:
Labadist

Lab"a*dist
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
A follower of Jean de Labadie, a religious teacher of the 17th century, who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism, and the obligation of community of property among Christians.


word: Labarraque's solution
definition:
Labarraque's solution

La`bar`raque's" so*lu"tion
(?)
n.
[From Labarraque, a Parisian apothecary.]
(Med.)
An aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite, extensively used as a disinfectant.

Sodium hypochlorite is the same compound used in the commercial trademarked bleach Clorox(TM).  It has both disinfectant and bleaching activity.


word: Labarum
definition:
Labarum

Lab"a*rum
(_;)
n.
pl. Labara (#).
[L.]
The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (ΧΡ) (which appear like the English letters X and P), of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard.


word: Labefaction
definition:
Labefaction

Lab`e*fac"tion
(?)
n.
[See Labefy.]
The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin.

There is in it such a labefaction of all principles as may be injurious to morality.
Johnson.


word: Labefy
definition:
Labefy

Lab"e*fy
(?)
v. t.
[L. labefacere; labare to totter + facere to make.]
To weaken or impair.
[R.]


word: Label
definition:
Label

La"bel
(lā"bĕl)
n.
[OF. label sort of ribbon or fringe, label in heraldry, F. lambeau shred, strip, rag; of uncertain origin; cf. L. labellum, dim. of labrum lip, edge, margin, G. lappen flap, patch, rag, tatter (cf. Lap of a dress), W. llab, llabed, label, flap, Gael. leab, leob, slice, shred, hanging lip.]
1.
A tassel.
[Obs.]
Huloet. Fuller.

2.
A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, and indicating, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package.

3.
A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.

4.
A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will.

5.
(Her.)
A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living.

6.
A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes.
Knight.

7.
(Gothic Arch.)
The name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediæval architecture.  It always has a square form, as in the illustration.
Arch. Pub. Soc.

8.
In mediæval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
Fairholt.


word: Label₂
definition:
Label

La"bel
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Labeled (lā"bĕld) or Labelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Labeling or Labelling.]
1.
To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package.

2.
To affix in or on a label.
[R.]


word: Labellum
definition:
Labellum

La*bel"lum
(lȧ*bĕl"lŭm)
n.
pl. L. Labella (lȧ*bĕl"lȧ), E. Labellums (lȧ*bĕl"lŭmz).
[L., dim. of labrum lip.]
1.
(Bot.)
The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.

2.
(Zool.)
A small appendage beneath the upper lip or labrum of certain insects.


word: Labent
definition:
Labent

La"bent
(?)
a.
[L. labens, p. pr. of labi to slide, glide.]
Slipping; sliding; gliding.
[R.]


word: Labial
definition:
Labial

La"bi*al
(?)
a.
[LL. labialis, fr. L. labium lip: cf. F. labial. See Lip.]
1.
Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.

2.
(Mus.)
Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe.

3.
(Phonetics)
(a)
Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w.
(b)
Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as ō (fōd), &omacr (&omacrld), etc., and as eu and u in French, and ö, ü in German. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 11, 178.

4.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the labium; as, the labial palpi of insects. See Labium.


word: Labial₂
definition:
Labial

La"bi*al
n.
1.
(Phonetics)
A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as b, p, w.

2.
(Mus.)
An organ pipe that is furnished with lips; a flue pipe.

3.
(Zool.)
One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish or reptile.


word: Labialism
definition:
Labialism

La"bi*al*ism
(?)
n.
(Phonetics)
The quality of being labial; as, the labialism of an articulation; conversion into a labial, as of a sound which is different in another language.
J. Peile.


word: Labialization
definition:
Labialization

La`bi*al*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
(Phonetics)
The modification of an articulation by contraction of the lip opening.


word: Labiate₂
definition:
Labiate

La"bi*ate
(?)
a.
[NL. labiatus, fr. L. labium lip.]
(Bot.)
(a)
Having the limb of a tubular corolla or calyx divided into two unequal parts, one projecting over the other like the lips of a mouth, as in the snapdragon, sage, and catnip.
(b)
Belonging to a natural order of plants (Labiatæ), of which the mint, sage, and catnip are examples. They are mostly aromatic herbs.


word: Labiatifloral
definition:
Labiatifloral

Labiatifloral

{ La`bi*a`ti*flo"ral (?), La`bi*a`ti*flo"ral (?), }
a.
[Labiate + L. flos, floris, flower.]
(Bot.)
Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon.


word: Labidometer
definition:
Labidometer

Lab`i*dom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. labi`s, -i`dos, a forceps + meter:  cf. F. labidometre.]
(Med.)
A forceps with a measuring attachment for ascertaining the size of the fetal head.


word: Labile
definition:
Labile

La"bile
(?)
a.
[L. labilis apt to slip, fr. labi to slip.]
1.
Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
[Obs.]
Cheyne.

2.
Liable or likely to change.

3.
(Chem.)
Easily decomposed or inactivated when subjected to heat, radiation, or mildly acidic or alkaline conditions; -- of chemical compounds; as, enzymes from thermophilic organisms are not as labile as those from mesophiles.


word: Lability
definition:
Lability

La*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
1.
Liability to lapse, err, or apostatize.
[Archaic]
Coleridge.

2.
The property of changing readily.

3.
(Chem.)
The property of being labile{3}; -- of chemical compounds; as, the lability of some natural products makes them difficult to isolate and identify.


word: Labiodental
definition:
Labiodental

La`bi*o*den"tal
(?)
a.
[Labium + dental.]
(Phonetics)
Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth, as f and v.
n. A labiodental sound or letter.


word: Labionasal
definition:
Labionasal

La`bi*o*na"sal
(?)
a.
[Labium + nasal.]
(Phonetics)
Formed by the lips and the nose.
n. A labionasal sound or letter.


word: Labioplasty
definition:
Labioplasty

La"bi*o*plas`ty
(lā"bĭ*o̝*plăs`t&ybreve_;)
n.
[Labium + -plasty.]
(Surg.)
A plastic operation for making a new lip, or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip.


word: Labiose
definition:
Labiose

La"bi*ose`
(?)
a.
[From Labium.]
(Bot.)
Having the appearance of being labiate; -- said of certain polypetalous corollas.


word: Labipalpus
definition:
Labipalpus

La`bi*pal"pus
(?)
n.
pl. Labipalpi (_;).
[NL. See Labium, and Palpus.]
(Zool.)
One of the labial palpi of an insect. See Illust. under Labium.


word: Labium
definition:
Labium

La"bi*um
(?)
n.
pl. L. Labia (#), E. Labiums (#).
[L.]
1.
A lip, or liplike organ.

2.
The lip of an organ pipe.

3.
pl.
(Anat.)
The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva.

4.
(Zool.)
(a)
The organ of insects which covers the mouth beneath, and serves as an under lip. It consists of the second pair of maxillæ, usually closely united in the middle line, but bearing a pair of palpi in most insects. It often consists of a thin anterior part (ligula or palpiger) and a firmer posterior plate (mentum).
(b)
Inner margin of the aperture of a shell.


word: Lablab
definition:
Lablab

Lab"lab
(lăb"lăb)
n.
(Bot.)
an East Indian name for several twining leguminous plants related to the bean, but commonly applied to the hyacinth bean (Dolichos Lablab).


word: Labor
definition:
Labor

La"bor
(lā"bẽr)
n.
[OE. labour, OF. labour, laber, labur, F. labeur, L. labor; cf. Gr. lamba`nein to take, Skr. labh to get, seize.]
[Written also labour.]
1.
Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work.

God hath set
Labor and rest, as day and night, to men
Successive.
Milton.

2.
Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.

3.
That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.

Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.
Hooker.

4.
Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.

The queen's in labor,
They say, in great extremity; and feared
She'll with the labor end.
Shak.

5.
Any pang or distress.
Shak.

6.
(Naut.)
The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.

7.
[Sp.]
A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 1771/7 acres.
Bartlett.
8.
(Mining.)
A stope or set of stopes.
[Sp. Amer.]


word: Labor₂
definition:
Labor

La"bor
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Labored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Laboring.]
[OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See Labor, n.]
[Written also labour.]
1.
To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.

Adam, well may we labor still to dress
This garden.
Milton.

2.
To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.

3.
To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of.

The stone that labors up the hill.
Granville.

The line too labors, and the words move slow.
Pope.

To cure the disorder under which he labored.
Sir W. Scott.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matt. xi. 28

4.
To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

5.
(Naut.)
To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
Totten.


word: Labor₃
definition:
Labor

La"bor
v. t.
[F. labourer, L. laborare.]
1.
To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.

The most excellent lands are lying fallow, or only labored by children.
W. Tooke.

2.
To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
labor
Dryden.

3.
To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge strenuously; as, to labor a point or argument.

4.
To belabor; to beat.
[Obs.]
Dryden.


word: Laboratory
definition:
Laboratory

Lab"o*ra*to*ry
(?)
n.
pl. Laboratories (#).
[Shortened fr. elaboratory; cf. OF. elaboratoire, F. laboratoire. See Elaborate, Labor.]
[Formerly written also elaboratory.]
1.
The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.

2.
Hence:
Any place, activity or situation suggestive of a scientific laboratory{1}, especially in being conducive to learning new facts by experimentation or by systematic observation; as, the states serve as laboratories where different new policies may be tested prior to adoption throughout the country.


word: Labor Day
definition:
Labor Day

Labor Day
In most of the States and Territories of the United States, a day, usually the first Monday of September, set aside as a legal holiday, in honor of, or in the interest of, workingmen as a class. Also, a similar holiday in Canada, Australia, etc.


word: Labored
definition:
Labored

La"bored
(?)
a.
1.
Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.

2.
appearing to require strong effort; as, labored breathing.

Syn. -- heavy, laboured.


word: Laborer
definition:
Laborer

La"bor*er
(?)
n.
[Written also labourer.]
One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.


word: Laboring
definition:
Laboring

La"bor*ing
a.
1.
That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
Eccl. v. 12.

2.
Suffering pain or grief.
Pope.

Laboring oar, the oar which requires most strength and exertion; often used figuratively; as, to have, or pull, the laboring oar in some difficult undertaking.


word: Laborious
definition:
Laborious

La*bo"ri*ous
(?)
a.
[L. laboriosus, fr. labor labor: cf. F. laborieux.]
1.
Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome.

Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil,
Laborious virtues all?  Learn these from Cato.
Addison.

2.
Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.


word: Laborous
definition:
Laborous

La"bor*ous
(lā"bẽr*ŭs)
a.
Laborious.
[Obs.]
Wyatt.
La"bor*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.


word: Labor-saving
definition:
Labor-saving

La"bor-sav`ing
(?)
a.
Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor; as, labor-saving machinery;  labor-saving appliances{4}; labor-saving devices like washing machines.

Syn. -- laborsaving.


word: Laborsome
definition:
Laborsome

La"bor*some
(?)
a.
1.
Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence.
[Obs.]
Shak.

2.
(Naut.)
Likely or inclined to roll or pitch, as a ship in a heavy sea; having a tendency to labor.


word: laboured
definition:
laboured

laboured
adj.
1.
same as labored; -- British spelling
[Chiefly British]

Syn. -- graceless, labored, strained.


word: labourer
definition:
labourer

labourer
n.
a laborer; someone who works with their hands.
[Chiefly Brit.]

Syn. -- laborer, manual laborer.


word: labourious
definition:
labourious

labourious
adj.
1.
characterized by toilsome effort; same as laborious; -- British spelling.
[Chiefly Brit.]

Syn. -- arduous, backbreaking, back-breaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, slavish, strenuous, toilsome.


word: Labrador
definition:
Labrador

Lab`ra*dor"
(?)
n.
A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland.

Labrador duck (Zool.), a sea duck (Camtolaimus Labradorius) allied to the eider ducks. It was formerly common on the coast of New England, but is now supposed to be extinct, no specimens having been reported since 1878. -- Labrador feldspar. See Labradorite. -- Labrador tea (Bot.), a name of two low, evergreen shrubs of the genus Ledum (Ledum palustre and Ledum latifolium), found in Northern Europe and America. They are used as tea in British America, and in Scandinavia as a substitute for hops.


word: Labradorite
definition:
Labradorite

Lab"ra*dor`ite
(_;)
n.
(Min.)
A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar.


word: Labret
definition:
Labret

La"bret
(?)
n.
[L. labrum lip.]
(Anthropology)
A piece of wood, shell, stone, or other substance, worn in a perforation of the lip or cheek by many savages.


word: Labroid
definition:
Labroid

La"broid
(?)
a.
[Labrus + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family Labridæ, an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.  The tautog and cunner are American examples.


word: Labrum
definition:
Labrum

La"brum
(?)
n.
pl. L. Labra (#), E. Labrums (#).
[L.]
1.
A lip or edge, as of a basin.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
An organ in insects and crustaceans covering the upper part of the mouth, and serving as an upper lip. See Illust. of Hymenoptera.
(b)
The external margin of the aperture of a shell. See Univalve.


word: Labrus
definition:
Labrus

La"brus
(?)
n.
pl. Labri (-brī).
[L., a sort of fish.]
(Zool.)
A genus of marine fishes, including the wrasses of Europe. See Wrasse.


word: Laburnine
definition:
Laburnine

La*bur`nine
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum.


word: Laburnum
definition:
Laburnum

La*bur"num
(?)
n.
[L.]
(Bot.)
A small leguminous tree (Cytisus Laburnum), native of the Alps. The plant is reputed to be poisonous, esp. the bark and seeds. It has handsome racemes of yellow blossoms.

&hand_; Scotch laburnum (Cytisus alpinus) is similar, but has smooth leaves; purple laburnum is Cytisus purpureus.


word: Labyrinth
definition:
Labyrinth

Lab"y*rinth
(?)
n.
[L. labyrinthus, Gr. laby`rinthos: cf. F. labyrinthe.]
1.
An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.

&hand_;  The Labyrinth of Classical Mythology was a vast maze constructed by Daedalus on the island of Crete, in order to confine the Minotaur; the task was done at the command of King Minos.  One theory suggests that the myth had some basis in the structure of the palace of King Minos at Knossos, in Crete, it being a multistoried royal palace with labyrinthine passages between rooms.

2.
Hence:
Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden, having high hedges separating confusingly convoluted passages.

3.
Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature.

The serpent . . . fast sleeping soon he found,
In labyrinth of many a round self-rolled.
Milton.

The labyrinth of the mind.
Tennyson.

4.
An inextricable or bewildering difficulty.

I' the maze and winding labyrinths o' the world.
Denham.

5.
(Anat.)
The internal ear. See Note under Ear.

6.
(Metal.)
A series of canals through which a stream of water is directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different distances, the ground ore of a metal.
Ure.

7.
(Arch.)
A pattern or design representing a maze, -- often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.


word: Labyrinthal
definition:
Labyrinthal

Lab`y*rin"thal
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.


word: Labyrinthian
definition:
Labyrinthian

Lab`y*rin"thi*an
(_;)
a.
Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.


word: Labyrinthibranch
definition:
Labyrinthibranch

Lab`y*rin"thi*branch
(?)
a.
[See Labyrinth, and Branchia.]
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici.
n. One of the Labyrinthici.


word: Labyrinthical
definition:
Labyrinthical

Labyrinthic

{ Lab`y*rin"thic (?), Lab`y*rin`thic*al (?), }
a.
[L. labyrinthicus: cf. F. labyrinthique.]
Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.


word: Labyrinthici
definition:
Labyrinthici

Lab`y*rin"thi*ci
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Labyrinth.]
(Zool.)
An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes.

&hand_; They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the gills while the fish leaves the water and travels about on land, or even climbs trees.


word: Labyrinthiform
definition:
Labyrinthiform

Lab`y*rin"thi*form
(?)
a.
[Labyrinth + -form: cf. F. labyrinthiforme.]
Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.


word: Labyrinthine
definition:
Labyrinthine

Lab`y*rin"thine
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal; labyrinthian.


word: Labyrinthodon
definition:
Labyrinthodon

Lab`y*rin"tho*don
(?)
n.
[Gr. laby`rinthos labyrinth + 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, tooth.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.


word: Labyrinthodont
definition:
Labyrinthodont

Lab`y*rin"tho*dont
(?)
a.
(Paleon.)
Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta.
n. One of the Labyrinthodonta.


word: Labyrinthodonta
definition:
Labyrinthodonta

Lab`y*rin`tho*don"ta
(?)
prop. n. pl.
[NL. See Labyrinthodon.]
(Paleon.)
An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala.


word: Lakh
definition:
Lakh

Lac

{ Lac (lăk), &VerbarLakh (läk) }
n.
[Hind. lak, lākh, lāksh, Skr. laksha a mark, sign, lakh.]
One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees.
[Written also lack.]
[East Indies]


word: Lac
definition:
Lac

Lac
n.
[Per. lak; akin to Skr. lākshā: cf. F. lague, It. & NL. lacca.  Cf. Lake a color, Lacquer, Litmus.]
A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Laccifer lacca (formerly Coccus lacca), a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance.

&hand_; Stick-lac is the substance in its natural state, incrusting small twigs. When broken off, and the coloring matter partly removed, the granular residuum is called seed-lac. When melted, and reduced to a thin crust, it is called shell-lac or shellac. Lac is an important ingredient in sealing wax, dyes, varnishes, and lacquers.

Ceylon lac, a resinous exudation of the tree Croton lacciferum, resembling lac. -- Lac dye, a scarlet dye obtained from stick-lac. -- Lac lake, the coloring matter of lac dye when precipitated from its solutions by alum. -- Mexican lac, an exudation of the tree Croton Draco.


word: Laccic
definition:
Laccic

Lac"cic
(lăk"sĭk)
a.
[Cf. F. laccique.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to lac, or produced from it; as, laccic acid.


word: Laccin
definition:
Laccin

Lac"cin
(lăk"sĭn)
n.
[Cf. F. laccine.]
(Chem.)
A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac.


word: Laccolith
definition:
Laccolith

Laccolite

{ Lac"co*lite (?), Lac"co*lith (?), }
n.
[Gr. _; a cistern + -lite, -lith.]
(Geol.)
A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.
Lac`co*lit"ic (#), a.


word: Lace
definition:
Lace

Lace
(lās)
n.
[OE. las, OF. laz, F. lacs, dim. lacet, fr. L. laqueus noose, snare; prob. akin to lacere to entice.  Cf. Delight, Elicit, Lasso, Latchet.]
1.
That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc.

His hat hung at his back down by a lace.
Chaucer.

For striving more, the more in laces strong
Himself he tied.
Spenser.

2.
A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
[Obs.]
Fairfax.

Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his lace.
Chaucer.

3.
A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress.

Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costly laces.
Bacon.

4.
Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage.
[Old Slang]
Addison.

Alençon lace, a kind of point lace, entirely of needlework, first made at Alençon in France, in the 17th century. It is very durable and of great beauty and cost. -- Bone lace, Brussels lace, etc. See under Bone, Brussels, etc. -- Gold lace, or Silver lace, lace having warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton, and a weft of silk threads covered with gold (or silver), or with gilt. -- Lace leather, thin, oil-tanned leather suitable for cutting into lacings for machine belts. -- Lace lizard (Zool.), a large, aquatic, Australian lizard (Hydrosaurus giganteus), allied to the monitors. -- Lace paper, paper with an openwork design in imitation of lace. -- Lace piece (Shipbuilding), the main piece of timber which supports the beak or head projecting beyond the stem of a ship. -- Lace pillow, and Pillow lace. See under Pillow.


word: Lace₂
definition:
Lace

Lace
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Laced (āst); p. pr. & vb. n. Lacing (?).]
1.
To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces.
Shak.

When Jenny's stays are newly laced.
Prior.

2.
To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver.
Shak.

3.
To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
[Colloq.]

I'll lace your coat for ye.
L'Estrange.

4.
To add something to (a food or beverage) so as to impart flavor, pungency, or some special quality; as, to lace a punch with alcohol; to lace the Kool-Aid with LSD.
[Old Slang]

5.
To twine or draw as a lace; to interlace; to intertwine.

The Gond . . . picked up a trail of the Karela, the vine that bears the bitter wild gourd, and laced it to and fro across the temple door.
Kipling.


word: lacebark
definition:
lacebark

lacebark
n.
A small tree or shrub (Hoheria populnea) of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage.

Syn. -- ribbonwood, houhere, Hoheria populnea.


word: Lace-bark
definition:
Lace-bark

Lace"-bark`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); -- so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.


word: Laced
definition:
Laced

Laced
(?)
a.
1.
Fastened with a lace or laces; decorated with narrow strips or braid. See Lace, v. t.

2.
Decorated with the fabric lace.

A shirt with laced ruffles.
Fielding.

Laced mutton, a prostitute. [Old slang] -- Laced stocking, a strong stocking which can be tightly laced; -- used in cases of weak legs, varicose veins, etc. Dunglison.


word: Lacedaemonian
definition:
Lacedaemonian

Lac`e*dæ*mo"ni*an
(?)
a.
[L. Lacedamonius, Gr. Lakedaimo`nios, fr. Lakedai`mwn Lacedæmon.]
Of or pertaining to Lacedæmon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus.
n. A Spartan.
[Written also Lacedemonian.]


word: lace into
definition:
lace into

lace into
v. t.
To attack vigorously; -- used of physical or verbal attacks; as, the boss laced into him for coming to the meeting late.


word: Lacerate
definition:
Lacerate

Lac"er*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Lacerated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lacerating (_;).]
[L. laceratus, p. p. of lacerare to lacerate, fr. lacer mangled, lacerated; cf. Gr. _; a rent, rending, _; to tear; perh. akin to E. slay.]
To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh.
Hence:
To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.


word: Lacerated
definition:
Lacerated

Lacerate

{ Lac"er*ate (?), Lac"er*a`ted (?), }
p. a.
[L. laceratus, p. p.]
1.
Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound.

By each other's fury lacerate
Southey.

2.
(Bot. & Zool.)
Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge.


word: Laceration
definition:
Laceration

Lac`er*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. laceratio: cf. F. lacération.]
1.
The act of lacerating.

2.
A breach or wound made by lacerating.
Arbuthnot.


word: Lacerative
definition:
Lacerative

Lac"er*a*tive
(?)
a.
Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors.
Harvey.


word: Lacerta₂
definition:
Lacerta

La*cer"ta
n.
[L. a lizard. See Lizard.]
1.
(Zool.)
A genus of lizards. See Lizard.

&hand_; Formerly it included nearly all the known lizards. It is now restricted to certain diurnal Old World species, like the green lizard (Lacerta viridis) and the sand lizard (Lacerta agilis), of Europe.

2.
(Astron.)
The Lizard, a northern constellation.


word: Lacertian
definition:
Lacertian

La*cer"tian
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. lacertien.]
(Zool.)
Like a lizard; of or pertaining to the Lacertilia.
n. One of the Lacertilia.


word: lacertid
definition:
lacertid

lacertid
n.
Any lizard of the family Lacertidae, a family of Old World terrestrial lizard.

Syn. -- lacertid lizard.


word: Lacertilia
definition:
Lacertilia

Lac`er*til"i*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. lacertus a lizard.]
(Zool.)
An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards.

&hand_; They are closely related to the snakes, and like the latter, usually have the body covered with scales or granules. They usually have eyelids, and most of then have well-formed legs; but in some groups (amphisbæna, glass-snake, etc.) the legs are absent and the body is serpentlike. None are venomous, unless Heloderma be an exception. The order includes the chameleons, the Cionocrania, or typical lizards, and the amphisbænas. See Amphisbæna, Gecko, Gila monster, and Lizard.


word: Lacertiloid
definition:
Lacertiloid

La*cer"ti*loid
(?)
a.
[Lacertilia + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Like or belonging to the Lacertilia.


word: Lacertus
definition:
Lacertus

La*cer"tus
(lȧ*sẽr"tŭs)
n.
pl. Lacerti (-tī).
[L., the upper arm.]
(Anat.)
A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibers.


word: Lacewing
definition:
Lacewing

Lace"wing`
(lās"wĭng`)
n.
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus Chrysopa and allied genera. They have delicate, lacelike wings and brilliant eyes. Their larvæ are useful in destroying aphids. Called also lace-winged fly, and goldeneyed fly.


word: Lace-winged
definition:
Lace-winged

Lace"-winged`
a.
(Zool.)
Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings; as, the lace-winged flies.


word: Lache
definition:
Lache

Laches

{ Lach"es (lăsh"ĕz), Lache (lăsh), }
n.
[OF. lachesse, fr. lache lax, indolent, F. lâche, ultimately fr. L. laxus loose, lax. See Lax.]
(Law)
Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; especially, a delay in asserting a claim, sufficient to cause a person to lose the right to adjuducation of the claim by a court.

It ill became him to take advantage of such a laches with the eagerness of a shrewd attorney.
Macaulay.


word: Lachrymable
definition:
Lachrymable

Lach"ry*ma*ble
(?)
a.
[L. lacrimabilis, fr. lacrima a tear.]
Lamentable.
Martin Parker.


word: Lachrymae Christi
definition:
Lachrymae Christi

Lach"ry*mæ Chris"ti
(?)
n.
[L., lit., Christ's tears.]
A rich, sweet, red Neapolitan wine.


word: Lachrymal
definition:
Lachrymal

Lach"ry*mal
(_;)
a.
[Cf. F. lacrymal. See Lachrymose.]
1.
Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions.

2.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the lachrymal gland.

3.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to the lachrymal{2} organs; as, lachrymal bone; lachrymal duct.


word: Lachrymals
definition:
Lachrymals

Lach"ry*mals
(?)
n. pl.
[See Lachrymal.]
Tears; also, lachrymal feelings or organs.
[Colloq.]
People go to the theaters to have . . . their risibles and lachrymals set agoing.
The Lutheran.


word: Lachrymation
definition:
Lachrymation

Lach`ry*ma"tion
(?)
n.
[L. lacrimatio, from lacrimare to shed tears, fr. lacrima tear.]
The act of shedding tears; weeping.


word: lachrymator
definition:
lachrymator

lachrymator
n.
A chemical substance that causes tears to flow; same as lacrimator.

Syn. -- lacrimator.


word: Lachrymatory
definition:
Lachrymatory

Lach"ry*ma*to*ry
(?)
n.
pl. -ries (#).
[Cf. F. lacrymatoire.]
(Antiq.)
A “tear-bottle;” a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal.


word: lachrymatory
definition:
lachrymatory

lachrymatory
adj.
Relating to or inducing tears; -- especially of chemical substances.
lacrimator

Syn. -- lacrimatory.


word: Lachrymiform
definition:
Lachrymiform

Lach"ry*mi*form
(?)
a.
[L. lacrima tear + -form; cf. F. lacrymiforme.]
Having the form of a tear; tear-shaped.


word: Lachrymose
definition:
Lachrymose

Lach"ry*mose`
(?)
a.
[L. lacrymosus, better lacrimosus, fr. lacrima, lacruma (also badly spelt lachryma) a tear, for older dacrima, akin to E. tear. See Tear the secretion.]
Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy.
Lamb.


word: Lacing
definition:
Lacing

La"cing
(lā"sĭng)
n.
1.
The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.

2.
A lace;
specifically
(Mach.)
a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts.

3.
(Naut.)
A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc.

4.
(Bridge Building)
A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut.
Waddell.

5.
A quantity of a substance, such as an alcoholic liquor, added to a food or a drink; as, punch with a lacing of rum.

6.
A beating, especially with a lash.


word: Lacinia
definition:
Lacinia

Laciniae

La*cin"i*a
(?)
n.
pl. L. Laciniæ (#).
[L., the lappet or flap of a garment.]
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers.
(b)
A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf.

2.
(Zool.)
The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillæ of insects.


word: Laciniated
definition:
Laciniated

Laciniate

{ La*cin"i*ate (?), La*cin"i*a"ted (?), }
a.
[See Lacinia.]
1.
Fringed; having a fringed border.

2.
(Bot. & Zool.)
Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed.


word: Laciniolate
definition:
Laciniolate

La*cin"i*o*late
(?)
a.
[See Lacinia.]
(Bot.)
Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniæ.


word: Lacinula
definition:
Lacinula

Lacinulaa

La*cin"u*la
(?)
n.
pl. Lacinulæ (#), E. Lacinulas (#).
[NL.]
(Bot.)
A diminutive lacinia.


word: Lack
definition:
Lack

Lack
(lăk)
n.
[OE. lak; cf. D. lak slander, laken to blame, OHG. lahan, AS. leán.]
1.
Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.

She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood.
Chaucer.

Let his lack of years be no impediment.
Shak.


word: Lack₂
definition:
Lack

Lack
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Lacked (lăkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lacking.]
1.
To blame; to find fault with.
[Obs.]

Love them and lakke them not.
Piers Plowman.

2.
To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.
James i. 5.


word: Lack₃
definition:
Lack

Lack
v. i.
1.
To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.

What hour now?
I think it lacks of twelve.
Shak.

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty.
Gen. xvii. 28.

2.
To be in want.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger.
Ps. xxxiv. 10.


word: lackadaisical
definition:
lackadaisical

lack`a*dai"si*cal
(lăk`ȧ*dā"zĭ*kal)
a.
[From Lackadaisy, interj.]
1.
Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental; dreamy.

2.
Lacking spirit or liveliness; lethargic; listless; languid.

3.
Indolent; lazy; idle, especially in a dreamy manner.


word: Lackaday
definition:
Lackaday

Lack"a*day`
(?)
interj.
[Abbreviated from alackaday.]
Alack the day; alas; -- an expression of sorrow, regret, dissatisfaction, or surprise.


word: Lackey
definition:
Lackey

Lack"ey
(?)
n.
pl. Lackeys (#).
[F. laquais; cf. Sp. & Pg. lacayo; of uncertain origin; perh. of German origin, and akin to E. lick, v.]
An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.

Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey.
Shak.

Lackey caterpillar (Zool.), the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party-colored markings. The common European species (Clisiocampa neustria) is striped with blue, yellow, and red, with a white line on the back. The American species (Clisiocampa Americana and Clisiocampa sylvatica) are commonly called tent caterpillars. See Tent caterpillar, under Tent. -- Lackey moth (Zool.), the moth which produces the lackey caterpillar.


