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Kakistocracy
Government by the worst men.
Kalahari
A desert in Southwestern Africa, most of which is located in the country of .
Kalendar
See .
Kalendarial
See .
Kalsomine
Same as .
Kama
The Hindu Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.
Kan
To know; to ken.
Kan
See .
kangaroo's-foot
A sedgelike spring-flowering herb () of Australia, having clustered flowers covered with woolly hairs.
Kansan
of or pertaining to Kansas.
Kansan
a resident of Kansas.
Katabolism
Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; same as (now the more common spelling); -- opposed to . See .
Katsuwonidae
A natural family of fish which in some classifications is considered a separate family comprising the oceanic bonitos.
Katydid
A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect () of the family , 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 , whence the name.
Keddah
An inclosure constructed to entrap wild elephants; an elephant trap.
Keelman
See , 1.
Keen
To wail as a keener does.
Keepership
The office or position of a keeper.
Kelpware
Same as , 2.
Kelt
Same as , one of Celtic race.
Kemelin
A tub; a brewer's vessel.
Kennel
A house for a dog or for dogs, or for a pack of hounds.
Kerargyrite
See .
Keratonyxis
The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.
Keratosa
An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges.
Kernel
To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.
Kevel
A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.
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 .
Kibed
Chapped; cracked with cold; affected with chilblains; .
Kiblah
See .
Kibosh
Nonsense; stuff; also, fashion; style.
kike
A derogatory name for a , usually intended and taken as disparaging and offensive.
Kilerg
A unit of work equal to one thousand ergs.
Kill
A kiln.
Kimbo
Crooked; arched; bent.
Kindergartner
One who teaches in a kindergarten.
Kind-hearted
Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; .
Kind-heartedness
The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence.
Kindly
Naturally; fitly.
Kingbird
A small American bird (, or ), 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 , and . Several Southern and Western species of are also called king birds.
Kinit
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 , an English physicist.
Kino
The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used variously in tanning, in dyeing, and as an astringent in medicine.
Kinrede
Kindred.
Kirkyard
A churchyard.
Kirtled
Wearing a kirtle.
Kislev
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.
Kit
A kitten.
Kite
The belly.
Kive
A mash vat. See .
Kjoekken moeddings
See .
klavern
A local chapter of the .
klaxon
a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles.
Knaggy
Knotty; rough; figuratively, rough in temper.
Knap
A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See , and .
kneecap
to break the knees of, especially by shooting in the kneecap; -- often done by criminal or terrorist groups as a warning or punishment.
Knelt
of .
Knife
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; .
Knitback
The plant comfrey; -- so called from its use as a restorative.
Knitter
One who, or that which, knits, joins, or unites; a knitting machine.
Knitting
The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting; knitwork.
Knobbing
Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.
Knocking
A beating; a rap; a series of raps.
knock-knee
A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.
Knock-off
Act or place of knocking off; that which knocks off;
Knock-out
That knocks out; characterized by knocking out; .
Knockstone
A block upon which ore is broken up.
Knot
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.
Knout
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.
Know
To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; .
Knowing
Knowledge; hence, experience.
knowledge-intensive
Requiring access to and manipulation of large quantities of knowledge; .
Known
of .
Knuff
A lout; a clown.
Kon
To know. See , and .
Korinthos
A city in Greece; the modern city is near the site of the ancient city that was 2nd only to Athens in size and power in ancient Greece.
Korrigum
A West African antelope (), 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.
Kraal
A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut.
Kraken
A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus.
Kriegsspiel
A game of war, played for practice, on maps.
Krokidolite
See .
Kuskus
See .
Kyloes
The cattle of the Hebrides, or of the Highlands.
Kyrie
See .