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Kabob
See ,
Kabyle
A Berber, as in Algiers or Tunis. See .
Kadder
The jackdaw.
Kafal
The Arabian name of two trees of the genus , which yield a gum resin and a red aromatic wood.
Kaffle
See .
Kahau
A long-nosed monkey (, formerly ), 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 . It is now an endangered species.
Kaimacam
Same as .
Kain
Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.
Kali
The black, destroying goddess; -- called also , .
kalian
A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water. See also .
Kaloyer
See .
Kamptulicon
A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.
Karagane
A species of gray fox found in Russia.
Karaism
Doctrines of the Karaites.
Kasack
Same as .
katabolic
Of or pertaining to catabolism; same as .
Keckling
Old rope or iron chains wound around a cable. See ,
Kecklish
Inclined to vomit; squeamish.
Keddah
An inclosure constructed to entrap wild elephants; an elephant trap.
Keelson
A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship.
Kefir
An effervescent liquor like kumiss, made from fermented milk, used as a food and as a medicine in the northern Caucasus.
Kell
The caul; that which covers or envelops as a caul; a net; a fold; a film.
Keloid
Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin, or to keloid scar tissue.
Kelt
A salmon after spawning.
Kemb
To comb.
Kemps
The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain ().
Kenyan
A native or inhabitant of Kenya.
Keratitis
Inflammation of the cornea.
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.
Keratose
A tough, horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also .
Kerb
See .
Kern baby
A doll or image decorated with corn (grain) flowers, etc., carried in the festivals of a kern, or harvest-home. Called also .
Kettle
A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.
Khamsin
Same as .
kiaat
a deciduous South African tree () having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; it yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood.
Kid
A young goat.
Kid
See ,
Kiefekil
A species of clay; meerschaum.
kiley
An Australian boomerang, having one side flat and the other convex.
Kill-joy
One who causes gloom or grief; a dispiriting person; a spoilsport.
Kindle
To bring forth young.
Kindly
Naturally; fitly.
Kinesiatrics
A mode of treating disease by appropriate muscular movements; -- also termed , , , and the .
Kinetoscope
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.
Kingless
Having no king.
Kingship
The state, office, or dignity of a king; royalty.
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.
Kinsman
A man of the same race or family; one related by blood.
Kip
The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin.
Kish
A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
Kit
A kitten.
Kiver
To cover.
Klamaths
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 and .
Knaggy
Knotty; rough; figuratively, rough in temper.
Knapbottle
The bladder campion ().
Knee jerk
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.
Knickknackatory
A collection of knickknacks.
Knight bachelor
A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See , 4.
Knight-er-ratic
Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry.
Knobbed
Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See of .
Knobbler
The hart in its second year; a young deer.
Knocking
A beating; a rap; a series of raps.
Knockstone
A block upon which ore is broken up.
Knoll
The tolling of a bell; a knell.
Knotberry
The cloudberry (); -- so called from its knotted stems.
Knotted
Full of knots; having knots; knurled;
knowledge engineering
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 .
Knuff
A lout; a clown.
Koala
A tailless furry marsupial (), found in Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called also , , , and . The lives almost all of its life in trees, moves sluggishly like a sloth, and eats eucalyptus leaves almost exclusively.
Kolarian
An individual of one of the races of aboriginal inhabitants which survive in Hindustan.
kos
an Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.
Kosteletzya
A small genus of herbs of the Southeastern U. S. and tropical America and Africa.
Kra
A long-tailed ape () of India and Sumatra. It is reddish olive, spotted with black, and has a black tail.
Kremlin
The citadel of a town or city; especially, the citadel of Moscow, a large inclosure which contains imperial palaces, cathedrals, churches, an arsenal, etc.
Kreutzer
A small copper coin formerly used in South Germany; also, a small Austrian copper coin.
Kruller
See .
Kurd
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.
Kurilian
Of or pertaining to the Kurile Islands, a chain of islands in the Pacific ocean, extending from the southern extremity of Kamchatka to Yesso.
Kutch
See .