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Kaftan
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 .
Kainite
A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony.
Kakistocracy
Government by the worst men.
Kalium
Potassium; -- so called by the German chemists.
Kalmia
A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also , , , , etc.
Kalong
A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat ().
kangaroo rat
A jumping rodent of the genus of the family , which lives in arid regions of Mexico and the western U. S.
Kansan
a resident of Kansas.
Kapellmeister
See .
Karagane
A species of gray fox found in Russia.
Kathetal
Making a right angle; perpendicular, as two lines or two sides of a triangle, which include a right angle.
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.
Kavass
An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier.
Keelage
The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll.
Keeler
One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also .
Kelt
See ,
Kenogenetic
Of or pertaining to kenogenesis; .
kephalin
One of a group of phospholipids (nitrogenous phosphorized fatty substances), present in all living cells and particularly noticeable in nervous tissue. Same as , which see.
Kersey
A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple.
Kerseys
Varieties of kersey; also, trousers made of kersey.
Ketine
One of a series of organic bases obtained by the reduction of certain isonitroso compounds of the ketones. In general they are unstable oily substances having a pungent aromatic odor.
Key fruit
A samara.
Khaki
Any kind of khaki cloth; hence, a uniform of khaki or, rarely, a soldier clad in khaki. In the United States and British armies khaki or cloth of a very similar color is almost exclusively used for service in the field.
Khond
A Dravidian of a group of tribes of Orissa, India, a section of whom were formerly noted for their cruel human sacrifices to the earth goddess, murder of female infants, and marriage by capture.
kibbutz
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.
Kick
To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot;
Kickapoos
A tribe of Indians which formerly occupied the region of Northern Illinois, allied in language to the Sacs and Foxes.
Kidling
A young kid.
kiley
An Australian boomerang, having one side flat and the other convex.
Kill
To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
Kilnhole
The mouth or opening of an oven or kiln.
Kimnel
A tub. See .
Kinate
See .
Kindle
To bring forth young.
Kindred
Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties;
Kinematics
The science which treats of motions considered in themselves, or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of motions.
kinetoscope
An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also .
Kinshasa
the capital city of Zaire, formerly named .
Kinsmanship
Kinship.
Kippernut
A name given to earthnuts of several kinds.
Kirghizia
A country in Central Asia, formerly an Asian Soviet. It borders on Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China, and Tajikistan.
kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
An annual () with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; it is native to Southeastern Asia and Australia, and naturalized in North America.
kitten-tails
a plant of the genus having fluffy spikes of flowers.
Knabble
To bite or nibble.
Knaggy
Knotty; rough; figuratively, rough in temper.
Knap
To bite; to bite off; to break short.
Knarled
Knotted. See .
Knee
To supplicate by kneeling.
Knee-crooking
Obsequious; fawning; cringing.
Knickerbockers
The name for a style of short breeches; smallclothes; called also .
Knife switch
A switch consisting of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs.
Knitting
The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting; knitwork.
Knobbling fire
A bloomery fire. See .
Knock
To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something;
knocker
One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.
Knocking
A beating; a rap; a series of raps.
knock off
a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.
Knoller
One who tolls a bell.
Knop
A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.
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.
Knotless
Free from knots; without knots.
Knotted
Full of knots; having knots; knurled;
knowledge-intensive
Requiring access to and manipulation of large quantities of knowledge; .
Knuff
A lout; a clown.
Konite
See .
Koorilian
Same as .
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.
Kowtow
The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground; same as . There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings.
Kreatinin
See .
Krooman
One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose members are much employed on shipboard.
Kudos
To praise; to extol; to glorify.
kumquat
any of several trees or shrubs of the genus (formerly ) of the rue family () (especially ) growing in and 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.
kurchatovium
A transuranic element of atomic number 104, symbol ; also called , symbol . It is produced in very small quantities by nuclear reactions. In November 1993 the nomenclature committe of the American Chemical Society approved the name 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 . 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.
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.
Kyanol
Aniline.