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Kabob
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.
Kain
Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.
Kairoline
An organic base obtained from quinoline. It is used as a febrifuge, and resembles kairine.
kalantas
A Philippine timber tree ( or ) having hard red fragrant wood.
kalian
A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water. See also .
Kalmia
A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also , , , , etc.
Kalmuck
See .
Kampylite
A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow.
kanchil
A small chevrotain of the genus , esp. , or , inhabiting Java, Sumatra, and adjacent islands; a deerlet. It is noted for its agility and cunning.
Kanchanjanga
same as .
Kantian
Of or pertaining to , the German philosopher; conformed or relating to any or all of the philosophical doctrines of .
Kantian
A follower of Kant; a Kantist.
Kapelle
A chapel; hence, the choir or orchestra of a prince's chapel; now, a musical establishment, usually orchestral.
Karyostenotic
Pertaining to, or connected with, karyostenosis; .
Keech
A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
Keen
A prolonged wail for a deceased person. Cf. .
Kefir
An effervescent liquor like kumiss, made from fermented milk, used as a food and as a medicine in the northern Caucasus.
Keg
A small cask or barrel.
Kelter
Regular order or proper condition.
Kennel
To put or keep in a kennel.
Keno
A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.
keramic
Same as .
keratin
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 .
Kerchief
A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in compounds;
key
Essential; most important; .
kickoff
A kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score.
Kidderminster
A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured.
kidskin
A soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat; kid{3}.
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.
Killikinick
See .
killing
The act or process of causing a living organism to die.
Kiln-dry
To dry in a kiln; .
Kilting
A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one.
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.
Kingcraft
The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy.
Kingcup
The common buttercup.
Kinghood
The state of being a king; the attributes of a king; kingship.
Kinkajou
A nocturnal carnivorous mammal () 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 () allied to the raccoons. Called also , and .
Kinsman
A man of the same race or family; one related by blood.
Kioways
A tribe of Indians distantly related to the Shoshones. They formerly inhabited the region about the head waters of the North Platte.
Kip
The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin.
kissing kin
Any relative more distant than the immediate family, sufficiently well acquainted to be greeted with a kiss, such as a .
Kittlish
Ticklish; kittle.
Klinkstone
See .
Knabble
To bite or nibble.
Knagged
Full of knots; knaggy.
Knavishly
In a knavish manner; dishonestly; fraudulently.
knead
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; .
Knee
To supplicate by kneeling.
Knickknack
A trifle or toy; a bawble; a gewgaw; a tchotchke.
Knight
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 ---.
knitwork
A network of yarn created by interlacing threads of yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine; knitting.
Knobber
See .
knock-kneed
Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.
Knoll
To sound, as a bell; to knell.
Knoppern
A kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing.
Knopweed
Same as .
Know
To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; .
Knowable
That may be known; capable of being discovered, understood, or ascertained.
Knowingly
With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; .
Knowingness
The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
Knuckled
Jointed.
knuckle under
To yield; to submit; -- usually used with .
Knurled
Full of knots; gnarled.
Koel
Any one of several species of cuckoos of the genus , found in India, the East Indies, and Australia. They deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds.
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.
Kreatin
See .
Kreosote
See Creosote.
Kuda
The East Indian tapir. See .
Kymographic
Of or pertaining to a kymograph; .