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Kiss
() A salutation with the lips, as a token of affection, respect, etc.; as, a parting kiss; a kiss of reconciliation.
Kiss
() A small piece of confectionery.
Kisser
() One who kisses.
Kissingcrust
() The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.
Kist
() A chest; hence, a coffin.
Kist
() A stated payment, especially a payment of rent for land; hence, the time for such payment.
Kistvaen
() A Celtic monument, commonly known as a dolmen.
Kitte
() of Kit
Kit
() To cut.
Kit
() A kitten.
Kit
() A small violin.
Kit
() A large bottle.
Kit
() A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel.
Kit
() straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket.
Kit
() A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.
Kit
() A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them.
Kitcat
() 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.
Kitcat
() Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right 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.
Kitcat
() A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat.
Kitchen
() A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery.
Kitchen
() A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.
Kitchen
() To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen.
Kitchener
() A kitchen servant; a cook.
Kitchenmaid
() A woman employed in the kitchen.
Kitchen middens
() 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.
Kitchen-ry
() The body of servants employed in the kitchen.
Kite
() Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinae, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.
Kite
() Fig. : One who is rapacious.
Kite
() A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.
Kite
() A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.
Kite
() A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry.
Kite
() 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.
Kite
() The brill.
Kite
() To raise money by \"kites;\" as, kiting transactions. See Kite, 6.
Kite
() The belly.
Kiteflying
() A mode of raising money, or sustaining one's credit, by the use of paper which is merely nominal; -- called also kiting.
Kiteflier
() See Kite, n., 6.
Kith
() Acquaintance; kindred.
Kithara
() See Cithara.
Kithe
() See Kythe.
Kitish
() Like or relating to a kite.
Kitling
() A young kitten; a whelp.
Kitte
() of Kit to cut.
Kittel
() See Kittle, v. t.
Kitten
() A young cat.
Kittened
() of Kitten
Kittening
() of Kitten
Kitten
() To bring forth young, as a cat; to bring forth, as kittens.
Kittenish
() Resembling a kitten; playful; as, a kittenish disposition.
Kittiwake
() A northern gull (Rissa tridactyla), inhabiting the coasts of Europe and America. It is white, with black tips to the wings, and has but three toes.