A clay ironstone found in Ceylon.

A Berber, as in Algiers or Tunis. See Berber.

The jackdaw.

A Turkish judge. See Cadi.

The Arabian name of two trees of the genus Balsamodendron, which yield a gum resin and a red aromatic wood.

See Coffle.

See Cafila.

Same as Kaffir.

One of a race which, with the Hottentots and Bushmen, inhabit South Africa. They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal, including the Ponda, Xosa, and Tembu; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs. One of a race inhabiting Kafiristan in Central Asia.

Franz Kafka, a writer, b. 1883, d. 1924.

Frightening, threating, and bewildering in a vague and unexplicable way; -- of situations or regulations. Often used to describe illogical bureaucratic entanglements with no reasonable solution.

See Caftan.

A chantry chapel inclosed with lattice or screen work.

A singular, crested, grallatorial bird (Rhinochetos jubatus), native of New Caledonia. It is gray above, paler beneath, and the feathers of the wings and tail are handsomely barred with brown, black, and gray. It is allied to the sun bittern.

The colugo.

A kind of notary public, or attorney, in the Levant.

A long-nosed monkey (Nasalis larvatus, formerly Semnopithecus nasalis), 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 proboscis monkey. It is now an endangered species.

A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1.

Same as Caimacam.

Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.

Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.

A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony.

See Cenozoic.

See Caique.

A pale buff or white crystalline alkaloid derived from quinoline, and used as an antipyretic in medicine.

An organic base obtained from quinoline. It is used as a febrifuge, and resembles kairine.

The ancient title of emperors of Germany assumed by King William of Prussia when crowned sovereign of the new German empire in 1871.

A New Zealand parrot of the genus Nestor, especially the brown parrot (Nestor meridionalis).

A singular nocturnal parrot (Strigops habroptilus), native of New Zealand. It lives in holes during the day, but is active at night. It resembles an owl in its colors and general appearance. It has large wings, but can fly only a short distance. Called also owl parrot, night parrot, and night kaka.

A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.

Government by the worst men.

See Cacoxene.

A desert in Southwestern Africa, most of which is located in the country of Botswana.

The sea otter.

A Philippine timber tree (Toona calantas or Cedrela calantas) having hard red fragrant wood.

A long-tailed monkey of Borneo (Semnopithecus rubicundus). It has a tuft of long hair on the head.

One of several species of large, crested, Asiatic pheasants, belonging to the genus Euplocamus, and allied to the firebacks.

An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design.

Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a kaleidoscope; variegated.

See Calendar.

See Calendarial.

See 3d Calender.

Same as Calends.

The glasswort (Salsola Kali).

A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water. See also hookah.

See Caliph.

Formed like kali, or glasswort.

Forming alkalies with oxygen, as some metals.

Potassium; -- so called by the German chemists.

The name of Vishnu in his tenth and last avatar.

A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also mountain laurel, ivy bush, lamb kill, calico bush, etc.

See Calmucks.

A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).

See Caloyer.

One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated.

Same as Calcimine.

Crooked; awry.

The Hindu Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.

The red dusty hairs of the capsules of an East Indian tree (Mallotus Philippinensis) used for dyeing silk. It is violently emetic, and is used in the treatment of tapeworm.

A low ridge.

A title given to the celestial gods of the first mythical dynasty of Japan and extended to the demigods of the second dynasty, and then to the long line of spiritual princes still represented by the mikado.

A curious South American bird (Anhima or Palamedea cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and Screamer.

A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.

A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow.

An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of the Kamchatka peninsula; called also Kamchadals and Itelmen.

See Khan.

A native of the Sandwich Islands.

The Kanawha River, a tributary of the Ohio River.

same as Kanchenjunga.

A mountain in India and Nepal, 28,146 feet high.

A small chevrotain of the genus Tragulus, esp. Tragulus pygm/us, or Tragulus kanchil, inhabiting Java, Sumatra, and adjacent islands; a deerlet. It is noted for its agility and cunning.

Fluor spar; -- so called by Cornish miners.

Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodid/. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or fourteen feet in total length. The tree kangaroos, belonging to the genus Dendrolagus, live in trees; the rock kangaroos, of the genus Petrogale, inhabit rocky situations; and the brush kangaroos, of the genus Halmaturus, inhabit wooded districts. See Wallaby.

A jumping rodent of the genus Dipodomys of the family Heteromyidae, which lives in arid regions of Mexico and the western U. S.

A sedgelike spring-flowering herb (Anigozanthus manglesii) of Australia, having clustered flowers covered with woolly hairs.

a resident of Kansas.

A tribe of Indians allied to the Winnebagoes and Osages. They formerly inhabited the region which is now the State of Kansas, but were removed to the Indian Territory.

Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher (1724-1804).

A follower of Kant; a Kantist.

The doctrine or theory of Kant; the Kantian philosophy.

A disciple or follower of Kant.

Same as Cantred.

A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay. It is chiefly derived from the decomposition of common feldspar.

The process by which feldspar is changed into kaolin.

To convert into kaolin.

A chapel; hence, the choir or orchestra of a prince's chapel; now, a musical establishment, usually orchestral.

See Capellmeister.

The fossil resin of the kauri tree of New Zealand.

See Capnomor.

A silky wool derived from the seeds of Ceiba pentandra (syn. Eriodendron anfractuosum), a bombaceous tree of the East and West Indies.

A species of gray fox found in Russia.

Doctrines of the Karaites.

A sect of Jews who adhere closely to the letter of the Scriptures, rejecting the oral law, and allowing the Talmud no binding authority; -- opposed to the Rabbinists.

A type of Astrakhan, esp. in fine grades, obtained from the Karakul sheep. See sense 2 and cf. Caracul.

the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75 2.122e-314old; 24-karat gold is pure gold.

A West Indian plant of the Pineapple family (Nidularium Karatas).

a traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat; sharp blows and kicks are given to pressure-sensitive points on the body of the opponent.

A language spoken in the Thai-Burmese borderlands.

One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence.

One of an Islamic sect founded in the ninth century by Karmat.

A pile of rocks; sometimes, the solid rock. See Cairn.

The twenty-fourth part of a grain; -- a weight used by goldsmiths.

A native garment or rug of skin sewed together in the form of a square.

A fibrous mineral occurring in tufts of a straw-yellow color. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and manganese.

One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations.

Same as Anhydrite.

See Carvel, and Caravel.

The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell.

Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division.

The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, or the network in the body of the cell.

The protoplasmic substance of the nucleus of a cell; nucleoplasm; -- in opposition to cytoplasm, the protoplasm of the cell.

Direct cell division (in which there is first a simple division of the nucleus, without any changes in its structure, followed by division of the protoplasm of the cell); -- in opposition to karyokinesis.

Pertaining to, or connected with, karyostenosis; as, the karyostenotic mode of nuclear division.

Same as Cossack.

An Arabian shrub (Catha edulis) the leaves of which are used as tea by the Arabs.

Of or pertaining to catabolism; same as catabolic.

Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; same as catabolism (now the more common spelling); -- opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.

A substance formed by a catabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See catabolic.

The brambling finch.

purging of emotional tensions; -- usually spelled catharsis.