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.

Making a right angle; perpendicular, as two lines or two sides of a triangle, which include a right angle.

Same as Cathetometer.

A natural family of fish which in some classifications is considered a separate family comprising the oceanic bonitos.

A genus of oceanic bonitos; in some classifications it is placed in its own family Katsuwonidae.

A caoutchouc-like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.

A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustid/, 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 Katy-did, whence the name.

Kauri resin. any of various species of Dammara; as, the red kauri (Dammara lanceolata).

Same as kauri.

A species of Macropiper (Macropiper methysticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself.

An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier.

See Caw.

a New Zealand tree, the Cypress cedar (Libocedrus Doniana), having a valuable, fine-grained, reddish wood.

An inn.

A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes.

One who uses a kayak.

The dog salmon.

A game; ninepins.

A lazy or cowardly person; a rascal.

A kind of toy or rude musical instrument, as a tube inside of which is a stretched string or membrane made to vibrate by singing or humming into the tube.

A large New Zealand parrot (Nestor notabilis), notorious for having acquired the habit of killing sheep; -- called also mountain parrot.

See kabab and kabob.

An effort to vomit; queasiness.

To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice.

Old rope or iron chains wound around a cable. See Keckle, v. t.

Inclined to vomit; squeamish.

The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock.

Resembling a kecksy.

An inclosure constructed to entrap wild elephants; an elephant trap.

A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed with. See Kedge, v. t., and Anchor, n.

A small anchor; a kedge.

See Charlock.

See Kie, Ky, and Kine.

A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.

To traverse with a keel; to navigate.

To drop down in a faint, or as if dead; to die.

The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll.

Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf.

One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also keelman.

A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc.

To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies.

A cod.

A pencil of black or red lead; -- called also keelyvine pen.

See Keeler, 1.

Ninepins. See Kayles.

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.

See Keelfat.

To wail as a keener does.

A professional mourner who wails at a funeral.

In a keen manner.

The quality or state of being keen.

The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.

One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything.

The office or position of a keeper.

A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.

See Kish.

To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.

See Keeve, n.

See Kiefekil.

An effervescent liquor like kumiss, made from fermented milk, used as a food and as a medicine in the northern Caucasus.

A small cask or barrel.

A mineral of a brownish black color, related to titanite in form. It consists chiefly of silica, titanium dioxide, lime, and yttria.

See Kier.

A black, two-horned, African rhinoceros (Atelodus keitloa). It has the posterior horn about as long as the anterior one, or even longer.

Having a kell or covering; webbed.

To cool.

The caul; that which covers or envelops as a caul; a net; a fold; a film.

A keloid tumor.

See Celotomy.

The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine.

A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus.

Same as Kelp, 2.

An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned.

See Keelson.

Same as Celt, one of Celtic race.

Regular order or proper condition.

Same as Celtic, a. n.

The SI unit of temperature, defined as being 1/273.16 of the triple point of water; abbreviated K. The melting point of water at 760 mm pressure is 273.15 Kelvins, and the boiling point 373.15 Kelvins. One degree Kelvin is equal to one degree Centigrade, and / degrees Fahrenheit.

To comb.

A tub; a brewer's vessel.

Rough; shaggy.

The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain (Plantago Lanceolata).

p. p. of Kemb; combed.

Coarse, rough hair in wool or fur, injuring its quality.

Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.

A genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers.

To put or keep in a kennel.

See Cannel coal.

Range of sight.

A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.

Modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment; -- distinguished from palingenesis.

Of or pertaining to kenogenesis; as, kenogenetic processes.

Having so marked an appearance as easily to be recognized.

A curved bugle, having six finger keys or stops, by means of which the performer can play upon every key in the musical scale; -- called also keyed bugle, and key bugle.

A hundred weight; a quintal.

Pigs of iron used for ballast.

One of the United States.

A country in East Africa, formerly a British colony.

Of or pertaining to Kenya; as, Kenyan mountains; Kenyan coffee.

A genus of extinct primates having powerful chewing muscles along with large molars and small incisors; its fossils were found in Maboko in Kenya.

One of a group of phospholipids (nitrogenous phosphorized fatty substances), present in all living cells and particularly noticeable in nervous tissue. Same as cephalin, which see.

A military cap having a close-fitting band, a round flat top sloping toward the front, and a visor. As originally worn by the French in Algeria about 1830 it was tall and stiff with a straight visor. It is now lower, has a curved visor, and is frequently soft.

imp. p. p. of Keep.