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.

Same as Keelhaul.

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.

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.

See Legislature.

Same as ceramic.

Same as Ceramics.

Suitable to be written upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe.

A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians.

See Cerargyrite.

A nitrogenous substance free from phosphorus, supposed to be present in the brain; a body closely related to cerebrin.

Resembling horn; horny; corneous.

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 epidermose.

Inflammation of the cornea.

See Keratose.

Producing horn; as, the keratogenous membrane within the horny hoof of the horse.

Same as Keratosa.

An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations for cataract.

The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.

A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.

An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges.

Containing hornlike fibers or fibers of keratose; belonging to the Keratosa.

A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere.

See Curb.

See Curbstone.

A kerchief.

Covered, or bound round, with a kercher.

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; as, neckerchief; breastkerchief; and later, handkerchief.

Dressed; hooded; covered; wearing a kerchief.

A notch, channel, or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing.

A compound in which tar or asphaltum combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber; -- used principally as an insulating material in telegraphy.

See Carl.

The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Kermes ilices formerly Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean; also, the dye obtained from them. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine.

See Kirmess.

Kernel; corn; grain.