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.

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.

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.

Having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type.

To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.

Having a kernel.

Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels.

Clownish; boorish.

Same as Cerolite.

An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly by the distillation and purification of petroleum. It consists chiefly of several hydrocarbons of the methane series, having from 10 to 16 carbon atoms in each molecule, and having a higher boiling point (175 - 325/ C) than gasoline or the petroleum ethers, and a lower boling point than the oils.

A cress.

A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple.

See Cassimere.

See Cassinette.

Varieties of kersey; also, trousers made of kersey.

To carve.

A carver.

See Kaiser.

The stomach of a calf, prepared for rennet.

To kiss.

of Cast.

A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species.

Carrion; any filth.

A small salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) of inferior value, which in the autumn runs up all the larger rivers between San Francisco and Kamchatka.

To catch.

A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes, flavored with onions, sugar, salt and spices; called also tomato ketchup. The term is also applied to pureed sauces containing mushrooms, walnuts, etc., being called in such cases mushroom ketchup, walnut ketchup, etc.

One of a series of organic bases obtained by the reduction of certain isonitroso compounds of the ketones. In general they are unstable oily substances having a pungent aromatic odor.

The name of certain African species of Hibiscus, cultivated for the acid of their mucilage.

One of a series of series of complex nitrogenous substances, represented by methyl ketol and related to indol.

One of a large class of organic substances resembling the aldehydes, obtained by the distillation of certain salts of organic acids and consisting of carbonyl (CO) united with two hydrocarbon radicals. In general the ketones are colorless volatile liquids having a pungent ethereal odor.

Pertaining to, or derived from, a ketone; as, a ketonic acid.

A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.

A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.

One who plays on a kettledrum.

The upper division of the European Triassic. See Chart of Geology.

A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.

To cover.

A kerchief.

The gazelle.

To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.

Essential; most important; as, the key fact in the inquiry; the president was the key player inthe negotiations.

See Keynote.

Cold as a metallic key; lifeless.