The genus comprising the pygmy sperm whales.

A mixture of soot and other ingredients, used by Egyptian and other Eastern women to darken the edges of the eyelids.

A variety of cabbage, in which the edible part is a large, turnip-shaped swelling of the stem, above the surface of the ground.

A famous diamond, surrendered to the British crown on the annexation of the Punjab. According to Hindu legends, it was found in a Golconda mine, and has been the property of various Hindu and Persian rulers.

The gemsbok.

Any pheasant of the genus Pucrasia. The birds of this genus inhabit India and China, and are distinguished by having a long central and two lateral crests on the head. Called also pucras.

The gnu.

An individual of one of the races of aboriginal inhabitants which survive in Hindustan. Of or pertaining to the Kolarians.

Among furriers, any of several Asiatic minks; esp., Putorius sibiricus, the yellowish brown pelt of which is valued, esp. for the tail, used for making artists' brushes. Trade names for the fur are red sable and Tatar sable.

A collective farm owned by the communist state, in the former USSR.

a member of a kolkhoz.

A Chinese genus having only one species, the beauty bush.

Designating, or pertaining to, a linguistic stock of North American Indians comprising the Tlinkit tribes of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska and adjacent coast lands. Their language bears some affinity to Mexican tongues.

Of or pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from meconic acid.

A Hungarian breed of large powerful shaggy-coated white dog, used also as guard dog.

An African freshwater fish (Protopterus annectens), belonging to the Dipnoi. It can breathe air by means of its lungs, and when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it remains till the rainy season. It is used as food.

To know. See Can, and Con.

An erect deciduous shrub or tree (Fuchsia excorticata), native to New Zealand, growing up to 10 feet, with maroon-flushed flowers.

See Conite.

A form of capsule for inclosing a dose of medicine that is offensive, caustic, or the like.

A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), allied to the hartbeest, but having shorter and flatter horns, and lacking a black patch on the face.

A large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color is reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut.

The oryx or gemsbok.

A west African anthropoid ape (Troglodytes koolokamba, or Troglodytes Aubryi), allied to the chimpanzee and gorilla, and, in some respects, intermediate between them.

See Coleslaw.

See Kurd.

See Kurdish.

Same as Kurilian.

Hill; mountain.

A small Russian coin, continued as a unit of currency within the Soviet Union. One hundred kopecks make a ruble. The ruble was worth about sixty cents (U. S.) in 1910; in 1991 a two-kopeck coin could be used for a local telephone call at a pay telephone. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1993, the exchange value of the ruble declined rapidly and by the end of 1994 the ruble was worth three hundredths of a cent, and by 1997 two hundredths of a cent. By 1993, the kopek had become of such small value that it was obsolete and no longer minted.

A hillock; a small kop, especially a small hill rising up from the African veld.

A Hebrew unit of capacity.

The Scriptures of the Muslims, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.

An Asian peninsula off Manchuria.

Of or pertaining to Korea; as, Korean handicrafts; the Korean war.

The gazelle.

A city in Greece, called Corinth in English; the modern city is near the site of the ancient city that was 2nd only to Athens in size and power in ancient Greece.

A West African antelope (Damalis Senegalensis), allied to the sassaby. It is reddish gray, with a black face, and a black stripe on the outside of the legs above the knees.

an Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.

To prepare in conformity with the requirements of the Jewish law, as meat.

See Cosmos.

A small genus of herbs of the Southeastern U. S. and tropical America and Africa.

To perform the kotow. Now usually spelled kowtow.

A wild horse (Equus onager or Asinus onager) inhabiting the plains of Central Asia; -- called also gour, khur, and onager.

An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars of central Asia from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe.

An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge.

A shrub or small tree (Sophora tetraptera) of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; it yields a hard strong wood.

To perform the kowtow. Same as Kotow

The chemical symbol for the element krypton, one of the six noble gases.

A long-tailed ape (Macacus cynomolgus) of India and Sumatra. It is reddish olive, spotted with black, and has a black tail.

A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut.

A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish.

A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus.

A lively Polish dance. See Cracovienne.

A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one species of which (Krameria triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as a medicine, is obtained.

Pertaining to, or derived from, Krameria (rhatany); as, krameric acid, usually called ratanhia-tannic acid.

The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed.

A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away.

See Creatic.

See Creatin.

See Creel.

The citadel of a town or city; especially, the citadel of Moscow, a large inclosure which contains imperial palaces, cathedrals, churches, an arsenal, etc.

A variety of white lead. See Krems lead, under Lead, n.

See Krang.

See Creosote.

A small copper coin formerly used in South Germany; also, a small Austrian copper coin.

A game of war, played for practice, on maps.

A Malay dagger. See Creese.

The most popular of the Hindu divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu.

The rule of the judges over Israel.

See Crocidolite.

A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of the value of about twenty-eight cents (in 1913). See Crown, n., 9.

One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose members are much employed on shipboard.

See Cruller.

A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now obsolete (see Cornet, 1, a.). A reed stop in the organ; -- sometimes called cremona.

A breech-loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp, at Essen in Prussia. Guns of over eight-inch bore are made up of several concentric cylinders; those of a smaller size are forged solid.

A process practiced by Friedrich Krupp, Essen, Germany, for washing pig iron, differing from the Bell process in using manganese as well as iron oxide, and performed in a Pernot furnace. Called also the Bell-Krupp process. A process for the manufacture of steel armor plates, invented or practiced by Krupp, the details of which are secret. It is understood to involve the addition of chromium as well as nickel to the metal, and to include a treatment like that of the Harvey process with unknown variations or additions. The product is mentioned by some authors, as improved Harvey, or Harvey-Krupp armor plate.

To treat by, or subject to, the Krupp process.

See Cryolite.

An inert gaseous element of the argon (noble gas) group, of atomic number 36, occurring in air to the extent of about one volume in a million. It was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1898. Boiling point, -152.3/ C.; melting point, -156.6/ C.; symbol, Kr; atomic weight, 83.8.

See Czar.

The military caste, the second of the four great Hindu castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste.

The name adopted in the southern part of the United States by a secret political organization, active for several years after the close of the Civil War, and having for its aim the repression of the political power of the freed negroes; -- called also Kuklux Klan and the Klan. It exerienced a revival in the 1920's, in the north as well as the south, and persists as a weak organization into the 1990's. Its goals were primarily anti-negro and anti-Catholic, and its tactics included terrorist attacks on negroes for the purpose of intimidation with the goal of continuing segregation. The signature activity of the Klan was the burning of a cross, either at rallies of Klansmen, or on the property of African-Americans which they hoped to intimidate.

The East Indian tapir. See Tapir.

To praise; to extol; to glorify.

See Koodoo.

See Cufic.

The slow lemur. See Lemur.

See Koulan.

Lit., culture war; -- a name, originating with Virchow (1821 - 1902), given to a struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and the German government, chiefly over the latter's efforts to control educational and ecclesiastical appointments in the interest of the political policy of centralization. The struggle began with the passage by the Prussian Diet in May, 1873, of the so-called May laws, or Falk laws, aiming at the regulation of the clergy. Opposition eventually compelled the government to change its policy, and from 1880 to 1887 laws virtually nullifying the May laws were enacted.

See Koumiss.

A Russian and German liqueur, consisting of a sweetened spirit flavored with caraway seeds.

any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella (formerly Citrus) of the rue family (Rutaceae) (especially Citrus Japonica) growing in China and Japan bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp; also, any of the small acid, orange-colored citrus fruits of such plants, used mostly for preserves.

Copper-nickel; niccolite. See Niccolite.

An East Indian cereal grass (Eleusine coracana) whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.

A transuranic element of atomic number 104, symbol Ku; also called rutherfordium, symbol Rf. It is produced in very small quantities by nuclear reactions. In November 1993 the nomenclature committe of the American Chemical Society approved the name rutherfordium for element 104. Russsian investigators who claim to have first discovered element 104, isotope 260 (half-life 0.3 seconds) in 1964 at Dubna proposed the name kurchatovium. However, investigators at Berkely in 1969 produced several isotopes of element 104 but were unable to produce isotope 260; they reported finding isotope 257, with a half-life of 4-5 seconds, isotope 259 with a half-life of 3-4 seconds, and isotope 258 with a shorter half-life.

A tropical Asian tree (Holarrhena antidysenterica syn. Holarrhena pubescens) with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea.

A member of a people who inhabit a mountainous region of Western Asia, sometimes referred to as Kurdistan, spread over an area including adjoining parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Syria. The people of this region speak Kurdish and are mostly Moslem.

The language of the Kurds; it is related to Farsi, the modern Iranian language.

Of or pertaining to the Kurile Islands, a chain of islands in the Pacific ocean, extending from the southern extremity of Kamchatka to Yesso. A native or an inhabitant of the Kurile Islands.

See Japan Current, above.

A public hall or room, for the use of visitors at watering places and health resorts in Germany.

A carnivorous animal (Crossarchus obscurus) of tropical Africa. It its allied to the civets. Called also kusimansel, and mangue.

A Turkish instrument of music, with a hollow body covered with skin, over which five strings are stretched.

The India civet (Viverra zibetha).

See Catechu.

A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians.

A battle of World War II (January 1944); American forces landed and captured a Japanese airbase.

A female Bodhisattva; often called Goddess of Mercy and considered an aspect of the Bodisattva Avalokitesvara; identified with Japanese Kwannon.

Japanese counterpart of the Chinese Kuan Yin.

A trailing grass (Cynodon dactylon) native to Europe, now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in the Southern U. S. and India. Called also Bahama grass and Bermuda grass.

A kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans; it includes a whistle among its instruments.

Kine.

Amboyna wood. Sandalwood (Santalum album).

A pack sack to be swung on either side of a packsaddle.

See Cyanite.

To render (wood) proof against decay by saturating with a solution of corrosive sublimate in open tanks, or under pressure.

Aniline. A base obtained from coal tar.

Same as Cyanophyll.

Cocoanut fiber, or the cordage made from it. See Coir.