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An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars of central Asia from mare's or camel's milk.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 Creatinin.

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 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.

A daw.

p. p. of Kythe.

imp. of Kythe, to show.

To look steadfastly; to gaze.

an Australian boomerang, having one side flat and the other convex.

The cattle of the Hebrides, or of the Highlands.

See Kimnel.

An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; -- called also kymographion.

Of or pertaining to a kymograph; as, a kymographic tracing.

See Cymric, a. n.

See Cymry.

Kindred.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from the urine of dogs. By decomposition the acid yields a nitrogenous base (called kynurin) and carbonic acid.

See Kyrie eleison.

A litany beginning with the words, /Kyrie eleison./

Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic.

The use of literal or simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones.

To come into view; to appear.

See Karyomiton.

See Karyoplasma.

Having the general shape of the (capital) letter L; as, an L beam, or L-beam.

a square plate bearing the letter L that is attached to both ends of a car to indicate that the driver is a learner.

A lunar excursion module, a spacecraft designed to transport people from a command module in orbit around the moon to the surface of the moon and back again.

One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry.

Look; see; behold; -- sometimes followed by you.

A neck ornament consisting of a chain and single jewelled pendant, or drop; also, the pendant itself.

A camp, especially one surrounded by a circular formation of travelers' wagons for temporary defense.

To form into, or camp in, a laager, or protected camp.

A lace. See Lace.

To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab.

Of or pertaining to a laboratory; as, a lab bench.

A follower of Jean de Labadie, a religious teacher of the 17th century, who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism, and the obligation of community of property among Christians.

An aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite, extensively used as a disinfectant.

The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (//) (which appear like the English letters X and P), of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard.

See Ladanum.

The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin.

To weaken or impair.

To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package.

One who labels.

The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.

Slipping; sliding; gliding.

See Labium.