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  • English Word -knives Definition of Pocketknife
  • English Word Kaama Definition The hartbeest.
  • English Word Kabala Definition See Cabala.
  • English Word Kabassou Definition See Cabassou.
  • English Word Kabob Definition See Cabob, n. & v. t.
  • English Word Kabook Definition A clay ironstone found in Ceylon.
  • English Word Kabyle Definition A Berber, as in Algiers or Tunis. See Berber.
  • English Word Kadder Definition The jackdaw.
  • English Word Kadi Definition Alt. of Kadiaster
  • English Word Kadiaster Definition A Turkish judge. See Cadi.
  • English Word Kafal Definition The Arabian name of two trees of the genus Balsamodendron, which yield a gum resin and a red aromatic wood.
  • English Word Kaffir Definition Alt. of Kafir
  • English Word Kaffle Definition See Coffle.
  • English Word Kafilah Definition See Cafila.
  • English Word Kafir Definition One of a race which, with the Hottentots and Bushmen, inhabit South Africa. They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs.
  • English Word Kafir Definition One of a race inhabiting Kafiristan in Central Asia.
  • English Word Kaftan Definition See Caftan.
  • English Word Kage Definition A chantry chapel inclosed with lattice or screen work.
  • English Word Kagu Definition A singular, crested, grallatorial bird (Rhinochetos jubatus), native of New Caledonia. It is gray above, paler beneath, and the feathers of the wings and tail are handsomely barred with brown, black, and gray. It is allied to the sun bittern.
  • English Word Kaguan Definition The colugo.
  • English Word Kahani Definition A kind of notary public, or attorney, in the Levant.
  • English Word Kahau Definition A long-nosed monkey (Semnopithecus nasalis), native of Borneo. The general color of the body is bright chestnut, with the under parts, shoulders, and sides of the head, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey.
  • English Word Kail Definition Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables.
  • English Word Kail Definition A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner.
  • English Word Kail Definition A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1.
  • English Word Kaimacam Definition Same as Caimacam.
  • English Word Kain Definition Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.
  • English Word Kainit Definition Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.
  • English Word Kainite Definition A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony.
  • English Word Kainozoic Definition See Cenozoic.