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- English Word Keratoidea Definition Same as Keratosa.
- English Word Keratome Definition An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations for cataract.
- English Word Keratonyxis Definition The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.
- English Word Keratophyte Definition A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.
- English Word Keratosa Definition An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges.
- English Word Keratose Definition A tough, horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also keratode.
- English Word Keratose Definition Containing hornlike fibers or fibers of keratose; belonging to the Keratosa.
- English Word Keraunograph Definition A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere.
- English Word Kerb Definition See Curb.
- English Word Kerbstone Definition See Curbstone.
- English Word Kercher Definition A kerchief.
- English Word Kerchered Definition Covered, or bound round, with a kercher.
- English Word Kerchief Definition 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.
- English Word Kerchief Definition A lady who wears a kerchief.
- English Word Kerchiefed Definition Alt. of Kerchieft
- English Word Kerchiefs Definition of Kerchief
- English Word Kerchieft Definition Dressed; hooded; covered; wearing a kerchief.
- English Word Kerf Definition A notch, channel, or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing.
- English Word Kerish Definition Clownish; boorish.
- English Word Kerite Definition 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.
- English Word Kerl Definition See Carl.
- English Word Kermes Definition The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean. 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.
- English Word Kermes Definition A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect (Coccus ilicis) feeds.
- English Word Kermesse Definition See Kirmess.
- English Word Kern Definition To take the form of kernels; to granulate.
- English Word Kern Definition To harden, as corn in ripening.
- English Word Kern Definition A hand mill. See Quern.
- English Word Kern Definition A churn.
- English Word Kern Definition To form with a kern. See 2d Kern.
- English Word Kern Definition An idler; a vagabond.