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  • English Word Koordish Definition See Kurdish.
  • English Word Koorilian Definition Same as Kurilian.
  • English Word Kopeck Definition A small Russian coin. One hundred kopecks make a rouble, worth about sixty cents.
  • English Word Koran Definition The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.
  • English Word Korin Definition The gazelle.
  • English Word Korrigum Definition 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.
  • English Word Kosmos Definition See Cosmos.
  • English Word Kotow Definition The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings.
  • English Word Kotow Definition To perform the kotow.
  • English Word Kotowed Definition of Kotow
  • English Word Kotowing Definition of Kotow
  • English Word Koulan Definition A wild horse (Equus, / Asinus, onager) inhabiting the plants of Central Asia; -- called also gour, khur, and onager.
  • English Word Koumiss Definition An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe.
  • English Word Kousso Definition An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge.
  • English Word Kowtow Definition The same as Kotow.
  • English Word Kra Definition A long-tailed ape (Macacus cynomolgus) of India and Sumatra. It is reddish olive, spotted with black, and has a black tail.
  • English Word Kraal Definition A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut.
  • English Word Kraal Definition An inclosure into which are driven wild elephants which are to be tamed and educated.
  • English Word Krait Definition 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.
  • English Word Kraken Definition A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus.
  • English Word Krakowiak Definition A lively Polish dance. See Cracovienne.
  • English Word Krameria Definition A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one species of which (K. triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as a medicine, is obtained.
  • English Word Krameric Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, Krameria (rhatany); as, krameric acid, usually called ratanhia-tannic acid.
  • English Word Krang Definition The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed.
  • English Word Kranging hook Definition A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away.
  • English Word Kreatic Definition See Creatic.
  • English Word Kreatin Definition See Creatin.
  • English Word Kreatinin Definition See Creatinin.
  • English Word Kreel Definition See Creel.
  • English Word Kremlin Definition The citadel of a town or city; especially, the citadel of Moscow, a large inclosure which contains imperial palaces, cathedrals, churches, an arsenal, etc.