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  • English Word Kennel Definition To put or keep in a kennel.
  • English Word Kennel coal Definition See Cannel coal.
  • English Word Kenneled Definition of Kennel
  • English Word Kennelled Definition of Kennel
  • English Word Kennelling Definition of Kennel
  • English Word Kenning Definition of Ken
  • English Word Kenning Definition Range of sight.
  • English Word Kenning Definition The limit of vision at sea, being a distance of about twenty miles.
  • English Word Keno Definition A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.
  • English Word Kenogenesis Definition Modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment; -- distinguished from palingenesis.
  • English Word Kenogenetic Definition Of or pertaining to kenogenesis; as, kenogenetic processes.
  • English Word Kenspeckle Definition Having so marked an appearance as easily to be recognized.
  • English Word Kent bugle Definition A curved bugle, having six finger keys or stops, by means of which the performer can play upon every key in the musical scale; -- called also keyed bugle, and key bugle.
  • English Word Kentle Definition A hundred weight; a quintal.
  • English Word Kentledge Definition Pigs of iron used for ballast.
  • English Word Kentucky Definition One of the United States.
  • English Word Kephalin Definition One of a group of nitrogenous phosphorized principles, supposed by Thudichum to exist in brain tissue.
  • English Word Kept Definition of Keep
  • English Word Kept Definition of Keep.
  • English Word Keramic Definition Same as Ceramic.
  • English Word Keramics Definition Same as Ceramics.
  • English Word Keramographic Definition Suitable to be written upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe.
  • English Word Kerana Definition A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians.
  • English Word Kerargyrite Definition See Cerargyrite.
  • English Word Kerasin Definition A nitrogenous substance free from phosphorus, supposed to be present in the brain; a body closely related to cerebrin.
  • English Word Kerasine Definition Resembling horn; horny; corneous.
  • English Word Keratin Definition A nitrogenous substance, or mixture of substances, containing sulphur in a loose state of combination, and forming the chemical basis of epidermal tissues, such as horn, hair, feathers, and the like. It is an insoluble substance, and, unlike elastin, is not dissolved even by gastric or pancreatic juice. By decomposition with sulphuric acid it yields leucin and tyrosin, as does albumin. Called also epidermose.
  • English Word Keratitis Definition Inflammation of the cornea.
  • English Word Keratode Definition See Keratose.
  • English Word Keratogenous Definition Producing horn; as, the keratogenous membrane within the horny hoof of the horse.