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  • English Word Kill Definition A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
  • English Word Kill Definition To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
  • English Word Kill Definition To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.
  • English Word Kill Definition To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.
  • English Word Kill Definition To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.
  • English Word Kill-joy Definition One who causes gloom or grief; a dispiriting person.
  • English Word Killdee Definition Alt. of Killdeer
  • English Word Killdeer Definition A small American plover (Aegialitis vocifera).
  • English Word Killed Definition of Kill
  • English Word Killer Definition One who deprives of life; one who, or that which, kills.
  • English Word Killer Definition A voracious, toothed whale of the genus Orca, of which several species are known.
  • English Word Killesse Definition A gutter, groove, or channel.
  • English Word Killesse Definition A hipped roof.
  • English Word Killifish Definition Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow.
  • English Word Killigrew Definition The Cornish chough. See under Chough.
  • English Word Killikinick Definition See Kinnikinic.
  • English Word Killing Definition of Kill
  • English Word Killing Definition Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible.
  • English Word Killock Definition A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together.
  • English Word Killow Definition An earth of a blackish or deep blue color.
  • English Word Kiln Definition A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.
  • English Word Kiln Definition A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
  • English Word Kiln-dry Definition To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain.
  • English Word Kilnhole Definition The mouth or opening of an oven or kiln.
  • English Word Kilo Definition An abbreviation of Kilogram.
  • English Word Kilogram Definition Alt. of Kilogramme
  • English Word Kilogramme Definition A measure of weight, being a thousand grams, equal to 2.2046 pounds avoirdupois (15,432.34 grains). It is equal to the weight of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum density, or 39¡ Fahrenheit.
  • English Word Kilogrammeter Definition Alt. of Kilogrammetre
  • English Word Kilogrammetre Definition A measure of energy or work done, being the amount expended in raising one kilogram through the height of one meter, in the latitude of Paris.
  • English Word Kiloliter Definition Alt. of Kilolitre