Webster's Dictionary 1828

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KENNEL

KEN'NEL, noun [Latin canis, a dog.]1. A house or cot for dogs, or for a pack of hounds.2. A pack of hounds or their cry.3. The hole of a fox or other beast; a haunt.KEN'NEL, nou...

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KENNING

KEN'NING, noun View, sight.

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KENTLE

KEN'TLE, noun [Latin centum.] In commerce, a hundred pounds in weight; as a kentle of fish. [It is written and pronounced also quintal.]

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KENTLEDGE

KENT'LEDGE. noun In seamen's language, pigs of iron for ballast laid on the floor of a ship.

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KEPT

KEPT, preterit tense and participle passive of keep.

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KERB-STONE

KERB-STONE, KIRB-STONE. [See Curb-stone.]

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KERCHIEF

KER'CHIEF, noun [contracted from coverchief.]1. A head dress; a cloth to cover the head.2. A cloth used in dress.The word is now seldom used, except in its compound, handkerchie...

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KERCHIEFED

KER'CHIEFEDKER'CHIEFT, adjective Dressed; hooded; covered.

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KERCHIEFT

KER'CHIEFT, a. Dressed; hooded; covered.

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KERF

KERF, noun [Eng. to carve.] The cut of an ax, a saw, or other instrument; the notch or slit made in wood by cutting.

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KERMES

KERM'ES, noun In zoology, an insect produced in the excrescences of a species of small oak, or the body of an insect transformed into a grain, berry, or husk. This body is full ...

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KERMES-MINERAL

KERM'ES-MINERAL, noun A mineral substance, so called from its color. It is a precipitate of antimony, obtained by fusion with a fixed alkali and subsequent solution in boiling w...

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KERN

KERN, noun An Irish footman or foot-soldier.1. In English laws, an idle person or vagabond.KERN, noun A hand-mill consisting of two stones, one of which is turned by the hand; u...

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KERNEL

KERN'EL, noun1. The edible substance contained in the shell of a nut.2. Any thing included in a shell, husk or integument; a grain or corn; as a kernel of wheat or oats.3. The s...

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KERNELLY

KERN'ELLY, adjective Full of kernels; resembling kernels.

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KERSEY

KER'SEY, noun A species of coarse woolen cloth; a coarse stuff made chiefly in Kent and Devonshire in England.

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KERVE

KERVE, verb transitive To carve. [Not used.]

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KERVER

KERV'ER, noun A carver. [Not used.]

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KESAR

KE'SAR, noun [from Caesar.] An emperor.

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KESTREL

KES'TREL, noun A fowl of the genus Falco, or hawk kind; called also stannel and windhover. It builds in hollow oaks, and feeds on quails and other small birds.

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KETCH

KETCH, noun A vessel with two masts, a main and mizen-mast, usually from 100 to 250 tones burden. Ketches are generally used as yachts or as bomb-vessels. The latter are called ...

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KETCHUP

KETCH'UP, noun A sauce. [See Catchup.]

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KETTLE

KET'TLE, noun A vessel of iron or other metal, with a wide mouth, usually without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liquor.Among the Tartars, a kettle represe...

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KETTLE-DRUM

KET'TLE-DRUM, noun An instrument of martial music, composed of two basins of copper or brass, rounded at the bottom and covered with vellum or goat-skin.

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KETTLE-DRUMMER

KET'TLE-DRUMMER, noun The man who beats the kettle-drum.

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KETTLE-PINS

KET'TLE-PINS, noun Nine pins; skittles.

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KEVEL

KEV'EL, noun In ships, a piece of timber serving to belay the sheets or great ropes by which the bottoms of the fore-sail and main-sail are extended.