Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Karyostenosis

‖Kar′y‐o‐ste‐no″sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. κάρυον a nut, kernel + � a being straitened.] (Biol.) Direct cell division (in which there is first a simple division of the nucleus, w...

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Karyostenotic

Kar′y‐o‐ste‐not″ic (?), a.(Biol.) Pertaining to, or connected with, karyostenosis; as, the karyostenotic mode of nuclear division.

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Kasack

Ka‐sack″ (kăt), n.(Ethnol.) Same as Cossack.

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Kat

Kat (kät), n.(Bot.) An Arabian shrub (Catha edulis) the leaves of which are used as tea by the Arabs.

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Katabolic

Kat′a‐bol″ic (?), a.(Physiol.) Of or pertaining to katabolism; as, katabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stabil...

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Katabolism

Ka‐tab″o‐lism (?), n.(Physiol.) Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; — opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.

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Katastate

Kat″a‐state (?), n. (Physiol.) A substance formed by a katabolic process; — opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.

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Kate

Kate (?), n.(Zoöl.) The brambling finch.

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Kathetal

Kath″e‐tal (?), a. [Gr. � a perpendicular line. See Cathetus.] (Math.) Making a right angle; perpendicular, as two lines or two sides of a triangle, which include a right angle.

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Kathetometer

Kath′e‐tom″e‐ter (?), n. Same as Cathetometer.

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Kattimundoo

Kat′ti‐mun″doo (?), n. A caoutchouc-like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.

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Katydid

Ka″ty‐did′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidæ, common in the United States. The males have stridulating...

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Kauri

‖Ka″u‐ri (?), n.(Bot.) A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, orDammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin. [Written also kau...

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Kauri (2)

Kau″ri (?), n. (a) Kauri resin. (b) By extension, any of various species of Dammara; as, the red kauri (D. lanceolata).

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Kauri resin

{ Kauri resin, gum, orcopal }. A resinous product of the kauri, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnis...

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Kava

Ka″va (?), n.(Bot.) A species of Macropiper (M. methysticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastic...

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Kavass

Ka‐vass″ (?), n.; pl.Kavasses (#) [Turk. kāvvās] An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier.

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Kaw

Kaw (?), v. i. & n. See Caw.

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Kawaka

Ka‐wa″ka (?), n.(Bot.) a New Zealand tree, the Cypress cedar (Libocedrus Doniana), having a valuable, fine-grained, reddish wood.

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Kawn

Kawn (?), n. An inn. See Khan.

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Kayak

Kay″ak (?), n.(Naut.) A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It...

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Kayaker

Kay″ak‐er (?), n. One who uses a kayak.

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Kayko

Kay″ko (?), n.(Zoöl.) The dog salmon.

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Kayles

Kayles (?), n. pl. [Akin to Dan. kegle, Sw. kegla, D. & G. kegel, OHG. kegil, whence F. quille.] A game; ninepins. Carew.

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Kaynard

Kay″nard (?), n. [F. cagnard.] A lazy or cowardly person; a rascal. Chaucer.

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Kazoo

Ka‐zoo″ (?), n. A kind of toy or rude musical instrument, as a tube inside of which is a stretched string made to vibrate by singing or humming into the tube.

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Kea

Ke″a (kā″ȧ; colloq. kē″ȧ), n.(Zoöl.) A large New Zealand parrot (Nestor notabilis), notorious for having acquired the habit of killing sheep; — called also mountain parrot.