Vocabulary : Kieselguhr to Killdeer

Kieselguhr : Siliceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth, used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite.
Kieserite : Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt, Prussian Saxony.
Kieve : See Keeve, n.
Kike : To gaze; to stare. ;; To kick.
Kilderkin : A small barrel; an old liquid measure containing eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure.

Kilerg : A unit of work equal to one thousand ergs.
Kilkenny cats : Two cats fabled, in an Irish story, to have fought till nothing was left but their tails. It is probably a parable of a local contest between Kilkenny and Irishtown, which impoverished both towns.
Kill : A kiln. ;; 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. ;; To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay. ;; To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book. ;; To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind. ;; To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid. ;; The act of killing. ;; An animal killed in the hunt, as by a beast of prey.
Killdee : Alt. of Killdeer
Killdeer : A small American plover (Aegialitis vocifera).

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