Vocabulary : Kissing bug to Kitchener
Kissing bug : Any one of several species of blood-sucking, venomous Hemiptera that sometimes bite the lip or other parts of the human body, causing painful sores, as the cone-nose (Conorhinus sanguisuga).
Kissing strings : Cap or bonnet strings made long to tie under the chin.
Kissingcrust : The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.
Kist : A chest; hence, a coffin. ;; A stated payment, especially a payment of rent for land; hence, the time for such payment.
Kistvaen : A Celtic monument, commonly known as a dolmen.
Kit : To cut. ;; A kitten. ;; A small violin. ;; A large bottle. ;; A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel. ;; straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket. ;; A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like. ;; A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them.
Kitcat : Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies. ;; Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club. ;; A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat.
Kitchen : A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. ;; A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen. ;; To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen.
Kitchen middens : Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians.
Kitchener : A kitchen servant; a cook.
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