Behold I am with thee to keep thee. Gen. xxviii. To restrain from flight. Paul dwelt with a soldier that kept him. Acts, xxviii. To detain, to hold as a motive. But what's the cause that keeps you here with me? -That I may know what keeps me here with: you. Dryden. 8. To hold for another. The sheep were so keen upon the acorns, that they gobbled up a piece of the coat. L'Estrange. 9. Those curs are so extremely hungry, that they are too keen at the sport, and their worry game. Tatler. This was a prospect so very inviting, that it could not be easily withstood by any who have so keen an appetite for wealth. Swift. 4. Acrimonious; bitter of mind. A man delivers money or stuff to keep. Exod. xxii. 7. Reserv'd from night, and kept for thee in store. Milton. To tend; to have care of. God put him in the garden of Eden to keep it. Gen. ii. 15. While in her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor, it chanced that a merchant saw and liked her. Carew. Count it thine To till and keep, and of the fruit to eat. Milton. 10. To preserve in the same tenour or state. To know the true state, I will keep this order. Bacon. Take this at least, this last advice, my son, Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste. Addison. 11. To regard; to attend. While the stars and course of heav'n 1 keep, My weary 'd eyes were seiz'd with fatal sleep. Dryden. 12. To not suffer to fail. Psalm lxxxix. My mercy will I keep for him for ever. 13. To hold in any state. Ingenuous shame, and the apprehensions of displeasure, are the only true restraints: these alone ought to hold the reins, and keep the child Locke on Education. in order. Men are guilty of many faults in the exercise of this faculty of the mind, which keep them in ignorance. Locke. Happy souls! who keep such a sacred dominion over their inferior and animal powers, that the sensitive tumults never rise to disturb the superior and better operations of the reasoning mind. Watts. To KEEP. v. a. [cepan, Sax. kepen, old 14. To retain by some degree of force in any place or state. It is often followed in this sense by particles; as, down, under, in, off. This wickedness is found by thee; no good deeds of mine have been able to keep it down in thee. Sidney. It is hardly to be thought that any governor should so much malign his successor, as to suffer an evil to grow up which he might timely have kept under; or perhaps nourish it with coloured Spenser. countenance of such sinister means. Matters, recommended by our passions, take possession of our minds, and will not be kept out. Locke Prohibited commodities should be kept out, and useless ones impoverish us by being brought in. Locke An officer with one of these unbecoming qualities, is looked upon as a proper person to keep off impertinence and solicitation from his superior. Addison's Spectator. And if two boots keep out the weather, What need you have two hides of leather? Prior. We have it in our power to keep in our breaths, and to suspend the efficacy of this natural function. Cheyne 15. To continue any state or action. Men gave ear, waited, and kept silence at my counsel. Job, xxix. 21 Auria made no stay, but still kept on his course. Knolles It was then such a calm, that the ships were not able to keep way with the gallies. Knolles The moon that distance keeps till night. Milton. An heap of ants on a hillock will more easily be kept to an uniformity in motion than these. Glanville's Sceps. He dy'd in fight: Fought next my person; as in consort fought: Kept pace for pace, and blow for blow. Dryden. He, being come to the estate, keeps on a very busy family; the markets are weekly frequented, and the commodities of his farm carried out and sold. Locke Invading foes, without resistance, With ease I make to keep their distance. 16. To preserve in any state. Swift. My son, keep the flower of thine age sound. Eccles. xxvi. 17. To practise; to use habitually. I rule the family very ill, and keep bad hours. Pope. 18. To copy carefully. Her servants eyes were fix'd upon her face, And as she mov'd or turn'd, her motions view'd, Her measures kept, and step by step pursu'd. Dryden. and you shall Exod. xii. 14. Milton. 19. To observe or solemnize any time. This shall be for a memorial; keep it a feast to the Lord. That day was not in silence holy kept. 20. To observe; not to violate. It cannot be, The king should keep his word in loving us He will suspect us still, and find a time To punish this offence in other faults. Shakesp. What! old acquaintance! could not all this flesh Of rosy balms, that to the dogs were horrible in Chapman's Iliad. taste. The Chinese sail where they will; which sheweth that their law of keeping out strangers is a law of pusillanimity and fear. Bacon. And those that cannot live from him asunder, Ungratefully shall strive to keep him under. Knolles. She kept the fatal key. Milton. Milton. The Lord God merciful and gracious, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity. Exod. xxxiv. 7. If any ask me what would satisfy, To make life easy, thus I would reply: As much as keeps out hunger, thirst, and cold. Dryden. saries of life. Much more affliction than already felt They cannot well impose, nor I sustain, If they intend advantage of my labours, The work of many hands, which earns my keeping. Mitten 22. To have in the house. Base tyke, call'st thou me host? I scorn the term: nor shall my Nell keep lodgers. Shak. H. V. 23. Not to intermit. Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, lest she make thee a laughing-stock to thine enemies, and a bye-word in the city. Eccles. xli. 11. 28. To debar from any place. Ill fenc'd for Heav'n to keep out such a foe. Milton 29. To keep back. To reserve; to withhold. Whatsoever the Lord shall answer, I will declare; I will keep nothing back from you. Jer. xlii. 4. Some are so close and reserved, as they will not shew their wares but by a dark light, and seem always to keep back somewhat. Bacon's Ess. 30. To keep back. To with-hold; to restrain. Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sins. Psalm, xix. 31. To keep company. To frequent any one; to accompany. Shakesp. Heav'n doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn'd away my former self, So will I those that kept me company. Why should he call her whore? Who keeps her company? What place? what time? Shakesp. Othello. What mean'st thou, bride! this company to keep? To sit up, till thou fain would sleep?" Donne. Neither will I wretched thee In death forsake, but keep thee company. Dryden. 32. To keep company with. To have familiar intercourse. A virtuous woman is obliged not only to avoid immodesty, but the appearance of it; and she could not approve of a young woman keeping company with men, without the permission of father or mother. Broome on the Odyssey. 33. To keep in. To conceal; not to tell. I perceive in you so excellent a touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me what I am willing to keep in. Shakesp. Syphax, your zeal becomes importunate: I have hitherto permitted it to rave, And talk at large; but learn to keep it in, Lest it should take more freedom than I'll give it. Addison. 34. To keep in. To restrain; to curb. If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straightly, lest she abuse herself through overmuch liberty. Eccles. 5. 38. To keep up. To continue; to hinder from ceasing. You have enough to keep you alive, and to keep up and improve your hopes of heaven. In joy, that which keeps up the action is the desire to continue it. Taylor. Young heirs, from their own reflecting upon the estates they are born to, are of no use but to keep up their families, and transmit their lands and houses in a line to posterity. Addison. During his studies and travels he kept up a punctual correspondence with Eudoxus. Addison. 39. To keep under. To oppress; to sub due. O happy mixture! whereby things contrary do so qualify and correct the one the danger of the other's excess, that neither boldness can make us presume, as long as we are kept under with the sense of our own wretchedness; uor, while we trust in the mercy of God through Christ Jesus, fear be able to tyrannize over us. Hooker. Truth may be smothered a long time, and kept under by violence; but it will break out at last. Stillingfleet. To live like those that have their hope in another life, implies, that we keep under our appetites, and do not let them loose into the enjoyments of Atterbury. sense. To KEEP. v. n. There are cases in which a man must guard, if he intends to keep fair with the world, and turn the penny; Collier. The endeavours Achillies used to meet with Hector, the contrary endeavours of the Trojan to keep out of reach, are the intrigue. Pope's View of Epic Poetry. To remain unhurt; to last; to be durable. Disdain me not, although I be not fair: Doth beauty keep which never sun can burn, Nor storms do turn! Sidney. Grapes will keep in a vessel half full of wine, so Bacon. that the grapes touch not the wine. If the malt be not thoroughly dried, the ale it makes will not keep. Mortimer's Husbandry. To dwell; to live constantly. Servile to all the skiey influences, Did they keep to one constant dress they would sometimes be in fashion, which they never are. Addison's Spectator. go It is so whilst we keep to our rule; but when we forsake that we go astray. Baker on Learning. To keep on. To forward. So chearfully he took the doom; Nor shrunk, nor stept from death, But with unalter'd pace kept on. Dryden 7. To keep up. To continue unsubdued. 8. He grew sick of a co nsumption; yet he still kept up, that he might free his country. Life of Cleom. The general idea of this word is care, continuance, or duration, sometimes with an intimation of cogency or coercion. KEEP. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. 2 Pan, thou god of shepherds all, Which of our lambkins takest keep. The prison strong, Spenser. Within whose keep the captive knights were laid: Was one partition of the palace-wall. Guardianship; restraint. Dryden. Youth is least looked into when they stand in most need of good keep and regard. KEEPER. n. s. [from keep.] Ascham. 1. To remain by some labour or effort in a 1. One who holds any thing for the use of certain state. With all our force we kept aloof to sea, And gain'd the island where our vessels lay. Pope's Odyssey. 2. To continue in any place or state; to stay. She would give her a lesson for walking so late, that should make her keep within doors for one fortnight. Sidney. What! keep nights? Eightscore eight hours? and lovers' absent hours, More tedious than the dial eightscore times? Oh weary reckoning! Shakesp. Othello. a week away? seven days and I think, it is our way, If we will keep in favour with the king, To be her men, and wear her livery. Shakesp. Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended. Ruth, ii. 21. The necessity of keeping well with the maritime powers, will persuade them to follow our meaTemple. 2. 3. another. The good old man having neither reason to dissuade, nor hopes to persuade, received the things with the mind of a keeper, not of an owner. Sidney. One who has prisoners in custody. The keeper of the prison, call to him. Shakesp. Io now With horns exalted stands, and seems to lowe: A pleasant beverage he prepar'd before, There is an old tale goes, that Herene the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the Winter-time, at still of midnight, Walk round about an oak with ragged horns. Shakesp. The first fat buck of all the season's sent, And keeper takes no fee in compliment. Dryden. 4. One that has the superintendence or care of any thing. Hilkiah went unto Hildah, keeper of the ward2 Kings. robe KEEPER of the great seal. [custos magni sigilli, Lat.] Is a lord by his office, 1 and called lord keeper of the great seal of England, and is of the king's privycouncil, under whose hands pass all charters, commissions, and grants of the kings. This lord keeper, by the statute of 5 Eliz. c. 18. hath the like jurisdiction, and all other advantages as hath the lord chancellor of England. Cowell. KEEPERSHIP. u. s. [from keeper.] Office of a keeper. The gaol of the shire is kept at Launceston: this keepership is annexed to the constableship of the castle. Carew. KEG. n. s. [caque; Fr.] A small barrel, commonly used for a fish barrel. KELL. n. s. [A sort of pottage. Ainsw.] It is so called in Scotland, being a soup made with shreded greens. The omentum; that which KELL. n. s. inwraps the guts. The very weight of bowels and kell, in fat people, is the occasion of a rupture. Wiseman's Surgery. KELP. n. s. A salt produced from cal cined sea-weed. In making alum, the workmen use the ashes of a sea-weed called kelp, and urine. Boyle on Col. KELSON. n. s. [More properly keelson.] The wood next the keel. We have added close pillars in the royal ships, which being fastened from the kelson to the beams of the second deck, keep them from settling, or giving way. Raleigh. KELTER. n. s. [He is not in kelter, that is, he is not ready; from killer to gird, Dan. Skinner.] To KEMB. v. a. [comban, Sax. kammen, Germ. now written, perhaps less properly, to comb.] To separate or disentangle by a denticulated instrument. et are the men more loose than they, Mor kemb'd and bath'd, and rubb'd and trimm'd, More sleek. Ben Jonson. Thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek. Dryden. To KEN. v. a. [cennan, Sax. kennan, Dut. to know.] 1. To see at a distance; to descry. At once as far as angels ke, he views The dismal situation, waste and wild. Milton. The next day about evening we saw, within a kenning, thick clouds, which did put us in some hope of land. Bacon. If thou ken'st from far, Among the Pleiads, a new-kindled star; 'Tis she that shines in that propitious light. Dryd. We ken them from afar, the setting sun Plays on their shining arms. 2. To know. Obsolete. Addison. A dog sure, if he could speak, had wit enough to describe his kennel. Sidney. From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept A hell-hound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shakesp. The seditious remain within their station, which, by reason of the nastiness of the beastly multitude, might be more fitly termed a kennel than a Hayward. camp. 2. A number of dogs kept in a kennel. A little herd of England's tim'rous deer, Maz'd with a yelping kennel of French curs. Shak. 3. The hole of a fox, or other beast. 4. [Kennel, Dut. chenal, Fr. canalis, Lat.] The watercourse of a street. Bad humours gather to a bile; or, as divers kennels flow to one sink, so in short time their numbers increased. Hayward. He always came in so dirty, as if he had been dragged through the kennel at a boarding-school. Arbuthnot. To KENNEL. v. n. [from kennel.] To lie; to dwell: used of beasts, and of man in contempt. Yet, when they list, would creep, Ifought disturb'd their noise, into her womb, And kennel there: yet there still bark'd and howl'd Within, unseen. Milton's Par. Lost. The dog kennelled in a hellow tree, and the cock roosted upon the boughs. KEPT. pret. and part. pass. of keep. KERCHE IF. n. s. [cevercheif, Chaucer couvre to cover, and chef the head ; and hence a handkerchief to wipe the face or hands.] 1. A head dress of a woman. KERN. n. s. A hand-mill consisting of two pieces of stone, by which corn is ground. It is written likewise quern. It is still used in some parts of Scotland. To KERN. v. n. [probably from kernel, or, by change of a vowel, corrupted from corn.] 1. To harden as ripened corn. 2. When the price of corn falleth, men break o more ground than will supply their own turn, where-through it,falleth out that an ill kerned or saved harvest soon emptieth their old store. Carew. To take the form of grains; to granulate. The principal knack is in making the juice, when sufficiently boiled, to kern or granulate. Grew. KERNEL. n. s. [cynnel a gland, Sax. karne, Dut. cerneau, Fr] 1. The edible substance contained in a shell. As brown in hue As hazel nuts, and sweeter than the kernels. Shak. There can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is his clothes. Shakesp. The kernel of the nut serves them for bread and meat, and the shells for cups. More. 2. Any thing included in a husk or integument. L'Estrange. 3. ; The kernel of a grape, the fig's small grain, Can cloath a mountain, and o'ershade a plain. Denham. Oats are ripe when the straw turns yellow and the kernel hard. Mortimer's Husbandry. The seeds of pulpy fruits. I think he will carry this island home in his pocket, and give it his son for an apple.-And sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring forth more islands. Shakesp. Tempest. The apple inclosed in wax was as fresh as at the first putting in, and the kernels continued white. Bacon's Nat. Hist. 4. The central part of any thing upon which the ambient strata are concreted. A solid body in the bladder makes the kernel Arbuthnot. I see how thine eye would emulate the diamond; thou hast the right arched bent of the brow, that becomes the ship-tire, the tire-valiant.-A plain kerchief, Sir John; my brows become nothing else. Shak. Merry Wives of Windsor. 5. O! what a time have you chose out, brave Caius, To wear a kerchief. Shakesp. Julius Cæsar. The proudest kerchief of the court shall rest Well satisfy'd of what they love the best. Dryden. 2. Any loose cloth used in dress. Every man had a large kerchief folded about the neck. Hayward. KERCHE'IFED. adj. [from kercheif.] KERCHE'IFT. Dressed; hooded. While racking winds are piping loud. KERF. n. s. [ceoppan, Sax. to cut.] The sawn-away slit between two pieces of stuff is called a kerf. Moxon's Mechanical Exercises. KERMES. n. s. Kermes is a roundish body, of the bigness of a pea, and of a brownish red colour. It contains a multitude of little distinct granules, soft, and when crushed, yield a scarlet juice. It till lately was understood to be a vegetable excrescence;but we now know it to be the extended body of an animal parent, filled with a numerous offspring, which Hill. are the little red granules. KERN. n. s. [an Irish word.] Irish footsoldier; an Irish boor. Out of the fry of these rake-hell horseboys, growing up in Kuavery and villainy, are their kearn supplied. Spen. Justice had with valour arm'd, Compell'd these skipping kernes to trust their heels. Shakesp. If in good plight these northernkerns arrive, Then does fortune promise fair. Philips's Briton. Το ripen to kernels. In Staffordshire, garden-rouncivals sown in the fields kernel well, and yield a good increase. Mortimer's Husbandry. Full of KERNELLY. adj. [from kernel.] kernels; having the quality or resemblance of kernels. KERNELWORT. n. s. [scrofularia.] An herb. Ainsworth. KERSEY. n. 8. [karsaye, Dut. carisée, Fr.] Coarse stuff. Taffata phrases, silken terms precise, I do forswear them; and I here protest, His lackey with a linen stock on one leg, and Shakesp. a kersey boot-hose on the other. The same wool one man felts it into a hat, another weaves it into cloth, and another into kersey or serge. Hale. Gay. Thy kersey doublet spreading wide, Drew Cicly's eye aside. KEST. The preter tense of cast. It is still used in Scotland. Only that noise heavhs rolling circles kest. Farfar. KE'STREL. n. s. A little kind of bastard hawk. Hanmer. His kestrel kind, A pleasing vein of glory, vain did find. Fairy Q Kites and kestrels have a resemblance with Bacon. hawks. KETCH. n. s. [from caicchio, Ital. a barrel] A heavy ship; as a bomb ketch. I wonder That such a ketch can with his very bulk Take up the rays o' th' beneficial sun, And keep it from the earth. Shakesp. Hen. VIII. KETTLE. n. s. [cerl, Sax. ketel, Dut.] A vessel in which liquor is boiled. In the kitchen the name of pot is given to the boiler that grows narrower towards the top, and of kettle to that which grows wider. In authors they are confounded. The fire thus form'd, she sets the kettle on; As he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, KEY. n. s. [cœz, Sax.] Shakesp. Hamlet. 1. An instrument formed with cavities correspondent to the wards of a lock, by which the bolt of a lock is pushed forward or backward. If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key. Shakesp. Macbeth. Fortune, that arrant whore, Ne'er turns the key to th' poor. Shakesp. K. Lear. The glorious standard last to heav'n they spread, With Peter's keys ennobled and his crown. Fairf Yet some there be, that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key, That opes the palace of eternity. Milton. Conscience is its own counsellor, the sole master of its own secrets; and it is the privilege of our nature, that every man should keep the key of his South. own breast. He came, and knocking thrice without delay, The longing lady heard, and turn'd the key Dryd. 2. An instrument by which something is screwed or turned. Swift. Hide the key of the jack. 3. An explanation of any thing difficult. An emblem without a key to't, is no more than L'Estrange. a tale of a tub. These notions in the writings of the ancients darkly delivered, receive a clearer light when compared with this theory, which represents every thing plainly, and is a key to their thoughts. Burnet's Theory of the Earth. Those who are accustomed to reason have got Locke. the true key of books. 4. The parts of a musical instrument which are struck with the fingers. Pamela loves to handle the spinnet, and touch the keys. 5. [In musick.] Is a certain tone whereto every composition, whether long or short, ought to be fitted; and this key is said to be either flat or sharp, not in respect of its own nature, but with relation to the flat or sharp third, which is Harris. joined with it. Pamela. Hippolita, 1 woo'd thee with my sword, And won thy love doing thee injuries; But I will wed thee in another key, With pomp, with triumph, and with revelling, Shakesp. But speak you with a sad brow? Or do you play the flouting Jack? Come in what key shall a man Shakesp. take you to go in the song? Not know my voice! Oh, time's extremity! Hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poor tongue In sev'n short years, that here my only son Knows not my feeble key of untun'd cares? Shak. 8. [Kaye, Dut. quai, Fr.] A bank raised 7. perpendicular for the ease of lading and unlading ships. A key of fire ran along the shore, And lighten'd all the river with a blaze. Dryden. Key cold was a proverbial expression, now out of use. Poor key cold figure of a holy king! Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster. Shakesp; KE'YAGE. n. s. [from key.] Money paid for lying at the key, or quay. Ainsw. KEYHOLE. n. 8. [key and hole.] The perforation in the door or lock through which the key is put. Make doors fast upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out Shakesp. at the keyhole. I looked in at tl.e keyhole, and saw a well-madeTatler. man. I keep her in one room; I lock it. The key, look here, is in this pocket; The keyhole is that left? Most certain. Prior. KICKSY-WICKSEY. n. s. [from kick and wince.] A made word in ridicule and disdain of a wife. Hanmer. He wears his honour in a box, unseen, That hugs his kicksy-wicksey here at home, Spending his manly marrow in her arms. Shakesp. KID. n. s. [kid, Dan.] 1. The young of a goat. Leaping like wanton kids in pleasant spring. Fairy Queen. There was a herd of goats with their young ones, upon which sight Sir Richard Graham tells, he would snap one of the kids, and carry him close Wotton. to their lodging. Sporting the lion ramp'd, and in his paw Dandled the kid. Milton. So kids and whelps their sires and dams express; And so the great I'measur'd by the less. Dryden. KEYSTONE. n. s. [key and stone.] The 2. [From cidwlen, Welsh, a faggot.] A stone be the height of the arch. Moxton. forth kids. KIBE. n. s. [from kerb a cut, Germ. Skinner; from kibwe, Welsh, Minshew.] An ulcerated chilblain; a chap in the heel caused by the cold. If 'twere a kibe, 'twould put me to my slipper. Shakesp. The toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of our courtier, that it galls his kibe. Shakesp. One boasted of the cure, calling them a few kibes. Wiseman. KIBED. adj. [from kibe.] It anger'd Turenne once upon a day, To see a footman kick'd that took his pay. Pope. Another, whose son had employments at court, valued not, now and then, a hicking or a caning. Swift. To beat the foot in To KICK. v.n. anger or contempt. Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice, which I have commanded? 1 Sam. ii. 29. Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked. Deut. xxxii. 15. The doctrines of the holy Scriptures are terrible enemies to wicked men, and this is that which makes them kick against religion, and spurn at Tillotson. the doctrines of that holy book. KICK. n. s. [from the verb.] A blow with the foot. What, are you dumb? Quick, with your answer, quick, Before my foot salutes you with a kick. Dry. Juv. KICKER. n. s. [from kick.] One who strikes with his foot. KICKSHAW. n. s. [This word is supposed, I think with truth, to be only a corruption of quelque chose, something: yet Milton seems to have understood it otherwise; for he writes it kickshoe, as if he thought it used in contempt of dancing.] KIDDER. n.s. An engrosser of corn to enhance its price. Ainsworth. To KIDNAP. v.a. [from kind, Dut. a child, and nap.] To steal children; to steal human beings. KIDNAPPER. n. s. [from kidnap] One who steals human beings; a manstealer. The man compounded with the merchant, upon condition that he might have his child again; for he had smelt it out, that the merchant himself was the kidnapper. Estrange. These people lye in wait for our children, and may be considered as a kind of kidnappers within the law. Spectator. KIDNEY. n. s. [Etymology unknown.] 1. These are two in number, one on each 2. side: they have the same figure as kidneybeans: their length is four or five fingers, their breadth three, and their thickness two: the right is under the liver, and the left under the spleen. The use of the kidneys is to separate the urine from the blood, which, by the motion of the heart and arteries, is thrust into the emulgent branches, which carry it to the little glands, by which the serosity, being separated, is received by the orifice of the little tubes, which go from the glands to the pelvis, and from thence it runs by the ureters into the bladder. Quincy. A youth laboured under a complication of diseases, from his mesentery and kidneys. Wisem. Surg. Sort; kind: in ludicrous language. Think of that, a man of my kidney; think of that, that am as subject to heat as butter; a man of continual dissolution and thaw. Shakesp. There are millions in the world of this man's kidney, that take up the same resolution without L'Estrange. KIDNEYBEAN. n. s. [phaseolus. So named from its shape.] A leguminous plant. Make in the kilderkin a great bung-hole of purBaco. pose. A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ; But sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit. Dryden. To KILL. v. a. [anciently to quell ; cpellan, Sax. kelen Dut.] 1. To deprive of life; to put to death, as an agent. 2. Dar'st thou resolve to kill a friend of mine? -Please you, I'd rather kill two enemies. 3. Shakesp. Rich. III. Ye have brought us forth int, this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. Ex. xvi. 3. There was killing of young and old, making away of men, women, and children. 2 Mac. v. 13. 2. To destroy animals for food. We're mere usurpers, tyrants, and what's worse, To fright the animals, and to kill then up In their assign'd and native dwelling-place. Shak. Shall I take my bread, and my flesh, that I have killed for my shearers? 1 Sam. xxv. 11. 8. To deprive of life, as a cause or instru ment. The medicines, if they were used inwards, would kill those that use them; and therefore they work potently, though outwards. Bacon. 4. To deprive of vegetative or other motion, or active qualities. Try with oil, or barm of drink, so they be such things as kid not the bough. Bacon's Nat. Hist. Catharticks of mercurials mix with all animal acids, as appears by killing it with spittle. Floyer on the Humours. KILLER. n. s. [from kill.] One that deprives of life. What sorrow, what amazement, what shame was in Amphialus, when he saw his dear foster-father find him the killer of his only son? Wilt thou for the old lion hunt, or fill His hungry whelps? and for the killer kill, When couch'd'in dreadful dens? So rude a time, Shall kin with kin, and kind with kind confound. The father, mother, and the kin beside, 6. Sort. It has a slight and unimportant sense. Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn, What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers? He answered, Because the one knew what they wanted. the other did not. Bacon To KINDLE. v. a. Then is the soul from God; so pagans say, The burst And the ear-deaf'ning voice of the oracle, KIND. adj. [from cynne relation, Sax.] When love was held so capital a crime, That a crown'd head could no compassion find, But dy'd, because the killer had been kind. Walter. KILLOW. n. s. [This seems a corruption of coul, and low a flame, as soot is thereby produced.] An earth of a blackish or deep blue colour, and doubtless had its name from kollow, by which name, in the North, the smut or grime on the backs of chimneys is called. Woodward. KILN. n. s. [cyln, Sax.] A stove; a fabrick formed for admitting heat, in order to dry or burn things contained in it. I'll creep up into the chimney.-There they always use to discharge their birding-pieces: creep into the kiln hole. Shakesp. After the putting forth in sprouts, and the drying upon the Kiln, there will be gained a bushel in eight of malt. Bacon. Physicians chuse lime which is newly drawn out of the kiln, and not slacked. Moxon's Mech. Ex. To KILNDRY. v. a. [kiln and dry.] To dry by means of a kiln. The best way is to kindry them. KILT for killed. Mortimer. Spenser. KIMBO. adj. [a schembo, Ital.] Crooked; bent; arched. The kimbo handles seem with bears-foot carv'd, And never yet to table have been serv'd. Dryden's Virgil. He observed them edging towards one another to whisper; so that John was forced to sit with his arms a kimbo, to keep them asunder. Arbuthnot. KIN. n. s. [cynne, Sax.] 1. Relation either of consanguinity or affinity. You must use them with fit respects, according to the bonds of nature; but you are of kin, and so a friend to their persons, not to their errours. Bacon's Advice to Villiers. 2. To set on fire; to light; to make to burn. He will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it and baketh bread. Is. xliv. 15. I was not forgetful of those sparks, which some men's distempers formerly studied to kindle in parliaments. King Charles. If the fire burns vigorously, it is no matter by what means it was at first kindled: there is the same force and the same refreshing virtue in it, kindled by a spark from a flint, as if it were kindled from the sun. nick English answers to genus, and sort 2. [From cennan, Sax.] To bring forth. As when the total hind Of birds, in orderly array on wing, That both are animalia, I grant; but not rationalia; Hooker. It is used of some particular animals. kindled. KINDLER. n. s. [from kindle.] One Now is the time that rakes their revels keep, Kindlers of riot, enemies of sleep. Gay. Milton's Par. Lost. KINDLY. adv. [from kind.] Benevolent For though they do agree in kind, Hudibras. God and Nature do not principally concern He with his wife were only left behind He with a hundred arts refin'd, No human laws are exempt from faults, since He did give the goods of all the prisoners unto those that had taken them, either to take them in kind, or compound for them. Bacon's Hen. VII. The tax upon tillage was often levied in kind upon corn, and called decuma, or tithes. 4. Nature; natural determination. ly; favourably; with good will. Sir Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks, and spends what he borrows kindly in your company. Shakesp 1 sometimes lay here in Corioli, His grief some pity, others blame; Prior. Who, with less designing ends, Swift. 1. Homogeneal; congeneal; kindred; of the same nature. This competency I beseech God I may be able to digest into kindly juice, that I may grow thereby. Hammond. These soft fires Milton's Par. Løst. 2. The foregoing sense seems to have been originally implied by this word; but following writers, inattentive to its etymology, confounded it with kind. |