Emily Dickinson Lexicon

KILL'ER, n.

One who deprives of life; he or that which kills.

KILL'ING, ppr.

Depriving of life; quelling.

KIL'LI-NITE, n.

A mineral, a variety of spodumene, found at Killeney, in Ireland. – Taylor.

KIL'LOW, n.

An earth of a blackish or deep blue color. – Woodward.

KILN, n. [kil; Sax. cyln, from cylene, a furnace or kitchen; L. culina; W. cyl and cylyn.]

1. A large stove or oven; a fabric of brick or stone which may be heated for the purpose of hardening, burning or drying any thing; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain or meal.
2. A pile of brick constructed for burning or hardening; called also a brick-kiln.

KIL'N-DRIED, pp.

Dried in a kiln.

KIL'N-DRY, v.t. [kil-dry.]

To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain.

KIL'N-DRY'ING, ppr.

Drying in a kiln.

KIL'O-GRAM, n. [Fr. kilogramme; Gr. χιλιοι, a thousand, and γραμμα. See Gram.]

In the new system of French weights and measures, a thousand grams. According to Lunier, the kilogram is equal in weight to a cubic decimeter of water, or two pounds, five drams and a half.

KIL'O-LI-TER, n. [Fr. kilolitre; Gr. χιλιοι, a thousand, and λιτρα, a Greek measure. See Liter.]

In the new French measures, a thousand liters; or 264 gallons and 44,231 cubic inches. According to Lunier, it as nearly equal to a tun of wine of Bourdeaux.

KI-LOM'E-TER, n. [Fr. kilometre; Gr. χιλιοι, a thousand, and μετρον, a meter.]

In the French system of measures, a thousand meters; the meter being the unit of linear measure. The kilometer is nearly equal to a quarter of a French league. – Lunier.

KILT, n.

A kind of short petticoat worn by the highlanders of Scotland.

KILT, pp.

Killed. [Obs.]

KIM'BO, or KIM'BOW, a. [probably from the Celtic cam, crooked. The Italian sghembo, crooked, awry, is from the same source.]

Crooked; arched; bent; as, a kimbo handle. – Dryden. To set the arms a kimbo, is to set the hands on the hips, with the elbows projecting outward.

KIN, a.

Of the same nature; kindred; congenial. – Chaucer.

KIN, n. [Sax. cyn, cynn, or cind, gecynd, kind, genus, race, relation; Ir. cine; G. kind, a child; D. kind; W. cenal, cenaw; L. genus; Gr. γενος; connected with L. gigno, geno, Gr. γινομαι; Class Gn, No. 29. See Begin.]

1. Relation, properly by consanguinity or blood, but perhaps sometimes used for relation by affinity or marriage. This man is of kin to me. – Bacon. Dryden.
2. Relatives; kindred; persons of the same race. The father, mother and the kin beside. – Dryden.
3. A relation; a relative. – Davies.
4. The same generical class; a thing related. And the ear-deafening voice of th' oracle, / Kin to Jove's thunder. – Shak.
5. As a termination, kin is used as a diminutive, denoting small, from the sense of child; as in manikin, a little man; Tompkin, Wilkin, Pipkin.

KIN'ATE, n. [D. kina, i. e. Cinchona.]

A salt formed by the union of kinic acid with a base. – Ure.

KIND, a. [W. and Arm. cun, kind, favorable, attractive. In Ir. ceann, is affection. This word would seem to be connected with the preceding, but in sense it coincides best with the Teutonic gunstig, favorable, kind, from G. gönnen, to be glad or pleased, to love to see, to favor, D. gunnen, to grant or vouchsafe.]

1. Disposed to do good to others, and to make them happy by granting their requests, supplying their wants or assisting them in distress; having tenderness or goodness of nature; benevolent; benignant. God is kind to the unthankful, and to the evil. Luke vi. Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted. Eph. iv.
2. Proceeding from tenderness or goodness of heart; benevolent; as, a kind act; a kind return of favors.

KIND, n. [Sax. cyn, or cynn. See Kin.]

1. Race; genus; generic class; as in mankind or human kind. In technical language, kind answers to genus.
2. Sort, in a sense more loose than genus; as, there are several kinds of eloquence and of style, many kinds of music, many kinds of government, various kinds of architecture or of painting, various kinds of soil, &c.
3. Particular nature; as, laws most perfect in their kind. – Bacon.
4. Natural state; produce or commodity, as distinguished from money; as, taxes paid in kind.
5. Nature; natural propensity or determination. Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, / Are led by kind t' admire your fellow creature. – Dryden.
6. Manner; way. [Little used.] – Bacon.
7. Sort. He spoke with a kind of scorn or contempt.

KIND'ED, a.

Begotten. [Obs. See Kin.] – Spenser.

KIND'HEART-ED, a.

Having much kindness of nature. – Irving.

KIN'DLE, v.i.

1. To take fire; to begin to burn with flame. Fuel and fire well laid, will kindle without a bellows.
2. To begin to rage, or be violently excited; to be roused or exasperated. It shall kindle in the thickets of the forest. – Isa. ix.

KIN'DLE, v.t. [W. cynneu; L. accendo; from the root of candeo, caneo, to be light or white, to shine.]

1. To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to light; as, to kindle a fire.
2. To inflame, as the passions; to exasperate; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle resentment; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame. So is a contentious woman to kindle strife. – Prov. xxvi.
3. To bring forth. [Sax. cennan. Not used.] – Shak.

KIN'DLED, pp.

Set on fire; inflamed; excited into action.

KIN'DLER, n.

He or that which kindles or sets on fire.