Shak.
Syn. -- Kin; kinsfolk; relatives; kinsmen; relations; relationship;
affinity.
Kin"dred, a. Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as,
kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions.
True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
Wordsworth.
Kine (?), n. pl. [For older kyen, formed like oxen, fr. AS. c&?;,
itself pl. of c&?; cow. See Cow, and cf. Kee, Kie.] Cows. "A herd of
fifty or sixty kine." Milton.
{ Kin`e*mat"ic (?), Kin`e*mat"ic*al (?), } a. Of or pertaining to
kinematics.
Kinematic curves, curves produced by machinery, or a combination of
motions, as distinguished from mathematical curves.
Kin`e*mat"ics (?), n. [Gr. (&?;), (&?;) motion, fr. kinei^n to move.]
(Physics) The science which treats of motions considered in themselves,
or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of motions.
Kinematics forms properly an introduction to mechanics, as involving
the mathematical principles which are to be applied to its data of
forces. Nichol.
Kine"pox` (?), n. (Med.) See Cowpox.
Kin"e*scope (&?;), n. See Kinetoscope.
Kin`e*si*at"rics (?), n. [Gr. (&?;) motion (fr. kinei^n to move) +
(&?;) pertaining to medicine, fr. (&?;) a physician.] (Med.) A mode of
treating disease by appropriate muscular movements; -- also termed
kinesitherapy, kinesipathy, lingism, and the movement cure.
Kin`e*sip"a*thy (?), n. [Gr. &?; motion + pa`qos suffering.] (Med.) See
Kinesiatrics.
Kin`e*si*ther"a*py (?), n. [Gr. &?; motion + &?; to heal.] (Med.) See
Kinesiatrics.
Kin`e*sod"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; motion + &?; way: cf. F. kinésodigue.]
(Physiol.) Conveying motion; as, kinesodic substance; -- applied esp.
to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntary
and reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by motor
impulses applied to it directly.
Ki*net"ic (?), q. [Gr. &?;, from kinei^n to move.] (Physics) Moving or
causing motion; motory; active, as opposed to latent.
Kinetic energy. See Energy, n. 4.
Ki*net"ics (?), n. (Physics) See Dynamics.
Ki*ne`to*gen"e*sis (?), n. [Gr. &?; movable + -scope.] An instrument
for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; --
called also kinescope.
King (kng), n. A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant
stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of
wood, and struck with a hammer.
King, n. [AS. cyng, cyning; akin to OS. kuning, D. koning, OHG. kuning,
G. könig, Icel. konungr, Sw. konung, Dan. konge; formed with a
patronymic ending, and fr. the root of E. kin; cf. Icel. konr a man of
noble birth. √44. See Kin.] 1. A chief ruler; a sovereign; one
invested with supreme authority over a nation, country, or tribe,
usually by hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince. "Ay, every inch
a king." Shak.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from
principle.
Burke.
There was a State without king or nobles.
R. Choate.