H. James.
Kra (?), n. (Zoöl.) A long-tailed ape (Macacus cynomolgus) of India and
Sumatra. It is reddish olive, spotted with black, and has a black tail.
Kraal (kräl or krl; 277), n. [D., a village, inclosure, park, prob. fr.
Pg. curral a cattle pen; the same word as Sp. corral. See Corral.] 1. A
collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single
hut. [South Africa]
2. An inclosure into which are driven wild elephants which are to be
tamed and educated. [Ceylon]
||Krait (?), n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) A very venomous snake of India
||(Bungarus cœruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish
||or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is
||whitish.
||
Kra"ken (?), n. [Prob. from OSw. krake, or ODan. krage the trunk of a
tree, the branches of which are not entirely cut off, to which it was
likened by the Norwegian mariners.] A fabulous Scandinavian sea
monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as
resembling an immense octopus.
To believe all that has been said of the sea serpent or kraken,
would be credulity; to reject the possibility of their existence,
would be presumption.
Goldsmith.
Like a kraken huge and black.
Longfellow.
Kra*ko"wi*ak (?), n. (Mus.) A lively Polish dance. See Cracovienne.
||Kra*me"ri*a (?), n. [NL. So called after the German botanists, J. G.
||H. & W. H. Kramer.] (Bot.) A genus of spreading shrubs with many
||stems, from one species of which (K. triandra), found in Peru,
||rhatany root, used as a medicine, is obtained.
||
Kra*mer"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, Krameria
(rhatany); as, krameric acid, usually called ratanhia-tannic acid.
Krang (?), n. [Cf. D. kreng a carcass.] The carcass of a whale after
the blubber has been removed. [Written also crang and kreng.]
Krang"ing hook` (?). (Whaling) A hook for holding the blubber while
cutting it away. [Written also cranging hook.]
Kre*at"ic (?), a. See Creatic.
Kre"a*tin (?), n. (Chem.) See Creatin.
Kre*at"i*nin (?), n. (Chem.) See Creatinin.
Kreel (?), n. See Creel.
Krem"lin (?), n. [Russ. kremle.] The citadel of a town or city;
especially, the citadel of Moscow, a large inclosure which contains
imperial palaces, cathedrals, churches, an arsenal, etc. [Russia]
Krems (?), n. A variety of white lead. See Krems lead, under Lead, n.
Kreng (?), n. See Krang.
Kre"o*sote (?), n. See Creosote.
Kreut"zer (kroit"sr), n. [G. kreuzer.] A small copper coin formerly
used in South Germany; also, a small Austrian copper coin. [Written
also kreuzer.]
||Kriegs"spiel` (&?;), n. [G., fr. krieg war + spiel play.] A game of
||war, played for practice, on maps. Farrow.
||
Kris (?), n. A Malay dagger. See Creese.
||Krish"na (&?;), n. [Skr. ksha.] (Hindoo Myth.) The most popular of
||the Hindoo divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of
||the god Vishnu.
||
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Kri"tarch*y (kr"tärk*), n. [Gr. krith`s judge + 'archh` beginning,
government.] The rule of the judges over Israel.
Samson, Jephthah, Gideon, and other heroes of the kritarchy.
Southey.
Kro*kid"o*lite (kr*kd"*lt), n. (Min.) See Crocidolite.
||Kro"ne (kr"n), n. [Dan.] A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of
||the value of about twenty-eight cents. See Crown, n., 9.
||
Kroo"man (kr"man), n.; pl. Kroomen (-men). One of a negro tribe of
Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose members are much employed on
shipboard.
Krul"ler (?), n. See Cruller.
{ Krumm"horn`, Krum"horn` } (krm"hôrn`), n. [G. krummhorn cornet; krumm
crooked + horn horn.] (Mus.) (a) A reed instrument of music of the
cornet kind, now obsolete (see Cornet, 1, a.). (b) A reed stop in the
organ; -- sometimes called cremona.
Krupp" gun" (?). A breech-loading steel cannon manufactured at the
works of Friedrich Krupp, at Essen in Prussia. Guns of over eight-inch
bore are made up of several concentric cylinders; those of a smaller
size are forged solid. Knight.
Kry"o*lite (?), n. (Min.) See Cryolite.
Ksar (zär), n. See Czar.
{ Ksha"tri*ya (?), Ksha"tru*ya (?), } n. [Skr. kshatriya one belonging
to the military caste.] The military caste, the second of the four
great Hindoo castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste. [India]
||Ku"da (?), n. (Zoöl.) The East Indian tapir. See Tapir.
||
||Ku"dos (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ky^dos glory.] Glory; fame; renown;
||praise. W. H. Russel.
||
Ku"dos, v. t. To praise; to extol; to glorify. "Kudos'd egregiously."
[R.] Southey.
||Ku"du (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Koodoo.
||
Ku"fic (?), a. See Cufic.
||Ku*kang" (?), n. (Zoöl.) [Native name.] The slow lemur. See Lemur.
||
Ku`klux" (?), n. The name adopted in the southern part of the United
States by a secret political organization, active for several years
after the close of the Civil War, and having for its aim the repression
of the political power of the freedmen; -- called also Kuklux Klan.
Ku"lan (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Koulan.
{ Ku"mish (?), Ku"miss (?), } n. See Koumiss.
Kum"mel (?), n. [G. kümmel cumin, caraway seed, L. cuminum. Cf. Cumin.]
A Russian and German liqueur, consisting of a sweetened spirit flavored
with caraway seeds.
Kum"quat (?), n. [Chin. kin keu.] (Bot.) A small tree of the genus
Citrus (C. Japonica) growing in China and Japan; also, its small acid,
orange-colored fruit used for preserves.
||Kup"fer*nick"el (?), n. [G. See Copper, and Nickel.] (Min.)
||Copper-nickel; niccolite. See Niccolite.
||
Kurd (?), n. A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western
Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies. [Written also
Koord.]