KEMP, kemp, _n._ the coarse rough hairs of wool: (_pl._) knotty hair which
will not felt.
KEMP, kemp, _n._ (_arch._) a champion: (_Scot._) a contest in work,
&c.--_v.i._ to strive for mastery.--_ns._ KEM'PER, KEM'PERY-MAN, a
champion, a knight-errant. [A.S. _cempa_, a warrior. Cf. _champion_.]
KEN, ken, _v.t._ to know: (_arch._) to see and recognise at a
distance.--_n._ range of knowledge or sight.--_n._ KEN'NING (_Bacon_),
range of vision: (_Scot._) a small portion.--_adj._ KEN'SPECKLE (_Scot._),
conspicuous--also KEN'SPECK. [Ice. _kenna_, orig. to cause to know. Cf.
_can_ and _know_.]
KEN, ken, _n._ (_slang_) a house. [Perh. Pers. _kh[=a]n_, a caravansary;
not conn. with _kennel_.]
KENDAL-GREEN, ken'dal-gr[=e]n, _n._ green cloth for foresters made at
_Kendal_ in Westmorland.
KENNEL, ken'el, _n._ a house for dogs: a pack of hounds: the hole of a fox,
&c.: a haunt.--_v.t._ to keep in a kennel.--_v.i._ to live in a
kennel:--_pr.p._ kenn'elling; _pa.p._ kenn'elled. [Norm. Fr. _kenil_ (Fr.
_chenil_)--L. _can[=i]le_--_canis_, a dog.]
KENNEL, ken'el, _n._ the water-course of a street: a gutter. [A form of
_canal_.]
KENNEL-COAL. Same as CANNEL-COAL.
KENNICK, ken'ik, _n._ the jargon of tramping tinkers.
KENOSIS, ken-[=o]'sis, _n._ the self-limitation on the part of the Logos in
the act of incarnation, his emptying of himself, or his laying aside not
only his divine attributes, but even his divine self-consciousness, only to
be fully recovered at the ascension.--_adj._ KENOT'IC.--_n._ KENOT'ICIST.
[Gr., from the phrase in Phil. ii. 6, 7, 'who, being in the form of God ...
_emptied himself_ ([Greek: heauton ekenôse]), taking the form of a
servant.']
KENT, kent, _n._ (_Scot._) a pole, pike.--_v.i._ to propel a boat by a
pole. [Prob. a variant of the verb _cant_.]
KENTISH, kent'ish, _adj._ pertaining to _Kent_.--_ns._ KENT'ISH-FIRE,
rounds of noisy applause at political meetings--from the anti-Catholic
demonstrations in _Kent_, 1828-29; KENT'ISH-RAG, a rough fossiliferous
limestone found in _Kent_.
KENTLEDGE, kent'lej, _n._ pig-iron laid in a ship's hold for ballast.--Also
KINT'LEDGE.