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n. [ D. kippen to hatch, snatch, seize. Cf. Kipe. ] 1. (Zool.) A salmon after spawning. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Kipper time, the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden. [ Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Kippered p. pr. & vb. n. Kippering. ] To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking. “Kippered salmon.” Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A name given to earthnuts of several kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, skips. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A young, thoughtless person. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus). [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight. [ 1913 Webster ]