kel

v. t. [ See Keel to cool. ] To cool. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A modification of kale. ] A sort of pottage; kale. See Kale, 2. Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kiln. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Caul. ] 1. The caul; that which covers or envelops as a caul; a net; a fold; a film. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll have him cut to the kell. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Also spelled cheloid. ] 1. A keloid tumor. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. An abnormally large scar tissue growing at the site of a cut or surgical incision. [ PJC ]

a. [ Also spelled cheloid. ] [ F. kéloïde, from Gr. chhlh` crab's claw + -oid: cf. F. kéloïde, chéloïde. ] (Med.) Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin, or to keloid scar tissue. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Med.) See Celotomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formerly kilpe; of unknown origin. ] 1. The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Laminaria is the common kelp of Great Britain; Macrocystis pyrifera and Nereocystis Lutkeana are the great kelps of the Pacific Ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kelp crab (Zool.), a California spider crab (Epialtus productus), found among seaweeds, which it resembles in color. --
Kelp salmon (Zool.), a serranoid food fish (Serranus clathratus) of California. See Cabrilla. [ 1913 Webster ]