Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal ! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The . . . leopard shall lie down with the kid. Is. xi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on. [ Slang ] Charles Reade. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc.; kidskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Gloves made of kidskin; kid gloves. [ Colloq. & Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food. Cooper. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Among pugilists, thieves, gunfighters, etc., a youthful expert; -- chiefly used attributively; as, kid Jones. [ Cant ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To jokingly tell a false story to; to fool; as, John told Pete that he had talked to the movie star, but he was only kidding him.. [ PJC ]

You may reason or expostulate with the parents, but never attempt to kidnap their children, and to make proselytes of them. Whately. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Originally used only of stealing children, but now extended in application to any human being, involuntarily abducted.

1. (Anat.) A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In man and in other mammals there are two kidneys, one on each side of vertebral column in the back part of the abdomen, each kidney being connected with the bladder by a long tube, the ureter, through which the urine is constantly excreted into the bladder to be periodically discharged. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Habit; disposition; sort; kind; as, a man of a different kidney. Shak. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

There are in later times other decrees, made by popes of another kidney. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Millions in the world of this man's kidney. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This use of the word perhaps arose from the fact that the kidneys and the fat about them are an easy test of the condition of an animal as to fatness. “Think of that, -- a man of my kidney; -- . . . as subject to heat as butter.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A waiter. [ Old Cant ] Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

Floating kidney. See Wandering kidney, under Wandering. --
Kidney bean (Bot.), a sort of bean; -- so named from its shape. It is of the genus Phaseolus (Phaseolus vulgaris). See under Bean. --
Kidney ore (Min.), a variety of hematite or iron sesquioxide, occurring in compact kidney-shaped masses. --
Kidney stone. (Min.) See Nephrite, and Jade. --
Kidney vetch (Bot.), a leguminous herb of Europe and Asia (Anthyllis vulneraria), with cloverlike heads of red or yellow flowers, once used as a remedy for renal disorders, and also to stop the flow of blood from wounds; lady's-fingers.

2. A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure. Specifically: (a) pl. (Naut.) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo. Totten. (b) One of a pair of timbers or bars, usually arranged so as to form an inclined plane, as form a wagon to a door, along which anything is moved by sliding or rolling. (c) One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Aeronautics) A runner (one or two) under some flying machines, used for landing. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. A low movable platform for supporting heavy items to be transported, typically of two layers, and having a space between the layers into which the fork of a fork lift can be inserted; it is used to conveniently transport heavy objects by means of a fork lift; -- a skid without wheels is the same as a pallet. [ PJC ]

5. pl. Declining fortunes; a movement toward defeat or downfall; -- used mostly in the phrase
on the skids and
hit the skids. [ PJC ]

6. [ From the v. ] Act of skidding; -- called also side slip. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To check with a skid, as wagon wheels. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Forestry) To haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To fail to grip the roadway; specif., to slip sideways on the road; to side-slip; -- said esp. of a cycle or automobile. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]