*kit*

n. A blustering, talkative fellow. [ Local slang, U. S. ] Barllett. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A kite, invented by Lawrence Hargrave, of Sydney, Australia, which consist of two light rectangular boxes, or cells open on two sides, and fastened together horizontally. Called also Hargrave kite, or cellular kite. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Named from the English mineralogist, H. J. Brooke. ] (Min.) A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Domeyko, a mineralogist of Chili. ] (Min.) A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Called also Malay kite. [ After William A. Eddy, American kite expert. ] A quadrilateral, tailless kite, with convex surfaces exposed to the wind. This kite was extensively used by Eddy in his famous meteorological experiments. It is now generally superseded by the box kite. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

same as Eddy kite. [ Eng. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Named after Karl Giesecke. ] (Min.) A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elæolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Lord Greenock. ] (Min.) Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kite of infernal breed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ trademark ] A set of images containing a wide variety of facial features, such as noses, hairlines, chins, etc. on transparencies which can be overlayed in combinations to build up a picture of a person; it is used by police agencies to create concrete images of a crime suspect from the descriptions of witnesses; the image created with the kit is also called an Identikit, or more properly an Identikit picture. [ Trademark ]
Syn. -- Identikit picture. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gf. AS. cytere harp, L. cithara. Cf. Guitar. ] A small violin. “A dancing master's kit.” Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. kit a large bottle, OD. kitte beaker, decanter. ] 1. A large bottle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A box for working implements. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Hence: A collection of tools or other objects to be used for a specific purpose, often contained in a box which may be carried conveniently; a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like; as, a plumber's kit; a doctor's kit; a cosmetic kit; a first-aid kit. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

6. A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them; the whole kit and kaboodle. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. kitte. ] To cut. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Kitten. ] A kitten. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kit fox (Zool.), a small burrowing fox (Vulpes velox), inhabiting the region of the Rocky Mountains. It is brownish gray, reddish on the breast and flanks, and white below. Called also swift fox. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small shrubby spiny tree (Dovyalis hebecarpa) cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasking like gooseberries; it is native to Sri Lanka and India.
Syn. -- ketembilla, kitembilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A maroon-purple gooseberrylike fruit of India having a tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves.
Syn. -- ketembilla, kitembilla. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a knapsack (usually for a soldier).
Syn. -- kit bag. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-eight or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat. Cotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kitcat roll (Agric.), a roller somewhat in the form of two cones set base to base. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine. ] 1. A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house, restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fat kitchen makes a lean will. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The staff that works in a kitchen. [ PJC ]

Kitchen garden. See under Garden. --
Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. [ Obs. ] “A brazen tub of kitchen lee.” Ford. --
Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kitchen servant; a cook. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Kitchen + -ette. ] A room combining a very small kitchen and a pantry, with the kitchen conveniences compactly arranged, sometimes so that they fold up out of sight and allow the kitchen to be made a part of the adjoining room by opening folding doors. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A woman employed in the kitchen. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. pl. [ Dan. kjök-kenmöddings kitchen leavings; cf. Scot. midden a dunghill. ] Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The body of servants employed in the kitchen; the staff of a kitchen. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Implements for use in a kitchen, or for cooking, such as pots, pans, ladles, measuring cups, etc. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. kyte, AS. c&ymacr_;ta; cf. W. cud, cut. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Zool.) Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinæ, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The European species are Milvus ictinus and Milvus migrans; the pariah kite of India is Milvus govinda; the sacred or Brahmany kite of India is Haliastur Indus; the American fork-tailed kite is the Nauclerus furcatus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: One who is rapacious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Detested kite, thou liest. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Geom.) A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry. Henrici. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Zool.) The brill. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Naut.) A form of drag to be towed under water at any depth up to about forty fathoms, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface; -- called also sentry. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Flying kites. (Naut.) See under Flying. --
Kite falcon (Zool.), an African falcon of the genus Avicida, having some resemblance to a kite. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To raise money by “kites;” as, kiting transactions. See Kite, 6. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The belly. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mode of raising money, or sustaining one's credit, by the use of paper which is merely nominal; -- called also kiting. -- n. See Kite, n., 6. [ Cant ] McElrath. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. kith, cuð, AS. c&ymacr_;ððe, c&ymacr_;ð, native land, fr. cūð known. √45. See Uncouth, Can, and cf. Kythe. ] Acquaintance; kindred. [ 1913 Webster ]

And my near kith for that will sore me shend. W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kith and kin, kindred more or less remote. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. See Cithara. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Obs. ] See Kythe. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , v. t. [ imp. Kydde, Kidde p. p. Kythed Kid; p. pr. & vb. n. Kything. ] [ OE. kythen, kithen, cuðen, to make known, AS. c&ymacr_;ðan, fr. cūð known. √45. See Uncouth, Can to be able, and cf. Kith. ] To make known; to manifest; to show; to declare. [ Obs. or Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

For gentle hearte kytheth gentilesse. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Like or relating to a kite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Kit a kitten + -ling: cf. Icel. ketlingr. ] A young kitten; a whelp. [ Obs. or Scot. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Kit to cut. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Kittle, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Kittened p. pr. & vb. n. Kittening. ] To bring forth young, as a cat; to bring forth, as kittens. Shak. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. kiton, a dim. of cat; cf. G. kitze a young cat, also a female cat, and F. chaton, dim. of chat cat, also E. kitling. See Cat. ] A young cat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a kitten; playful; as, a kittenish disposition. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- kit"ten*ish*ly, adv. -- kit"ten*ish*ness, n. [ PJC ]

n. a plant of the genus Besseya having fluffy spikes of flowers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A northern gull (Rissa tridactyla), inhabiting the coasts of Europe and America. It is white, with black tips to the wings, and has only three toes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. Kit a kitten. ] (Zool.) To bring forth young, as a cat; to kitten; to litter. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. AS. citelian; akin to D. kittelen, G. kitzeln, Icel. kitla, Sw. kittla, kittsla, Dan. kildre. Cf. Tickle. ] To tickle. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ Written also kittel. ] Halliwell. Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ticklish; not easily managed; troublesome; difficult; variable. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Halliwell. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ticklish; kittle. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A kitten; also, a pet name or calling name for the cat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. [ Etym. uncertain. ] (Gaming) The percentage taken out of a pool to pay for refreshments, or for the expenses of the table; by extension, any pool of money aggregated from small contributions. R. F. Foster. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]