kra

n. [ D., a village, inclosure, park, prob. fr. Pg. curral a cattle pen; the same word as Sp. corral. See Corral. ] 1. A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut. [ South Africa ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inclosure into which are driven wild elephants which are to be tamed and educated. [ Ceylon ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. from OSw. krake, or ODan. krage the trunk of a tree, the branches of which are not entirely cut off, to which it was likened by the Norwegian mariners. ] A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus. [ 1913 Webster ]

To believe all that has been said of the sea serpent or kraken, would be credulity; to reject the possibility of their existence, would be presumption. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a kraken huge and black. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) A lively Polish dance. See Cracovienne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL. So called after the German botanists, J. G. H. Kramer & W. H. Kramer. ] (Bot.) A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one species of which (Krameria triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as a medicine, is obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, Krameria (rhatany); as, krameric acid, usually called ratanhia-tannic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. kreng a carcass. ] The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed. [ Written also crang and kreng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]