KIT

To cut. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kitten. Kit fox (Zoöl.), 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.

A small violin. "A dancing master's kit." Grew. Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance. Dickens.

A large bottle.

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

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

A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.

A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them.