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Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; -- opposed to hydrostatic. Sir W. Thomson.

Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm.

Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis.

Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.

A breaking in; inroad; invasion.

The state or quality of being inky; blackness.

Supplying or covering with ink. Inking roller, a somewhat elastic roller,used to spread ink over forms of type, copperplates, etc. -- Inking trough or table, a trough or table from which the inking roller receives its ink.

The act of working in together; interweaving. Milton.

name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life; as, the Jenkins employed by a newspaper. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.] G. W. Curtis.

A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat. Shak.

The act of pulling, pushing, or throwing, with a jerk. -- Jerk"ing*ly, adv.

The hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving a truncated gable.

In a joking way; sportively.

The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimatel…

Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division.

English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure. [Written also kinderkin.]

See Kinnikinic.

Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide.

Obsequious; fawning; cringing. "Knee-crooking knave." Shak.

A beating; a rap; a series of raps. The . . . repeated knockings of the head upon the ground by the Chinese worshiper. H. Spencer.