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Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.

le is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames.

See Blackamoor.

auna, chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also chauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See Kamichi.

See Kamsin.

end for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams. [Written also eskar and esker.]

also sidewinder. -- Horned ray (Zoöl.), the sea devil. -- Horned screamer (Zoöl.), the kamichi. -- Horned snake (Zoöl.), the cerastes. -- Horned toad (Zoöl.), any lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of which nine or ten species are known. These lizards have several hornlike spines on the head, and a broad, flat body,…

ferior value, which in the autumn runs up all the larger rivers between San Francisco and Kamchatka.

Same as Kamsin.

slands, a chain of islands in the Pacific ocean, extending from the southern extremity of Kamschatka to Yesso. -- n.

See Kulturkampf, above.

the sake of finding pasturage. The Vogules nomadize chiefly about the Rivers Irtish, Obi, Kama, and Volga. W. Tooke.

e of marine origin, but probably formed by subglacial waters. The osar are similar to the kames of Scotland and the eschars of Ireland. See Eschar.

An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.

Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse expenditure. "Profuse ornament." Kames.

betray thy foes. Shak. The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. Kames.

imes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria.

ry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta.

t partiality to himself by which a man overrates his own worth when compared with others. Kames.