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r a godmother. Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place send her kitchen maid, 't would be ill taken. Selden.

Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

Hollow square. See Square. -- Hollow ware, hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.

The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

. Hurrah's nest, state of utmost confusion. [Colloq. U.S.] A perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen. Mrs. Stowe.

A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.

ade with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner. [Scot.] Kail yard, a kitchen garden. [Scot.]

See Kitchen middens.

Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern. Chaucer.

f prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.

efuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See Midden, and Kitchen middens.

relics which belong to it are associated with the remains of animals not yet extinct. The kitchen middens of Denmark, the lake dwellings of Switzerland, and the stockaded islands, or "crannogs," of the British Isles, belong to this era. Lubbock.

houses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. [Eng.] As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to, or produced in, a kitchen garden; used for kitchen purposes; as, olitory seeds. At convenient distance towards the olitory garden. Evelyn.

. equus, ecus, horse, Gr. equine, hippic; L. quod which, E. what; L. aquila, E. eaqle; E. kitchen, OE. kichene, AS. cycene, L. coquina.

A kitchen grate. [Obs.] He was bid at his first coming to take off the range, and let down the cinders. L'Estrange.

ishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen.

A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen. The meanest scullion that followed his camp. South.

ther material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.

embers of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.