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a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail. In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob. Dryden.

In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.

The Brazilian kite (Polyborus Brasiliensis); -- so called in imitation of its notes.

Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion. A prey for carrion kites. Shak. Carrion beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle that feeds habitually on dead animals; -- also called sexton beetle and burying beetle. There are many kinds, belonging mostly to the family Silphidæ. -- Carrion buzzard (Zoöl.), a…

To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open.

A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.

osed rare element, said to be associated with cerium, yttrium, etc., in the mineral samarskite, and more recently called samarium. Symbol Dp. See Samarium.

A kite of the genus Elanus.

To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc. The brave black flag I fly. W. S. Gilbert.

l of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. -- Fork-tailed kite (Zoöl.), a graceful American kite (Elanoides forficatus); -- called also swallow-tailed kite.

The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide.]

The glede or kite.

Pertaining to polite kiterature. M. Arnold.

Like or relating to a kite.

Of or resembling birds of the kite kind.

A genus of raptorial birds, including the European kite.

A handkerchief. [Obs.] [Written also muckinder, muckiter, mockadour.]

Having several or many planes or plane surfaces; as, a multiplane kite.

, a mongrel race of half-wild dogs which act as scavengers in Oriental cities. -- Pariah kite (Zoöl.), a species of kite (Milvus govinda) which acts as a scavenger in India.

A rare and doubtful metallic element said to have been discovered in the mineral samarskite.