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One of a race inhabiting Kafiristan in Central Asia. [Spelt also Caffre.] Kaffir corn (Bot.), a Cape Colony name for Indian millet.

A curious South American bird (Anhima, or Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds,…

Fluor spar; -- so called by Cornish miners.

Resembling horn; horny; corneous.

Inflammation of the cornea.

An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations for cataract.

The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.

To harden, as corn in ripening. [Obs.] Carew.

A doll or image decorated with corn (grain) flowers, etc., carried in the festivals of a kern, or harvest-home. Called also harvest queen.

A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn.

A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also kibbal.]

The Cornish chough. See under Chough. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

another of fishes, and another of birds. I Cor. xv. 39. Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers Bacon. A kind of, something belonging to the class of; something like to; -- said loosely or slightingly. In kind, in the produce or desig…

Softness; mildness; propitiousness; as, kindliness of weather, or of a season. Fruits and corn are much advanced by temper of the air and kindliness of seasons. Whitlock.

either mixed with tobacco or as a substitute for it. Also, a plant so used, as the osier cornel (Cornus stolonijra), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi). [Spelled also kinnickinnick and killikinick.]

af in baking. Lamb. A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf. W. Howitt.

For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit. Spenser. [Excuses] full knightly without scorn. Tennyson.

into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying. A great sheet knit at the four corners. Acts x. 11. When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows. Shak.

A kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing.

Having intersecting lines or figures. The west corner of thy curious knotted garden. Shak.