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of carnivorous animals inhabiting Africa and Asia, related to the dog and wolf. They are cowardly, nocturnal, and gregarious. They feed largely on carrion, and are noted for their piercing and dismal howling.

Go flatter Sawney for his jockeyship. Chatterton. Where can at last his jockeyship retire Cowper.

Sportive; merry. "Jocular exploits." Cowper. The style is serious and partly jocular. Dryden.

), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin. [Written also kaudi, cowdie, and cowrie.]

A lazy or cowardly person; a rascal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock. [Written also kex, and in pl., kecks, kaxes.] Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs. Shak.

keen features. To make our wits more keen. Shak. Before the keen inquiry of her thought. Cowper.

is kept; maintenance; support; as, the keep of a horse. Grass equal to the keep of seven cows. Carlyle. I performed some services to the college in return for my keep. T. Hughes.

The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance. You fall at once into a lower key. Cowper. Key bed. Same as Key seat. -- Key bolt, a bolt which has a mortise near the end, and is secured by a cotter or wedge instead of a nut. Key bugle. See Kent bugle. -- Key of a position or country. (Mil.) See Key, 4. -- Ke…

or thrust with the foot. A kick, that scarce would more a horse, May kill a sound divine. Cowper.

Kine; cows. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Cows. "A herd of fifty or sixty kine." Milton.

See Cowpox. Kin"e*scope (, n.

st kings are crowned with thorn. G. Massey. Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares. Cowper.

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

A sword or dagger. The coward conquest of a wretch's knife. Shak. Knife grass (Bot.) a tropical American sedge (Scleria latifolia), having leaves with a very sharp and hard edge, like a knife. -- War to the knife, mortal combat; a conflict carried to the last extremity.

ly solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem. Knots worthy of solution. Cowper. A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs. South.

The citadel of a town or city; especially, the citadel of Moscow, a large inclosure which contains imperial palaces, cathedrals, churches, an arsenal, etc. [Russia]

Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.] Cowper.

ccinella and allied genera (family Coccinellidæ); -- called also ladybug, ladyclock, lady cow, lady fly, and lady beetle. Coccinella seplempunctata in one of the common European species. See Coccinella.