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A large male kangaroo.

Broken fragments of ice. Kane. Water brash (Med.), an affection characterized by a spasmodic pain or hot sensation in the stomach with a rising of watery liquid into the mouth; pyrosis. -- Weaning brash (Med.), a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned.

A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue. Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis. -- Viper's bugloss, a species of Echium.

hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry. Kane.

attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc. C. Kingsley. Kane.

of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface. Kane.

pular name given to a few species of the genus Careopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.

Fluor spar. See Kand.

A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales. [Written also kantry.]

e family Tragulidæ a allied to the musk deer. It inhabits Africa and the East Indies. See Kanchil.

Short and thick. [U. S.] Kane.

gs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper. Kane.

, the feelings, . . . and the exertive or conative powers, . . . was first promulgated by Kant. Sir W. Hamilton.

awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest. The vertebral arteries are variously contorted. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.

Salted codfish hardened by pressure. Kane.

f the refractive index of the medium. -- Critical philosophy, the metaphysical system of Kant; -- so called from his most important work, the "Critique of Pure Reason." - - Critical point (Physics), a certain temperature, different for different gases, but always the same for each gas, regarded as the limit above whic…

al dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal. Addison.

To grind or press with violence and noise. The ship crunched through the ice. Kane.

A chevrotain. See Kanchil, and Napu.

The science of ideas or of the nature and laws of being -- higher metaphysics. By Kant, it was employed to signify the logic of appearances or illusions, whether these arise from accident or error, or from those necessary limitations which, according to this philosopher, originate in the constitution of the human intel…