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The disciple who betrayed Christ. Hence: A treacherous person; one who betrays under the semblance of friendship. -- a.

Regular order or proper condition. [Written also kilter.] [Colloq.] If the organs of prayer be out of kelter or out of tune, how can we pray Barrow.

A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered. [U. S.]

A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.

An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes.

rding to the kind or nature; natural. [R.] The kindly fruits of the earth. Book of Com. Prayer. An herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting. Spenser. Whatsoever as the Son of God he may do, it is kindly for Him as the Son of Man to save the sons of men. L. Andrews.

A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two coned united at their bases; tipcat. Cotton. Kitcat roll (Agric.), a roller somewhat in the form of two cones set base to base. [Prov. Eng.]

ore. He breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder. Ps. xlvi. 9 (Book of Common Prayer.)

sin to their charge. Acts vii. 60. As soon as you are dressed, kneel and say the Lord's Prayer. Jer. Taylor.

An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge. [Written also cusso and kosso.]

A game of war, played for practice, on maps. Farrow.

A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); -- so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.

riginating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or thr…

Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. "The lag end of my life." Shak.

Bearing, or composed of, lamellæ, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated.

In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina.

Consisting of, or covered with, laminæ, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.

Laminate. Laminated arch (Arch.), a timber arch made of layers of bent planks secured by treenails.

Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers.

Having a structure consisting of laminæ, or thin layers.