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Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions. True to the kindred points of heaven and home. Wordsworth.

Kine. [Scot.] See Kee, Kie, and Kine.

ng thirty-one days. The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. Bryant. As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent. Wright.

The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble. Geikie.

Dark; obscure; gloomy. "The murkiest den." Shak. A murky deep lowering o'er our heads. Addison.

ther objecting itself. Hooker. Pallas to their eyes The mist objected, and condensed the skies. Pope.

To exceed in storming. Insults the tempest and outstorms the skies. J. Barlow.

A settler; an inhabitant. "Peoplers of the peaceful glen." J. S. Blackie.

To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent. And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies. Pope.

es, or as with plumes; feathery. "His plumy crest." Addison. "The plumy trees." J. S. Blackie.

nded or pulverized substance. [R.] "Covered with the poundings of these rocks." J. S. Blackie.

Given to prayer; praying much or often; devotional. "The prayerful man." J. S. Blackie. -- Prayer"ful*ly, adv. -- Prayer"ful*ness, n.

losure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing. The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail. Cowper.

A kier.

gled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Kiliecrankie. Macaulay.

o ascend or mount again; to reach by ascending again. He mounts aloft, and reascends the skies. Addison.

to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences. Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies. Tennyson.

lle alle) common on both coasts of the Atlantic in winter; -- called also little auk, dovekie, rotch, rotchie, and sea dove.

ow, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore. Surrey. The people cried and rombled up and down. Chaucer.

lled seedness, after a debauch, is a plain proof that nature has been outraged. J. S. Blackie.