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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.

mbryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment; -- distinguished from palingenesis. [Written also cænogenesis.]

Pigs of iron used for ballast. [Written also kintlidge.]

Suitable to be written upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe. Scudamore.

ing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine. [Written also chermes.]

name of certain African species of Hibiscus, cultivated for the acid of their mucilage. [Written also ketmia.]

A stone mason's hammer. [Written also cavil.] Kevel head (Naut.), a projecting end of a timber, used as a kevel.

The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone.

An Eastern inn or caravansary. [Written also kawn.]

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

The guillemot. [Written also kiddaw.] [Prov. Eng.]

A species of clay; meerschaum. [Also written keffekil.]

ning eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure. [Written also kinderkin.]

; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together. [Written also killick.]

worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg. [Written also kelt.]

Crooked; arched; bent. [Written also kimbow.] Dryden.

Destiny; fate. [Written also kismat.] [Oriental]

To tickle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [Written also kittel.] Halliwell. Jamieson.

A small postern or gate in a palisade, for the passage of sallying parties. [Written also klinket.]

Dried cod, exported from Norway. [Written also clipfish.]