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the chamois, springs from one crag to another with great agility; -- called also kainsi. [Written also klippspringer.]

The hart in its second year; a young deer. [Written also knobber.] Halliwell. He has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler. Sir W. Scott.

Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking. [Written also knack-kneed.]

Of or pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from meconic acid. [Written also comenic.]

due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut. [Written also kudu.]

The oryx or gemsbok. [Written also kookaam.]

A small Russian coin. One hundred kopecks make a rouble, worth about sixty cents. [Written also kopek, copec, and copeck.]

e Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran. [Written also Kuran or Quran.]

s, onager) inhabiting the plants of Central Asia; -- called also gour, khur, and onager. [Written also kulan.]

mel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe. [Written also koumyss, kumiss, kumish, and kumys.] Koumiss has from time immemorial served the Tartar instead of wine or spirits. J. H. Newman.

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

The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed. [Written also crang and kreng.]

A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away. [Written also cranging hook.]

A small copper coin formerly used in South Germany; also, a small Austrian copper coin. [Written also kreuzer.]

of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies. [Written also Koord.]

Of or pertaining to the Kurds. [Written also Koordish.]

A native or an inhabitant of the Kurile Islands. [Written also Koorilian.]

t of music, with a hollow body covered with skin, over which five strings are stretched. [Written also kussir.]

To look steadfastly; to gaze. [Obs.] [Written also kike, keke.] This Nicholas sat ever gaping upright, As he had kyked on the newe moon. Chaucer.

By decomposition the acid yields a nitrogenous base (called kynurin) and carbonic acid. [Written also cynurenic.]