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An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. Grainger.

The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide.]

The glede or kite.

r a godmother. Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place send her kitchen maid, 't would be ill taken. Selden.

ecurus pratensis. Meadow grass, pasture, hay, lawn. Poa, several species. Mesquite, or Muskit grass. Same as Grama grass (above). Nimble Will, a kind of drop seed. Muhlenbergia diffsa. Orchard grass, pasture and hay. Dactylis glomerata. Porcupine grass, troublesome to sheep. Northwest. Stipa spartea. Quaking grass, orn…

Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

Toremove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick. And kitten,if the humor hit Has harlequined away the fit. M. Green.

In a Hebraistic sense or form. Which is Hebraistically used in the New Testament. Kitto.

Hollow square. See Square. -- Hollow ware, hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.

The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

Pertaining to polite kiterature. M. Arnold.

. Hurrah's nest, state of utmost confusion. [Colloq. U.S.] A perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen. Mrs. Stowe.

A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.

A Japhetite. Kitto.

One of the tribe of Judah; a member of the kingdom of Judah; a Jew. Kitto.

ade with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner. [Scot.] Kail yard, a kitchen garden. [Scot.]

out a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids. Kettle pins, ninepins; skittles. [Obs.] Shelton. -- Kettle stitch (Bookbinding), the stitch made in sewing at the head and tail of a book. Knight.

A kind of basketwork wear in a river, for catching fish. [Improperly spelled kittle.]

See Kitchen middens.