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Designating, or pert. to, a linguistic stock of North American Indians comprising the Tlinkit tribes of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska and adjacent coast lands. Their language bears some affinity to Mexican tongues.

Levirate marriage or marriages. Kitto.

fall of Satan; in consequence of which the name Lucifer has since been applied to, Satan. Kitto.

Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern. Chaucer.

cies); -- so called from its growing in company with the mesquite tree; -- called also muskit grass, grama grass.

f prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.

Of or resembling birds of the kite kind.

A genus of raptorial birds, including the European kite.

efuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See Midden, and Kitchen middens.

A handkerchief. [Obs.] [Written also muckinder, muckiter, mockadour.]

Having several or many planes or plane surfaces; as, a multiplane kite.

relics which belong to it are associated with the remains of animals not yet extinct. The kitchen middens of Denmark, the lake dwellings of Switzerland, and the stockaded islands, or "crannogs," of the British Isles, belong to this era. Lubbock.

houses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. [Eng.] As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to, or produced in, a kitchen garden; used for kitchen purposes; as, olitory seeds. At convenient distance towards the olitory garden. Evelyn.

, a mongrel race of half-wild dogs which act as scavengers in Oriental cities. -- Pariah kite (Zoöl.), a species of kite (Milvus govinda) which acts as a scavenger in India.

rcel, an essential or constituent portion; -- a reduplicative phrase. Cf. might and main, kith and kin, etc. "She was . . . part and parcel of the race and place." Howitt. -- Part of speech (Gram.), a sort or class of words of a particular character; thus, the noun is a part of speech denoting the name of a thing; the…

venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively. The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees. Dryde.

A rare and doubtful metallic element said to have been discovered in the mineral samarskite.

oil; to ravage; to take food by violence. More pity that the eagle should be mewed, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. Shak. To prey on or upon. (a) To take prey from; to despoil; to pillage; to rob. Shak. (b) To seize as prey; to take for food by violence; to seize and devour. Shak. (c) To wear away gradually;…

The European kite.