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A small Spanish horse; a genet.

A variety of early apple. See Juneating. [Written also geniting.]

Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division.

Of or pertaining to kenogenesis; as, kenogenetic processes. -- Ken`o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

See Cassinette.

Moving or causing motion; motory; active, as opposed to latent. Kinetic energy. See Energy, n. 4.

See Dynamics.

An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope.

A camera for making chronophotographs.

A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds.

A machine, for the production of animated pictures, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision,…

A room combining a very small kitchen and a pantry, with the kitchen conveniences compactly arranged, sometimes so that they fold up out of sight and allow the kitchen to be made a part of the adjoining room by opening folding doors.

See Baronet.

See Lansquenet.

A game at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet. [They play] their little game of lansquenet. Longfellow.

son. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite. Green li…

A young or small lion.

An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of liquids.

An opera glass; pl.

A little moon or satellite. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.