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A young goat. The . . . leopard shall lie down with the kid. Is. xi. 6 .

of Kythe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured.

A huckster; a cadger. [Obs.] Halliwell.

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

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

To deceive; to outwit; to hoax. [Slang] Dickens.

Frolicsome; sportive. [Slang]

A young fox Shak.

A young kid.

other place. Abbott. You may reason or expostulate with the parents, but never attempt to kidnap their children, and to make proselytes of them. Whately.

One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.

disposition; sort; kind. Shak. There are in later other decrees, made by popes of another kidney. Barrow. Millions in the world of this man's kidney. L'Estrange. Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence. Burns.

Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney- shaped leaf. Gray.

A kind of saxifrage (Saxifrage stellaris).

Gross; lubberly. Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal ! Shak.

See Crocidolite.

nder the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan; also, by extension, a hook attached to a chain, and used for the same purpose.

A road along which logs are dragged to the skidway or landing; - - called also travois, or travoy, road.

The black guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]