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To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.

A nocturnal carnivorous mammal (Cercoleptes caudivolvulus) of South America, about as large as a full-grown cat. It has a prehensile tail and lives in trees. It is the only representative of a distinct family (Cercoleptidæ) allied to the raccoons. Called also potto, and honey bear.

Whooping cough. [Obs.or Prov. Eng.]

Same as 3d Kink.

Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair.

To draw or serve, as drink. [Obs.] Bacchus the wine them skinketh all about. Chaucer. Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove. Shirley.

One who serves liquor; a tapster.

Undertapster. [Obs.]

A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. Knight.

The kinkajou.

Of or pertaining to the family Scincidæ, or skinks. -- n.

A tribe of lizards including the skinks. See Skink.

d tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. See Illust. under Skink.

A skink.

heir painful stings. -- Yellow lead ore (Min.), wulfenite. -- Yellow lemur (Zoöl.), the kinkajou. -- Yellow macauco (Zoöl.), the kinkajou. -- Yellow mackerel (Zoöl.), the jurel. -- Yellow metal. Same as Muntz metal, under Metal. -- Yellow ocher (Min.), an impure, earthy variety of brown iron ore, which is used as…