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A kitten. Kit fox (Zoöl.), a small burrowing fox (Vulpes velox), inhabiting the region of the Rocky Mountains. It is brownish gray, reddish on the breast and flanks, and white below. Called also swift fox.

ize was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcal Club. Fairholt.

A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden. A fat kitchen makes a lean will. Franklin.

Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians.

The body of servants employed in the kitchen. [Obs.] Holland.

A kitchen servant; a cook. Carlyle.

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.

A woman employed in the kitchen. Shak.

Fig. : One who is rapacious. Detested kite, thou liest. Shak.

, or sustaining one's credit, by the use of paper which is merely nominal; -- called also kiting. -- Kite"fli`er, n.

Acquaintance; kindred. And my near kith for sore me shend. W. Browne. The sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. Kith and kin, kindred more or less remote.

See Cithara.

See Kythe. Chaucer.

Like or relating to a kite.

A young kitten; a whelp. [Obs. or Scot.] B. Jonson.

of Kit to cut. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Kittle, v. t.

To bring forth young, as a cat; to bring forth, as kittens. Shak. H. Spencer.

Resembling a kitten; playful; as, a kittenish disposition. Richardson.

A northern gull (Rissa tridactyla), inhabiting the coasts of Europe and America. It is white, with black tips to the wings, and has but three toes.