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and called lord keeper of the great sealof England, and is of the king's privy-council, under whose hands pass allcharters, commissions, and grants of thekings. This lord keeper, by the statuteof 5 Eliz. c. 18. hath the like jurisdic-tion, and all other advantages as haththe lord chancellor of England. Cowell.
Ke'epership. n. s. [from keeper .] Officeof a keeper.
The gaol of the shire is kept at Launceston :this keepership is annexed to the constabieship ofthe castle. Carew.
Keg. n. s. \caque-, Fr.] A small barrel,commonly used for a fish barrel.
Kell. n. s. [A sort of pottage. Ainsw .]It is so called in Scotland , being a soupmade with shreded greens.
Kell. n.s. The omentum; that whichinwraps the guts.
The very weight of bowels and kell, in fatpeople, is the occasion of a rupture.
Wisemans Surgery.
-Kelp. n. s. A salt produced from cal-cined sea-weed.
In making alum, the workmen use the ashesof a sea-weed called kelp, and urine. Boyle on Col.
Kelson, n.s. [More properly keelson.]The wood next the keel.
We have added close^pillars in the royal ships,which being fastened from the kelson to the beamsof the second deck, keep them from settling, orgiving way. Raleigh.
Ke'lter. n. s. [He is not in kelter , thatis, he is not ready; from kilter to gird,Dan. Skinner.]
To Kemb. v. a. [coemban, Sax . kammen,Germ, now written, perhaps less pro-perly, to comb.] To separate or disen-tangle by a denticulated instrument.
Yet are the men more loose than they,
More kemi’d and bath’d, and rubb’d and trimm’d,More sleek. Ben Jonson .
Thy head and hair are sleek ;
And then thou kemb’st the tuzzes on thy cheek.
Dryden.
To Ken. v. a. [cennan, Sax . kennan,Dut. to know.]
1. To see at a distance; to descry.
At once as far as angels ken, he viewsThe dismal situation, waste and wild. Milton.
The next day about evening we saw, within akenning , thick clouds, which did put us in somehope of land. Bacon .
If thou ken’st from far,
Among the Pleiads, a new-kindled star;
Tis she that shines in that propitious light. Dryd.
We ken them from afar, the setting sunPlays on their shining arms. Addison.
2. To know. Obsolete.
’Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait. Shakesp.Now plain I ken whence love his rise begun :Sure he was born some bloody butcher’s son,Bred up in shambles ~ Gay's Past.
Ken. n.s. [from the verb.] View; reachof sight.
Lo! within a ken our army lies. Shakesp. H. IV.When from the mountain top Pisanio shew’dthee,
Thou wast within a ken. . Shakesp. Cymbeline.It was a hill
Of paradise the highest; from whose topThe hemisphere of earth, in clearest ken,
Stretch’d out to th’ amplest reach of prospect, lay.
Milton.
He soon
Saw within ken a glorious angel stand. Milton.
Rude, as their sliips, was navigation then ;
No useful compass or meridian known:
Coasting they kept the land within their ken,And knew the $orth but when the pole-star shone.
Dryden.
When we consider the reasons we have to think,that what lies within our ken is but a small part ofthe universe, we shall discover an huge abyss ofignorance. Locke.
Ke'nnel. n. s. [chenil, Fr.]
1. A cot for dogs.
A dog sure, if he could speak, had wit enoughto describe bis kennel. Sidney.
From forth the kennel of thy womb hath creptA hell-hound, that doth hunt us all to death.
Shakesp.
The seditious remain within their station, which,by reason of the nastiness of the beastly multi-tude, might be more fitly termed a kennel than acamp. Hayward.
2. A number of dogs kept in a kennel.
A little herd of England’s tim’rous deer,
Maz’d with a yelping kennel of French curs. Shak.
3. The hole of a fox, or other beast.
4. [ Kennel, Dut. chenal, Fr. canalis, Lat.]The watercourse of a street.
Bad humours gather to a bile ; or, as diverskennels How to one sink, so in short time theirnumbers increased. Hayward.
He always came in so dirty, as if be had beendragged through the kennel at a boarding-school.
Arbuthnot.
To Ke'nnel. v. n. [from kennel .] Tolie ; to dwell: used of beasts, and of manin contempt.
Yet, when they list, would creep,
If ought disturb’d their noise, into her womb,
And kennel there : 3 ? et there still bark’d and howl’dWithin, unseen. Milton's Par. Lost.
The dog kennelled in a hollo v tree, and the cockroosted upon the boughs. L'Estrange.
Kept. pret. and part. pass, of keep.
Kerche'if. n. s. [coverchcif, Chaucet';couvre to cover, and chef the head ; andhence a handkerchief to wipe the faceor hands.]
1. A head dress of a woman.
I see how thine eye would emulate the diamond ;thou hast the right arched bent of the brow, thatbecomes the ship-tire, the tire-valiant.—A plainkerchief, Sir John; my brows become nothing else.
Shak. Merry Wives of Windsor .
O! what a time have you chose out, l^rave Caius,To wear a kerchief. Shakesp. Julius Cttsar.
The proudest kerchief of the court shall restWell satisfy’d of what they love the best. Drydtn.
2. Any loose cloth used in dress.
Every mau had a large kerchief folded about theneck. Hayward.
Kerche'ifed. \ adj. [from kerchdf.}
Kerche'ift. ) Dressed; hooded.
The evening comesKerchieftm a comely cloud,
While racking winds are piping loud. Milton
Kerf. n.s. [ceoppan, Sax. to cut.]
The sawn-away slit between two pieces of stuffis called a kerf. Moxon's Mechanical Exercises.
Ke'rmes. n. s.
Kcrmes is a roundish body, of the bigness of apea, and of a brownish red colour. It contains amultitude of little distinct granules, soft, and whencrushed, yield a scarlet juice. It. till lately wasunderstood to be a vegetable excresctncejbut wenow know it to be the extended body of an animalparent, filled with a numerous offspring, whichare the little red granules. Hill.
Kern. n.s. [an Irish word] Irish foot-soldier; an Irish boor.
Out of the fry of these r;ike-lielt horseboys,rowing up in knavery ami villainy, are theirearn supplied. Spen.
Justice had with valour arm’d,
Compclfd these skipping kernes to trust theirheels. Shakesp.
If in good plight these northern kerns arrive,Then does fortune promise fair. Philips's Briton.
Kern. n. s. A hand-mill consisting oftwo pieces of stone, by which corn isground. It is written likewise quern.It is still used in some parts of Scot-land .
To Kern. v.n. [probably from kernel ,or, by change of a vowel, corruptedfrom corn.]
1. To harden as ripened corn.
When the price of corn falletii, men break nomore ground than will supply their own turn,where-through it jfalleth out that an ill kerned orsaved harvest soon emptieth their old store. Carew.
2. To take the form of grains; to granu-late.
The principal knack is in making the juice,when sufficiently boiled, to kern or granulate.
Grew.
KERNEL. n. s. [eyjinel a gland, Sax ./came, Dut. cerneau, Fr.]
1. The edible substance contained in ashell.
As brown in hue
As hazel nuts, and sweeter than the kernels. Shak.
There can be no kernel in this light nut; thesoul of this man is his clothes. Shakesp.
The kernel of the nut serves them for bread audmeat, and the shells for cups. More.
2. Any thing included m a husk or inte-gument.
The kernel of a grape, the fig’s small grain,
Can cloatil a mountain, and o’ershade a plain.
Denham.
Oats are ripe when the straw turns yellow andthe kernel hard. Mortimer’s Husbandry.
3. The seeds of pulpy fruits.
I think he will carry this island home in hispocket, and give it his son for an apple.—-Andsowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring forthmore islands. Shakesp. Tempest.
The apple inclosed in wax was as fresh as at thefirst putting in, and the kernels continued white.
4. The central part of any thing uponwhich the ambient strata are concreted.
A solid body in the bladder makes ’the kernelof a stone. Arbuthnot.
5. Knobby concretions in children's flesh.
To Ke'rnel. v. n. [from the noun.] To
ripen to kernels.
Tn Staffordshire, garden-rouncivals sown in thefields kernel well, aud yield a good increase.
Mortimer's Husbandry.
Ke'Rnelly. adj. [from kernel.] Full ofkernels; having the quality or resem-blance of kernels.
Kk'rnelwort. n.s. [scro/ularia.] Anherb. Ainsworth.
Kersey, n. s. [Icarsai/e, Dut. carisee,Fr.] Coarse stuff.
Taffuta phrases, silken terms precise,
I do forswear them ; and 1 here protest,
Henceforth my wooing mind shall be exprestIn russet yeas, and holiest kersey noes. Shakesp.
His lackey with a linen stock on one leg, anda kersey boot-hose on the other. Shakesp.
The* same wool one man felts it into a hat,another weaves it into cloth, and another intokersey or serge. _ t Hale.
Thy kersey doublet spreading wide,
Drew Cicely’s eye aside. Gav.
Kest. The preter tense of cast. It i*
Only that noise heavhs rolling circles kest.
Fairfax.
Ke'strel. n. s. A little kind of bastardhawk. IJunmer.
His kestrel kind,
A pleasing vein of glory, vain did find. Fairy Q.
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