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Make in the kilderkin a great bung-hole of pur-pose. Baam.
A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ;
But sure thou’rt but a kilderkin of wit. Dryden.
To KILL. v. a. [anciently to quell; cpel-lan, Sax . kelen Dut.]
]. To deprive of life; to put to death, asan agent.
Dar’st thou resolve to kill a friend of mine ?
—Please you, I’d rather kill two enemies.
Shakes]). Rich. HI.
Ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, tokill this whole assembly with hunger. Ex. xvi.3.
There was killing of young and old, makingaway of men, women, and children. 2 Mac. v. lo.
2. To destroy animals for food.
We’re mere usurpers, tyrants, and what’s worse,To fright the animals, and to kill them upIn their assign’d and native dwelling-place. Shuk.
Shall I take my bread, and my flesh, that Ihave killed for my shearers? 1 Sam. xxv. 11.
3. To deprive of life, as a cause or instru-ment.
The medicines, if they were used inwards,■would kill those that use them; and therefore theywork potently, though outwards. Bacon .
4. To deprive of vegetative or other motion,or active qualities.
Try with oil, or barm of drink, so they be suchtilings as kill not the bough. Bacon ’s Nat. Hist.
Catharticks of mercurials mix with all animalacids, as appears by killing it with spittle.
Killer. 7i.s. [from Zci 7/.] One that de-prives of life.
What sorrow, what amazement, what shame wasin Amphialus, when he saw his dear foster-fatherfind him the killer of his only son ? Sidney.
Wilt thou for the old lion hunt, or fillHis hungry whelps ? and for the killer kill,
When couch’d in dreadful dens? Sandys.
So rude a time,
When love was held so capital a crime,
That a crown’d head could no compassion find,But dy’d, because the killer had been kind. Waller.
Ki'llow. ?i.s. [This seems a corruptionof coal , and low a flame, as soot isthereby produced.]
An earth of a blackish or deep blue colour, anddoubtless had its name from hollow, by whichname, in the North, the smut or grime on thebacks of chimneys is called. Woodward,
KILN. n. s. [cyln, Sax .] stove; a fabrickformed for admitting heat, in orderto dry or burn things contained in it.
I’ll creep up into the chimney.—There theyalways use to discharge their birding-pieces:creep into the kiln hole. Shakesp.
After the putting forth in sprouts, and thedrying: upon the Kiln , there will be gained abushel in eight of malt. Bacon .
Physicians chuse lime which is newly drawnout of the kiln, and not slacked. Moron’s Mech. Ex.
To Ki'lndry. v. a. [kiln and dry.] Todry by means of a kiln.
The best way is to kilndry them. Mortimer.
Kilt for killed . Spenser.
Ki'mbo. adj. [a schembo, Ital.] Crooked;bent; arched.
The kimbo handles seem with bears-foot carv’d,And never yet to table have been serv’d.
Dryden’s Virgil.
He observed them edging tow'ards one anotherto whisper; so that Joim was forced to sit with his,arms a kimbo, to keep them asunder. Arbuthnot.
1. Relation either of consanguinity oraffinity.
You must use them with fit respects, accordingto the bonds of nature; but you are of Kn, and soa friend to their persons, not to their errours.
KIN
Th’ unhappy Palainon,
Whom Theseus holds in bonds, and will not free,Without a crime, except his kin to me. Dryden.
2. Relatives; those who are of the samerace.
Tumultuous wars
Shall kin with kin, and kind with kind confound.
Shakesp.
The father, mother, and the kin beside,
Were overborne by fury of the tide. Dryden.
3. A relation; one related.
Then is the soul from God ; so pagans say,Which saw by nature’s light her heavenly kind,
Naming her kin to God, and God ’s bright ray,A citizen of Heav’n, to earth confin’d. Davies.
4. The same generical class, though per-haps not the same species; thing related.
The burst
And the ear-deaf’ning voice of the oracle,
Kin to Jove’s thunder, so surpris’d my sense,
That I was nothing. Shakesp. Winter's Tale.
The odour of the fixed nitre is very languid ;but that which it discovers, being dissolved in alittle hot water, is altogether differing from thestink of the other, being of kin to that of other al-calizate salts. Boyle.
5. A diminutive termination from kind , achild, Dutch : as, manikin, minikin,tliomkin, wilkin.
KIND. adj. [from cynne relation, Sax .]
1. Benevolent; filled with general goodwill.
By the kind Gods, ’tis most ignobly doneTopiuck me by the beard. Shak. K. Lear.
Some of the ancients, like kind hearted men,have talked much of annual refrigeriuuis, or in-tervals of punishment to the damned, as particu-larly oil the great festivals of the resurrection andascension. South.
2. Favourable; beneficent.
He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Lu. vi. 35.
1. Race; generical class. Kind in Teuto-nick English answers to germs, and sortto species ; though this distinction, in po-pular language, is not always observed.
Tiius far we have endeavoured in part to openof what nature and force laws are, according totheir kinds. Hooker.
As when the total kindOf birds, in orderly array oil wing,
Came summon’d over Eden, to receive
Their names of Thee. Miltons Par . Lost.
That both are animalia,
I grant; but notrationalia;
For though they do agree in kind ,
Specifick difference we find. Hudihras .
God and Nature do not principally concernthemselves in the preservation of particulars, butkinds and companies. South's Sernmis.
He with his wife were only left behindOf perish’d man; they two were human kind.Dryd.
Some acts of virtue are common to Heathens andChristians ; but I suppose them to be performedby Christians , after a more sublime manner thanamong the Heathens ; and even when they do notdiffer in kind from moral virtues, yet differ in thedegrees of perfection. Atterbury.
He with a hundred arts refin’d,
Shall stretch thy conquest; over half the kind. Pope,
2. Particular nature.
No human laws are exempt from faults, sincethose that have been looked upon as most perfect intheir kind, have been found to have so many. Baker.
3. Natural state.
He did give the goods of all the prisoners untothose that liad taken them, either to take them inkind, or compound for them. Bacons Hen. VII.
The tax upon tillage was often levied in kindupon corn, and called decuman, or tithes. Arbut .
4. Nature; natural determination.
The skilful shepherd peel’d me certain wands,And in the doing of the deed of kind,
He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes. Shak.
Some of you on pure instinct of nature,
Are led by kind t’ admire your fellow-creature. Dry.
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5. Manner; way.
Send me your prisoners with the speediest meatikOr you shall hear in such a kind from meAs will displease you. Shakesp. Hen. IV.
This will encourage industrious improvements,because many will rather venture in that kind ,than take five in the hundred. Bacon .
6. Sort. It has a slight and unimportantsense.
Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn, Whatwas the matter that philosophers haunted richmen, and not rich men philosophers? He an-swered, Because ihe one knew what they wanted,the other did not. Bacon .
To Ki'ndle. v. a.
1. To set on fire; to light; to make to burn.
He will take thereof, and warm himself; yea,he kindleth it and baketh bread. h. xliv. 15.
I was not forgetful of those sparks, which somemen’s distempers formerly studied to kindle inparliaments. # King Charles.
If the fire burns vigorously, it is no matter bywhat means it was at first Itindled: there is thesame force and the same refreshing virtue in it,kindled by a spark from a flint, as if it werekindled from the sun. South.
2. To inflame the passions ; to exasperate;to animate; to heat; to fire the mind.
I’ve been to you a true and humble wife;
At all times to your will Conformable:
Ever in fear to kindle your dislike. Shakesp.
He hath kindled his wrath against me, andcouuteth me as one of Ins enemies. Job, xix. 11.
Thus one by one kindling each other’s fire,
’Till all inflam’d, they all in one agree. Daniel .
Each was a cause alone, and all combin’dTo kindle vengeance in her haughty mind. Dryd.
To KINDLE, v.n. [ cinnu , Welsh ; cyn-belan, Sax .]
1. To catch fire.
When thou walkest through the fire, thou shaltnot be burnt, neither shall the flame kindle uponthee. Is. xliii. 2.
2. [From cennan, Sax .] To faring forth.It is used of some particular animals.
Are you native of this place i—As the coney that you see dwells where she iskindled. Shakesp.
Ki'ndler. n. s. [from kindle .] Onethat lights; one who inflames.
Now is the time that rakes their revels keep,Kindlers of riot, enemies of sleep. Gay.
Ki'ndly. adv. [from kind.] Benevolent-ly ; favourably; with good will.
SirThurio borrows his wit from your ladyship’slooks, and spends what he borrows kindly in yourcompany. Shakesp.
1 sometimes lay here in Corioii,
At a poor man’s house: he us’d me kindly. Shak.
Be kindly affectioncd one to another, with bro-therly love, in honour preferring one another.
Rom. xii. 10.
His grief some pity, others blame;
The fatal cause all kindly seek. Prior.
Who, with less designing ends,
Kindlier entertain their friends ;
With good words, and count’nance sprightlyStrive to treat them all politely. Swift.
Ki'ndly. adj [from kind; probably fromkind the substantive.]
1. Homogeneal; congeneal; kindred ; ofthe same nature.
This competency I beseech God I may be ableto digest into kindly juice, that I may growthereby. Hammond.
These soft fires
Not only enlighten, but with kindly heat,
Of various influence, foment and warm,
Temper or nourish. Milton s Par. H>st.
2. The foregoing sense seems to have been
originally implied by this word; but
following writers, inattentive to its ety-mology, confounded it with kind .
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