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398 observance; “he is tryin’ to k. de boat”, he is trying, by means of a telescope, to recognize a boat, visible in the distance (: kăn). 3) to go through; clear up; throw light upon, relationship, to k. kin (: kăn), = to  kin, to sibred. — kăn: fairly common, käᶇ (kaᶇ): ,   —  kanna, , to search; examine; find out; recognize.  kanna, , inter alia to search; examine; go through,  in order to know if everything has been collected, or if anything is wanting,  cattle, small stock. In a similar sense  and  kanna,

†kant [ka‘nt],, 1) edge; corner; side; der wer no a great k. upo de boat, the boat was not very deeply or heavily loaded . 2) (right or wrong) way of treating a person or thing, way of executing something; upo de wrang k., in the wrong manner, upon a wrang k., wi’ a wrang k., in a wrong manner. 3) humour; spirits; he was upo de wrang k. dis mornin’, he was in bad humour ( on the wrong side) this morning . Recent word., , kant, and   obsolete and
 * cant,, edge; angle.

†kant [ka‘nt],, to turn over, capsize, = kant,, and kanta,, cant,

†kapp [kap],, 1) a hole, hollow. 2) a wooden cup or bowl, of the so-called “Norwa-kaps”, wooden vessel, formerly imported from Norway; cap, caup. See further under ,

kapp [kap],, to cut off, to cut off the heads of fish, and take out the entrails; to k. de fish. kappe, kappa,, = kabba, , to cut off.

kappet [kapət],, applied to sheep: white and black or white and grey, black on the lower part of the body and sides, and white on the back (or conversely?); a k. sheep, a k. yowe [‘ewe’]; also to cows: a k. coo, a black cow having a white back. Sometimes: having vertical, white stripes on the sides and a black body, referring to sheep. From is reported: a k. grice, a pig having a black hind part, and white fore-part of the body (or conversely). — “wearing a cloak or outer garment”. kappa,, = kaapa,, a cloak.

kappi$m$ [kapi] and kappisten [kap··isten·], , the sinker of a fishing-line. On a long-line denotes a larger sinker, fixed to the main line, a “kappi” at each end of the latter. Between the two end-stones, sinkers, are fixed smaller sinkers at definite intervals, the so-called “bighters [bäi‘χtərs, bäi‘$1$tərs]”, (with anglicised form of the word) of , , a certain length of line; To each “kappi”, at the end of the main line, is fixed a buoy-rope. In a few places (as in ) “kappi” is used as a -term or -name for the sinker of a fishing-line, whilst “” or “sinker” is the common designation. — Edm. has a form “caapie” with long a-sound; not further confirmed. kǫppu-steinn, , a boulder; kapall, koppul,, a round stone (kopp, , pebble). kampesten,  kamp, kampestein,, a boulder, also to pebbles; in the same way kamp, kamper (kampersten),

kappi$χ$ [kapi],, in different meanings, as 1) a kind of funnel-shaped sponge . 2) round bird’s-nest ( to J.I.), is, like , , an alteration of the word ,

kapswivl [kapswɩv·əl],, to capsize. A mingling of