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KA B, in Jewifh antiquity. See the article Cab, Suppl. KjEMPEERIA, in the Linnaean fyftem of botany, the name of a genus of plants, the characters of which are thde : The cup is a fimple fpatha, confifting only of one leaf, and opening on one fide. The flower confifts of a fingle petal ; the tube is long and thin, the limb is plane, and divided into fix parts, three of the fegments being alternately lanceolated in figure, and equal in fize ; two other of the fegments are of an ovated form, and the fingle lower one is divided into five parts, which are each vertically cordated ; all the fegments are equal in length. The ftamen is a fingle fila ment, of a membranaceous ftructure, and fomewhat ovated figure, and is emarginated. The anthera is of a lineal figure, it grows to the filament all its length, and fcarce emerges out Of the tube of the corolla. The germen of the pift.il is roundifh ; the ftyle is of the length of the tube, and the ftigma is obtufe. The fruit is a roundifh, and fomewhat tri- gonal capfule, compofed of three valves, and containing three cells, in each of which there are a great number of feeds. Vid. Linnai Gen. Plant, p. 4.

The root of the Ka??r!pfer'ta y of which there is only one known fpecies, is the Galangal of the fhops. See the article Galangal, Suppl,

KAHIASEE, in the turkifh court, an officer of ftate, anfwer- ing to our mafter of the ceremonies.

KANTREF, or Kantrev. See the article Canteed, Suppl.

KAREE, a kind of Cinnamon. See the article Cinnamum, Suppl.

KARLE (Cycl.) — Kaele-Zi^, a term ufed by country people for the latter green hemp. Diet. Ruft. in voc.

KASTRIL, in zoology, the fame with Kejlril, a bird of the hawk -kind. See the article Kestril, Suppl.

KATKIN. See the article Catkin, Suppl.

KEELERS, in the fea language, fmall tubs for holding fluff to grave a fhip's bottom. Blanckley, Nav. Expof. p. 85.

KEEVE, or Keever, a large tub, or brewing veftel, in which ale or beer ferments before it is tunned. Diet. Ruft. in voc,

KENNEL, a term ufed indifferently for a puddle, a water- courfe in the ftreets, a houfe for a pack of hounds, and the pack or cry of hounds themfelves. Diet. Ruft. in voc. Among fportfmen, a fox is faid to kennel, when he lies clofe in his hole. Id. ibid.

KERSEY, a kind of coarfe woollen cloth, made chiefly in Kent and Devonfhire. Diet. Ruft. in voc.

KESITAH. This word is to be met with in Genefis % and in Job fa ; and is translated in the feptuagint and vulgate Sheep or Lambs. But the Rabbins and modern interpreters are gene- rally of opinion, that Kefitab fignifies rather a piece of mo- ney. Bochart and Eugubinus are of opinion the feptuagint meant Mints, and not Lambs ; in Greek becatonmnon, sHa.Totf4.wv inftead of iJuxroi uurm. Now a Mina was worth fixty Hebrew fhekels, and consequently fix pounds fixteen fhillings and ten pence halfpenny fterling<\ M. de Pelletier of Rouen, is of opinion, that Kefitab was a Perfian coin, ftamped on one fide with an archer [Kefitab, or Kefetb, in Hebrew, fignifytng a Bow) and on the other with a Lamb ; that this was a goid coin known in the eaft by the name of a Daric rf, and was in valu'e about twelve livrcs and ten pence French money. Seve- ral learned men, without mentioning the value of the Kefitab, fay it was a filver coin, the impreflion whereof was a fheep ; for which reafon the feptuagint and vulgate translate it by this name. Calmet is of opinion, that Kefitab was a purfe of gold or filver. In the eaft they reckon at prefent by pur- fes. The word Kifla in Chaldee fignifies a meafure, a veflel. j And Euflathim fays, that Kifia is a Perfian meafure. Jona- than and the Tar gum of Jerufalem tranfiate Kefitab a pearl e . [* Gen. XXXIII. 19.— " Job XLII. 11— Or Ninepounds

I Enghjb, fuppofing, as Dr. Prideaux does, that a fhefec! is worth three fhillings.— * A Daric is a piece of gold, worth, as Dr. Prideaux fays, five and twenty fhillings Englijb See his Connect. P. I. p. 101.— « See Calmet Comment, upon Gen. XXXIII. 19. Gen. XXV. 12, he. and Diet. Bibl.]

KEY (Suppl.) — ■ KEYS, a name commonly given to she feeds of afh-trees. Diet. Ruft. in voc.

KID, in zoology, the Englifh name of the young of goats. See the article Goat, Suppl.

KIDNEYS (Cycl.) — The lymphatic vefTels of the Kidneys appear upon blowing by the ureter into the pelvis of the Kidney. See Hift. de V Acad, des Sciences, 1733.

Kimi¥.Y -bean-tree, the name by which fome call the Glycine. See the article Glycine, Suppl.

KiDHEY-wort, in botany, a name prorntfeuoufly ufed for two diftinct genufes of plants, called by botanifts Geum, and Co- tyledon. See the articles Geum and Cotyledon, Suppl.

KlLLOS,a name given by the miners of Cornwall to a ftone of the flatc kind, found in the mines there. Seethe article Growan, Suppl.

KINE, in zoology. See the articles Cow and Bo, Suppl.

KIN G-fi/ljir, the Englifh name of a genus of birds, called by zoologifts Ifpida. See the article Ispida, Sup.pl.

Kib: G's-fpear, a name fometimes ufed for the Afphodclus of botanifts. See the article Asphodelus, Suppl.

KINKS, in the fea language. When ropes are new, or too hard laid, they are apt in folding, to make turns, which are called Kinks, Blanckley, Nav. Expof. p. 16.

KIPE, a kind of ofier bafket, wide in the middle,- and narrow at both ends, ufed for taking fifth. Ruft. Did:, in voc.

Kipe is alfo the name of a game, which confifts in throwing fomethtng into a hole, called the JEtfe-hole".

KIRTLE, a term ufed for a fhort jacket ; alfo for a quantity of flax, about an hundred Weight. Ruft. Diet, in voc.

KITE, in ornithology, the Englifh name of a bird of the hawk-kind, with a brown body, and a white head ; its tail is ■ forked, and the wings are immoderately long and large, mea- furing nearly three times the length of the body. See the ar- ticle Milvus, Suppl.

KLE1NIA, in the Linnaean fyftem of botany, the name of a genus of plants, the characters of which are thefe : The cup is cylindric, and covered with fquam.'e ; the compound flower is tubulofe ; the proper one infundibuliform, infenfibly terminating in a tube ; the ftamina are five very fiiort capil- lary filaments ; the anthers are cylindraceo-tubiilofe ; the germen of the piftil is coronated ; the ftyle is filiform, and of the length of the ftamina ; the ftigmata are two, oblong, and revolute. There is no pcricarpium. The feeds are folitary, oblong, and covered with very long capillary down. The receptacle is naked, plane, and punctated. Linneei Gen* Plant, p. 394.

Linnaeus queries whether this genus be not the fame with the Tithymaloidei of Tournefort. See the article Tithyma-

LOIDES, Suppl.

KNAG, a term ufed by country people for a knot in wood 5

alfo for the branches which grow out in the hart's-horns, near

the forehead. Ruft. Diet, in voc. KNEE-/W//;, or Knee-/jc//v, the name by which fo me call the

Rufcus, or Butcher's-broom. See the article Ruscus, Suppl. KNIGHT's Crofs, a name fometimes ufed for the Lychnis,

a diftinct genus of plants. See the article Lychnis, Suppl. KNOLL, a term ufed in many parts of the kingdom for the top;'

of a fmall hill, or for the hill itfelf. Ruft. Diet, in voc. KNOT-toT(«, in botany, the name by which fome call the

Rubus. See the article Rubus, Suppl. KtiOT-gra/s.( Suppl.) — Mountain KsoT-grafs, or fingle K.KOT-

grafs, the name fometimes given to a diftinct genus of plants^

called by botanifts Paronychia. See the article ParoSy-*

chia, Suppl.

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