in.

keep

B. Intransitive:

1. To remain or continue in any position or state; to continue.

"What! keep a week away? seven days and nights; Oh weary reckoning !" Shakesp.: Othello, iii. 4. 2. To lodge, to dwell, to reside.

"This habitation where thou keepest." Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, iii. 1.

3. To remain or continue good or unimpaired; to continue fresh or wholesome; not to become spoiled. "If the malt be not thoroughly dried, the ale it makes will not keep."-Mortimer: Husbandry. 4. To associate, to frequent.

"Noble minds keep ever with their likes."

Shakesp.: Julius Caesar, i. 2.

5. To take care, to be vigilant, to watch.

(1) To keep an act: To hold an academical

disputation. (Camb. Univ.)

(2) To keep at it:

(a) Intrans.: To continue hard at work; not to

leave off.

(b) Trans.: To keep hard at work.

(3) To keep back:

(a) Transitive:

(i) To restrain, to hold back.

(ii) To reserve, to withhold.

"To keep back part of the price of the land."—Acts v. 3. (iii) To withhold, to keep secret, not to disclose. "I will keep nothing back from you."-Jeremiah xlii. 4. (b) Intrans.: To remain or keep one's self behind or back.

"She could not approve of a young woman keeping company with men, without the permission of father or mother."-Broome: On the Odyssey.

(b) To pay or receive attentions as a lover. (7) To keep down: (a) Ord. Lang.: To hold in subjection; to prevent from rising; to restrain.

(b) Paint.: To subdue in tone or tint, so that the portion kept down is rendered subordinate to some other part, and does not, therefore, obtrude on the eye of the spectator.

(c) Milit.: To repress, subdue, or silence artillery by an overpowering cannonade. "Knap's battery kept their fire down to a great extent."—A. Doubleday: Chancellorsville, ch. ii. (8) To keep from: To abstain from. (9) To keep good (or bad) hours: To be habitually early (or late) in returning home or in retiring to

rest.

(10) To keep house:

(a) To keep or maintain a separate establishment for one's self or for one's family. (b) To remain in the house; to be confined to the house; as, Ill health compels him to keep house. (11) To keep in:

(a) To hold in confinement; to restrain. (b) To conceal; to keep back; not to disclose. "You will not extort from me what I am willing to keep in.”—Shakesp.: Twelfth Night, ii. 1.

(c) To restrain; to curb.

(12) To keep off:

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(a) Trans.: To prevent from approaching; to drive off.

opinion of his invincible obscurity, has kept off some from "A superficial reading, accompanied with the common

seeking in him the coherence of his discourse."-Locke.

(b) Intrans.: To keep away; to continue away; not to approach.

(13) To keep on: To continue at anything; not to leave off.

(14) To keep one going: To keep one well supplied, or in constant work.

(15) To keep one's hand in: To keep one's self in practice.

(16) To keep under: To restrain; to keep in subjection. "To live like those that have their hope in another life, implies that we keep under our appetites."-Atterbury. (17) To keep to: To adhere strictly to; to continue the use or practice of.

"Did they keep to one constant dress they would sometimes be in fashion."-Addison: Spectator.

(18) To keep up:

(a) Transitive:

port; as, to keep up one's head. (i) To hold up; to prevent from falling; to sup

(ii) To prevent from falling in value; as, to keep up prices.

(iii) To maintain without abatement.

"Land kept up its price."-Locke.

(iv) To maintain; to prevent from ceasing; to continue.

"You have enough to keep you alive, and to keep up and improve your hopes of heaven."-Taylor.

(b) Intrans. To maintain one's spirits; not to keep to one's bed or room.

(19) To keep up to the collar: To keep hard at work. (Slang.)

(20) To keep out: To prevent from entering or taking possession.

(21) To keep open house: To be very liberal in hospitality.

(22) To keep a term:

Univ.: To reside in college during a term.

(23) To keep the land aboard:

keeping-room

4. The means by which one is kept or supported; subsistence, support, maintenance; as, keep for cattle.

5. That which is kept; a charge. (Spenser.)

6. That which keeps; that in which one keeps or is kept. Spec., the tower or place set apart in a castle for the confinement of prisoners; a donjon.

"It stands on a knowle, which tho' insensibly rising gives it a prospect over the keepe of Windsor, about three miles N. E. of it."-Evelyn: Memoirs, Oct. 23, 1686. *keep-off, *keepe-off, s. A guard, a defense. keep -er, *kep-er, s. [Eng. keep; -er.]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. One who or that which keeps; one who holds, keeps, or has possession of anything.

2. One who retains or keeps another in custody or charge; one who has the charge or care of the inmates of a prison, asylum, &c.

"To his keeper this he brought, Who swallowed unaware the sleepy draught."

Dryden Palamon and Arcite, ii. 17. 3. One who has the charge, care, or superintendence of anything.

"Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest." Shakesp.: Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 1. 4. One who remains or abides. "So be discreet, chaste, keepers at home good."—Titus, ii. 5.

5. A ring worn on the finger to keep a larger

(1) Keeper of the Great Seal: The British officer of state who keeps or holds the Great Seal; the Naut.: To keep within sight of land as much as Lord Chancellor. Formerly he was called Lord possible.

(a) To be faithful to one's engagements. "Until he find you fail in keeping touch."-Money Masters all Things (1698), p. 59.

(b) To keep up connection with.

(28) To keep in view: Not to lose sight of; to keep one's attention or aim fixed on.

(29) To keep in with: To continue on terms of intimacy or friendship with; not to offend. (30) To keep the peace: [PEACE.] (31) To keep wicket:

Cricket: To field at the wicket; to take the post of wicket-keeper.

(1) To preserve is to keep with care, and free from all injury; to save is to keep laid up in a safe place, and free from destruction. Things are kept at all times, and under all circumstances; they are preserved in circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger; they are saved in the moment in which they are threatened with destruction: things are kept at pleasure; they are preserved by an exertion of power; they are saved by the use of extraordinary means: the shepherd keeps his flock by simply watching over them; children are sometimes wonderfully preserved in the midst of the greatest dangers; things are frequently saved in the midst of fire by the exertions of those present.

(2) To keep is simply to have by one in such manner that it shall not depart; to observe is to keep with a steady attention; to fulfill is to keep to the end or to the full intent. A day is either kept or observed; yet the former is not only a more familiar term, but it likewise implies a much less solemn mode in which it is kept, by saying that it is kept act than the latter; one must add, therefore, the holy, kept sacred, or kept as a day of pleasure: the term observe, however, implies always that it is kept religiously: we may keep, but we do not observe a birthday; we keep or observe the Sabbath. (Crabb: Eng. Synon.)

keep, *keepe, *kepe, s. [KEEP, v.]

1. Care, heed. (Wycliffe: Luke x.)

2. The act or state of keeping; custody, charge. "But gladliest I of your fleecie sheepe (Might it you please) would take on mee the keepe." Spenser: Mother Hubberd's Tale.

Keeper.

(2) Keeper of the Privy Seal, Lord Privy Seal: An English officer of state through whose hands pass all charters, pardons, &c., before they come to the Great Seal.

(3) Keeper of the King's Conscience: The Lord Chancellor of England. The designation arose when none but an ecclesiastic was ever Lord Chancellor.

(4) Keeper of the Rolls: The keeper of the English records of the session of the peace. The office was instituted under Henry VIII. in 1545.

*kēep-er-ĕss, s. [Eng. keeper; less.] A woman who keeps a man. (Richardson: Clarissa, vi. 359.) out a keeper; free from restraint or custody. *keep -ĕr-less, a. [Eng. keeper; less.] With

keep-er-ship, s. [Eng. keeper; -ship.] The office or post of a keeper.

keep'-ing, *kep-ynge, pr. par., a. & s. [KEEP, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive:

I. Ordinary Language:

1. The act or state of holding or retaining; restraint, custody, guard.

2. Maintenance, support, subsistence, food, keep. 3. Just proportion, harmony, accord, consistency, congruity.

II. Paint.: The arrangement or management of the light, shadows, colors, tints, in such subordination to each other that the general effect is harmonious to the eye. When this is unattended to, a harshness is produced, which gives improper isolation to individual parts, and the picture is said to be out of keeping.

The keeping amounts to little more than having purposely in one's possession; but custody is a particular kind of keeping, for the purpose of preventing ing; but prisoners or that which is in danger of getan escape: inanimate objects may be in one's keepting away, is placed in custody: a person has in his keeping that which he values as the property of an absent friend; the officers of justice get into their custody those who have offended against the laws, or such property as has been stolen. (Crabb: Eng. Synon.)

In keeping with: In accordance with; agreeable to, consonant to.

"It was in keeping with the scenery around.”—Mrs. H. Wood: Pomeroy Abbey, ch. i.

keeping-room, s. The common or usual sitting or living-room of a family; in the universities_the sitting-room of a student. (New Eng. and Eng. Colloq.)

sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f.

keepsake

keep'-sāke, s. [Eng. keep, and sake.] Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a present in memory of the giver.

*keep-worthy, a. [Eng. keep, and worthy.] Worth preservation.

"Other keepworthy documents."-Taylor Survey of German Poetry, i. 182. keesh, s. [KISH.] kees-lip, s. [KESLOP.]

keeve, s. [A. S. cyf; Ger. kufe=a large tub, from Lat. cupa; Fr. cuve.] A large vessel or vat used: (1) For mashing, fermenting, or storing beer. (2) For holding a bleaching liquor or alkaline lye. [KEIR.] (3) For elevating ores. [CORF.) (4) An iron-bound tub of a truncate, conical form, set upon the smaller end, and used for collecting the fine grains of copper. In use it is kept half full of water, and the contents agitated by a shovel till the heavier particles sink to the bottom, leaving the water to be dipped out and the refuse lighter upper

stratum to be removed.

kĕeve, v. t. [KEEVE, 8.]

1. To put or leave in a keeve for the purpose of fermentation.

2. To tilt, as a cart, so as to shoot out the whole load at once.

keev -er, s. [Eng. keev(e); er.] The same as KEEVE (q. v.).

kěf-fěk-il, 8. [KIEFEKIL.]

kĕf-fě-kil-ite, s. [Named by Fischer, in 1811, from keffekil, probably an Asiatic word; suff. -ite (Min.).

Min. A pearl-gray mineral, with a greasy feel, from the Crimea; contains silica, alumina, sesquioxide of iron, &c., and is clearly only a clay. (Dana.) Cronstedt states, in 1758, that the Keffekil tartarorum was used by the Tartars as soap.

*kěf-fel, s. [Gr. kephalē.] The head. keg, *cag, s. [Icel, kaggi; Sw. & Norw. kagge.]

A small cask or barrel.

kē-hŭl', s. [Arab. kuhaul=antimony.] [KOHOL.] *keight, pret. of v. [CATCH, v.] keil-hau-ite (au as ow), s. [Named by Erdmann after Prof. Keilhau of Norway; suff. -ite (Min.).]

Min. A monoclinic mineral, having its angles approximating to those of sphene; usually in twin crystals; cleavage, distinct; hardness, 65; specific gravity, 351-373; luster, vitreous; color,clove-brown to brownish black, streak grayish-brown; composition, a silico-titanate of alumina, iron, and lime, with traces of glucina, yttria, &c. Occurs (often in large crystals) at several places near Arendal, Norway.

keils, s. pl. [KAYLES.]

keir, 8. [Icel. ker=a tub; Dan. kar.] A vat for holding a bleaching liquor. The alkaline vat of a bleachery.

keit-lō-a, s. [An East African word (?).]

Zool.: Rhinoceros keitloa, a two-horned, black rhinoceros, having the horns nearly equal in length, the front one cylindrical, the hinder one compressed, the anterior part of the tip produced and acuminated; length, including the head, above eleven feet, the height five. It is akin to Rhinoceros bicornis. It feeds on shrubs and brushwood, and is found sparingly in Africa south of the Zambesi. It is extremely tierce and dangerous. Called also Sloan's Rhinoceros.

Kěl-æ-na-nēş -I-an, a. & 8. [Gr. kelainos-black; nesos an island, and Eng. suff. -ian.] Technology:

A. As adj. Of or belonging to the dark races of the Pacific Islands.

B. As subst. (pl.): The dark races of the Pacific

Islands.

kěld, adj. [KELL, 8.] Covered with or having a kell or caul.

Kěl-deëş', s. pl. [CULDEES.]

kēle, v. t. [KEEL (2), v.]

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kel-lach (ch guttural), 8. [Gael. ceallach.] A wicker sledge or cart used in Scotland.

*kělled, *keld, a. [English kell; ed.] Covered with a kell; united with a kell or membrane; webbed.

kěl'-11-a, s. [Named after Mr. O'Kelly, of Dublin.] Zool.: The typical genus of the family Kelliida (q. v.). The shell is small, thin, suborbicular, and closed, the ligament internal interrupting the thickened margin, and on it cardinal teeth one or two, laterals 1-1 in each valve. Animal with the mantle prolonged in front with a respiratory canal, two large gills on each side. Recent species 20, occurring from Norway to New Zealand and to California; fossil 20, the latter from the Eocene onward. kěl-li'-I-dæ, kěl-li ́‍-a-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Latin kelli(a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idæ, -ade.] Zool. A family of Conchiferous mollusks akin to Lucinidae, in which they were formerly merged. Kěl-lo-way, s. [A place in Wiltshire, England.] (See etym. and compound.)

Kelloway-rock, s.

Geol.: A bed of arenaceous limestone belonging to the Middle Oolite. It may be traced through several counties, the sand being in most places loose and unconsolidated, though at Kelloway itself it is stony. There are numerous casts of shells. kē -16id, s. (Gr. kēlē a tumor, and eidos-form.] Pathol. (pl.): Unsightly excrescences arising on the sternum or elsewhere, generally from the overactive growth of a cicatrix over a wound. kè-lot-o-my, s. [Gr. kele a tumor, and tomein= to cut.] [CELOTOMY.]

kělp, *kilp, *kilpe, s. [Etym. unknown.] 1. The calcined ashes of seaweed, from which carbonate of soda is obtained. Kelp was formerly much used in the manufacture of soap and glass, but since barilla has been used for these purposes,

the burning of sea-wrack has almost ceased. From the alkali of kelp the important chemical substance called iodine is obtained. [IODINE.]

2. The sea-wrack or sea-weed from which kelp is produced.

kelp-crab, s. A California spider crab, Epialtus productus, found among sea-weed.

kelp-fish, s. A name given to two species of fishes, one being Heterostichus rostratus, and the other a member of the Platyglossus genus. kelp-salmon, 8. A Californian food fish, Serranus clathratus.

kěl -piě, kěl-py, s. [Etym. doubtful. Jamieson suggests a connection with Ger. kalb a calf.] A sort of mischievous spirit, said to haunt fords and ferries at night, especially in storms. They generally appeared in the form of a horse. [WATERKELPIE, WATER-WORSHIP.]

kelt-ic, a. [CELTIC.]

kěl -ty, kěl-tiě, s. [Said to be named after a bumper; a large glass or bumper imposed as a fine celebrated drinker in Kinross-shire.] A fine of a

on those who do not drink fair.

kěl-ph-ite, s.. [Gr. kelyphos=a husk, shell;

suff. ite (Min.). Named by Schrauf.]

found surrounding crystals of pyrope in the olivineMin.: A gray mineral of a serpentinons nature, serpentine of Kremze, Budweis, Bohemia. *kěmb, v. t. [COMB, v.]

*kĕmb, s. [COMB, 8.] tkěm -bō, adv. [KIMBO.]

*kem-e-lin, *kim-ling,, *kym-nell,

*kym

kělk, 8. [Gael. & Ir. clach a stone.]

1. A large stone, a rock.

2. A blow.

tub, a mash-tub.

4. The chrysalis of an insect.

5. A net for the hair worn by women.

6. A skull-cap for men.

dewy morning.

kenning-place

(2) Impurities of fur; that is, knots and hairs which do not possess the felting property. 2. Bot. (pl.): Plantago media.

kěmp'-er, s. [Eng. kemp; -er.] One who strives for superiority; specifically, a competitor among reapers.

kěmp-lig, s. [Eng. kemp; -ing.] A striving for victory.

kem-ple, s. [Etym. doubtful.] Forty wisps for windlings (about 8 lbs. each) of straw. (Scotch.) stems of the plantain, Plantago lanceolata. kěmps, s. [Etymol. uncertain.] The long flower

kěmpt, pa. par. [KEMB, v. t.] Combed.

ken, *kenne, *ken-nen, v. t. & i. [Icel. kenna= to know; cogn, with Sw. känna; Dan. kiende; Dut. & Ger. kennen to know; A. S. cennan=to teach; Goth. kannjan to make known: A. S cunnan to know; Goth. kunnan.] [CAN, CANNY, CUNNING, KNOW.]

A. Transitive:

I. Ordinary Language:

*1. To teach; to cause to know.

2. To know; to be acquainted with.

3. To recognize; to see at or from a distance; to descry. *4. To lie within sight or ken of.

II. Scots Law: To acknowledge or recognize by a judicial act.

*B. Intrans.: To look round. kěn (1), s. [KEN, v.]

1. View, sight, cognizance.

2. Knowledge, understanding, apprehension. ken (2), s. [A contract. of kennel (q. v.).] A meeting or lodging house for disreputable characters. (Slang.)

Westmoreland, where it was originally made.]
Kĕn'-dal, s. [From the name of the town in

Fabric: A kind of coarse woolen cloth. at Kendal for foresters. Kendal-green, s. Green cloth, originally made

"How could'st thou know these men in Kendal-green f -Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. I., ii. 4.

*kēne, a. [KEEN.]

kěȧk, s. [KINK.]

kĕn'-na, v. t. [KEN, v.] Do not know. kěn -ně dỹ-a, s. [Named after Mr. Kennedy, a nurseryman at Hammersmith, England.}

Bot. The typical genus of the tribe Kennedyer. It consists of prostrate or twining papilionaceous plants from Australia and Tasmania. kĕn'-ně-dy-ě-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. kennedy (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ec.]

Bot.: A sub-tribe of Phascoles, a tribe of papil ionaceous plants.

kěn ́‍-nel (1), *ken-el, 8. [Norm. Fr. *kenil; 0. Lat. canem, accus. of canis a dog; Ital. canile.] F. chenil a place for dogs, from O. Fr. chen; Low 1. A house or shed for dogs.

2. A pack of hounds.

3. The hole of a fox or other animal.

kĕn'-nẹl (2), *can-el, *can-elle, s. [O. Fr. canel a channel; Lat. canalis. Kennel is thus a doublet of channel (q. v.).]

street; a little channel or canal. 1. A gutter; the watercourse at the side of a

2. A puddle.

kennel-raker, s. A scavenger; one fit only for low, dirty jobs.

kĕn -nel (3), s. [A corrupt. of cannel (q. v.).] kennel-coal, 8. [CANNEL-COAL.]

kěn -nel, v. i. & t. [KENNEL (1), 8.]

A. Intrans.: To lie or lodge, as in a kennel; to dwell. (Used of beasts, and of men in contempt.) B. Trans.: To shut up, confine, or lodge in or as in a kennel.

"The laugh, the slap, the jocund curse go round; While, from their slumbers shook, the kennel'd hounds Mix in the music of the day again.

Thomson: Autumn, 548. kenn'-gott-ite, s. [Named by Haidinger after Professor Kenngott; suff. ite (Min.).] Min.: Formerly regarded as a distinct species, but now determined to be the same as MIARGIRIT (q. v.).

kěn -ning, s. [KEN, v.]

1. Sight, ken, view, range of vision.

"[They related] that the Seres were within their kenning."-P. Holland: Pliny, bk. vi., ch. xxii.

2. A very small portion; just as much as one can see or recognize. (Scotch.) *kenning-place, subst. A prominent object. (P.

Holland.)

marîne; gō, pot,

keno

kè-no, s. [French quine-five winning points or numbers; Lat. quini=five each; quinque five.]. A gambling game, an adaptation of lotto, in which balls and cards are used, each being numbered. (U.S. Colloq.)

kē no-gen-ě-sis, s. [Gr. kainos new, and Eng. genesis.] Modified evolution, the salient feature of which is a secondary adaptation of the embryo to its environment; differs from palingenesis (q. v.). kė-nō-gē-nět -lc, adj. [See supra.] Relating to kenogenesis.

ken-spěc-kle, a. [Eng. ken; etym. of second element doubtful.], Having marks, qualities, or characteristics causing a thing to be a gazing-stock; marked in some peculiar and noticeable manner. (Scott: Bride of Lammermoor, ch. xviii.)

kent, subst. [Etym. doubtful.] A cudgel, rough walking-stick; a pole; a leaping-pole. (Scotch.) "He bade me fling down my kent, and sae me and my mither yielded."-Scott: Old Mortality, ch. xiv.

kěnt, v. t. [KENT, 8.] To push along, as a boat, with a pole; to punt.

Kent, s. (For etym. see compound.)
Kent-bugle, s.

Music: A keyed bugle introduced by the bandmaster of an Irish regiment in the British army, James Halliday, about the year 1814 or 1815, and called the Kent-bugle out of compliment to the Duke of Kent, the father of Her Majesty Queen

Kent-bugle.

Kentish-glory, s.

Kentish-rag, s.

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Kepler's-laws, s. pl.

Astron. First, that the orbit of each planet is an Second, that every planet so moves that the radius ellipse, the center of the sun being in one of the foci. vector, or line drawn from it to the sun describes of the times of the planetary revolutions are as the equal areas in equal times. Third, that the squares cubes of their mean distances from the sun. Kepler's-problem, s.

Astron. The determination of the eccentricity of the orbit of a planet from its mean anomaly, or the planet s place in its orbit at any given moment. Kĕp-lër-I-an ɑ. [Eng., &c., Kepler; -ian.] Of or pertaining to Kepler; propounded or established by Kepler (q. v.).

kept, pret. & pa. par. [KEEP, v. (q. v.)]
kept-down, a.

Paint.: Subdued in tone or tint, so that that portion of a picture thus treated is rendered subordinate to some other part, and does not obtrude itself on the eye of the spectator, which is intended to be some other important portion of the riveted on work.

kept-mistress, 8. A concubine; a woman supported or maintained by a particular person as his

mistress.

kě-răm-ic, a. [CERAMIC.] kĕr-a-mid-1-um, s. [Gr. keramis= a roof tile, potters' earth, clay; cf. also keramos=potters' Bot.: The same as CYSTOCARP (q. v.). earth, an earthen vessel.]

kě răm-o-grǎph' ic, a. [Gr. keramos a potter; grapho to write, and Eng. adj. suff. -ic. Capable of being written upon; suitable to be written upon, as a slate. (Said especially of a certain kind of globe.)

[Gr. keramis clay, and kor-am-o-ha-lite, s. Min.: The same as ALUNOGEN (q. v.). hals-salt. Named by Glocker.] kě-ra-na, kĕr-rĕn'-a, s. [Pers.]

kerchiefed

Keratitis, are found-viz., syphilitic, strumous or scrofulous ophthalmia, and pustular corneitis. when associated with suppuration, as in small-pox, and other affections, is called onyx, from its resemblance to the lunula of the nail. Perforation into the anterior chamber, causing hypopion, sometimes happens, when pus or shreds of lymph cause iritis. accumulate there, or its inward perforation may

kĕr-a-tō-da, s. pl. [Gr. keras (genit. keratos)= a horn, and eidos=form.]

Zool.: Horny sponges (q. v.).

kĕr-a-tōde, s. [KERATODA.]

Zool. & Chem.: A substance of which the skeleton of horny sponges is composed. Sometimes it is strengthened by spicule of lime or flint.

kĕr-a-tog'-e-noŭs, a. [Gr. keras a horn: genað to produce; suff. -ous.] Bearing or producing horn.

kěr-a-tới-đê-ạ, s. [KERATOSA.]

kĕr-a-tōme, s. (Gr. keras (genit. keratos)=a horn, and tome a cutting; temno to cut.] Surg. A knife used in the operation for artificial It is spear-pointed, doubleficial-pupil knife. edged, and may be straight or angular. It is used pupil and cataract. Also called iridectome, or artifor making an incision through the cornea into the cutting edges, upward and downward, the wound is made of proper dimensions, after which the operaanterior chamber, and by slight movements of its tion is completed with other instruments.

kĕr-a-to-nyx'-is, s. (Gr. keras (genit. keratos) =a horn, and nyxis a puncturing.]

Surg. A term applied by German surgeons to the operation of couching, performed by introducbreaking the opaque lens. (Brande.) ing a needle through the cornea, and depressing or

kĕr-a-toph - 11-Ite, s. [Etym. doubtful; prob. from Gr. keras (genit. keratos) = a horn; phyllos=a Min.: The same as CARINTHINE (q. v.). leaf, and suff. -ite (Min.) (q. v.).] kĕr-a-toph -y-tą, s. [CERATOPHYTA.] kĕr-a-to-phyte, s. [KERATOPHYTA.]

Zool. An anthozoon, belonging to the old order Keratophyta (q. v.).

kĕr-a-tō'-sa, s. [Greek keras (genit. keratos)=
horn; Lat. pl. suff. -osa. So named because the
skeleton is composed of keratode (q. v.).]
Zool. The name given by Bowerbank to the
Horny Sponges.

kĕr-a-tōse, s. & a. [KERATOSA.]
A. As substantive:

Zool. The same as KERATODE (q. v.).

B. As adj.: Pertaining to the Keratosa (q.v.). Kĕr-âul-o-phōn, s. [Gr. keras (genit, keratos) = a horn; aulos a flute, and phone=sound.] Music: An organ stop, invented by Gray and Davison. Its pipes are of small scale, and are surmounted by a movable ring of metal. Its tone is soft, delicate, and reedy.

kē râu -no-graph, s. [Gr. keraunos thunder; Music: The name of the Persian horn which is grapho to write. A picture or scene impressed upon a victim by a lightning stroke. kerb, s. [CURB, 8.] kĕr-ar-gyr-ite, s. [CERARGYRITE.] sounded at sunset and at midnight. kĕr-a-sin, s. [Etym. unknown.] A non-phosphatic nitrogenous substance supposed to exist in

the brain.

kĕr-as-ine, a. [Gr. keras a horn.] Resembling horn in texture or appearance.

kĕr-as-ine, kĕr-as-ite, s. [Named by Bendant. Gr. keras horn; suff. -ite (Min.); Fr. plomb corné ; Ger. hornblei.]

Min.: The same as MENDIPITE and РHOSGENITE, the two minerals being included under the same name. (See these words.)

ker -āte, s. [Gr. keras (genit. keratos) = a horn.] kōr‍-a-tin, s. [Gr. keras (genit. keratos)=a horn; [CERARGYKITE.] sulf. -in (Chem.) (q.v.).]

Chem. A term applied to the substance which claws, horus, and the epidermis and epithelium of forms the chief constituent of hair, feathers, nails, the higher animals. In consequence of its insolubility in alcohol, water, acetic acid, boiling diluto hydrochloric acid, and dilute sodic hydrate, it is easily obtained pure. It dissolves in boiling acetic sulphuric acid it decomposes with formation of acid and in strong alkalies, and when boiled with leucine and tyrosine.

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kerb-plate, s. [CURB-PLATE.]

kerb ́-stōne, kirb ́-stōne s. [CURBSTONE.] *ker'-çher, s. [KERCHIEF.] A korchief. "He became like a man in an exstasie and trance, and white as a kercher."-North: Plutarch, p. 746. *ker'-çhered, a. [Eng. kercher; -ed.] Covered with a kerchief; bound round with a kerchief. "Pale Sickness, with her kerchered head up wound." G. Fletcher: Christ's Victory in Heaven, ker -chief, *ker-chef, *cur-chief, *co-verchefe, *co-ver-chief, s. [O. Fr. covrechef, couvre chef. from covrir (Fr. couvrir)=to cover, and chef, chief the lead.]

1. A cloth to cover the head; a headdress.
"Her black hair strained away

To a scarlet kerchief caught beneath her chin."
E. B. Browning: Aurora Leigh, vil
2. A handkerchief, a napkin.

"The waving kerchiefs of the crowd that urge The mute adieu to those who stem the surge.' Byron: Corsair, i. 16. *3. One who wears a kerchief; a lady. "The proudest kerchief of the court shall rest Well satisfied of what they love the best." Dryden: Wife of Bath's Tale, 245, ker-chiefed, *ker'-çhleft, a. [Eng. kerchief; 1. Having a kerchief wrapped or placed round. ed.] 2. Dressed, wrapped, enveloped.

kĕr-a-ti-tis, s. [Gr. keras (genit. keratos)=a Pathol. Inflammation of the cornea, with conhorn, and suff. -itis (Pathol.) (q. v.).] gestion of the conjunctiva and sclerotic coat of the eye, which may go on to infiltration by pus, and Xenophon, exist. ph expect, &o. = bel, del. destruction of the sight by ulceration. Three forms go, gem; thin, this; sin, aş; -ble, -dle, chin, bench; -sious shús. = zhăn. -tious, -cious, -şion -tion,

keren

kĕr-en, s. [Heb. geren.] [KERANA.]

Music: A Hebrew trumpet. The word is sometimes used in the Bible as synonymous with shophar, and to it is sometimes affixed jobel, rendered in the English version ram's-horns.

kerf, *kerfe, s. [A. S. cyrfa cutting, from ceorfan-to cut, to carve (q. v.); German kerbe-a notch; kerben-to notch.]

1. A slit, a cut, a notch.

2. The slit, notch, or channel made by a saw in cutting wood.

kerf -ing, a. [Eng. kerf; -ing.] Cutting, slitting, notching.

kerfing-machine, s. A machine for sawing a series of parallel kerfs on one side of a board, in order to enable it to be bent. It consists of a table and a series of circular saws upon a horizontal mandrel, the latter being vertically adjustable, so as to allow the saws to project above the surface of the table to an extent equal to the desired depth of

kerf.

kër-ite, s. [Gr. keros=wax; Eng. suff. -ite.] A compound invented by Austin C. Day, and by him termed kerite or artificial caoutchouc, and in which the raw caoutchouc or rubber is replaced by tar or asphaltum, which, combined with animal or vegetable oils, is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber, the hard and soft varieties being produced by different proportions, &c. The principal use of kerite has been as an insulating material in telegraphy.

kerite-wire, s. Wire used in telegraphy, insulated by a covering of kerite.

kĕr-i-vôu'-la, s. [Corrupted from Cingalese kehelvoulha plantain-bat.]

Zool.: A genus of Vespertilionidae (True Bats). Kerivoula picta is the Painted Bat. Its fur is deep orange above and paler below. It is found in India, Ceylon, Burmah, Sumatra, and Java, reposing on plantain leaves, its color making it appear like a butterfly or moth rather than a bat, thus tending to its concealment.

kerl, s. [CARL.]

ker'-mēş (1), s. [Arab. kermes, kermis=a little worm, from Sansc. krimi=a worm.]

Dyeing, &c.: The same as KERMES-GRAINS (q. v.). kermes-grains, s. pl.

Comm.: The dried bodies of the females of a homopterous insect, Coccus ilicis, which yield a red and scarlet dye, much used before the introduction of cochineal, of an exceedingly fine quality, and very durable.

kermes-lake, s.

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kerne, s. [KERN (1), 8.]

ker -nel (1), *kīr ́-nel, *kir-nelle, *cur-nel, s. [A. S. cyrnel, from corn-grain, corn; dimin. suff. el.] [KERN (1), v. i.]

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ker -san-tite, ker -san-tyte, s. [Eng., & kersant (on); suff. -ite, -yte.]

I. Literally:

"His daintiest fruits in kernels he doth set." Drayton: Polyolbion, s. 18. 2. That which is inclosed in a shell, husk, integument, &c.

"Oats are ripe when the straw turns yellow and the kernel hard."-Mortimer: Husbandry.

3. The seed of pulpy fruit.

ker -san-ton, s. [Local name; probably from the village of Kersaint-Plabbenec.]

Petrol.: A rock from Brittany akin to kersantite, but not having hornblende. (Rutley.)

ker'-şey,_*ker-sie, s. & a. [Etym. doubtful; Fr. carize; Dut. karsaai; Sw. kersing.]

A. As subst.: A coarse-ribbed cloth made of wool

4. A hard concretion of the flesh.

that sort they call conglomerate, made up of an infinite "He makes the breasts to be nothing but glandules of

number of little knots or kernels."-Ray: On the Creation, pt. i.

II. Figuratively:

1. The central part of anything; the nucleus; that round which other matter is collected.

"A solid body in the bladder makes the kernel of a stone."-Arbuthnot.

2. The important or essential part of anything, as distinguished from the surrounding and less impor tant matters; the core, the gist, the essence. *ker'-nel (2), 8. [CRENELLE.]

ker'-nel, v. i. [KERNEL (1), s.] To ripen or harden into kernels.

ker'-nelled, a. [CRENELLED.]

(1); -y.] Full of kernels; having the qualities or ker'-nel-ly, *ker-nel-lie, a. [English kernel

nature of a kernel; resembling a kernel, as the seeds of plants.

ker'-nel-wõrt, s. [Eng. kernel; suff. -wort.] Bot.: Scrophularia nodosa.

*kern'-ish, a. [Eng. kern (1), s.; -ish.] Like a kern; boorish, clownish.

kĕr-o-don, s. [Greek keras (genit. keratos)=a horn, and odous (genit. odontos)=a tooth.] Zool.: A small genus of South American rodents, often merged in Cavia.

kĕr-o-lite, s. [CEROLITE.]

kě-rō-ną, s. [Gr. kērōn (genit. kērōnos) = a beehive (?).]

Zool.: A genus of Infusoria, placed under Oxyfamily Keronia. K. polyporum is parasitic upon Hydra.

Bot.: Quercus coccifera.

ker -mēş (2), ker -mě-site, s. [Named by Simon, a Carthusian monk, in 1714. Etym. doubtful.] Min.: An oxysulphide of antimony. Crystallization monoclinic; color cherry-red, deepening on exposure; luster adamantine, streak brownish-red. Is found in radiating groups of acicular crystals, or as capillary tufts associated with stibnite (q. v.). The original mineral was an artificial preparation, and was used medicinally.

ker-mě-site, s. [KERMES (2), 8.] *kērn (1), *kērne, *kēarne, s. [Irish cearn=a man.] 1. A light-armed Irish foot-soldier, as distinguished from the gallowglass, or heavy-armed soldier.

2. A boor, a country lout, a churl.

kě-rō'-ni-a, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. keron (a); Lat. neut. pl. adj. suff. ia.]

Zool. Dujardin's name for a family of Infusoria, nearly identical with the Oxytrichina of Ehrenberg.

kĕr-o-sēne, s. [Gr. keros=wax; -ene.]

Chem. Refined petroleum. A name given to the principal product of the distillation of petroleum, the crude domestic oil yielding 70 per cent. of its weight. It is also obtained from bituminous shale. It is a colorless oil, possessing a characteristic taste and smell; insoluble in water, moderately sol uble in alcohol, but very soluble in ether, chloroform, and benzene. It dissolves camphor, iodine, phosphorus, sulphur, fats, wax, and many resins. The flashing point of a safe kerosene should not be less than 34, and the igniting point 43°. The finest quality of illuminating oil is produced from distillates ranging in specific gravity from 0.775 to 0780. It has a high flashing point, 48° to 60°, and contains none of the lighter parts of the crude oil. A good illuminating oil should neither be too viscous nor too volatile, and it should not take fire when a light is applied to it. [PETROLEUM.] kĕr-o-so-lene, s. [KEROSENE.]

Chem.: Petroleum ether. An extremely inflammable, colorless oil, having a faint odor of petroleum, obtained from the crude oil by distillation. It boils between 50° and 60°, and has a specific grav. ity of 0665. It is used as a solvent for fats, as a remedy for rheumatic pains, and as a local anæs

thetic.

kerr-ite, s. [Named by Genth after Prof. Kerr; sutf. -ite (Min.).]

store."-Carew.

2. To take the form of grains; to granulate. kern (2), v. t. [KERN (4), 8.] Type-found.: To form with a kern.

"And, dressing in a kersey thicker

Than that which clothes a Cornish vicar, He seldom had the luck to eat

In Berkeley square."

B. As adjective:

Cawthorn: Wit and Learning.

1. Lit.: Made or consisting of kersey. "Black karsie stockings, worsted now, Yea silke of youthful'st dye." Warner: Albion's England, bk. iz.

2. Fig.: Homely, homespun, plain. "In russet yeas, and honest kersey noes." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost, v. 2 ker'-şey, v. [KERSEY, 8.] To dress in kersey. (Feltham: Resolves, p. 48.)

ker'-şey-mere, s. [A corruption of cassimere (q. v.).]

Fabric: A kind of light woolen twilled goods with an oil finish, for men's wear.

kĕr-sey-nette, s. [CASSINETTE.]

ker-stěn-ite, s. [Named by Dana after Kersten, who described it (Min.).]

Min.: A mineral occurring in small sulphuryellow spheres and botryoidal masses. Cleavage distinct in one direction. Hardness, 3-4; luster, greasy to vitreous; brittle; fracture, fibrous. Consists of selenous acid, oxide of lead, and a little copper. Occurs, with other selenides, at Hildburghausen.

*kerve, v. t. [CARVE.] *ker-ver, s. [CARVER.] *ke-sar, s. [KAISER.]

kes -lop, s. [A. S. ceselib, cyselib-curdled milk Ger. käselab, from küse=cheese, and lab=rennet.] 1. Ord. Lang.: The stomach of a calf prepared for rennet to be used in curdling milk. 2. Bot.: Galium verum. (Scotch.) *kesse, v. t. [Kiss, v.]

*kest, pret. & pa. par. [CAST, v.] *keste, pret. of v. [Kiss, v.]

kěst-ing, kĕs'-llåg, s. [Etym. doubtful.] The bullace plum.

kes-trel, s. & a. [Fr. creserelle, quercelle=a hawk of a reddish color. Littré considers its remote origin as unknown; Wedgwood derives it from Burgundian cristel.]'

A. As substantive:

bird; above, red spotted with black; beneath, white Ornith.: Cerchneis (Falco) tinnunculus, a raptorial spotted with pale; the head and tail of the male ashy-blue. Length of both sexes about 12% inches. The kestrel when hunting for prey suspends itself in the air by a constant motion of its wings; it is, therefore, sometimes called the Windhover. It feeds on mice, insects, and occasionally birds, and is a useful bird to the agriculturist, though gameit when they can. It is a European bird, but mikeepers, confounding it with the sparrow-hawk, kill grates in winter to India and Africa. It occurs also in Borneo, China, and Japan. It builds in towers and old buildings, laying four to six eggs, white or reddish with red blotches. More than twenty spe cies are known. They resemble hawks, but have the toes shorter.

*B. As adj.: Base, low, mean. kět, subst. Carrion, filth.

[Icel. kjöt, ket; Dan. kiöd-flesh.]

kětch (1), s. [A corrupt. of Turk. galg, gåig=a boat; Ital. caicco; Fr. caique, caiche, quaiche.] Naut.: A form of two-masted vessel, carrying a tall, once square-rigged, now fore-and-aft rigged, main-mast forward, and a shorter fore-and-aft rigged mizzen abaft. Being a favorite form of mortar-vessel, owing to the clear deck amidships, we frequently find the bomb-ketch mentioned in the wars of the last century.

kětch (2), s. [A softened form from keg (q. v.).] A cask, a keg.

*ketch (3), 8. [JACK KETCH.] A hangman. pine, pit, sïre, sir, marîne; gō, pŏt,

*kětch (4), s. [CATCH, 8.] A musical catch. Gyrolepis. The plant-remains are ferns, equiseta. (Beaum. & Fletch.: Coronation, i. 1.) cea,cycads, &c. The Keuper is represented in Eng*ketche, v. t. [CATCH, v.] land by saliferous and gypseous shales and marls, and in France by Marnes Irisées. (Lyell.) kětch-up, s. [CATCHUP.]

ke'-tine, s. [Variant KETONE (q. v. infra).] Chem. An oily substance of a pungent and aromatic odor, obtained from the reduction of certain isonitroso compounds of the ketones.

kē -tōneş, s. pl. [A variant of acetone; from acet(ic) reversed, and suff. -one (Chem.) (q. v.).] Chem.: A class of bodies derived from the fatty acids by the substitution of the hydroxyl of the latter by a monad positive radical. They resemble the aldehydes in constitution: Acetic (CH3

acid COHO

Acetic (CH3 aldehyde COH

AcetoneCH

COME.

They may also be described as compounds of car bonic oxide with monad positive radicals, thus: Acetone COMе2. When acted upon by nascent hydrogen they are converted into secondary alcohols. The principal ketones are acetone, propione, ethyl butyral, butyrone, and benzophenone. [ALDEHYDE.]

ké-ton'-ic, s. [Eng. keton(e), and adj. suff. ic.] Relating to or obtained from a ketone.

kět-tle, *ket-el, *ket-tell, s. [A. S. cetel, cytel; Maso-Goth. katils, borrowed from Lat. catillus a little bowl, dimin. of catinus a bowl, akin to Gr. kotylos, kotyle a little cup; lcel. ketill; Sw. kittel; Dan. kedel; Dut. ketel; Ger. kessel; Russ. kotel.]

1. A metallic vessel in which water or other liquid is boiled. In sugar-houses kettles are arranged in rows called batteries.

2. A kettle-drum (q. v.).

A pretty kettle of fish: [KIDDLE.] kettle-boiler, s. An old form of steam-boiler whose lower portion was shaped as an inverted conical frustum, and the upper part as a dome. The form resembles that of a tea-kettle.

kettle-drum, 8.

1. Music: A musical instrument, so named from its resemblance to a hemispherical kettle. It is formed of thin copper, and has a head of parchment or vellum. Kettle-drums are used in pairs, slung on each side of the withers of a cavalry horse. One drum is tuned to the key-note, and the other to the fifth of the key in which the piece in which they are to be used is written. The tuning is by a hoop and screws. The best sticks for kettledrums are those having whalebone handles with a wooden button covered by a piece of sponge; by the use of these the finest gradations of tone may be gained. Kettle-drums are said to have been introduced into the orchestra by Handel, who employed a pair taken as part of the spoil at the battle of Dettingen, in the score of the Te Deum, written in celebration of that event.

2. Society: A tea party held by fashionable people in the afternoon before dinner. kettle-drummer, s. One who plays upon a

kettle-drum.

kettle-furnace, s. Metallurgy:

1. A basket-furnace or cresset in which lead or solder is melted for plumbing.

2. A furnace in which a kettle or kettles are set in a brick arch, as in sugar-boiling furnaces; or above a box-furnace, as in agricultural boilers. [EVAPORATOR.]

*kettle-hat, s. A broad-brimmed iron hat worn by knights in the Middle Ages.

*kettle-pins, 8. pl. Ninepins, skittles. kettle-stitch, s.

2. Building stones: The Keuper sandstones, especially the lower ones, afford good building stones. largely used in the cathedrals of Worcester and They are a pale red yellow or white, and have been Chester. (Rutley.)

kěv -el (1), s. [Etym. doubtful.] Zool. Antilope kevella (Pallas). A North and Central African antelope, believed to be akin to, or even a variety of the gazelle. It is now known to be only the young of the gazelle.

kěv -el (2), s. [Dan. kievle=a peg.] 1. Nautical:

(1) A large cleat for belaying. Sometimes formed by the ends of the top timbers which rise above the gunwale, or formed by timbers projecting at a small angle from the sides to belay large ropes, such as the sheets and tacks of the main-sail and fore-sail. [CLEAT.]

(2) A frame for spreading the main-sail. (3) An anchor-palm.

2. Mason. A stonemason's hammer used in spauling stone, and having a blade and point at the respective ends.

kevel-head, s.

the gunwale and acting as a bitt or kevel, to belay Naut.: The end of a top timber projecting above large ropes, to fasten or veer away a rope, &c. *kev-er-chef, 8. [KERCHIEF.] *kev-ere, v. t. [COVER, v.] To recover. kěx, *kix, s. [Wel. cecys hollow stalks, hemlock; Corn. cegas; Lat. cicuta hemlock.] The old English name for hemlock. Full of or overgrown

kěx -ỹ, a. [Eng. kex; -y.] with kexes or weeds; weedy. key (1), s. [QUAY.] key (2), s. [CAY.]

key (3), *keye, s. [A. S. cœg, cage; cogn. with O. Fris. kai, kei.]

(1) A piece of timber let transversely into the back of a board, which consists of several breadths, to prevent its warping.

(2) The last board of a floor or platform which is driven into position and keys up the others.

(3) A tenon piece, of the nature of a dowel, entering coincident parts in matched boards, and hold

Bookbind. The stitch made in sewing at the ing them together, or in correspondence.

head and tail of a book.

*ket-trin, s. [CATERAN.]

kĕ-tu-pa, s. [A barbarous name with no meaning.] (Sharpe.)

Ornith.: A genus of Strigida. Ketupa ceylonensis is the Indian Fish Owl. It frequents the sides of tanks, ponds, &c., in Ceylon. When it cannot obtain fish, it will eat small mammals, reptiles, &c. During the day it is sometimes mobbed by bulbuls, king-crows, &c. Its note is like a lond, hollow, disagreeable "haw-haw-haw!" Another Indian species, K. flavipes, has similar habits.

keu -per (eu as 61), s. [Ger.]

(4) The roughing on the under side of a veneer, which is made by a toothing-plane, and is designed to give the glue a better chance of adhering. (5) One of the many wedge-shaped pieces or striking-plates beneath the ribs of a bridge centering; by driving them out the centering is struck, and the arch left self-sustained.

2. Masonry: The highest stone of an arch; the keystone.

3. Machinery:

(1) A joggle-piece forming a lock or draw-pin in a joint. [HOOK-BUTT.]

(2) A wedge-piece of iron used for tightening the brasses of a bearing.

(3) A fastening piece, such as a wedge or cotter in a chain; a forelock.

(4) A piece sometimes used in a mortise in connection with gibs, in attaching a strap-head to a connecting-rod.

1. Geol.: The name given in Germany to a series of beds constituting the uppermost of the three series of strata from which the Trias derives its name. In Wurtemberg it is about a thousand feet thick. Alberti divides it into limestone, gypsum, (5) A fin or wedge fastening a crank on its shaft. and carbonaceous slate clay. Remains of reptiles A long key on a shaft, which prevents the revolu genera, Nothosaurus and Phytosaurus-have been tion of a wheel thereon, but permits longitudinal found in it, the Labyrinthodont order of Amphib- motion, is called a spline. ians, and fishes of the genera Saurichthys and (6) A spanner or wrench. bбil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, cell, chorus, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this;

4. Music:

key

(1) A mechanical contrivance for closing or opening ventages, as in flutes, clarinets, ophicleides, &c. By means of keys on such instruments, apertures too remote to be reached by the outstretched fingers are brought under control of the player. under the control of the hand or foot of an organist. (2) A lever which brings the pallets of an organ (3) A lever which controls the striking apparatus of a key-stringed instrument. In the harpsichord it acted on the jack; in the pianoforte it acts on the hammer.

(4) The wrest or key used for tuning instruments having metal pegs. Its end is hollowed out so as to fit over the four-sided end of the peg, and the crossbar with which it is surmounted gives leverage to the hand of the tuner, so that he is enabled to tighten or loosen a string, or (in the case of a drum) slacken or strain a parchment.

(5) The sign placed at the commencement of the musical stave which shows the pitch of the notes, was originally called a clavis or key. This sign is called in modern music a clef. [CLEF.]

(6) Key, in its modern sense, is the starting point of the definite series of sounds which form the recognized scale. Different starting-points require the relative proportion of the steps of the scale to be maintained by means of sharps or flats in the signature. The key of C major requires no flats or sharps for this purpose, hence it is called the normal key. (Stainer & Barrett.)

5. Plast. That portion of the rendering or first coat of hair plaster which forces its way between the laths, and holds the body of the plaster in place. 6. Rail. Engin.: A wedge-shaped piece of wood used to keep the rail tight in the chair.

7. Teleg. A device for breaking and closing electric circuits, so that the current may be interrupted to give signals.

boring-rod just beneath a coupling, and serving to 8. Well-boring: A bent bar of iron spanning the support the train of rods at the bore-mouth.

lain.

(1) Gold key: The official badge of a chamber"Be cautious how you show yourself In public for some hours to come-or hardly Will that gold key protect you from maltreatment." Coleridge: Piccolomini, i. 12.

(2) Key of a position: Mil.: A point the position of which gives control over any position, district, or country. (3) Power of the Keys: Roman Theol.: Potestas Clavium, the supreme authority in the Church, vested by Our Lord in St. Peter, and handed down to his successors in the See of Rome (Matt. xvi. 19; cf. Isa. xxii. 22; Apoc. iii. 7). The phrase is also used, in a restricted sense, to signify the granting or refusing absolution in the sacrament of penance (q. v.).

(4) Queen's keys:

Scots Law: That part of a warrant which authorizes a messenger or sheriff's officer to break open places locked up, in order to come at a debtor or his goods.

(5) To have the key of the street: To be locked out; to have no house to go to.

"There,' said Lowten, 'you've got the key of the street.'"-Dickens: Pickwick Papers, ch. xlvii. key-bed, s. [KEY-WAY.] key-board, s.

Music: The range of keys upon a pianoforte or uals; those by the feet are called pedals. organ. Keys played by the fingers are called man

key-bolt, s. A bolt secured by a cotter or wedge instead of a thread and nut.

key-bugle, 8.

Music: A brass wind instrument with keys, usually seven. It will traverse chromatically a compass of more than two octaves, beginning from B natural beneath the stave up to the C above the stave. The bugle with pistons or with cylinders has a lower compass than the preceding.

key-chord, s. The common chord of the tonice. g., C, E, G is the key-chord of C.

key-cold, a. Cold as a key; lifeless, dead. key-color, s.

Paint.: A leading color.

key-coupler, s.