Chapter L: B. kernellae, id.; Fr. crenelé, embattled

KISH, _s._ A shining powdery matter, which separates from pig-iron long kept in a melted state.

KISSING-STRINGS, _s. pl._ Strings tied under the chin, S.

_Ross._

KIST, KYST, _s._

1. A chest. S.

_Wallace._

2. A coffin, S., sometimes _dead-kist_.

_Spalding._

A. S. _cest_, Germ. _kist_, Su. G. _kist-a_, Lat. _cist-a_, a chest,
in general. A. S. _cyste_, a coffin, Belg. _doodkist_, id.

_To_ ~Kist~, _v. a._ To inclose in a coffin, S.

_Spalding._

~Kisting~, _s._ The act of putting a corpse into a coffin, with the entertainment given on this melancholy occasion, S.

KIT, _s._ _A' the kit_, or _the haill kit_, all taken together, S.

_R. Galloway._

Su. G. _kyt-a_, to exchange, q. _the haill coup_, the whole barter.

KITCHEN, KITCHING, _s._

1. Solids, as opposed to liquids.

_Balfour._

2. Any thing eaten with bread, S.

_Statist. Acc._

3. An allowance instead of milk, butter, small beer, S.

_Statist. Acc._

Isl. _kiot_, Su. G. _koett_, flesh; or Dan. _kiokken_, dressed food.

_To_ ~Kitchen~, _v. a._ To serve as _kitchen_, S.

_Burns._

KITCHEN, _s._ A tea-urn, S.

_Sir J. Sinclair._

KITCHEN-FEE, _s._ The drippings of meat roasted before the fire, S.

KYTE, _s._

1. The belly, S.

_Lyndsay._

2. The stomach, S.

_Kelly._

Isl. _kwid-r_, Moes. G. _quid_, venter; Isl. _quidar fylli_, S.
_fow kyte_.

~Kyte-fow~, _s._ A belly-full, S.

KITH, _s._

1. Acquaintances or relations, S. _Kith or kin_.

_Burns._

2. Shew, appearance.

_Gawan and Gol._

A. S. _cythe_, notitia.

_To_ ~Kythe~, ~Kyith~, _v. a._

1. To shew, S.

_K. Quair._

2. To practise.

_Sir Tristrem._

3. To cause, to produce.

_Id._

A. S. _cyth-an_, ostendere.

_To_ ~Kythe, Kyith~, _v. n._ To be manifest, S.

_Maitland P._

KYTRAL, _s._ A contemptuous designation.

V. ~Ketrail~.

_Montgomerie._

KITTIE, KITTOCK, _s._

1. A loose woman, S. B. _cuttie_, S. A.

_Dunbar._

2. A term of disrespect for a female, though not necessarily implying lightness of carriage, S.

V. ~Caigie~.

Su. G. _kaett_, wanton.

_Chr. Kirk._

KYTTIT, _part. pa._ Daubed with a viscous substance.

_Bannatyne P._

Dan. _kitt-er_, Sw. _kitta_, to cement.

KITTIWAKE, _s._ The tarrock, S.

_Sibbald._

KITTY-WREN, _s._ The wren, S.

_To_ KITTLE, _v. a._

1. To litter.

_Minstr. Bord._

2. To bring forth kittens, S.

Su. G. _kitsla_, id. from _katt_, a cat; or Isl. _kad_, foetus
recens.

~Kittling~, _s._ A kitten, S.

_To_ KITTLE, KITILL, _v. a._

1. To tickle, S.

A. S. _citel-an_, Belg. _kittel-en_, Isl. _kitl-a_, id. Perh. the
root is Isl. _kid-a_, molliter fricare.

2. To excite a pleasant sensation in the mind.

_Douglas._

3. To enliven, to excite, S.

_Ramsay._

4. To puzzle, to perplex, S.

~Kittle~, _adj._

1. Easily tickled, S.

Teut. _keteligh_, id.

2. Attended with difficulty, in a literal sense; as, _a kittle gait_, a road that one is apt to lose, or in which one is in danger of falling, S.

3. Not easily managed; as, _a kittle horse_, S.

Teut. _ketelig peerd_, id.

_Mellvill's MS._

4. Not easily articulated; as _kittle words_. S.

_Hogg._

5. Variable, applied to the weather, S.

6. Nice, intricate, in a moral sense; as, _a kittle question_.

_Wodrow._

7. Squeamish, applied to the conscience, S.

_Spotswood._

8. Vexatious, implying the idea of danger, S.

_Beattie._

9. Likely, apt.

_Burns._

~Kittlie~, _adj._ Itchy, S. B.

~Kittle-the-cout~, ~Kittlie-cout~, a game among young people, in which a handkerchief being hid, one is employed to seek it, S.; q. puzzle the colt.

KIVE, _s._ "Mashing-fat."

_Kelly._

KLIPPERT, _s._ A shorn sheep, S.

_Journ. Lond._

KNAB, _s._

1. One who possesses a small independence; _a little laird_, S.

_Forbes._

2. A leader or general.

_Poems Buchan Dial._

Germ. _knab_, puer nobilis; Isl. _knap-ar_. vulgus nobilium.

~Knabby~, ~Knabbish~, _adj._ Possessing independence in a middling line, S.

_To_ KNACK, KNAK, _v. a._ To taunt.

_Wyntown._

Su. G. _knack-a_, to tap, to pat, q. to strike smartly; or Isl.
_nagg-a_, litigare.

~Knack~, ~Knak~, _s._ pron. _nack_.

1. A gibe, a sharp repartee, S.

_Douglas._

2. A trick, S.

_Ramsay._

~Knacky~, _adj._

1. Quick at repartee, S.

_Ramsay._

2. Acute, but at the same time facetious, S.

_Ruddiman._

3. Applied to what is entertaining; as, _a nacky story_, S.

_Ramsay._

~Knackety~, _adj._ Self-conceited, S.

KNAG, _s._ A knob on which any thing is hung, S.

_Popular Ball._

Su. G. _knoge_, condylus.

~Knaggie~, _adj._

1. Having protuberances.

_Burns._

2. Tart and ill-humoured, _knaggit_, Fife.

_Cleland._

KNAGGIE, _s._ A small cask, Aberd.

_Gl. Shirr._

KNAGGIM, _s._ A disagreeable taste, S.

_Journal Lond._

KNAIVATICK, _adj._ Mean, from _knave_.

_Evergreen._

_To_ KNAP, KNOP, _v. n._

1. To speak after the English manner, S.

_Watson._

_To knap suddrone_, _v. a._ To speak like those who live _South_ from S.

_Hamilton._

2. To clip words by a false pronunciation.

E. _knap_, to break short.

_Colvil._

KNAP, _s._ A slight stroke, S.

_Ramsay._

KNAPE, _s._

1. A servant.

_Douglas._

2. As equivalent to _valet_.

_Douglas._

A. S. _cnapa_, Teut. _knape_, puer, servus.

~Knappare~, _s._ A boor.

_Douglas._

KNAPPARTS, _s. pl._ Heath pease, S. B.

Teut. _knappen_, mandere, and _worte_, radix.

KNAPPEL, _s._ Oak for staves, brought from Memel, Dantzick, &c, S.

_Acts Cha. II._

Isl. _knapp-r_, rigidus, q. hard wood.

KNAPPISH, _adj._ Tart, snappish.

Teut. _knapp-en_, to bite.

_Z. Boyd._

KNAPSCHA, KNAPISHAY, KNAPSKALL, _s._ A headpiece.

_Stat. Rob. I._

Su. G. _knape_, a servant, and _skal_, a shell, a covering.

_To_ KNASH, _v. a._ To gnaw.

_Watson._

Isl. _knatsk-a_, arrodo.

_To_ KNAW, KNAWE, _v. a._ To know.

A. S. _cnaw-an_, id.

_Wyntown._

KNAW, KNAWE, KNAIE, _s._

1. A male child.

_Wyntown._

2. A male under age.

_Barbour._

3. A male servant.

_Wyntown._

4. A man in an inferior rank.

V. ~Knape~.

_Bannatyne Poems._

~Knawship~, ~Knaveship~, _of a mill_, the dues given by those who have grain ground, for paying the servants in a mill, vulgarly _kneeship_, S.

_Erskine._

Teut. _knaep-schaep_, servitus.

KNECHT, KNYCHT, _s._

1. A common soldier.

_Douglas._

2. A commander.

_Douglas._

Franc. _knecht_, A. S. _cneoht_, a boy, a servant.

_To_ KNEE, _v. a._

1. To press down with the knees, Ang.

2. To bend into an angular form, Ang.

3. The wind is said _to knee corn_, when it breaks it down so that it strikes root by the stalk, Ang.

Isl. _kny-a_, adigere; _hneig-ia_, flectere.

KNEEF, KNEIF, _adj._ Active, alert, S.

_Ross._

Isl. _knaef-r_, Dan. _knov_, robustus.

~Kniefly~, _adv._ With vivacity, S.

_Ferguson._

KNEEF, _adj._ Arduous, Aberd.

Su. G. _knapp_, difficult, strait.

KNEE-ILL, _s._ A disease of cattle, affecting their joints, S.

KNEESHIP.

V. ~Knawship~.

KNEEVICK, _adj._ Griping, Fife.

Isl. _hnyf-a_, to grasp with the fist.

KNEWEL, KNOOL, _s._ A wooden pin in the end of a halter for holding by

_To hadd the knewel_, to hold the reins, Ang.

Belg. _knevel_, a knot; _knevel-en_, to pinion.

KNIBLE, _adj._ Nimble, S. B.

_Ross._

Su. G. Teut. _knap_, alacer.

KNIBLOCH, KNUBLOCK, _s._

1. A small round stone or hardened clod, S.

_Ross._

2. A knob of wood, S.

_Ramsay._

3. The swelling occasioned by a blow or fall.

_Gl. Shirr._

Belg. _knobbel_, a knob, a knurl.

~Knibblockie~, _adj._ Rough, applied to a road in which many small stones rise up, S. B.

KNYFF, _s._ A hanger or dagger.

_Wallace._

O. Teut. _knyf_, culter, gladius, Kilian.

KNYPSIT, _pret._ L. _knappit_.

_Knox._

KNITCH. _s._ A bundle, S.

Sw. _knyte_, id., _knyt-a_, to tie.

~Knitchell~, _s._ A small bundle.

_Dunbar._

KNITTING, _s._ Tape, S.

_Sir J. Sinclair._

KNOCK, _s._ A clock, S.

_Watson._

KNOCKIT BARLEY or BEAR, barley stripped of the husk, by being beaten in a hollow stone with a maul, S.

_Ramsay._

_To_ KNOIT, KNITE, NOYT, _v. a._

1. To strike with a sharp sound, S.

_Chr. Kirk._

2. To amble or hobble in walking, S.

Isl. _hniot-a_, _niot-a_, ferire.

~Knoit~, ~Noit~, _s._ A smart stroke, S.

_A. Nicol._

2. The sound occasioned by a stroke or fall on any hard body, S.

_Journ. Lond._

_To_ KNOIT, _v. a._ To gnaw; expressive of the manner in which infants eat, Ang.

Isl. _hnot-a_, to rub.

KNOIT, _s._ A large piece of any thing, S. B.

V. ~Knoost~.

Isl. _knott-ur_, globus.

KNOOP, _s._

1. A protuberance, S.

2. A pin, on which any thing is hung, S.

3. _Knoop of a hill_, that part which towers above, or projects from the rest, S.

Isl. _gnup-r_, jugum montis.

KNOOST, KNUIST, _s._ A large lump, Loth.

_Ramsay._

Isl. _hnaus_, a lump of earth.

_To_ KNOP, _v. n._ To knap.

_Burel._

_To_ KNOP, _v. n._ To put forth buds.

_Montgomerie._

Su. G. _knopp-u_, gemmas emittere.

KNORRY, _adj._ Knotty.

_Douglas._

Teut. _knorre_, tuber.

KNOT, _s._ A pretty large piece of any thing round or square, S. B.

KNOT-GRASS, _s._ Tall oatgrass, S.

KNOUL TAES, toes having swellings on the joints.

_Evergreen._

Teut. _knovel_, nodus; Su. G. _knoel_, a bump.

_To_ KNOW, _v. a._ To press down with the fists, or knees.

_Watson._

Sw. _knog-a_, pugnis genibusque eniti.

KNOW, KNOWE, _s._ A little hill, S.

Teut. _knolle_, a hillock.

_Douglas._

KNUBLOCK, _s._ A knob.

V. ~Kniblock~.

_To_ KNUFF, KNUVE, _v. n._ To converse familiarly, S.

Su. G. _knaefwe_, the fist; q. to be "hand and glove."

KNURL, _s._ A dwarf, S. O.

_Burns._

A metaph. use of E. _knurle_, a knot.

~Knurlin~, _s._ The same as knurl, S.

_Burns._

_To_ KNUSE, NUSE, _v. a._

1. To press down with the knees, S. B.

2. To beat with the knuckles or fists, S. B.

3. To knead, S. B.

Isl. _hnos-a_, _knos-a_, contundere, Belg. _knues-en_, to crush.

KOBBYD, _pret._ Perhaps, fretted.

Belg. _kopp-ig_, stubborn.

_Wyntown._

KOBIL, _s._ A small boat.

V. ~Coble~.

KOY, _adj._ Secluded from view.

_Doug._

Teut. _koye_, a cave, Isl. _kui_, id.

_To_ KOYT, _v. a._ To beat, to flog, S. B.

Isl. _kyt-a_, contendere; _kytla_, ferire.

_To_ KOPPIE, _v. a._ To chide, to reprove, Mearns.

Su. G. _kapp-as_, certare.

KOW, _s._ A goblin.

V. ~Cow~, 2.

KOW, _s._ Custom.

V. ~Kewis~.

_Lyndsay._

KOWSCHOT, CUSHAT, _s._ The ringdove; _cushie-dow_, S.

_Douglas._

A. S. _cusceote_, id.

KRANG, _s._ The body of a whale divested of the blubber.

KRINGLE, _s._ Bread brought from Norway.

Sw. _kringla_, a kind of bread.

_To_ KRUYN, _v. n._ To murmur.

V. ~Croyn~.

_Douglas._

_To_ KUTER, CUTER, _v. a._

1. To cocker, to nurse delicately, S.

2. To coax, to wheedle.

3. To converse clandestinely and intimately, S.

Germ. _kutter-n_, Su. G. _quittr-a_, garrire.

L

_L_, in our language, as in Germ., often denotes diminution; as _bagrel_, a child; _gangarel_, _gangrel_, a child beginning to walk, &c.

_To_ LA, _v. a._ To lay.

_Douglas._

LAB, _s._ A lump, S.

E. _lobe_, a division.

_To_ LAB, _v. a._ To beat, Loth.

C. B. _llab-iaw_, id.

~Lab~, _s._ A stroke, a blow. Loth.