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Ka*ra"tas (?), n. (Bot.) A West Indian plant of the Pineapple family (Nidularium Karatas).

Kar"ma (?), n. [Skr.] (Buddhism) One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

Kar*ma"thi*an (?), n. One of a Mohammedan sect founded in the ninth century by Karmat.

Karn (?), n. [Cornish. Cf. Cairn.] (Mining) A pile of rocks; sometimes, the solid rock. See Cairn.

Ka"rob (?), n. [Cf. Carat.] The twenty-fourth part of a grain; -- a weight used by goldsmiths. Crabb.

Kar"pho*lite (?), n. [Gr. &?; rice straw + -lite: cf. F. carpholithe.] (Min.) A fibrous mineral occurring in tufts of a straw-yellow color. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and manganese.

Kar*roo" (kr*r"), n.; pl. Karroos (-rz"). One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations. [Also karoo.]

The Great Karroo, or The Karroo, a vast plateau, in Cape Colony, stretching through five degrees of longitude, at an elevation of about 3,000 feet.

Kar"sten*ite (?), n. Same as Anhydrite.

Kar"vel (?), n. [Obs.] See Carvel, and Caravel.

||Kar"y*o*ki*ne`sis (kr`**k*n"ss), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ka`ryon a nut, ||kernel + kinei^n to move.] (Biol.) The indirect division of cells in ||which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes ||take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear ||fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged ||and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups ||which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter ||nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell. || Kar`y*o*ki*net"ic (-nt"k), a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division.

||Kar`y*om"i*ton (-m"*tn), n. [NL., Gr. ka`ryon a nut + mi`tos a ||thread.] (Biol.) The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the ||nucleus of a cell is in part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, ||or the network in the body of the cell. W. Flemming. || ||Kar`y*o*plas"ma (kr`**plz"m), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ka`ryon a nut + ||pla`sma a thing molded.] (Biol.) The protoplasmic substance of the ||nucleus of a cell: nucleoplasm; -- in opposition to kytoplasma, the ||protoplasm of the cell. || ||Kar`y*o*ste*no"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ka`ryon a nut, kernel + &?; ||a being straitened.] (Biol.) Direct cell division (in which there is ||first a simple division of the nucleus, without any changes in its ||structure, followed by division of the protoplasm of the cell); -- in ||opposition to karyokinesis. [1913 Webster]

Kar`y*o*ste*not"ic (?), a. (Biol.) Pertaining to, or connected with, karyostenosis; as, the karyostenotic mode of nuclear division.

Ka*sack" (kt), n. (Ethnol.) Same as Cossack.

Kat (kät), n. (Bot.) An Arabian shrub (Catha edulis) the leaves of which are used as tea by the Arabs.

Kat`a*bol"ic (?), a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to katabolism; as, katabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.

Ka*tab"o*lism (?), n. [Gr. &?; down + &?; to throw.] (Physiol.) Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; -- opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.

Kat"a*state (?), n. [Gr. (&?;) down + (&?;) to cause to stand.] (Physiol.) A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.

Kate (?), n. (Zoöl.) The brambling finch.

Kath"e*tal (?), a. [Gr. &?; a perpendicular line. See Cathetus.] (Math.) Making a right angle; perpendicular, as two lines or two sides of a triangle, which include a right angle.

Kath`e*tom"e*ter (?), n. Same as Cathetometer.

Kat`ti*mun"doo (?), n. A caoutchouc-like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.

Ka"ty*did` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidæ, common in the United States. The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did, whence the name.

||Ka"u*ri (?), n. [Native name.] (Bot.) A lofty coniferous tree of New ||Zealand Agathis, or Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber ||and yielding one kind of dammar resin. [Written also kaudi, cowdie, ||and cowrie.] || Ka"va (?), n. [Polynesian.] (Bot.) A species of Macropiper (M. methysticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself. [Written also kawa, kava, and ava.]

Ka*vass" (?), n.; pl. Kavasses (#) [Turk. kvvs] An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier. [Turkey]

Kaw (?), v. i. & n. See Caw.

Ka*wa"ka (?), n. (Bot.) a New Zealand tree, the Cypress cedar (Libocedrus Doniana), having a valuable, fine-grained, reddish wood.

Kawn (?), n. An inn. [Turkey] See Khan.