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2. (Bleaching) A bleaching vat; a kier.

3. (Mining) A large vat used in dressing ores.

Keeve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Keeved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Keeving.] 1. To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.

2. To heave; to tilt, as a cart. [Prov. Eng.]

Keev"er (?), n. See Keeve, n.

Kef"fe-kil (?), n. (Min.) See Kiefekil.

Keg (kg), n. [Earlier cag, Icel. kaggi; akin to Sw. kagge.] A small cask or barrel.

Keil"hau*ite (kl"hou*t), n. (Min.) A mineral of a brownish black color, related to titanite in form. It consists chiefly of silica, titanium dioxide, lime, and yttria.

Keir (?), n. See Kier.

||Keit*lo"a (?), n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) A black, two-horned, African ||rhinoceros (Atelodus keitloa). It has the posterior horn about as ||long as the anterior one, or even longer. || Keld (?), a. [Cf. Cavl.] Having a kell or covering; webbed. [Obs.] Drayton.

Kele (?), v. t. [See Keel to cool.] To cool. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Kell (?), n. A kiln. [Obs.]

Kell, n. [A modification of kale.] A sort of pottage; kale. See Kale, 2. Ainsworth.

Kell, n. [Cf. Caul.] 1. The caul; that which covers or envelops as a caul; a net; a fold; a film. [Obs.]

I'll have him cut to the kell.

Beau. & Fl.

2. The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect. B. Jonson.

Ke"loid (?), a. [Gr. &?; tumor + - oid.] (Med.) Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin. -- n. A keloid tumor.

Ke*lot"o*my (?), n. (Med.) See Celotomy.

Kelp (?), n. [Formerly kilpe; of unknown origin.] 1. The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine.

2. (Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed.

Laminaria is the common kelp of Great Britain; Macrocystis pyrifera and Nereocystis Lutkeana are the great kelps of the Pacific Ocean.

Kelp crab (Zoöl.), a California spider crab (Epialtus productus), found among seaweeds, which it resembles in color. -- Kelp salmon (Zoöl.), a serranoid food fish (Serranus clathratus) of California. See Cabrilla.

Kelp"fish` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus.

{ Kel"pie, Kel"py }, n.; pl. Kelpies (#). [Cf. Gael. cailpeach, calpach, colpach, a heifer, steer, colt, colpa a cow or horse.] (Scotch Myth.) An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned. Jamieson.

Kelp"ware` (?), n. Same as Kelp, 2.

Kel"son (?), n. See Keelson. Sir W. Raleigh.

Kelt (?), n. See Kilt, n. Jamieson.