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Kiss, n. [OE. kiss, derived under the influence of the verb from the older form coss, AS. coss. See Kiss, v.]

1. A salutation with the lips, as a token of affection, respect, etc.; as, a parting kiss; a kiss of reconciliation.

Last with a kiss, she took a long farewell.

Dryden.

Dear as remembered kisses after death.

Tennyson.

2. A small piece of confectionery.

Kiss"er (?), n. One who kisses. Beau. & Fl.

Kiss"ing*crust` (?), n. (Cookery) The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking. Lamb.

A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf.

W. Howitt.

Kist (kst), n. [See Chest.] A chest; hence, a coffin. [Scot. & Prov. End.] Jamieson. Halliwell.

Kist, n. [Ar. gist.] A stated payment, especially a payment of rent for land; hence, the time for such payment. [India]

Kist"vaen (kst"vn), n. [W. cist-faen.] (Archæol.) A Celtic monument, commonly known as a dolmen.

Kit, (kt), v. t. [imp. Kitte.] To cut. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Kit, n. [See Kitten.] A kitten.

Kit fox (Zoöl.), a small burrowing fox (Vulpes velox), inhabiting the region of the Rocky Mountains. It is brownish gray, reddish on the breast and flanks, and white below. Called also swift fox.

Kit, n. [Gf. AS. cytere harp, L. cithara. Cf. Guitar.] A small violin. "A dancing master's kit." Grew.

Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance.

Dickens.

Kit, n. [Cf. D. kit a large bottle, OD. kitte beaker, decanter.] 1. A large bottle.

2. A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel. Wright.

3. A straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

4. A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.

5. A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them.

Kit"cat` (?), a. 1. Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies.

2. Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirty- six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club. Fairholt.

Kit"cat`, n. A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat. Cotton.