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Kitcat roll (Agric.), a roller somewhat in the form of two cones set base to base. [Prov. Eng.]

Kitch"en (kch"n), n. [OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.] 1. A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery.

Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot.

Dryden.

A fat kitchen makes a lean will.

Franklin.

2. A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.

Kitchen garden. See under Garden. -- Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. [Obs.] "A brazen tub of kitchen lee." Ford. -- Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. Donne.

Kitch"en, v. t. To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen. [Obs.] Shak.

Kitch"en*er, n. A kitchen servant; a cook. Carlyle.

Kitch"en*maid` (?), n. A woman employed in the kitchen. Shak.

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Kitch"en mid`dens (kch"n md`d'nz). [Dan. kjök-kenmöddings kitchen leavings; cf. Scot. midden a dunghill.] Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians.

Kitch"en-ry (-r), n. The body of servants employed in the kitchen. [Obs.] Holland.

Kite (kt), n. [OE. kyte, AS. cta; cf. W. cud, cut.]

1. (Zoöl.) Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinæ, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.

The European species are Milvus ictinus and M. migrans; the pariah kite of India is M. govinda; the sacred or Brahmany kite of India is Haliastur Indus; the American fork-tailed kite is the Nauclerus furcatus.

2. Fig. : One who is rapacious.

Detested kite, thou liest.

Shak.

3. A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.

4. (Naut.) A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.

5. (Geom.) A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry. Henrici.

6. Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill.

7. (Zoöl.) The brill. [Prov. Eng.]

Flying kites. (Naut.) See under Flying. -- Kite falcon (Zoöl.), an African falcon of the genus Avicida, having some resemblance to a kite.

Kite, v. i. To raise money by "kites;" as, kiting transactions. See Kite, 6.

Kite, n. The belly. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]