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Klick (?), n. & v. See Click.

Klick"et (?), n. [Cf. Clicket.] (Mil.) A small postern or gate in a palisade, for the passage of sallying parties. [Written also klinket.]

Klink"stone` (?), n. See Clinkstone.

Kli*nom"e*ter (?), n. See Clinometer.

{ Klip"das (?), Klip"dachs` (?) }, n. [D. klip cliff + das badger, akin to G. dachs.] (Zoöl.) A small mammal (Hyrax Capensis), found in South Africa. It is of about the size of a rabbit, and closely resembles the daman. Called also rock rabbit.

Klip"fish` (?), n. Dried cod, exported from Norway. [Written also clipfish.]

Klip"spring`er (?), n. [D., lit., cliff springer.] (Zoöl.) A small, graceful South African antelope (Nanotragus oreotragus), which, like the chamois, springs from one crag to another with great agility; -- called also kainsi. [Written also klippspringer.]

||Kloof (?), n. [D. See Clove a cleft.] A glen; a ravine closed at its ||upper end. [South Africa] || Klo`pe*ma"ni*a (?), n. [Gr. kloph` theft + E. mania.] See Kleptomania.

Knab (nb), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Knabbed (nbd); p. pr. & vb. n. Knabbing.] [See Nab, v. t., and cf. Knap, v. t.] 1. To seize with the teeth; to gnaw. "Knabbing crusts." [Obs.] L'Estrange.

2. To nab. See Nab, v. t. [Colloq.]

Knab"ble (?), v. i. [Freq. of knab.] To bite or nibble. [Obs.]

Horses will knabble at walls, and rats gnaw iron.

Sir T. Browne.

Knack (nk), v. i. [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. G. knacken to break, Dan. knage to crack, and E. knock.] 1. To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Bp. Hall.

2. To speak affectedly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Knack, n. 1. A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.

A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap.

Shak.

2. A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity.

The fellow . . . has not the knack with his shears.

B. Jonson.

The dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme.

Swift.

3. Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device. "The knacks of japers." Chaucer.

For how should equal colors do the knack !

Pope.

Knack"er (?), n. 1. One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc. Mortimer.

2. One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper. Halliwell.