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Kyd"de (&?;), imp. of Kythe, to show. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Spenser erroneously uses kydst to mean "knowest."

Kyke (?), v. i. [See 1st Kike.] To look steadfastly; to gaze. [Obs.] [Written also kike, keke.]

This Nicholas sat ever gaping upright, As he had kyked on the newe moon.

Chaucer.

Ky"ley (?), n. A variety of the boomerang.

Ky"loes (?), n. pl. The cattle of the Hebrides, or of the Highlands. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Kym"nel (?), n. See Kimnel. [Obs.] Chapman.

Ky"mo*graph (?), n. [Gr. &?; wave + -graph.] (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; -- called also kymographion.

Ky`mo*graph"ic (?), a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to a kymograph; as, a kymographic tracing.

Kym"ric (?), a. & n. See Cymric, a. & n.

Kym"ry (?), n. See Cymry.

Kyn"rede (?), n. Kindred. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ky`nu*ren"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;, &?;, dog + &?; urine.] (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from the urine of dogs. By decomposition the acid yields a nitrogenous base (called kynurin) and carbonic acid. [Written also cynurenic.]

Kyr"i*e (?), n. See Kyrie eleison.

Kyr"i*e e*lei"son (?). [Gr. ky`rie 'elei^son .]

1. (R. C. Ch.) Greek words, meaning "Lord, have mercy upon us," used in the Mass, the breviary offices, the litany of the saints, etc. Addis & Arnold.

2. The name given to the response to the Commandments, in the service of the Church of England and of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Kyr`i*elle (?), n. [Cf. F. kyrielle.] A litany beginning with the words, "Kyrie eleison." Shipley.

{ Kyr"i*o*lex`y (?), Kyr`i*ol"o*gy (?), } n. [Gr. &?;, &?;. See Curiologic.] The use of literal or simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones. Krauth-Fleming.

Kyr`i*o*log"ic*al (?), a. [See Curiologic.] Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic. [Written also curiologic and kuriologic.]

The term is also applied, as by Warburton, to those Egyptian hieroglyphics, in which a part is put conventionally for the whole, as in depicting a battle by two hands, one holding a shield and the other a bow.

{ Kythe, Kithe (k) }, v. t. [imp. Kydde, Kidde (kd"de); p. p. Kythed (?), Kid; p. pr. & vb. n. Kything.] [OE. kythen, kithen, cuðen, to make known, AS. cðan, fr. cð known. √45. See Uncouth, Can to be able, and cf. Kith.] To make known; to manifest; to show; to declare. [Obs. or Scot.]

For gentle hearte kytheth gentilesse.

Chaucer.

Kythe, v. t. To come into view; to appear. [Scot.]

It kythes bright . . . because all is dark around it.

Sir W. Scott.