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<hw>Kist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Chest</er>.]</ety> <def>A chest; hence, a coffin.</def> <mark>[Scot. & Prov. End.]</mark>

<i>Jamieson. Halliwell.</i>

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<hw>Kist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Ar. <ets>gist</ets>.]</ety> <def>A stated payment, especially a payment of rent for land; hence, the time for such payment.</def> <mark>[India]</mark>

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<hw>Kist"vaen</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[W. <ets>cist-faen</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Arch\'91ol.)</fld> <def>A Celtic monument, commonly known as a <altname>dolmen</altname>.</def>

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<hw>Kit</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.</tt> <er>Kitte</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To cut. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Chaucer</i>.</def>

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<hw>t</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Kitten</er>.]</ety> <def>A kitten.</def>

<cs><col>Kit fox</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a small burrowing fox (<spn>Vulpes velox</spn>), inhabiting the region of the Rocky Mountains. It is brownish gray, reddish on the breast and flanks, and white below. Called also <altname>swift fox</altname>.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Kit</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gf. AS. <ets>cytere</ets> harp, L. <ets>cithara</ets>. Cf. <er>Guitar</er>.]</ety> <def>A small violin.</def> "A dancing master's <i>kit</i>."

<i>Grew.</i>

<blockquote>Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his <b>kit</b> with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance. <i>Dickens.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Kit</hw>, <tt>m.</tt> <ety>[Cf. D. <ets>kit</ets> a large bottle, OD. <ets>kitte</ets> beaker, decanter.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A large bottle.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; <as>as, a <ex>kit</ex> of butter, or of mackerel</as>.</def>

<i>Wright.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with <i>whole</i>, and generally contemptuously; <as>as, the whole <ex>kit</ex> of them</as>.</def> <-- now: the whole kit and kaboodle -->

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

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirtysix; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the <i>Kitcal</i> Club.</def>

<i>Fairholt.</i>

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