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<hw>Kit"cat`</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a <i>cat</i>, shaped like two coned united at their bases; tipcat.</def>

<i>Cotton.</i>

<cs><col>Kitcat roll</col> <fld>(Agric.)</fld>, <cd>a roller somewhat in the form of two cones set base to base. <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Kitchen</h1> <Xpage=815>

<hw>Kitch"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>kichen</ets>, <ets>kichene</ets>, <ets>kuchene</ets>, AS. <ets>cycene</ets>, L. <ets>coquina</ets>, equiv. to <ets>culina</ets> a kitchen, fr. <ets>coquinus</ets> pertaining to cooking, fr. <ets>coquere</ets> to cook. See <er>Cook</er> to prepare food, and cf. <er>Cuisine</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery.</def>

<blockquote>Cool was his <b>kitchen</b>, though his brains were hot. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A fat <b>kitchen</b> makes a lean will. <i>Franklin.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A utensil for roasting meat; <as>as, a tin <ex>kitchen</ex></as>.</def>

<cs><col>Kitchen garden</col>. <cd>See under <er>Garden</er>.</cd> -- <col>Kitchen lee</col>, <cd>dirty soapsuds.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> " A brazen tub of <i>kitchen lee<i>." <i>Ford</i>. -- <col>Kitchen stuff</col>, <cd>fat collected from pots and pans.</cd></cs>

<i>Donne.</i>

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<hw>Kitch"en</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Kitchener</h1> <Xpage=815>

<hw>Kitch"en*er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A kitchen servant; a cook.</def>

<i>Carlyle.</i>

<h1>Kitchenmaid</h1> <Xpage=815>

<hw>Kitch"en*maid`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A woman employed in the kitchen.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

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<h1>Kitchen middens</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Kitch"en mid`dens</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[Dan. <ets>kj\'94k-kenm\'94ddings</ets> kitchen leavings; cf. Scot. <ets>midden</ets> a dunghill.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Kitchen-ry</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Kitch"en-ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The body of servants employed in the kitchen.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Holland.</i>

<h1>Kite</h1> <Xpage=816>

<hw>Kite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>kyte</ets>, AS.<ets>c<?/ta</ets>; cf. W. <ets>cud</ets>, <ets>cut</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Any raptorial bird of the subfamily <spn>Milvin\'91</spn>, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.</def>