Kapia () The fossil resin of the kauri tree of New Zealand.

Kapnomar () ) See Capnomor.

Karagane () A species of gray fox found in Russia.

Karaism () Doctrines of the Karaites.

Karaite () A sect of Jews who adhere closely to the letter of the Scriptures, rejecting the oral law, and allowing the Talmud no binding authority; -- opposed to the Rabbinists.

Karatas () A West Indian plant of the Pineapple family (Nidularium Karatas).

Karma () One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

Karmathian () One of a Mohammedan sect founded in the ninth century by Karmat.

Karn () A pile of rocks; sometimes, the solid rock. See Cairn.

Karob () The twenty-fourth part of a grain; -- a weight used by goldsmiths.

Karpholite () A fibrous mineral occurring in tufts of a straw-yellow color. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and manganese.

Karroos () of Karreo

Karreo () One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations.

Karstenite () Same as Anhydrite.

Karvel () See Carvel, and Caravel.

Karyokinesis () The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell.

Karyokinetic () Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division.

Karyomiton () The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, or the network in the body of the cell.

Karyoplasma () The protoplasmic substance of the nucleus of a cell: nucleoplasm; -- in opposition to kytoplasma, the protoplasm of the cell.

Karyostenosis () Direct cell division (in which there is first a simple division of the nucleus, without any changes in its structure, followed by division of the protoplasm of the karyostenotic mode of nuclear division.

Kasack () Same as Cossack.

Kat () An Arabian shrub Catha edulis) the leaves of which are used as tea by the Arabs.

Katabolic () Of or pertaining to katabolism; as, katabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.

Katabolism () Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; -- opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.

Katastate () (Physiol.) A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.

Kate () The brambling finch.

Kathetal () Making a right angle; perpendicular, as two lines or two sides of a triangle, which include a right angle.

Kathetometer () Same as Cathetometer.

Kattinumdoo () A caoutchouc like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.

Katydid () A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidae, common in the United States. The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did, whence the name.

Kauri () A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, / Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin.

Kava () A species of Macropiper (M. methysticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself.

Kavasses () of Kavass

Kavass () An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier.

Kaw () See Caw.

Kawaka () a New Zealand tree, the Cypress cedar (Libocedrus Doniana), having a valuable, fine-grained, reddish wood.

Kawn () An inn.

Kayak () A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes.

Kayaker () One who uses a kayak.

Kayko () The dog salmon.

Kayles () A game; ninepins.

Kaynard () A lazy or cowardly person; a rascal.

Kecked () of Keck

Kecking () of Keck

Keck () To heave or to retch, as in an effort to vomit.

Keck () An effort to vomit; queasiness.

Keckle () See Keck, v. i. & n.

Keckled () of Keckle

Keckling () of Keckle

Keckle () To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice.

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