338 PROVINCIALISMS. 



To KEN (vulg. to keyn)\ to know: a word in 



common ufe. u Do you ken him ?" Do you know 



him ? 

 KENSBACK ; a thing known by fome finking 



mark is faid to be a kenfback. 

 To KEP j to catch, as a ball, or rain-water from 



the eaves of a houfe. 

 KERN; churn (probably Britifli). 

 KET ; carrion j and hence a word of reproach. 

 KIDS 5 faggots. 



KIE ; cows j the plural of tf ess." 

 KIMLIN j a large dough-tub. 

 KIN ; a chop in the hand, &c. 

 KIND j friendly, intimate. " They are as kaand 



as brothers." 

 KINK j a fit, orparoxifm j as, a (C kink of laughter," 



a violent fit of laughter : hence 

 KINK-COUGH j the hooping-cough. 

 KIRK ; church j ftill pretty common in the vul- 

 gar dialect. 

 KIST j cheft. 



KITE ; a vulgar name for the belly. 

 KITLING ; kitten, or young cat j Catling. 

 KITTLE ; ticklifli ; fenfibleto theAighteft touch; 



a&uated by the moft frivolous motive j unftable ^ 



tottering. 

 To KNACK j to attempt to fpeak the eftablifhed 



language j or to fpeak it affe&edly. 



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