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offences committed within the same, and 

 of all contracts made therein. 



K.NIOHT'S FEE. Formerly, a portion of 

 land held by custom, sufficient to main- 

 tain a knight, to do service for the kin?. 



KNIOHT-SEK'VICE, a tenure of lands, ori- 

 ginally consisting in investiture of lands, 

 upon express condition that the person so 

 invested shall serve in the wars of his 

 lord. 



KNOT. 1. In nautical lanyuaye, a division 

 of the log-line, which answers to half-a- 



minute, as a mile does to an hour. 2. 



In ornithology, a fen bird, a species of 

 Tringa. 



KNOUT, a punishment in Russia, in- 

 flicted with a whip. 



KNOX'S POWDER consists of eight parts 

 of common salt, and three of chloride of 

 lime. 



KO'BOLD, Germ., spirit. Corresponding 

 to the English goblin. Supposed, in Ger- 

 many, to preside over all domestic opera- 

 tions. From this word the name of the 

 metal cobalt is derived. 



KOI/LYRITE, a variety of very pure clay 

 (silica 14, alumina 45, water 42). It be- 

 comes transparent in water, and falls to 

 pieces. 



KO'RAN, the Mohammedan book of 

 faith. See ALCORAN. 



KO'RIN, a species of antelope remark- 

 able for its slender horns. 



Kos, a Jewish measure of capacity, con- 

 taining about 4 cubic inches. The kos 

 was the cup of blessing, out of which 

 they drank when they gave thanks after 

 solemn meals. 



KOTH, a name given by the Spaniards 

 to an earthy slimy substance ejected 

 from the volcanoes of South America. 



KOTJ'MISS, the name of a liquor which 

 the Tartars make by fermenting mare's 

 milk, and from which they distil their 

 favourite intoxicating spirit called rack. 



KRAAL, a name among the Hottentots 

 for a village or collection of huts 



KRA'KEN, an immense sea-serpent, said 

 to be seen occasionally on the coasts of 

 Norway, and of late years on the North 

 American coasts. The accounts of these 

 monsters are so grossly overcharged, and 

 their dimensions so exaggerated, that it 

 is common to treat the whole as fable ; 

 yet some of the more recent accounts 

 seem to claim the attention of naturalists. 



KU'FIC LETTERS, the ancient letters of 

 the Arabic, thus denominated from Kufa 

 on the Euphrates. 



KUP'FERNICKEI,. False copper. A. sul- 

 phuret of nickel, and the most common 

 ore of that metal. 



KT'AK'S PATENT PREPARATION , a process 

 for preserving timber from the dry rot, 

 recently invented by Mr. Kyan, consist- 

 ing of a solution of corrosive sublimate 

 \j*rtVorid< of mercury) in which the tim- 



ber is immersed, whereby the primarj 

 element of fermentation is neutralised, 

 and the fibre of the wood rendered inde- 

 structible. 



KYR'IE, the first word of every mass in 

 music, implying " O Lord," and joined 

 with eleison signifies " O Lord have mercy 

 on us." 



L, the twelfth letter of the English 

 alphabet, is employed as a numeral to 

 denote 50, and with a dash over it, 50,000. 



LA. In music, the syllable by which 

 Guido denotes the last sound of each 

 hexachord. When it begins in C, it 

 answers to one A: when in G, to E : and 

 when in F, to D. 



LAB'ADISTS, a heretical sect, founded by 

 Jean de Labadie, who held that God can 

 and does deceive men, that the obser- 

 vance of the Sabbath is not required, &c. 



LABARRA'QCE'S DISINFECTING LIQUID. A 

 solution of carbonate of soda impregnated 

 with chlorine. 



LAB 'ARUM, the imperial standard, upon 

 which Constantine, after his conversion, 

 blazoned the monogram of Christ. The 

 Roman- labarum was a rich purple stream- 

 er supported on a spear, and always borne 

 before the emperors. 



LAB'DANCM, or LADANUM, an unctuous 

 resin, found besmearing the twigs and 

 leaves of the cystus creticus, a shrub which 

 grows in the Grecian Islands, and in 

 Syria : used chiefly in surgery for making 

 plasters. The best is in dark-coloured mas- 

 ses, almost black ; but the impurities of the 

 best kinds amount to abcut t of the whole. 



LA'BEL, from \Vel.Wa6,a strip. 1. Anar- 

 row strip or slip of paper or parchment, 

 containing a name or title, and affixed to 

 anything, as an apothecary's bottle, a 



deed in writing, &c. 2. A long brass 



rule, with a small sight at one end of it, 

 and a centre hole at the other, commonly 

 used with a tangent line on the edge of 

 a circumferentor to take altitudes, &c. 



3. In heraldry, a fillet with pendants 



or points, usuaUy three in number. It 

 is commonly an addition to the arms of 

 a second brother, and is esteemed the 

 most honourable of differences. 



LABBL'LUM (Lat.), a little lip. A term 

 in botany for one of the three pieces 

 forming the coroHa in orchideous plants. 

 It differs in size and form from the other 

 two, and is often spurred. 



LA'BIA, the lips : plural of labium, a 

 lip. 2. Corollas of plants are often dis- 

 tinguished by their labia. 



LA'BIALS, lip-letters. A name for such 

 letters as are pronounced chiefly by 

 means of the lips (labia.) 



LABIA'T^E, a natural order of plants 



