KAI SUI'PLEMENT. KYP 



I kernels, it becomes the liqueur known u 

 J\ I iioyau. 



I KISH, a substance resembling plumbago in 



UAIXOZOIC, the tertiary formation of appearance, found sometimes in smelting 

 gec!oy. I furnaces for iron. It is composed of man- 



is. * f XK.V R, aai: < e phosphate of iron. I ganese and carbon. 



iu^.iuA.iK.A, a popular Hungarian dance. KITT, the name of a composition used in 



iJii*. SEA, the Crambe Maritima. I waterproofing canvas. It consists of 60 parts 



E.A.VSVEKKRITE, hydrated silicate of alu- resin> 55 parts pitch, 55 parts bees' was, 

 mi'ifi And magnesia found sometunes along au( j ^5 p ar t s tallow, by weight, boiled to- 

 vich chromate of iron. gether slowly. It also adheres to metal. 



KAMPTULICON, a variety of floor-cloth Kivi-Kivi.the Apteryx, XtwiroZwof New 

 composed of gutta-percha, india-rubber, and 2 ea i an d. 

 cork. I KLINOMETER, an instrument for mea- 



KANEITE, native arsenical manganese. I gur i ng the inclination of strata to the 



KAREHNITE, an oxysulphide of bis- horizon 

 muth. I KNEPH, a ram-headed divinity of th 



KATHETOMETER, an instrument for mea- ancient Egyptians called AMEN-BA, or by 

 suring heights, consisting of a telescope tne Q ree ^ s AMMON. 



sliding up and down upon a graduated scale,! KOALA, the Phascolarctos, a marsupial 

 and furnished with cross wir. s to intersect^^^ped of Australasia, 

 the field of view. Minute differences in KOFF, a small two-masted Dutch fishing 

 height are thus determiaable by sliding the vesge i -^th a large sprit sail abaft each 

 telescope up or down, when two different mast 

 heights are to be compared. I KOXIORB, an emerald-coloured variety of 



KEELING, the Morrhuavulgari*, or com- tne m i nera i Brochantite. 

 mon cod-fish. KOTTIGITE, a native arsenate of zinc with 



KENTISH RAG, part of the lowest creta-' nickel and co balt, found in Saxony, and 

 ceous group of England, yielding a tough and conta ining also a trace of lime, 

 durable building stone. I KREATINE, an organic crystallisable sub- 



KERATONYXIS, the operation of couching,' s t ance found in the muscular fibre of ani- 

 as performed by the German surgeons, by ma ig _ n n Q w , HO. 

 introducing a needle through the cornea,,! 



and breaking or depressing the opaque lens KREMNITZ WHITE, a very pure variety of 

 of the eye. This distinctive name is from! carbonate of lead, or white lead, tt is the 

 Kepas, "a horn," and J/uiS, " a punc- finest flake white pigment of artists, 

 ture," puncturing the cornea. i KRUM HORN, an old cornet-like musical 



KERMESITE, oxysulphide of antimony, 'instrument. It is said to have given name 



KERNED, in typography, letters which to the Cremona stop of the organ ; but see- 

 have part of their faces hanging over either ing how the name Cremona is connected 

 or both sides of their bodies. otherwise with music, this may b disputed 



KEROLITE. a hydrated silicate of man- i KUHNITE, a native arsenal* of lime an 

 gauese. magnesia. 



KEUPER, the upper division of the Trias KDNK.UR, a remarkable deposit of tt 

 in the Continental geology of Europe. ] wide-spread peninsula of India, analogoa* 



KHCS-KHUS, the Andropogon Murica- to, and corresponding in character and cir- 

 tus, a fragrant grass of India; spelt also cumstances with, the glacial drift of Northern 

 "cuscus." [Europe and America. It is found ai a 



KIESEL SCHIEFER, a siliceous schistose deposit on att levels, even as high as 3,00ft 

 deposit found in the lower division of the feet above the sea. From the different level* 

 upper carboniferous rocks of the Rhine and on which it is found it obviously cannot be 

 elsewhere. the result of deposits on an ancient and 



KIKEK.UNEMALO, an excellent varnish gradually elevated sea-bed, but must have 

 resin of America, resembling copal, and in been deposited after the permanent ar- 

 ome places used medicinally. rangement of heights and depressions of 



KIMERIDQE CLAY, a thick blue slate- India. 



clay deposit of England, containing car- KUPFERBLENDE, copperblend or Ten- 

 bouate and sulphate of lime, at the base of antite, with part of the iron replaced b/ 

 the upper division of the English oolite, and zinc. 



containing the Kimeridge coal, a bituminous KURRAJONO, an Australian fibre an3 

 shale. ' series of fibrous plants, including Commtr- 



KIRSCHWASSER, an alcoholic liquor pro- sonia platyphylla, Hibiscus heterophylltti, 

 duced ty fermenting the small sweet black Plagianthus sidoides, and others, 

 cherry, the cherry-water of Germany. KYANISE, to preserve timber by Kyan'e 

 "When distilled and sweetened, and flavoured patent preparation, q. v. 

 With the almond flavour of the bruised KYPUOLITE, a variety of serpentine. 

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