kibbler 
ing or cutting beans and peas for cattle. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
kibbling (kib'ling), n, [Appar. verbal n. of 
kibble^, v., as a small bit cut off.] A part of a 
small fish used as bait by fishermen on the 
banks of Newfoundland. Also spelled Tabling. 
kibdelophane (kib-del'o-fan), n. [< Gr. /3oV 
/tof, spurious, base, + -V"TC, appearing, < <j>ai- 
vcatiai, appear.] A variety of ilmenite ortitanic 
iron ore. 
kibe (kib), n. [Appar. < W. cibi (fern, y gibi), 
a chilblain ; of. cibwst, chilblains, prob. < cib, a 
cup, + gwst, a humor, malady.] A chap or crack 
in the flesh, caused by cold; an ulcerated chil- 
blain, as on the heel. 
My followers grow to my heels like kibes I cannot stir 
out of doora for 'era. Chapman, Monsieur D'Olive, v. 1. 
Fat. I am almost out at heels. 
Pist. Why, then, let kibes ensue. 
Shak., M. W. of W., L 3, 35. 
kibed (klbd), a. [< kibe + -ed 2 .] Chapped; 
cracked with cold; affected with chilblains: 
as, kibed heels. 
Kibessia (ki-bes'i-a), n. [NL. (A. P. de Can- 
dolle, 1828), from the Javanese name of the 
plant. ] A genus of polypetalous plants belong- 
ing to the natural order Lythrariece, or, accord- 
ing to some authors, to the Melastomaeece, tribe 
AstroniecB, type of the old suborder Kibessiece, 
characterized by having the irregular somewhat 
4-lobed limb of the hood-shaped calyx warty 
and spinous (the spines sometimes barbed at 
the tip), 8 stamens, and a 4-celled ovary. They 
are smooth shrubs with angled or winged branches, coria- 
ceous, oblong-ovate, 3-nerved leaves, obtuse at the atten- 
uate apex, and large blue flowers on axillary, 1- to 3-ftow- 
ered peduncles. Thirteen species have been described, in- 
habiting the Malay archipelago and Philippine Islands. 
Kibessieas (kib-e-si'e-e), n. pi. [NL. (Naudin, 
1859), < Kibessia +'-ew.~\ A suborder of me- 
lastomaceous plants, typified by the genus Ki- 
bessia : nearly the same as the tribe Astroniece. 
kibin (kib'in), n. [W. c%.] A Welsh corn- 
measure, equal to half a bushel. 
kibitka (ki-bit'ka), n. [Russ. kibitka, the tilt 
or cover of r '-L 
a wagon, a i 
tilt-wagon, 
a Tatar tent; 
of Tatar ori- 
gin.] 1. A 
circular tent 
used by the 
Kirghiz and 
other Ta- 
tars, it is 
about 12 feet 
in diameter, 
with a rounded 
top. The sides 
are formed of 
collapsible 
Kibitka, or Kirghiz Tent. 
folding lattice-work, and the roof of slender, slightly 
curved poles ; both sides and roof are covered with thick 
felt. There is an opening for smoke and a flap for the 
door. 
2. A Russian cart or wagon with a rounded top, 
covered with felt or leather. It serves as a kind 
of movable habitation, and is used for traveling 
in winter. 
Formerly the journey from Novogorod to Moscow was 
most painfully accomplished in ninety hours in a kibitka 
a cart, or rather a cradle for two, in which the driver 
... sat close to the horses' tails, the hinder part of the 
cart being shaded by a semicircular hood of laths covered 
with birch bark. These vehicles have no springs, and are 
fastened together by wooden pegs. The luggage is placed 
at the bottom, and covered by a mattress, upon which an 
abundant supply of feather-beds alone renders the jolt- 
ing endurable. A. J. C. Hare, Russia, y. 
kiblah (kib'lii), n. [Ar. qibla, that which is 
opposite, the South, < qabl, before, qabala, be 
opposite.] The point toward which Moham- 
medans turn in prayer. This was, according to Mo- 
hammedan authorities, at first the Kaaba in Mecca, but 
after the flight to Medina it was for some time Jerusalem, 
and then again changed to Mecca. Any object of strong 
desire or devotion is also spoken of as a kiblah. 
There have been few incidents more disastrous in then- 
consequences to the human race than this decree of Mo- 
hammed changing the Kibla from Jerusalem to Mekka. 
Had he remained true to his earlier and better faith, the 
Arabs would have entered the religious community of the 
nations as peacemakers, not as enemies and destroyers. 
Osborne, Islam under the Arabs, p. 58. 
kibling (kib'ling), n. See kibbling. 
kibosh (ki-bosh'), n. [Also kybosh; a slang 
word, of obscure origin.] The form, manner, 
style, or fashion of something ; the thing : as, 
that is the proper kibosh; full dress is the cor- 
rect kibosh for the opera. [Slang.] 
kiby (ki'bi), a. [< kibe + -j 1 .] Affected with 
kibes or chilblains. 
3282 
And he haltith often that hath a kyby hele. 
Sketton, Garlande of Laurell. 
kichelt, kitchelt, [< ME. kichil, kechel, < 
AS. eicel, a cake ; prob. akin to cake 1 , cooky.'] A 
small cake. Also spelled kichil God's kichel. 
See Godi. 
Gil us a busshel whete, malt, or reye, 
A Goddes kechyl [var. kichil], or a trype of chese. 
Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, 1. 39. 
kick (kik), v. [< ME. kiken, < W. cicio (colloq. ), 
kick (cf . cic, foot), = Gael, ceig, kick.] I. trans. 
1. To give a thrust or blow to with the foot; 
strike with the foot: as, to kick a dog; to kick 
an obstruction out of one's way. 
And by mute 
Disdain kicks back what Words could not refute. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, vi. 34. 
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, 
But why did you kick me down stairs? 
J. P. KemMe, The Panel, i. 1. 
There he watches yet ! 
There like a dog before his master's door ! 
Kicfd, he returns. Tennyson, Pelleas and Ettarre. 
2. To strike in recoiling : as, an overloaded gun 
kicks the shoulder. 
Some muskets so contrive it 
As oft to miss the mark they drive at. 
And, though well aimed at duck or plover, 
Bear wide, and kick their owners over. 
J. Trumbull, McFingal, L 96. 
3. In printing, to operate or effect by impact 
of the foot on a treadle : used with relation to 
some kinds of small job-presses : as, to kick a 
Gordon press ; to kick off a thousand impres- 
sions. [U. S.] 4. Testing, as a wasp. [Prov. 
Eng.] 5. To reject, as a suitor; jilt. [Vulgar, 
southern TJ. S.] To kick one's heels. See heeli. 
To kick the beam. See beam. To kick the bucket. 
See bucket. To kick up a row or a dust. See dusti. 
II. intrans. 1. To strike out with the foot; 
have the habit of striking with the foot: as, a 
horse that kicks. 
For trewAy ther is noon of us alle, 
If any wight wol clawe us on the galle, 
That we nel kike, for he seith us sooth. 
Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 85. 
They contemn all physic of the mind, 
And, like galled camels, kick at every touch. 
B. Jonsm, Every Man out of his Humour, Ind. 
2. To thrust out the foot with violence, as in 
wantonness, resistance, anger, or contempt. 
Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven. 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 3, 93. 
Hence 3. To manifest opposition or strong 
objection; offer resistance. [Now chiefly 
slang.] 
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, 
which I have commanded? 1 Sam. ii. 29. 
You hold the woman is the better man : 
A rampant heresy, such as, if it spread, 
Would make all women kiek against their Lords. 
Tennyson, Princess, iv. 
In a late number you maintain strongly that it is the 
duty of persons suffering from overcharges, insolence, and 
other forms of oppression to kick. You urge that the op- 
pressor argues from our American charity, "bearing all 
things " with silent fortitude, that we, the people, rather 
like it ; and you insist that a part of our debt to society 
is invariably, systematically, quickly, continuously, and 
powerfully "to kick." The Nation, XLVIII. 137. 
4. To recoil, as a musket or other firearm. 
5. To stammer. Devonshire Dial., p. 72. [Prov. 
Eng.] -TO kick against the pricks. Seeprict.-To 
kick off, in foot-ball, to give the nail the first kick which 
starts the play. To kick over the traces, to throw off 
control; become insubordinate. [Colloq.] 
kick (kik), n. [< kick, v.~\ 1. A blow or thrust 
with the foot. 
A kiek that scarce would move a horse 
May kill a sound divine. Cowper, Yearly Distress. 
2. In foot-ball : (a) The right of or a turn at 
kicking the ball. (6) One who kicks or kicks off. 
He's . . . the best kick and charger at Rugby. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 6. 
3. The recoil of a firearm when discharged. 
But he [Mr. Lowe] and I must alike be prepared to stand 
the recoil of our own guns, even though the kick may be 
inconvenient. Gladstone, Gleanings, I. 134. 
4. A sudden and strong objection ; unexpected 
resistance. [Slang.] 5. The projection on 
the tang of the blade of a pocket-knife by which 
the blade is prevented from striking the spring 
in the act of closing. 6. A cleat or block 
on the stock-board of a brick-molders' bench, 
which serves to make a key in the brick. 7. 
A die for bricks. 8. Fashion; novelty; thing 
in vogue. [Slang, Eng.] 
'Tis the kick, I say, old un, so I brought it down. 
Dibdin. 
9. The indentation or inner protuberance of a 
molded glass bottle. [Slang, Eng.] 
kickumbob 
What it (a bottle] holds if it's public-house gin is uncer- 
tain : for you must know, sir, that some bottles has great 
kicks at their bottoms. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 511. 
10. j>?. Trousers. [Slang, Eng.] Drop kick, in 
foot-ball, a kick made as the ball, dropped from the hand, 
rises with a bound from the ground. 
Tom . . . performed very creditably, after first driving 
his foot three inches into the ground, and then nearly 
kicking his leg into the air, in vigorous efforts to accom- 
plish a drop-kick after the manner of East. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Kugby, i. 5. 
Place kick, in foot-ball, a kick made while the ball is sta- 
tionary on the ground. 
kickable (kik'a-bl), a. [< kick + -able.] That 
may be kicked ; deserving to be kicked. 
The epitome of nothing, fitter to be kickt, if shee were 
of a kickable substance, than either honour'd or humour'd. 
N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 26. 
Bigg was a most unengaging, kickable boy. 
George JSKot, Middlemarch, xli. 
kickee (ki-ke'), . [< kick, v., + -eel.] One 
who is kicked. [Rare and jocose.] 
He ... was seen . . . kicking him at the same time in 
the most ignominious manner ; and in return to all de- 
mands on the part of the kickee to know the reason for 
such outrage, simply remarking "You are Pigviggin." 
Savage, R. Medlicott, iii. 8. 
kicker (kik'er), i. 1. One who or that which 
kicks. 
Cham. 'Twas seme forc'd match. 
If he were not kick'd to th' church o' the wedding day, 
I'll never come at court. Can be no otherwise. 
Perhaps he was rich ; speak, Mistress Lapet, was 't not so ? 
Mist. Lapet. Nay, that's without all question. 
Cham. Oho, he would not want kickers enow then. 
Fletcher (and another 1 !), Nice Valour, i. 
2. One who offers strong, and especially unex- 
pected or perverse, opposition; one who ob- 
jects or opposes ; abolter. Cf. kick, v.i.,3; w.,4. 
There is of course a class of chronic kickers who are al- 
ways finding fault. Elect. Rev. (Amer-X XIII. 6. 
kickie-wickiet (kik'i-wik'i), a. and. Same as 
kicksy-wicksy. Shak. 
kickish (kik'ish), a. [< kick + -is/l.] Irritable. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
Is Majestas Imperii growne so kickish that it cannot 
stand quiet with Salus Populi, unlesse it be fettered ? 
N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 59. 
kickle (kik'l), a. Uncertain; unsteady; fickle; 
tottering. Also keckle. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
kick-off (kik'of), n. The first kick in a game 
of foot-ball. 
Away goes the ball spinning towards the school goal ; 
seventy yards before it touches ground, and at no point 
above twelve or fifteen feet high, a model kick-off. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Kugby, i. 5. 
kickshaw (kik'sha), n. [Prop, kickshaws, sing.; 
formerly also kickshose, kickshoes, kecksJtose, kek- 
shoes (simulating kick + shoes), earlier quelk- 
chose, orig. quelquechose, < F.quelque chose, some- 
thing: see quelquechose.'] 1. Something fan- 
tastical or uncommon ; something trifling, not 
otherwise named or described, or that has no 
particular name. 
Sir And. . . . I delight in Maskes and Reuels sometimes 
altogether. 
Sir To. Art thou good at these kicke-chawses, Knight? 
Shak., Twelfth Night (fol. 1623), i. 3, 122. 
2. A light, unsubstantial dish, or kind of food. 
Salads, broths, sauces, stewed meats, and other kick- 
shaws. Chapman, May-Day, iv. 4. 
A joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, 
tell William cook. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 1, 29. 
kicksies (Mk'siz), n. pi. [< kicks, n.: see kick, 
n., 10.] Trousers. [Slang, Eng.] 
A pair of kerseymere kicksies, any colour, built very 
slap-up. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 53. 
kicksy-wicksyt (kik'si-wik'si), a. and n. [Also 
kicky-wicky, Tcickie-wickie, and kicksy-winsif, 
kicksey-tvintsey, kicksee-winsee, the second ele- 
ment perhaps a sophisticated form, to bring 
in an etym. explanation from wince (formerly 
also winse) ; prob. a mere redupl. of kick, va- 
ried in the repetition, with term, -y 1 , or equiv. 
-sy, adj. suffix.] I. a. Flickering; uncertain; 
restless. 
Perhaps an ignis f atuus now and then 
Starts up in holes, stinks, and goes out agen ; 
Such kicksy-uicksy flames shew but how dear 
Thy great light's resurrection would be here. 
Poems subjoined to B. Fletcher's Epigrams. 
II. . A man's wife : occurring only in the 
following passage, where it is used ludicrously 
and without definite signification: 
He weal's his honour in a box unseen, 
That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home. 
Shot., All's Well, ii. 3, 297. 
kickumbobt, n. [Irreg. < kick or kickshaw, with 
term, as in thingumbob.'] A thingumbob; a 
" what's-its-name." John Taylor, 1630. 
