klckup 
kickup (kik'up), ii. [< kick + />.] 1. A dis- 
turbance. [Slang.] 2. A steamboat with 
paddle-wheel astern. [Mississippi river.] 3. 
In Jamaica, the water-thrush, Siuru# nawiua or 
X. iHii'i-liitr/in n.ti.i: so called from the way it jerks 
its tail, like a wagtail : more fully called Bexxy 
kickuii. I'. II. Gosse. 
kid 1 (kid), . and a. [< ME. kid, ki<l<; ki,,l<l<; < 
Icel. kitili = Dan. Sw. kid = OHG. kizzi, chit:i 
(also kizgin, chissin), MHG. chit:e, kizze, kitee, 
Mi (also kitzin, cliizzin), G. kitze, kitz, a kid: 
prob. akin to E. chifl, q. v.] I. . 1. A young 
goat. 
Ilath any ram 
SHpp'd from the fold, or young kid lost bis dam ? 
MUton, Comus, 1. 498. 
2. The flesh of a young goat. 
Our attendants now produced some kid and dried dates, 
which, washed down with water and a touch of absinthe, 
formed our meal. Harper s Mag., LXXVII. 82. 
3. Leather made from the skiu of a kid, used 
in making shoes and gloves. Much of the lea- 
ther so used and sold as "kid" is made from 
other skins. 4. The roe deer in its first year. 
W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 508. 5. A child, 
especially a male child. [Slang.] 
I am old, yon say; 
Yes. parlous old, kids, an you mark me well ! 
Middleton, Maetinger, and Rowley, Old Law, ii i 2. 
The girl still held Oliver fast by the hand. . . . "So you 
got the kid, " said Slkes. />/,*.,-, Oliver Twist, xx. 
6. pi. Gloves made of kid or of the leather so 
called. See def. 3. 
The Haddens had been appropriated by a couple of 
youths In frockcoats and orthodox kidi, with a suspicion 
of moustaches. Mrs. Whitney, Leslie Goldthwaite, v. 
II. a. Made of kid or of the leather so called. 
See I., 3. Kid glove, a glove made of kid leather, or, 
In trade use, of other soft leather resembling kid. 
kid 1 (kid), v. t. or i. ; pret. and pp. kidded, ppr. 
kidding. [< kid 1 , n.~\ To bring forth (young): 
said especially of a goat. 
kid' 2 t. A Middle English preterit of kithe. 
kid' 2 t, !> a. [ME., also kyd, kydd, kud, ked, etc., 
pp. otkithen, make known : see kithe.'] Known ; 
well-known ; famous ; renowned: formerly, in 
poetry, a general term of commendation. 
In the castell were a cumpany, kyd men of Arrays, 
That enfouruiet were of fyght & the fet couthe. 
Destruction o/ Troy (E. E. T. S.), L 322-2. 
And thus he killez the knyghte with his kydd wapene ' 
Morte Arthwre (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1890. 
kid 3 (kid), . [Cf.fci/ 1 .] 1. A small tub; naut., 
a small tub or vessel in which sailors receive 
their food. 
The cook scraped his kids (wooden vessels out of which 
sailors eat) and polished the hoops, and placed them before 
the galley to await inspection. 
R. II. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 209. 
2. A box or wooden pen built on the deck of a 
fishing-vessel to receive fish as they are caught. 
Gu r ry-kid, a kid or tub used to contain the gurry taken 
from flsn. 
kid 4 (kid), n. [Early mod. E. kydde; < ME. 
'kid (in comp. kidberer); prob. < W. cidys, pi., 
fagots.] 1. A fagot or bundle, as of heath or 
furze. [Prov. Eng.] 
Kaggota or bundles of wood for firewood are called kidt 
in Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, and Lincolnshire. 
York Plays, Int., p. xxl. 
2. A bundle of sticks or brush planted on a 
beach to stop shingle or gather sand, to act as 
a groin. E. a. Knight. 3. A bundle of sticks 
or twigs strapped in front of the legs to help 
a rider to keep his seat on a bucking horse. 
[Australian.] 
The native explained that second- or third-rate riders 
very often made up a bundle of twigs, rolled up In a piece 
of cloth, which they bound across the saddle with these 
straps. This kid, as it is called, pressing firmly on the front 
of the legs, assists immensely in keeping a rider down in 
the suddle when a horse bucks heavily, but is at the same 
time dangerous. 
.1 C. Grant, Bush Life In Queensland, I. 109. 
kid* (kid), t'. t. ; pret. and pp. kidded, ppr. kid- 
ding. [< kid*, .] To bind up, as a fagot. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
kid 5 (kid), v. t.; pret. and pp. kidded, ppr. kid- 
ding. [Prob. <Wffl,n.,5.] To hoax; humbug; 
deceive. [Slang.] 
kid 5 (kid), . [< J-irfS, r.] A hoax ; humbug. 
No kid, without fooling or chaffing. [Slang, U. S. and Aus- 
tralia.] 
kidaris (kid'a-ris), . See cidfiris, 1. 
kidbearert, n". [ME. kidbmr: < kid* + bearer.] 
A fagot-bearer. 
Kidberers, Oarthyners, erthe wallers, pavers, dykers. 
Act of Mayor and Common Council of York, 1477, quoted 
[in York Plays, p. xxi., note. 
kidcotet (kid'kot), n. [Appar. < kiffr, p. a., 
known (i. e. public), + cote 1 , house (of deten- 
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tion). now kitty, q. v.] A common jail. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
On this much enduring bridge were also erected the 
chantry chapel of St. William, the hall of meeting of the 
town council, the "kidcote," or common gaol. 
S. and Q., 7th Ber., V. 406. 
kiddaw, kiddow (kid 'a, -6), n. [Corn.] A 
guillemot. [Cornwall, Eng.] 
In Cornwal they call the gullllam a kiddaw. 
Kay (1874), p. 01. (llallivtll.) 
kiddet. A Middle English preterit of kithe. 
kidder (kid'er), n. [Also kiddier ; origin ob- 
scure.] A forestaller; a huckster. 
Licensed . . . to be a common drover of cattle, Badger, 
Lader, Kidder, Carrier, and Buyer of Com, Grain, Butter 
and Cheese. 
License in time of Queen Anne. A. H. A. Hamilton's 
[Quarter Sew., p. 270. 
Kidderminster (kid'er-min-ster), n. A kind of 
carpet, named from the town in England where 
it was formerly principally manufactured, it is 
composed of two webs Interlaced together (hence also 
called two-ply carpet), consisting of a worsted warp and a 
woolen weft, both warp and weft appearing on each sur- 
face. It is also called ingrain carpet, from the material 
being dyed In the grain. Three-ply carpet Is an Improve- 
ment upon Kidderminster, admitting of a greater variety 
of colors and figures. 
kiddle 1 (kid'l), . [Also kidel, kittle, kettle; < 
ME. l.-iili'l, kiddel(Ali. kidellus, in MagnaCharta) ; 
< OF. quidel, later quideav (Cotgrave), a kiddle, 
prob. < Bret, kidel, a net at the month of a 
stream.] 1 . A weir or fence of stakes or twigs, 
set in a stream for catching fish. Kiddles for In- 
tercepting salmon and other fish are often mentioned In 
old statutes concerning rivers and havens. 
Amocion of kiddell under payne of x. pond, . . . the vi. 
article [viz. that all the weiia that ben in Thamls or in 
Medwey ... be don awaye, p. 16]. 
Arnold"! Chron., 1602 (ed. 1811), p. 1. 
For a small sum of money any rascal on the river could 
buy his license, and set up kidels in the Lea and in the 
Medway as well as in the Thames. 
//. Dixon, Her Majesty's Tower, p. 29. 
2. A fish-basket. [Pennsylvania.] 
kiddle 2 (kid'l), r.; pret. and pp. kiddled, ppr. 
kiddling. A dialectal variant of cuddle. 
kiddle 3 (kid'l), a. A dialectal variant of kittle^. 
kiddow, . See kiddaw. 
kiddy (kid'i), v. t.; pret. and pp. kiddied, ppr. 
kiddying. [Cf.WdS.J To hoax; cheat; "kid." 
Dickens. [Slang.] 
There they met with beggars who kiddied them on the 
lurk. Mayhem, London Labour and London Poor, I. 462. 
kidelt, . An obsolete form of kiddle 1 . 
kid-fox (kid'foks), n. A young fox. Compare 
kit-fox. [Rare.] 
The music ended, 
Well fit the kid-fox with a pennyworth. 
Shak., Much Ado, 1L 8, 44. 
kidge, a. See kedge^. 
kidling (kid'ling), . |j= Icel. kidhling; as kid* 
+ -ling 1 .] A young kid. 
Kidlingt, now, begin to crop 
Daisies In the dewy dale. 
J. Cunningham, Day, A Pastoral. 
kidnap (kid'nap), t'. t. ; pret. and pp. kidnapped, 
ppr. kidnapping. fOrig. a slang word, taken 
from the cant of thieves; < kid 1 , n., 5, + nap, 
a var. of nab, snatch.] To steal, abduct, or 
carry off forcibly (a human being, whether man, 
woman, or child). In law it sometimes implies 
a carrying beyond the jurisdiction. 
Brave Mar and Fanmnre were firm, I am sure ; 
The latter was kidnapt awa. 
Battle of Sheri/.Muir (Child's Ballads, VIL 158). 
The Janissaries, while they kept their first strength 
that strength which made the Ottoman power what It was 
were all kidnapped Christian children. 
I-'. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 427. 
kidnapper (kid'nap-er), n. One who kidnaps; 
a man-stealer or child-stealer. 
Enemies that have taken a Maid captive won't be guilty 
of such Barbarity as this ; nor will Kidnappers themselves, 
to those they have kidnapp'd away. 
A. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, II. 161. 
These people lye in wait for our children, and may be 
considered as a kind of kidnappers within the law. 
Spectator. 
kidnapping (kid 'nap -ing), . [Verbal n. of 
kidnap, r.] The act of stealing, abducting, or 
carrying off a human being forcibly. 
The other remaining offence, that of kidnapping, being 
the forcible abduction or stealing away of a man, woman, 
or child from their own country, and sending them into 
another, was capital by the Jewish law. 
Blaekstone, Com., IV. xv. 
kidneert, kidneret, . Middle English forms 
of kidney. 
kidney (kid'ni), . [< ME. kidney, kedney, kid- 
net, kidenei, a corruption of kidneer,kidnere,kide- 
iirrr, kideneire, < "kid, appar. for quith (E. dial, 
var. kite), the belly, + neer, Here, kidney: see 
kidney-cotton 
kite? and neer 2 .'] 1. In ana/., a glandular struc- 
ture whose function is the purification of the 
blood by the excretion of urine ; one of the renes 
or reins ; a renal organ. Kidneys are of very various 
shapes and positions In the body, and often of loosely tabu- 
lated structure. In the higher vertebrates they are always 
paired and of compact figure, tendiug to become bean- 
shaped glands, as In man. The kidneys of man are situ- 
ated In the loins, opposite the upper Ininbar vertebra, be- 
hind the peritoneum, embedded In fat, and capped by the 
adrenals or suprarenal capsules. The left is somewhat 
higher than the right, which leaves room for the liver. 
They are purplish-brown In color, about 4 Inches long, 2 j 
broad, and 1 J thick ; they weigh about 4) ounces. .Section 
displays an outer cortical substance, darker and softer than 
the rest, consisting chiefly of uriniferous tubules and MI- 
pighian corpuscle*. (See corpuscle.) The toner or medul- 
lary substance Is composed of numerous distinctly striated 
bases i 
cavity of the pelvis. There are from 8 to 18 such pyra- 
mids, composed mainly of minute straight and looped 
uriniferous tubules, which proceed from the cortical sub- 
stance to open on the papilla;. One such papilla, or a set 
of several papilla), protrudes Into a compartment of the 
general cavity called a calyx; the calyces unite in three in- 
fundibula, the beginnings of the 
general cavity of the kidney, the 
pelvis, which Is also the funnel- 
shaped beginning of the ureter, 
the tube by which the urine passes 
to the bladder. The hilum of the 
kidney Is the place on the median 
or concave side of the kidney, cor- 
responding to the place of the scar 
on a bean, where the ureter goes 
out, and where the vessels and 
nerves enter. The organs are abun- 
dantly supplied with nerves, blood- 
vessels, and lymphatics. In its 
minute and essential structure the 
kidney consists of a great number 
of branching, looped, and convo- 
luted epithelial tunes ((/>& urini- 
f'-ri). terminating in dilatations, 
each dilatation enveloping a plex* 
us of blood-vessels and forming iTp^o^WutinTof 
Section of Human Kidney. 
Ta renal capsule; 
or cortical por- 
* 
cones; d d, two of the pa- 
pillae, projecting into their 
corresponding calyces; 
e t e, the three infumllbu- 
la ; /. pelvis; f, ureter. 
a Malpighian body. These tubes. 
moreover.are abundantly supplied 
with blood-vessels. Malpighian 
bodies and tubules both share in 
the work of secreting, but there 
is reason to think that the former have to do with the 
secretion of the water and less important parts of the 
urine, while the elimination of the nitrogenous waste falls 
on the tubular epithelium. The kidneys, or, in the singu- 
lar as a collective noun, the kidney, as an important Inter- 
nal organ whose condition is a more or less accurate index 
of one s bodily health, and, as formerly thought, of one's 
"humor" or temperament, was formerly often spoken of 
(somewhat like liver,heart,tmcels, stomach, etc.) with refer- 
ence to one's constitution, temperament, temper, disposi- 
tion, or inward feelings. As thus used in the quotation from 
Shakspere, the word has been misunderstood, as if mean- 
ing ' sort ' or ' kind,' whence that use in later authors. 
Think of that a man of my kidney think of that; 
that am as subject to heat as butter ; a man of continual 
dissolution and thaw. Shak., M. W. of W., Ui. 5, 116. 
Talk no more of brave Nelson, or gallant Sir Sidney, 
1'is granted they're tars of a true British kidney. 
Song, Newcastle Bellman. (Brocket!.) 
2. Anything resembling a kidney in shape or 
otherwise, as a potato. 
The corn . . . rises again In the verdure of a leaf, in the 
fulness of the ear, in the kidneyi of wheat 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 18S6X II. S9. 
3. pi. The inmost parts ; the reins. 
Curse, curse, and then I goe. 
Look now he grins, I vo anger'd him to the kidneys. 
Fletcher (and another T) Nice Valour, Iv. 1. 
Heavn's bright Torches, from Earth's kidneys, sup 
Som somwhat dry and ln-atfull Vapours vp. 
Sylocttrr, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. _'. 
4t. A waiting-servant. [Cant.] 
It is our custom upon the first coming of the news to 
order a youth, who officiates as the kidney of the coffee 
house, to get into the pulpit, and read every paper with a 
loud and distinct voice. Taller, No. 268. 
Capsule of the kidney. See captule. Floating kid- 
ney, in patftal., a kidney which has become loose and dis- 
placed in the abdomen. Also called morabit kidney. 
Granular kidney. See granular. Surgical kidney, 
a term somewhat loosely applied to nephritic conditions 
secondary to mischief further down in the urinary tract, 
but especially to suppurative pyelonephritis arising from 
cystitis. 
kidney-bean (kid'ni -ben), n. A leguminous 
plant of the genus Pnaseolus, especially Pha- 
seolus mlgaris, the common twining kidney- 
bean of the gardens, also called French bean 
and haricot (see cut under haricot) : so called 
from the shape of the seeds, p. nanus, the field- or 
bush-bean, is perhaps only a variety of the common kidney- 
bean. The green pods of the common kidney-bean, with 
their content*, are eaten as a " string-bean, or the dry 
seeds are baked or boiled. Kidney-bean tree, a plant 
of either of the leguminous genera Wistaria and Qly- 
dne, especially the American wistaria frvtetoens and the 
Chinese W. Chinentis. Wild kidney-bean, Phateolus 
perennit, a slender, high-climbing bean, with small purple 
flowers, native in the Vnited States. 
kidney-cotton (kid'ni-kot'n), . A South 
American variety of long-stapled and black- 
