king 
[CYI/).] The eleventh and twelfth books 
3ible. In Hebrew manuscripts they are undi- 
4. pi. . 
of the Bib! 
vided, and form a continuous narrative of the Hebrew 
people from the later days of King David to the captivity 
of Judah in Babylon. The division into two books was 
first made in the Septuagint and retained in the Vulgate, 
in both of which they are named the third and fourth books 
of Kings (the two books of Samuel being the first and sec- 
ond); hence, in the English Bible, the double title "The 
first book of the Kings, commonly called the third book 
of the Kings," etc. The period embraces the reigns of all 
the kings of Israel and Judah, except Saul's and most of 
David's. The work was probably composed substantially 
before the end of the captivity. The authorship is uncer- 
tain. 
5. A red-finned herring. [West of Eng.] 
Apostolic king. See aposMic. Chambers of the kingt. 
See chamber. Champion of the king. See champion!. 
Clerk comptroller of the king's household, clerk of 
the king's silver. See clerk. Court of King's Bench. 
See court. Divine right of kings. See divine. Era of 
kings. See era. Keeper of the king's conscience, the 
lord chancellor. See chancellor, 3 (a). King at arms. 
See king-at-arms. King Charles spaniel. See spaniel. 
King Closer, in arch. See closer! (6). King Cotton, 
an expression much used in the United States for a few 
years before the civil war, in allusion to the commercial 
preeminence of cotton in the South. King James Bible. 
See Bible, 1. King of fish, the salmon, Salmo solar. 
King of misrule. Same as lord of misrule (which see, 
under lord). King of terrors, death. 
It [destruction] shall bring him to the king of terrors. 
Job xviii. 14. 
King of the ant-eaters. See ant-eater. King of the 
breams, Pagettus ert/thrinus. Kiag of the herrings, 
(a) The allice shad. [Local, Eng.] (B) The Chimceramon- 
strosa. [Local, Scotch (Shetland).] King of the mullets, 
thecommon bass. [Belfast, Ireland.] King of the sal- 
mon, a fish, Trachypterus altivelis. It has a very com- 
pressed body, dorsal and ventral fins with about seven 
mostly branched rays, and a bright silvery color varied by 
three large spots below the dorsal ftn. It inhabits deep 
water along the Pacific coast of both North and South 
America. King of the sea-breams. Same as becker. 
King's advocate. Same as lord advocate (which see, un- 
der advocate). King's beadsman. Same as Hue-gown. 
King's Bishop's gambit. See gambit. King's coun- 
sel, enemy, evidence. See the nouns. King's evil. 
See eraH and touch-piece. King's freeman, in Scotland, 
a title formerly given to a person who, on account of his 
own service or that of his fathers to the state, had a pecu- 
liar statutory right to exercise a trade as a freeman, with- 
out entering with the corporation of the particular trade 
which he exercised. Such a person might move from 
place to place and carry on his trade within the bounds of 
any corporation. King's gambit. See gambit. King's 
letter. Same as brief, 2 (d). King's list. See lists. 
King's scholar. See scholar. King's yellow. See ar- 
senic, a. Marshal of the King's Bench. Seemarshal. 
Marshal of the king's household. Sam e as knight mar- 
shal (which see, under knight). The king's English. 
See English. The king's language*, the king's English. 
Your Grace ... on this subject reproving your cour- 
teoures, quha on a new conceat of finnes sum tymes spilt 
(as they cal it) the king's language. 
A. Hume, Orthographic (E. E. T. S.), Ded., p. 2. 
Three kings of Cologne, the Three Kings, the three 
wise men of the East, Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar. 
=Syn. 1. Sovereign, etc. See prince. 
king 1 (king), v, [< king 1 , .] I. trans. 1. To 
supply with a king. 
For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd, 
Her sceptre so fantastically borne 
By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, 
That fear attends her not. Shak., Hen. V. , ii. 4, 26. 
3290 kingfish 
leaves set erect upon a golden circle ; nine leaves appear in vegetation from taking root. L. F. Ward, Botanical Ga- 
the representations. Each king-at-arms has his official es- zette, XIV. 14. [Northern New York.] 
cutcheon, which he impales on the dexter side, with his kingdom (king ' dum), n. [< ML. Kingdom, 
own paternal arms on the sinister. kyngdom, < AS. cyniiigdom (= OS. Tatningddm = 
king-auk (king'ak), n. The great auk, Alca MD _ koninkdom, D. koningdoin = G. konigthum 
impennis. _ i ce i. konungdon/r = Dan. kongedomme = Sw. 
king-bird (king'berd), n. 1. A tyrant fly- itommgadomc), kingly power, < cyning, king, + 
catcher, Tyrannus caroltnensis, abundant in the rf(5Wj jurisdiction: see kingl and -dom. This 
King-bird or Bee-martin ( Tyrann 
carolinensis). 
2. To make royal ; raise to royalty. 
Those traitorous captains of Israel who kinged them- 
selves by slaying their masters and reigning in their stead. 
South, Works, XI. it 
II. intrans. To perform the part of king ; act 
the king: with an indefinite it. 
The News here is that Lambeth-House bears all the 
sway at Whitehall and the Lord Deputy kings it notably 
in Ireland. Howell, Letters, ii. 28. 
king 2 (king), n. [Chin.] 1. The collective 
name in China for the books edited or compiled 
by Confucius, and forming with the Four Books 
(see analect) the classics of the country. 2. 
In Chinese translations of Buddhist Scriptures, 
the equivalent of sutra (which see). 
king 3 (king), n. [Chin.] A Chinese musical 
instrument, of very ancient origin, consisting 
of sixteen suspended stones or metallic plates 
United States (also 
called bee-martin), 
or some other spe- 
cies of the same ge- 
nus, as the gray king- 
bird, Tyrannus do- 
minicensis. 2. Any 
bird of the family 
. ty- 
flycatcher. 
king-bolt(king'bolt), 
. 1. A large bolt 
connecting the fore 
part of a carriage 
with the fore axle. 
The axle rotates 
about it as a joint 
when the carriage is 
turned. 2. A large 
bolt which passes 
through the truck 
and body-bolsters and center-plates of a car- 
body and the center of a truck. Car-Builder's 
Diet. 
Also king-pin. 
king-by-your-leavet, n. An old game of hide- 
and-seek. 
[King-by-your-leave] A playe that children have, where 
one sytting blyndefolde in the midle bydeth so tyll the 
rest have hydden themselves, and then he going to seeke 
them, if any get his place in the meane space, that same 
is kynge in his roume. Huloet, 1572. 
king-crab (king'krab), n. 1. A horseshoe- 
crab or Molucca crab ; a crustacean of the 
family Limulidce and genus Limulus, as L. po- 
lyphemtis, L. moluccaims, or L. rotimdicaudus. 
The king-crab is so called from its great size ; it sometimes 
attains a length of 2 feet. The carapace is concavo-con- 
vex, rounded in front, and movably divided into the larger 
anterior horseshoe-shaped cephalothorax, whence the 
name horseshoe-crab, and a smaller wedge-shaped abdo- 
men, from which projects a long, sharp, bayonet-like tail 
or telson. On the upper surface are a pair of large com- 
pound eyes, and in front of them a pair of small simple 
eyes. Underneath are five pairs of long ambulatory legs, 
springing from the cephalothorax near together, and an 
anterior pair, much smaller and otherwise modified, and 
differing in the two sexes. The mouth is in the middle 
line, behind the first pair of legs. Under the abdomen 
are a number of movable flaps, in the form of thin plates 
lying one upon another like the leaves of a book ; these 
are pereiopods or swimming-feet, and also respiratory or- 
gans or gills. The animal when just hatched is about a 
quarter of an inch long, has no telson, and the cephalotho- 
racic and abdominal regions are much alike, being some- 
what semicircular and hinged by a straight line. The ab- 
domen shows traces of segmentation , and the general aspect 
recalls that of a trilobite, of which Limulus is the nearest 
relative living. In many respects these strange creatures 
resemble scorpions, and some contend, therefore, that 
they are arachnidans, not crustaceans. They are found 
on the eastern coasts of North America and Asia. See 
word has taken the place of ME. kinedom, < AS. 
cynedom, a kingdom.] 1. The power or au- 
thority of a king; regal dominion; supreme 
rule. [Archaic.] 
There be some standing here which shall not taste of 
death till they see the Sou of man coining in his kingdom. 
Mat. xvi. 28. 
The Father, to whom In heaven supreme 
Kingdom, and power, and glory appertains. 
Milton, P. L.,vi. 815. 
2f. The state of being a king; kinghood; king- 
ship. 
I must be married to my brother's daughter, 
Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass. 
Shak., Eich. III., iv. 2, 62. 
3. The territory or country subject to a king; 
the dominion of a king ormonarch (see Tcing^-, 1 ) ; 
in general, a domain; country. 4. Anything 
conceived as constituting a realm or sphere of 
independent action or control: as, the kingdom 
of thought. 
In the body of this fleshly land, 
This kingdom, this confine of blood and breath, 
Hostility and civil tumult reigns 
Between my conscience and my cousin's death. 
Shak., K. John, iv. 2, 246. 
Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood 
With that grim ferryman which poets write of, 
Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. 
Shak., Eich. I1I.,L4, 47. 
5. In the New Testament, with the definite ar- 
ticle, usually in fuller phrase the kingdom of 
God, or the kingdom of heaven, the spiritual 
reign of God as supreme king, and over sub- 
jects loyally accepting it: generally conceived 
as founded by the Messiah, and therefore a 
Messianic kingdom. The term is used with different 
shades of meaning, but always with this fundamental 
idea of God's reign as recognized and loyally accepted. 
Sometimes this reign is spoken of as recognized in the 
heart and life of the individual, sometimes as supreme in 
the community, sometimes prophetically as in its per- 
fection embracing the whole body of the redeemed. (See, 
for a collection of these definitions, Dr. James 8. Cand- 
lish's "The Kingdom of God," Appendix, note 2, p. 392.) 
Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their syna- 
gogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom. 
Mat. iv. 23. 
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter 
into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of 
my Father which is in heaven. Mat. vii. 21. 
The kingdom of Ood is not meat and drink ; but right- 
eousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. 
Rom. xiv. 17. 
6. Jjanat. hist., one of the three great divisions 
in which natural objects are ranked in classi- 
fication namely, the animal, vegetable, and 
mineral kingdoms. Kingdom come, the hereafter: 
as, to go to kingdom come (that is, to die). (Slang. ] Latin 
kingdom. See Latin. United Kingdom, Great Britain 
and Ireland : so called since the legislative union of the 
two islands under the Act of Union of 1800, which took 
effect January 1st, 1801. 
cut under horseshoe-crab. 
2.ABritishdecapoderustaeean,a/iasgiH(MJo, effect January 1st, ira. 
better known as the thornback-crab. kingdomed kmg'dumd), a. l< kingdom + -ed*. 
kingcraft (king'kraft), n. The craft or occu- Possessing kingly power or character. 
pation of kings ; the art of kingly government ; 
royal polity or policy. 
With what modestty can hee pretend to be a Statesman 
himself, who, with his Fathers Kingcraft and his own, did 
never that of hi; 
posit to his prof t 
Imagined worth 
Holds in his blood such swoln and hot discourse, 
That 'twixt his mental and his active parts 
Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages. 
never that 'of his 'own accord which' was "not directly" op- ki n g_d uc k (king'duk). . A kind of eider-duck, 
of essed Interest both at home and abroad? *J^?^i' "_2 A -uc :! ^.7.-.' 
Milton, Eikonoklastes, xi. 
As for tricking, cunning, and that which in sovereigns 
they call Hng-craft, and reason of state in commonwealths, 
to them and their proceedings Polybius is an open enemy. 
Dryden, Character of Polybius.' 
Never was there so consummate a master [as Louis 
of a metal or wooden hammer. 
king-apple (king'ap"!), n. A variety of apple, 
large, red in color, and of excellent quality. 
king-at-arms (king'at-armz'), n. In her., an 
officer of some antiquity in Great Britain, and 
formerly of great authority, whose business it is 
Somaferia spectdbilis^ of the subfamily Fidigu- 
lince and family Anatidce, common on the north- 
erly coasts of Europe and America, it differs 
from the common eider notably in the shape of the bill 
and head, in coloration, mode of feathering of the base of 
the upper mandible, position of the nostrils, etc. 
i-uiiunair a UKIMI/I [jus OJUUIB , . j /, t-,/*- \ n 7 J 7 
XIV.] of ... king-craft-ol all those arts which most king-eider (kingVder), it. Same as ktng-dwck. 
advantageously display the merits of a prince, and most king-fern (king'fern), n. The royal or flower- 
completely hide his defects. Macmday, Mirabeau. j ng f errl) Qsmunda regalis. 
king-crow (king'kro), n. A drongo-shrike of kingflsh (king'flsh), . One of various fishes, 
the genus Dicrurus, as the Indian finga, D. ma- of large size or of excellent quality, belong- 
crocercus, remarkable for its elongated forked ing to different families, (a) In the Atlantic states, 
tail and for the courage and address with which, and especially in New York, a scisenoid fish, Menticirrus 
like the king-bird of the United States, it attacks **, of elongate form, with the ventral fins some dis- 
other birds. The term is extended to various 
there are three kings-at-arms, namely, Garter (see Garter), 
Clarencieux, and Norroy. The first of these is styled princi- 
pal king-at-arms, and the others are called provincial kings, 
because their duties are confined to the provinces the one 
(Clarencieux) officiating south of the Trent, and the other 
(Norroy) north of that river. There is a Lyon king-at-arms 
for Scotland, and an Ulster king-at-arms for Ireland, and 
one styled Bath or Gloucester, whose jurisdiction extendsto 
Wales, but who is not a member of the heraldic chapter. 
The crown of a king-at-arms is composed of sixteen oak- 
Strowe me the ground with Daffadowndillies, 
And Cowslips, and Kingcups, and loved Lillies. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., April. 
king-devil (king'dev"!), n. A species of hawk- 
weed, Hicracium praialtnm, recently introduced 
from Europe, and becoming a serious pest to 
farmers. It forms a continuous mat of pale-green leaves, 
lying flat on the ground and preventing any other form of 
Kingfish (Mmticirrus ntiulosus). 
