kit 
A miniature violin, about sixteen inches long, 
having' tlii'ee string's. It wan once much used by 
<l;uiiariK-ni:iHters, beeallse ]l \vas Mliall enough t<- Ij 
ried in the |>oekel, whence its riench \\Maepachette. 
Sweeter my bellowes blowing and 
My hammem beating is 
To me, than trimmest (Idling 
The trickest kit I win. 
Warner, Albion's England, vi. :tO. 
Each did duiiee, some to the kit or erowd, 
Some to the li;r,' pipe ; .some tile tablet moved. 
n. Jiiltxnil. Sad Shepherd, 1. 2. 
I heard the sound of a /./' playing a minuet over our 
heads. Addison, Frozen Words. 
kit" (kit), n. [= Dan. kit = Sw. kitt, putty, < 
(i. kitt, formerly kiiil, MIX!. I.- HI, kiite, cement, 
lute, ]nitty, OHG. cuti, chuti, quiti, a gluey sub- 
stance, = AS. cwidu, cuilu, gum: see cad.} A 
kind of cement. 
kit" (kit), H. [Perhaps a particular use of kit*.] 
A fish, the smear-dab. [Cornwall, Eng.] 
Kitaibelia(kit-a-be'li-a), n. [NL. (Willde- 
now), mimed after Dr. Paul Kitaibel, director 
of the Botanical Garden at Pesth.] A genus 
of tall perennial herbs of the natural order Mul- 
vaccar, type of Keichenbach's division Kiinilic- 
lini- of the tribe Malveai, the present subtribe 
Miilo/Mia; distinguished from Malope by having 
the style stigmatic at the apex, and from other 
related genera by its 6 to 9 bracts united at the 
I iase. Only one species, K. vitifolia, the vine-leafed kltai- 
belia, exists, whose native homo is the banks of the Danube 
in 1 In niiarv, but which is cultivated in gardens In England 
and tlie I nitcd suites. It is a rough hairy herb, 2 or 3 feet 
high, more or less clammy above, with 5-lobed leaves and 
dull white flowers an inch and a half across. The leaves 
are employed in Hungary as a vulnerary. 
Kitaibeliese (kit'a-be-li'e-e), n.pl. [NL. (Kei- 
cheubach, 1837), t. Jiitaibelia + -*<e.] A group 
of malvaceous plants founded on the genus Ki- 
taibelia, now included iu the subtribe MulopetB 
of the tribe Malvcae. 
kit-cat 1 ! (kit'kat), . [Also kit-kat; a varied 
redupl. of cat; or, which is nearly the same 
thing, < kit* + cat l .~\ The game of tip-cat. 
Then in his hand he takes a thick bat. 
With which he used to play at kit-kat. 
Cotton, Works (1734), p. 88. 
kit-cat 2 , kit-kat (kit'kat), n. [So called from 
portraits of members of the Kit Cat Club 
(founded in London about 1700), painted of this 
size by Sir Godfrey Kneller. See first quota- 
tion below. The club, of which Addison and 
Steele were members, was so called from Kit 
Cat or Katt (Christopher Katt), a pastry-cook 
who served the cltib. "Immortal made as Kit 
Cut by his pies " IV. King, Art of Cookery, let. 
viii. (first printed in 1708).] A particular size 
of portrait, less than half-length, in which a 
hand maybe shown; a truncated portrait. 
The room where these portraits [of the Kit-Kat Club] 
were intended to be hung (in which the Club often dined) 
not being sufficiently lofty for half-length pictures, that 
circumstance is said to have been the occasion of a shorter 
canvas being used, which is now denominated a Kit-Kat, 
and is sufficiently long to admit a hand. The canvas for 
a Kit-Kat is thirty-six inches long and twenty-eight wide. 
Malone, Life of Dryden, p. 534, note. 
Addison saw in Stecle's kit-cat of Sir Roger the occasion 
for a full length after his own heart. 
A. Dobsoii, Int. to Steele's Plays, p. xxxt 
Some of his kit katt and his full-length figures give one 
a better idea of his widely differing subjects than can be 
found in any other of the branches of his twin arts. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVI1I. 
kitcat-roll (kit'kat-rol), . In aijri., a kind of 
roller for land, somewhat in the form of a dou- 
ble cone, being thickest in the middle. 
kitchelt, n. See kicln-l. 
kitchen (kich'en), n. [< ME. kitchen, kit-hen, 
kiclwne, kyclifii. kichru, corliint; knclica, etc., < 
AS. nifiii. i-ifi n, fifcciic = MD. kiikcin: kciih'iir, 
D. keitken = MLG. kokcne, kolce =OHG. rlmlili- 
a, eliiirliinii, cucliina, MHG. kitchen, kiicln . (i. 
Mche = Dan. kjokken = Sw. kiik P. cnixim' 
(> E. cuisine) = Sp. cocina = Pg^ cosinhu = It. 
ciiciini, ciii'iiin, < L. I'oi/Hiiiu, a kitchen, a cook- 
ing-room, < coquere, cook: see coot 1 .] 1. A 
room in which food is cooked; an apartment 
of a house fitted with the necessary apparatus 
for cooking. 
The sheryfe had in hys kechyn a coke. 
Lytt U Ueste of Jiobyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 73). 
A fat kitchen makes a lean nil). 
Franklin, Way to Wealth. 
Dish-washer and broach-turner, loon ! to me 
Thou smellest all of kitchen as before. 
Ttunyson, Qareth and Lynette. 
2. In Scotland and Ireland, anything eaten by 
way of relish with bread, potatoes, porridge, or 
whatever forms the substantial part of a meal. 
3295 
Thus, when a meal is composed of potatoes and salt, the 
salt i the kitclir it, : if of bn ad and bntli-r, the butter is the 
kitchen; If of potatoes and bread and fish, the fish is the 
hltl'lt: II. 
Many another [peasant) will have some better kitchen 
than salt to his potatoes for his Christmas dinner ! 
Contemporary Ret., LI. 127. 
Kitchen cabinet. Sec cabinet. Tin kitchen, (a) Same 
as Ituti-li iii-i-n (which see, under own). (l>) A child's toy. 
kitchen (kich 'en), c. ,. [< kitchen. B.] If. To 
entertain with the fare of the kitchen ; furnish 
food to. 
There is n fat friend at your master's house, 
That Htrhf it'll me for you to day at dinner. 
Shak.,C.ot E.,v. 1, 415. 
2. To servo as kitchen for; give a relish to; 
season; render palatable. [Scotch.] 
The poor man's wine. 
His wee drap parrltch, or his bread, 
Thou kitchens fine. 
Burns, Scotch Drink. 
3. To use (food) as kitchen that is, sparingly, 
or so that it may last. Thus, a child eating bread 
and milk may be told to kitchen the milk that Is, nac It 
sparingly In proportion to the bread. [Colloq., Scotch.) 
kitchen-cot (kich'en-ko), n. A corruption of 
kinchin-core. 
A Kiii-lin i Co is called an ydle runagate Boy. 
Fraternity o/ Vaijabondii (IStJIX quoted in Ribton-Turner's 
[VagranU and Vagrancy, p. 594. 
kitchendqm (kich'en-dum), n. [< kitchen + 
-tlom.] The domain of the kitchen. Davies. 
What knowest thou of flowers, except, belike, 
To garnish meats with? hath not our good King 
Who lent me thee, the flower of kitchendom, 
A foolish love for flowers? 
Trnnyton, Gareth and Lynette. 
kitchener (kich'en-6r), n. 1. A person em- 
ployed in a kitchen; the superintendent of a 
kitchen ; a kitchen-purveyor. 
Two most important officers of the Convent, the Kitch- 
ener and Refectioner, were just arrived with a aumpter- 
iniile, loaded with provisions. Scott, Monastery, xv. 
The Industry of all crafts has paused except it be the 
smith's fiercely hammering pikes, and iu a faint degree 
the kitchener'* cooking off-hand victuals. 
Carlyle, French Rev., I. v. 5. 
2. An economical or elaborated cooking-stove 
or other culinary appliance. Specifically (o) A spe- 
cial form of stove adapted for cooking, fitted with damp- 
ers, and combining ovens, plate-warmers, devices for heat- 
ing a supply of water, and often many other contrivances. 
A general use of gas cooking stoves and kitcheners burn- 
ing small coke. Si Amer., N. 8., LVIII. 101. 
It is almost impossible to have a properly roasted Joint 
In closed kitcheners. Kncyc. Brit., VI. 332. 
(6) A name given to ancient utensils of bronze, such as 
those found at Pompeii, in which water could be heated 
and various dishes kept hot at slight expense of fuel. The 
Naples Museum contains some very elaborate specimens. 
kitchen-fare (kich'en-far), M. Such faro as ser- 
vants are allowed in a kitchen. 
kitchen-fee (kich'en-fe), . The fat which falls 
from meat in roasting; drippings: so called be- 
cause it forms one of the cook's perquisites. 
[Great Britain.] 
The managers were satisfied that fat drippings and 
kitchen-fee were preferable to the proposed substitute. 
Caledonian Mercttry, NOT. 24, 1823. 
kitchen-gaint (kich'en-gan), M. Same as kitch- 
en-fee. 
The sweat upon thy face doth oft appear 
Like to my mother's fat and kitchrn-iiain. 
Greene, Doron's Eclogue. 
kitchen-garden (kich'en-gar'dn), M. 1. A gar- 
den or piece of ground appropriated to the rais- 
ing of vegetables for the table. 
The product of kitchen-gardens in all sorts of herbs, sal- 
lads, plants, and legumes. Sir If'. Temple, Of Gardening. 
2. A kindergarten in which kitchen-work is 
taught. [Local, U. 8.] 
kitchenistt (kich'en-ist), n. [< kitchen + -int.] 
A kitchener; a cook. 
Brick-makers, Brewers, Colliers, Kitchinists. 
Tobacco Battered, 427. (Davies.) 
kitchen-knave (kich'en-nav), n. A scullion. 
Grant me to serve 
For meat and drink among thy kitchen-knaces. 
Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette. 
kitchen-leet (kich'en-le), n. Dirty soap-suds. 
A brazen tub of kitchen-lee. Font. 
kitchen-maid (kich'en-mad), n. A female ser- 
vant employed in a kitchen. 
Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt, and scorn me? 
Shak., C. of E., iv. 4, 77. 
kitchen-midden (kich'en-mid'n), n. [< kitchen 
+ midden, after the equiv. Dan. kjokkrnniiid- 
dinfl.] A shell-mound : the literal translation 
of the Danish kjiikkriimiMliUnfi. kitchen refuse. 
This refuse forms extensive heaps or mounds, which con- 
sist chiefly of the shells of eililile niollusks mixed with 
fragments of bones of various animals, and implements of 
kite 
atone, bone, And horn. Mounds of this ktml are found In 
large number* on the eastern coast of Denmark, in various 
parts o( Scotland along the shores of tin- llrtlu, at well 
at in Ireland and el-, uh. ir. 'Ibuyure the refuse heapa 
which accumulated around the dwellings of former in- 
habitants, and In the case of Denmark are believed by 
the best authorities to be referable to the early part of the 
Neolithic age, " when the art of polishing flint implements 
was known, but before It had reached its greatest develop- 
ment" (.S'tV ./. l.uMxxk, Prehistoric Times, 2d ed., p. 24V). 
See midden and theU-mauud. 
During the past summer the museum at Copenhagen 
has explored a huge kitchen-midden In Jutland, situated 
in a forest a couple of miles from the sea. 
Auier. Xaturalat, XXIII. 80. 
kitchen-mort (kich'en-m6rt), H. A corruption 
of kincliiii-iiKirt. [Old slang.] 
Times are sair altered since I was a kitchen-mart. Men 
were men then, and fought each other in the open fluid. 
Scott, i;ny Mannerlng, xxvlll. 
kitchen-physic (kich ' en - fiz * ik), H. Nourish- 
ing diet for an invalid; substantial fare ; good 
living. [Humorous.] 
For my selfe, If I be ill at ease, I take kitcliyn phyiicke; I 
make my wife my doctor, and my garden my apoticaries 
' "Greene, Quip for Upstart Courtier (Hart Mure., V. 40). 
Nothing will cure this mans understanding but some 
familiar and Kitchen phygick ; which, with pardon, must 
for plainnes sake be administer'd unto him. rail hither 
your cook. Milton, i in Def. of Humb. Rcmonst., $ 2. 
kitchenryt (kich'en-ri), n. [< kitchen + -ry.] 
1. Utensils used in the kitchen; utensils for 
cooking. 2. The body of servants employed 
in a kitchen. 
Close unto the front of the chariot marcheth all the sort 
of weavers and embroderers ; next unto whom goeth the 
black-guard and kitchenry. 
Holland, tr. of Ammianus, p. 12. 
kltchen-Stuff (kich'en-stuf), a. 1. Material 
used in kitchens; requisites for a kitchen; spe- 
cifically, vegetables for cooking. 
In such a state of things, would you easily believe his 
lordship conld pride himself in cooking up this cold kitch- 
in-gtuff, and serving it again and again, amidst so elegant 
an entertainment? 
Warburton, Lord Bolingbrokc's Philosophy. 
2. The refuse of a kitchen ; garbage ; specifi- 
cally, refuse fat and fat-yielding material, such 
as may be got from pots and dripping-pans. 
A thrifty wench scrapes kitchen-stuff. Donne. 
Here in a small apartment may be a pile of rags, a sack- 
full of bones, the many varieties of grease and kitchen- 
stuff, corrupting an atmosphere whieh, even without such 
accompaniments, would be too close. 
ii; London Labour and London Poor, II. 120. 
kitchen-wench (kich'en-wench), H. A kitchen- 
maid; a female scullion. 
Laura, to his lady, was but a kitchen-wench. 
Sl.nl,., It. and .1.. U. 4, 42. 
kitchery (kich'er-i), n. Same as kedjeree. 
kite 1 (kit), n. [Early mod. E. also improp. 
kighte; < ME. kite, kete, < AS. cyta, a kite (bird). 
Cf. W. cud, a falcon, also flight, velocity.] 1. 
A diurnal bird of prey of the family Falconitta- 
and subfamily Milvince; a glede. The kites are 
among the inferi- 
or hawks, having 
a rather weak bill 
without a tooth, 
small feet with 
moderate tal- 
ons, long pointed 
wings, and usu- 
ally long, often 
forked tall: but 
there are no diag- 
nostic characters 
by which the kites 
can be denned 
with precision. 
They prey upon 
humble quarry, as 
insects, reptiles, 
and small birds 
and mammals. 
The common kite 
or gledeof Europe 
is Milna ictintts, 
regali*. or vulgn- 
rit. a bird 2 feet 
long, the wing 20 
inches, of a brown 
color above, the 
feathers with red- 
dish edgings, the under parts mostly rufons; the tail is 15 
Inches lone, forked. Mann cegyptiv* Is the Arabian kite ; 
U. ater is the black kite of Africa and parts of Europe; 
If. govinda Is the Indian kite; M. iturut, the Australian, 
in which the head is crested. Elanoidetforfeaha is the 
beautiful swallow-tailed kite of the United States, glossy 
black and white, with a long, deeply furcate tall. (See cut 
under Klanoiitet.) Xaudena riocovri is a corresponding 
African specie*. The white-tailed or pearl kit* of the 
United States Is Elanut Uticuru* ; and there are several 
other species of this genus in the warmer parts of the 
world. The Mi-.i--i|.|ii kite Is Ictinia miaunppiensu ; 
and a very similar species. Ictinia plimbea. inhabits South 
America. In Swainson's system of classification a certain 
group of hawks which he called Cymindina were named 
Pearl Kite ; lilaus 
