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KE'BER,yi [Perfian.] One of a particular rank ; ge¬ 
nerally a rich merchant in Perfia. 
KE'BET, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea. 
Lat. 7.10.S. Ion. 130. 40. E. 
KEB'LA, an appellation given by the Mahometans to 
that part of the world where the temple of Mecca is fitu- 
ated, towards which they are obliged to turn themfelves 
•when they pray. Kebla is alfo ufed for an altar ; or ra¬ 
ther a niche, as Ricaut! calls.it, which the Mahometans 
have in all their mofques, and which is placed very ex¬ 
actly on that lide towards the temple of Mecca. Hence 
alfo kebla comes to be ufed, metaphorically, for the ob¬ 
ject or end propofed in doing any thing. Thus, the 
kebla of kings, is their crown and authority; that of men 
of bufinefs, is money; that of gluttons, good cheer, &c. 
And kebla-noma is a name which the Turks and Perfians 
give to a little pocket-compafs, which they always carry 
with them, in order to place themfelves the more exactly 
when they go to prayers. 
KE'BLE (Jofeph), a law-writer of meritorious induftry, 
was the fon of Richard Keble, efq. a lawyer of reputation 
at Iptwich. He was born in London in 1632, and ftudied 
at Jefus and All-Souls’ colleges, in Oxford. After leav¬ 
ing the univerfity, he fettled at Gray’s Iitn, and was ad¬ 
mitted a barrifter. He attended with great affiduity at the 
King’s-bench bar from 1661 to 1710; though it is not 
known that he ever had a caufe, or made a motion. He 
was, however, extremely diligent in taking notes, which 
furnifhed him with_matter forfeveral publications, as well 
as for a vaft colleftion of manufcript papers. He died 
fuddenly, as he was getting into a coach at Holborn-gate, 
in 1710, in the feventy-eighth year of his age. His pub¬ 
lications were, 1. A new Table to the Statute-book, 1674. 
2. An Explanation of the Laws againft Recufants, 8vo. 
3681. 3. An Affiftance to Juftices of Peace, folio, 1683. 
4. Reports taken at the King’s Bench from the twelfth to 
the thirtieth of Charles II. 3 vols. fol. 1685. 5. TwoEf- 
fays ; one on Human Nature, the other on Human Ac¬ 
tions.” His manufcripts amounted at his death to one hun¬ 
dred folios, and more than fifty quartos, all of his own 
hand-writing. Among them are the reports of above four 
thoufand fermons preached at Gray’s Inn; fuch was the 
induftry of the times! 
KE'BLE’s ISLAND, an ifland in the Mergui Archi¬ 
pelago, about five miles long, and one and half broad. 
Lat. 8. 59. N. 
KEB'RINAZ, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia : 
eight miles north-eaft of Ifbarteh. 
KEB'UCK HEAD, a cape on the eaft coaft of the 
ifland of Louis. Lat. 58- 2. N. Ion. 6. 19. W. 
KECH. See Kesh. 
KECHIKI'GON. See Cedar River, vol. iv. 
KECH'MICHE. See Kishme. 
To KECK, v. a \kccken, Dut.] To heave the ftomach ; 
to reach at vomiting.—All thole diets do dry up humours 
and rheums, which they fir ft attenuate, and while the 
humour is attenuated it troubleth the body a great deal 
more; and therefore patients muft not keck at them at the 
f.rft. Bacon's Natural Hijlory. 
The faftion, is it not notorious? 
Keck at the memory of glorious. Swift. 
KECK'ERMAN (Bartholomew), an eminent Pruflian 
Calvinift divine and philofophical profelfor, was born at 
Dantzic in the year 1571. Having received the rudiments 
of learning in his native city, at eighteen years of age he 
wasfen.t to the univerfity of Wittemberg, where he ftudied 
phiiofophy and divinity for two years. From this lemi- 
nary he went to the univerfity of Leipfic, w'here he fpent 
fix months; and removed, in 1592, to that of Heidelberg. 
Here he profecuted his ttudies with great induftry and fuc- 
cefs; and, after having been admitted to the degree of 
A.M. was at firft appointed mailer of the third clafs, and 
afterwards tutor, in the College of Wifdom. His next ad¬ 
vancement was to the profefforlhip of Hebrew in the uni- 
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verlity, the duties of which he difcharged with very high 
reputation. The fame which he acquired induced the le- 
nate of Dantzic, in the year 1597, to invite him to become 
co-reftor of the celebrated academical inltitution in that 
city ; but for feveral weighty reafons he was at that time 
obliged to decline their offer. In the year 1601, however, 
he accepted of a fecond invitation ; and, after having been 
admitted a licentiate in theology, fettled in his native city. 
The profefforlhip, to which by the defire of the fenate he 
devoted his talents, was that of phiiofophy ; and he was 
fo affnluous in ftudying, writing, and teaching, that he 
ruined his health, and fell a lacrifice to his induftry in 
1609, when only thirty-eight years of age. The molt 
commended of his writings are, Rhetorics EcclefiaJHca, Lib. 
II. and Syjlema Rhetorics. All his edited works were col¬ 
lected together, and publifhed at Geneva in 1614, in 
2 vols. folio. 
KECK'ING,yi The aft of making an effort to vomit. 
To KECK'LE, v. a. To defend a cable round with 
rope. Ainfworth. 
To KECK'LE, v. n. [from keck.] To keck ; to heave 
the ftomach. 
KECK'LING, f. The act of defending a cable by 
wreathing a rope round it. The rope fo wreathed. An 
effort to vomit. 
KECK'SY, f. [commonly kex ; cigue, Fr. cicuta, Lat.} 
Skinner feems to think keckfy or kex the fame as hemlock. 
It is ufed in Staftordfliire both for hemlock, and any 
other hollow-jointed plant: 
Nothing teems 
But hateful docks, rough thiftles, heckfics , burs, 
Lofing both beauty and utility. Sliukc/peare. 
KECK'Y, adj. [from kex.] Refembling a kex.—An 
Indian fceptre, made of a fort of cane, without any joint, 
and perfectly round, coniilteth of hard and blackilh cy¬ 
linders, mixed with a loft kecky body; fo as at the end, 
cut tranfverfely, it looks as a bundle of wires. Grew. 
KEDA'LI,yi in botany. See Melastoma. 
KE'DAR, in ancient geography, a diftrict in the de- 
fert of the Saracens, (fo called from Kedar, the fon of Iib- 
mael, according to Jerome, who in another place fays that 
Kedar was uninhabitable,) on the north of Arabia Felix. 
The people dwelt in tents like the other Scenites, (Pfalrn. 
cxx.) were rich in cattle, (Ifaiah lx.) of a fwarthy com¬ 
plexion, (Canticlesi.) andexcellentat the bow, (Ifaiah xxi.) 
KE'DAR, a town of Syria, on the river Jermuk, an¬ 
ciently called Gadara : fifty miles north of Jerufalem. 
KE'DAR, a town of Bengal: fifteen miles fouth-eaft 
of Midnapour. 
KED'DAH,y. [Indian.] A ftrong enclofure, or trap, 
into which herds of wild elephants are driven, and in 
which they are kept, in a Handing pofture, till they be¬ 
come tame. 
KE'DE, or Quede, a town of Africa, in the country 
of the Foulis: forty miles weft of Cayor. 
KE'DEH-FA'RAH, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 
government of Sivas, on the Kiziiermack: thirty miles 
weft of Samfoun. 
KEDE'MAH, [Heb. the eaft.] A man’s name. 
KEDE'MOTH, [Heb. antiquity.] The name of a de* 
fert. Deut. 
KED'ERCOU HOUT'CHIN, a poft of Tartary, in the 
country of the Monguls. Lat.44.30.N. Ion.113.5.E. 
KED'F.RCOU-Kl A'MEN, a poft of ChinefeTartary, in 
the country of the Kalkas. Lat. 43.48. N. Ion. 105. 22. E. 
KE'DESH, [hebrew.] The name of a city. 
KE'DESH, in ancient geography, a city of refuge and 
Levitical in the tribe of Naphtali, on the confines of 
Tyre and Galilee; (Jofephus.) Jerome calls it a facer- 
dotal city, lituated on a mountain twenty miles from 
Tyre, near Paneas, and called Cidijfus ; taken by the 
king of Affyria. Another Kedejh in the tribe of Iffachar, 
(1 Chron. vi. 72.) which feems to be called Kifluon 
(Jofliua, xix. 20,) 
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