K E E 
KE'DESH-N A PH'T A LI, fhe name of a place. 
To KEDGE, v. a. [from kaghe, Dut. a finall veffel.] 
To bring a fliip up or down a narrow channel, when the 
wind and tide are contrary, by a particular management 
of the fails and anchor. 
KEDGE, adj. Belonging to the kedger; as, the kedge 
anchor, 
KEDGE'R, /. A finall anchor, ufed to keep a fhip 
fteady wliilft fhe rides in a harbour or river, particularly 
at the turn of the tide, when (lie might otherwife drive 
over her principal anchor, and entangle the ftock or flukes 
with her flack cable, fo as to loofen it from the ground. 
This is accordingly prevented by a kedge-rope that hin¬ 
ders her from approaching it. The kedgers are particu¬ 
larly ufeful in tranfporting a fliip; i.e. removing her from 
one part of the harbour to another, by means of ropes 
which are faftened t6 thefe anchors. They are generally 
furniflied with an iron flock, which is eafily difplaced for 
the convenience of flowing them. 
KEDG'ING, f. A particular method of bringing a 
fliip up or down a narrow channel, when the wind and 
tide are contrary.—In bringing a fhip up or down a nar¬ 
row river, when the wind is contrary to the tide, they fet 
the forefail, or foretop-fail and mizen, and fo let her drive 
with the tide. The fails are to flat her about, if fhe 
comes too near the fliore. They alfo carry out an anchor 
in the head of the boat, with a hawfer that comes from 
the fliip; which anchor, if the fliip comes too near the 
fnore, they let fall in the ftream, and fo wind her head 
about it; then weigh the anchor again when fhe is about, 
which is called hedging, and from this ufe the anchor a 
kedger. Harris. 
KEDGOO'RA, a town of Hindooftan, in Bundelcund: 
thirty miles north-north-eaft of Cnllingar. 
KEDGREE', a town of Hindooftan : thirty-four miles 
north-eaft of Benares. s 
KED'HAM, a town of Upper Guinea, fituated on the 
river Sherbro: 200 miles from the mouth. 
KED'LACK,yi A weed among corn ; charlock. Tuffer. 
KE'DOUS, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia: 
thirty-two miles weft of Kiutaja. 
KE'DRON, or Ce'dron, in ancient geography, a town 
which, from the defeat and purfuit of the Syrians, 
(1 Mac. xvi.) appears to have flood on the road which 
led from the Higher India to Azotus; in this- war it was 
burnt by the Jews. 
KEE, the provincial plural of cow, properly kinei 
A lafs, that C’ic’ly hight, had won his heart; 
Cic’ly, the weftern lafs that tends the kce. Gay. 
KEE'BLE (John), an eminent Englifli organift, was 
born at Chichefter, and received the rudiments of his 
mufical education from Mr. Kelway of that place, who 
was brother to the celebrated Kelway, mufic matter to 
her prefent majefty. The firft public notice that was 
taken of Mr. Keeble, after his arrival in London, was at 
the opening of Ranelagh Gardens, in the year 1740, where 
he played the organ, and manifefted great marks of genius 
and judgment. Some time after this he officiated as 
deputy to Mr. Rofeingrave, organift of St. George’s, 
Hanover-fquare, and was chofen organift of that place 
during the latter part of Rofeingrave’s life, whole mental 
derangement rendered him incapable of performing the 
duty. He has given to the public four books of volun¬ 
taries for the organ, in which are difplayed found judg¬ 
ment, much genius, and a thorough knowledge of the in- 
ftrument; as a claflical fet of books, they are played 
in moft of the churches to this day. But his grand work, 
to which he had devoted more than twenty years of his 
life, was his “Theory of Harmonies,or an Illuftration of 
the Grecian Harmonica.” He was a tolerable Greek 
fcholar but, notwdthftanding that, and the powerful af- 
filtance Gf the Rev. Mr. Trebeck, and the Rev. Mr. 
Townley, he feeras to have been much bewildered; not 
having difeovered, with all his intenfe itudy, what others 
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have clearly demonftrated ; that by harmony the ancients 
mean precifely what the moderns imply by melody. In 
fliort, it appears a mere fpeculative theory, totally unintel¬ 
ligible to the pradlical mufician, and embellilhed with a 
great parade of ratios, at which the mathematician nmft 
lmile. Mr. Keeble died in the year 1786, leaving behind 
him thirty thoufand pounds ; a very uncommon circum- 
ftance to relate in the life of a mufician. 
KEECH,y. A folid lump or mals, probably of tallow ! 
I wonder 
That fuch a keeck can with his very bulk 
Take up the rays o’ th’ beneficial lun. 
And keep it from the earth. Shak. Hen. VIII. 
The foregoing explanation of keeck is taken from John- 
fon’s note on Shakefpeare, which vindicates this old read¬ 
ing againft Pope’s alteration of it into ketch. Yet keeck is 
omitted in his Dictionary; and this paflage (with the very 
reading he has reprobated) is made an example of ketch. 
Mafon's Sufipt. 
KEE'FAH, a town of Africa, in Algiers: fix miles 
north-eaft of Tipfa. 
KEEL, J'. [ccele, Sax. keil, Dut. quille, Fr.J The bot¬ 
tom of the fhip.—Her fharp bill ferves for a keel to cut the 
air before her; her tail fhe ufeth as her rudder. Grew. 
Your cables burft, and you mull quickly feel 
The waves impetuous ent’ring at your keel. Swift. 
The veffel itfelf, efpecially a coal-veffel. In botany, the 
lower petal of a papilionaceous flower, which inclofes the 
ftaniina and piltil. 
KEEL, J. The fame with Kayle ; which fee. 
To KEEL, v. a. [ccelan, Sax.] This word, which is 
preferved in Shakefpeare, Hanmer explains thus—To keel 
feems to mean to drink fo deep, as to turn up the bottom, 
of the pot, like turning up the keel of a fhip. Hanmer. —In 
Ireland, to keel the pot is to feum it.—While greafy Joan. 
doth keel the pot. Shakefpeare. 
KEEL'AGE, f. A cuftom paid at Hartlepool in Dur¬ 
ham for every fhip coming into that port. Ttrmesde la Ley, 
KEEL'ER, f. A fmall tub into which a compofltion is 
put for caulking a fhip. 
KEEL'FAT, f. [coelan, Sax. to cool, and fat or vat, a 
veflel.X A cooler.; a tub in which liquor is let to cool. 
To KEEL'HALE, v. a. To punifli in the feamen’s way, 
by dragging the criminal under water on one fide of tho 
fliip and up again on the other. 
KEEL'HALING,y The aft of punifhing.an offender 
by drawing him under the keel of a fliip. 
To KEEL'RAKE, v. a. To keelhale. 
KEEL'R AKING,jf The punifhment of keelhaling. 
KEEL'ROPE, f. A hair-line running between the keel 
and keelfon. 
KEEL'SON, or Kel'son,^ The next piece of timber 
in a fliip to her keel, lying right over it, next above the 
floor timber. Harris. 
KEE'MA-KE'DAN, a clufter of fmall iflands in the 
Eaftern-Indian Sea, near the weft coaft of the ifland of 
Leyta. Lat. 10.30. N. Ion. 124. 36. E. 
KEEN, adj. [cene, Sax. kalin, German ; koen, Dut.J 
Sharp ; well-edged ; not blunt. We fay keen of an edge, 
and fharp either of edge or point: 
Come thick night, 
That my keen knife fee not the wound it makes. Shakefp'. 
Severe ; piercing.—The cold was very fupportable ; but, 
as it changed to the north-weft, or north, it became exceft 
lively keen. Ellis's Voyage. 
The w'inds 
Blow moift and keen, (battering the gracefid locks 
Of thefe fair fpreading trees ; which bids us feek 
Some better fliroud. Midton. 
Eager ; vehement.—The flieep were fo keen upon the 
acorns,-that they gobbled up a piece of the coat. MEf range, 
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