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•confined, enters into the pores of the plank, and renders 
it very pliable. 
To KILN'DRY, v. a. To dry by means of a kiln.—The 
belt way is to kilndry them. Mortimer. 
KILN'DRYING,/! The aid or procefsofdryingina kiln. 
KILON'DA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Ben- 
guela : fifteen miles fouth of Benguela. 
KILON'GO, a province of Loango. The foil is fertile, 
and it was formerly an independent kingdom. The go¬ 
vernor is abfolute, and at his death the people eleCl ano¬ 
ther without confulring the king of Loango. The chief 
trade is in elephants’ teeth. Kilongo, the capital, is fust¬ 
ated on the coalt, thirty miles north-weft of Loango. Lat. 
4. 25. S. 
KIL'PATRICK, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
D umbarcon, fo named from St. Patrick, who according to 
tradition was a native of the place : his father is faid to 
Lave been a noble Roman, who fled to this country from 
perfection. Here is a confiderable woollen manufacture, 
a fmithery, and a bleach-field : ten miles north-weft of 
Glafgow, and three fouth-eali of Dumbarton. 
KILRE'A, a town of Ireland, in the county of Derry : 
twenty-five miles eaft of Londonderry, and eleven fouth 
of Coleraine. 
KILREN'NY, a town and royal burgh of Scotland, in 
the county of Fife, on the north fide of the Forth ;-mured 
with the Anftruthers, Pittenvveen, and Craill, to fend 
one member to parliament: three miles weft of Craill. 
KIL'SEE, a town of Auftria : three miles fouth-eaft of 
Hainburg. 
KIL'SYTH, a town of Scotland, in the county of Stir¬ 
ling. In this parifli are mines of iron-ftone which yield 
to the Carron Company 5000 tons annually. Near Kil- 
fyth, a battle was fought between the marquis of Mon- 
trofe and the Covenanters, in which the latter were defeat¬ 
ed with great (laughter. In 1801, the number of inhabi¬ 
tants was 1762, of whom 1264-were employed in trade and 
manufactures: ten miles fouth-fouth-weft of Stirling, and 
thirteen eaft of Glafgow. Lat. 56. N. Ion. 4. 10. V/ 
KILT, for hilled. —But what art thou, that tells of ne¬ 
phews kill ? Spenfer. —It is a common word, among the low 
Irift), for bruifed, wounded, or hurt. 
KILTZES'TI, a town of Walachia, on the Tifmana: 
twelve miles fouth-fouth-weft of Tergofyl. 
KIL’VIN, a river of Scotland, which runs into the 
Clyde four miles north-weft of Glafgow. 
KILWA'RA, a town of Hindooitan, in the circar of 
Rantampbur : thirty-two miles fouth of Suifopour. 
KILWIN'NING, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Ayr, with 2700 inhabitants. In the neighbourhood are 
the ruins of a monaftery ; and Eglintoun caftle, the feat 
of the Eglintoun family for 400 years : three miles north- 
north-weit of Irvine. 
KIL'WORTH, a town of Ireland, fituated in the 
county of Cork and province of Munfter, 108 miles from 
Dublin. It is a thriving place, with a good church, at 
the foot of a large ridge of mountains called Kilworth 
mountains, through which a good turnpike road is carried 
from Dublin to Cork; below the town runs the river Fun- 
cheon, which is well ftored with falmon and trout, and 
difcharges itfelf a mile fouth of this into the Blackwater. 
Near Kilworth is a good glebe and vicarage houfe. At 
this place is Moor-park, the fuperb feat of lord Mountca- 
Ihel ; and adjoining to his lordship’s improvements (lands 
the caftle of Clough-leagh, boldly fituated on the river 
Funcheon, which has ftood feveral fieges. 
KI'LY HAR'BOUR, a bay on the weft coaft of the 
island of Celebes. Lat. 1.33. S. Ion. 119. 20. E. 
KIM-TCHA', a town of Thibet; fifteen miles weft- 
north-weft of Tchafircong. 
KIM-TCHA', a town of Thibet: thirty-fix miles 
north-well of Tchafircong. 
KIM-TCHEOU 7 , a town of Chinefe Tartary. Lat. 44. 
N. Ion. 126. 26. E. 
KIMALI'SHA, an ifland of Ruflian Lapland, lying 
between the mouths of the rivers Slniya and Soroka, off 
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the coaft of the White Sea ; where the granite veins of mi¬ 
caceous earth are richly mixed with a beautiful brown, fre¬ 
quently glandulous, with granites and green tranlparent 
ihorl. 
KIM'EO, adj. [a fchembo, Ital.] Crooked ; bent; 
arched. 
The kinbo handles feem with bears-foot carv’d, 
And never yet to table have been ferv’d. Dryden's Virgil. 
KIM'BO, adv. In a crofs paflion, with an arm on each 
hip.—He obferved them edging towards one another to 
whifper; fo that John was forced to fit with his arms 
a-kimbo, to keep them afunder. Arbuthnot. 
KIMBOL'TON, a town of England, in the county of 
Huntingdon, with a weekly market on Friday. Here is 
a caftle, the feat of the duke of Manchefter, where Ca¬ 
tharine, queen of Henry VIII. died in 1535. In 1801, 
the population was 1266: eight miles weftTouth-weft of 
Huntingdon, and fixty-three north of London. Lat. 54. 
14. N. Ion. o. 23. W. 
KIMBOROW'KA, a town of Lithuania, in the pala¬ 
tinate of Minflc: fix miles eaft of Mozyr. 
KIM'CHI (David), a very learned rabbi, who acquired 
high reputation as a fcripture commentator and gramma¬ 
rian, was a native of Spain, and flourifhed towards the 
clofe of the twelfth and in the former part of the thir¬ 
teenth century. His father, rabbi Jofeph ICimchi, w'as a 
violent enemy to tire Chriftians, and wrote fome bitter 
treatifes againft them, but which were never printed. The 
fubjecft of the prefent article did not inherit his father’s 
hatred to the heretics, as the latter called the Chriftians; 
at leaft he fpeaks of them with greater moderation. 
His learning and abilities eminently qualified him for un¬ 
dertaking thofe philological and exegetical labours which 
will ever refleCl the greateft luftre on his name ; and his 
works are juftly held in the higheft eftimation by the Jews. 
Alluding to his name, which fignifies a miller or full of 
meal, the Jews are accuftomed to fay, “ There is no meal 
without a miller;” that is. There is no true fcience with¬ 
out Kimchi. The Chriftian world, likewife, has enter¬ 
tained the greateft value for all the productions of his pen, 
and made more ufe of them than thofe of any other Jew- 
ifh commentator or grammarian. Moll of his commenta¬ 
ries have been incorporated in the great bibles of Venice 
and Bafil; and Pfeiffer, in the CriticaSacra, remarks, that 
his grammar is like the Trojan horfe, from which crowds 
of Chriftian grammarians have iftued forth, with Reuch- 
linat their head, of whom thofe have been the mod learn¬ 
ed who have been moft perfectly acquainted with Kimchi. 
When, about the year 1232, the difputes took place be¬ 
tween the French and the Spanilh fynagogues concerning 
the writings of. Maimonides, and proceeded to fuch a 
length that the parties mutually excommunicated each 
other, Kimchi, at the head of the Spanilh rabbis, zea- 
loufly defended the reputation of that celebrated man; 
and, though his efforts were not fuccefsful in entirely ex- 
tinguilliing the differences between them, they fo far con¬ 
tributed to terminate the fchifm as to produce a revoca¬ 
tion of the fentences cf excommunication oh both fides, 
and to obtain the confent of the rabbis of France, that 
the epitaph on Maimonides’s tomb, which declared him 
excommunicated, (hould be erafed. How long rabbi Kim¬ 
chi furvived after his able management in this famous 
controverfy, has not been afcertained. His commentaries 
extend to the greater number of the books of the Old 
Teftament, and from the bibles of Venice and Bafil have 
been tranfplanted into the labours of catholic and protef- 
tant commentators, and have unqueftionably afforded 
much valuable affiftance in illultrating the true fenfe and 
meaning of the Hebrew text. Detached parts of them 
have been repeatedly publiflied, at various places, either 
in the original Hebrew alone, or accompanied with Latin 
verfions. Rabbi Kimchi’s philological works confill of 
a Hebrew grammar, called Sepher Miclol, or the Book of 
Perfection ; and of a Hebrew dictionary, entitled Sepher 
Schorafchim, or the Book of Roots. They were publilhed 
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