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KING-YU'EN, or Kin-yuen, a city of China, <?f the 
firft rank, in Quang-fi. This city is not plealant, though 
it is built on the banks of a large river, becaufe it is fur- 
founded with craggy mountains, and is not far diftant 
from thofe of the province of Koei-tcheou, which are al- 
moft inacceflible, and inhabited by none but a people nl- 
moft lavage. The valleys which are between thefe moun¬ 
tains, are full of villages and forts, and they find gold in 
the rivers. It has two towns of the fecond order, and five 
of the third, in its diftrift : 1037 miles fouth-fouth-well 
of Peking. Lat. 24. 26. N. Ion. 108. E. 
KING-YU'EN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Tche-kiang : fixty-five miles fouth-weit of Tchu-tcheou. 
KlNG'DOM, f. The dominion of a king ; the territo¬ 
ries fubjeCt to a monarch.—Mofes gave unto them the 
kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of 
Og king of Bafham. Numb, xxxii. 
You’re welcome, 
Mod learned reverend fir, into our kingdom. Shakefpeare. 
A different clafs or order of beings. A word chiefly ufed 
among naturalids.—The animal and vegetable kingdoms 
are fo nearly joined, that if you take the lowed of one, 
and the highed of the other, there will fcarce be perceived 
any difference. Locke. —A region ; a tradl; 
The wat’ry kingdom is no bar 
To flop the foreign fpirits ; but they come, 
As o’er a brook, to lee fair Portia. Shakefpeare. 
Kingdoms of Nature. Mod naturalids, following 
Linnaeus, have divided all natural bodies into three great 
clafles, called kingdoms. Thefe are the mineral, the vegeta¬ 
ble , and theanimal, kingdoms. See Natural History. 
KING'DOMED, adj. Proud of kingly power : 
Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages. 
And batters down himfelf. Skakefp. Troilus & Creffida. 
KING'HALE, a town of Cacongo, on the Louifa. Lat. 
5..20. S. Ion. 12.10. E. 
KING'HORN, a feaport town, and a royal burgh of 
Scotland, in the county of Fife. There are two harbours 
at Kinghorn : one at the bottom of the town, called Kirk 
Harbour, from being near the church ; and another called 
Pettycur, about half a mile fouth-w'eff from the town; the 
latter was built about forty years.fince, for the more con¬ 
venient paflage to Leith, and was lately much choaked 
up with fund; hut by care the complaint is removed ; and 
a light-houfe has lately been ereCted on the end of the 
quay. But neither harbour will admit veilels of above 
150 tons. Formerly there were a few brigs and feveral 
fioops belonging to the town, but they were generally 
freighted by merchants refiding in other places, or engaged 
in finuggling. At prefent there are only two fioops em- 
ployed in the coafting-trade that fail from this port, with 
nine paflage-boats of about 50 or 60 tons each, and a few 
pinnaces that ply the ferry. The number of inhabitants. 
In 1802, was 2308. Kinghorn unites with Burntifland, 
Dyfart, and Kirkcaldy, to fend one member to parliament: 
ten miles north of Edinburgh, and thirty louth of Perth. 
Lat. 56. 5. N. Ion. 3. 10. W. 
KIN'GIKSOK, a town of Weft Greenland. Lat. 61. 
55. N. Ion. 47.40. W. 
KING'LESS, adj. Deprived of a king, not having a king. 
KING'LESS, a townfhip. of United America, in Phila¬ 
delphia county, Pennfylvania. 
KING'LY, adj. Royal; fovereign ; monarchical.—In 
Sparta, a kingly government, though the people were per¬ 
fectly free, the adminiftration was in the two kings and 
the ephori. Swift. 
There we’ll fit 
Ruling in large and ample empery, 
O’er France, and all her almoii kingly dukedoms. Shakefp. 
Belonging to a king; fuitable to a king : 
Why lieft thou with the vile 
In loathfome beds, and leav’ft the kingly couch 
A watch-cafe to a common ’larum bell ? Shakefpeare. 
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Noble ; fiuguft ; magnificent.—He was not born to live ft- 
fubject life, each aCtion sf his bearing in it majefty, fuch' 
a kingly entertainment, fuch a kingly magnificence, fuch a 
kingly heart for enterprises. Sidney. 
I am far better born than is the king; 
More like a king, more kingly in my thought. Shakefpeare. 
KING'LY, adv. With an air of royalty; with fuperior 
dignity : 
Adam bow’d low ; he, kingly, from his ftate 
Inclin’d not. Milton's Paradife Lojl. 
His hat, which never vail’d to human pride, 
Walker with rev’rence took, and laid afide. 
Low bow’d the reft ; he, kingly, did but nod. Dunciad. 
KING'ROAD, a part of the-river Severn below Briftol,. 
fo called, from whence the outward-bound fhips belong¬ 
ing to that port take their departure. 
KINGS (Book of), two canonical books of the Old 
Teftament, lb called, becaufe they contain the hiftory of 
the kings of Ifrael and Judah from the beginning of the 
reign of Solomon down to the Babylonifti captivity, for 
the lpace of near 600 years. The Firft Book of Kings 
contains the latter part of the life of David, and his death ; 
the flouriftiing ftate of the Ifraelites under Solomon, his 
building and dedicating the temple of Jerufalem, his 
ftiameful defection from the true religion, and the fudden 
decay of the Jewilh nation after his death, when it was 
divided into two kingdoms; the reft of the book is taken 
up in relating the adts of four kings of Judah and eight 
of Ifrael. The Second Book, which is a continuation of 
the lame hiftory, is a relation of the memorable adls of 
fixteen kings of Judah and twelve of Ifrael, and the end 
of both kingdoms, by the carrying of the ten tribes cap¬ 
tive into Allyria by Shalmaneler, and the other two into 
Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. It is probable that thefe 
books were compoled by Ezra, who extracted them out 
of the public records, which were kept of what pafled in 
that nation. 
KINGS'BERRY, a town of Maryland : three miles 
W'elt of Baltimore. 
KINGS'BRIDGE, a market town of Devonlhire, fitu- 
ated on one of the arms of Salcomb River; twenty-four 
miles from Plymouth, twelve from Dartmouth, twelve 
from Totnefs, four from the harbour of Salcomb, and two 
hundred and feventeen from London. It is a pretty 
market-town, with a harbour for boats. This is a chapel 
of eafe to Chefton; and has a bridge over the Salcomb to 
Dodbrook. The market-day is on Saturday, and a fair 
July 20. Here is a good Latin free-fehool; and one foV 
reading, writing, and arithmetic. 
KINGS'BRIDGE, a pafs from the north part of New 
York ifland to the continent, acrofs a creek ; where, in 
1776, general Waftiington had a ftrong camp: twenty 
miles north of New York. 
KINGS'BURY, a town of New York: thirty-five miles 
north of Albany. 
KINGS'CLERE, a market-town of Hamplhire, which 
derives its name from being formerly the refldence of the 
Saxon kings, is fituate in the north part of the county, 
on the edge of a delightful chain of hills, which extends 
weftward through a valt track of the county into Berk¬ 
shire. The principal trade is malting; and the market, 
which is principally by fample, is held at the Swan and 
George inns every Tuefday. The fairs are the firft Mon¬ 
day in April, firlt Tuefday in June, and the firft Tuefday 
in Odlober, all old ftyle. Here is a free-lchool endowed 
by fir Janies Lancafter, who alfo left ten pounds a-year 
to the poor of this place. Alfo three Sunday-fchools, 
very well attended. The church is a large well-built 
ftructure, ftands nearly in the centre of the place, and has 
two chapelries (Itchingfwell and Sidmonton) annexed. 
A little above the town arifes a beautiful fpring, fopply- 
ing four mills of confiderable bufinefs within the diftancc 
of a miles from its Source. Kingfclere is diftant from 
London 
