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KIS'KO, a town of Sweden, in the province of Nyland: 
twelve miles north of Eknas. 
KIS'LAK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Bra- 
claw : twenty miles eall-fouth-eaft of Braclaw. 
KIS'LAR. See Kizliar. 
KIS'LOCH, a citadel of the duchy of Baden : eleven 
miles fouth-eaft of Spire, and twelve fouth of Heidelburg. 
KIS'MA, a town of Perlia, in the province of Ghilan : 
twenty-one miles welt-north-weft of Redid. 
KISMA'LO, a town of Hungary : twelve miles north- 
north-eaft of Gran. 
KIS'MICH, or Kismish. See Kishme. 
To KISS, v. a. [cufan, Welch; from kvu, Gr.] To 
touch with the lips: 
Their lips were four red rofes on a (talk, 
And in the fummer beauty kifs'd each other. Shakefpcare. 
To treat with fondnefs: 
The hearts of princes kifs obedience, 
So much they love it; but to ftubborn fpirits. 
They lwell and grow as terrible as florins. Shakefpcare. 
To touch gently: 
The moon (bines bright: in fuch a night as this, 
When the fweet wind did gently kifs the trees, 
And they did make no noife- Shakefpcare. 
KISS, /. Salute given by joining lips : 
What fenfe had I of her ftol’n hours of luft ? 
I found not Calfio’s kijfes on her lips, Shakefpcare. 
KISSABET'TY, a town of Bengal : twenty-two miles 
fouth-eaft of Burdwan. Lat. 23.3. N. Ion. 88. 18. E. 
KISSA'MOS, a fmall town, formerly the harbour of 
Aptera, which gives name to a diftrift or province in the 
north-weftern part of the illand of Crete. This town 
would be of fome importance, if the pachas had not pro¬ 
hibited the exportation of the commodities of the illand, 
except front the chief place of their government. This 
province is one of the belt cultivated and molt productive 
of the illand ; |t furnifhes a tolerably large quantity of oil 
and wine; it produces honey, wax, and filk ; but little 
barley and wheat. Its mountains are for the molt part 
wooded ; and among the trees kre fcattered many common 
and holm oaks, the acorns of which allow' the Greeks to 
breed a large number of hogs. Here are alfo many carob- 
trees, whofe fruits are carried to Canea. In this province 
the vine deferves attention, which produces grapes with 
one hoeing and without any manure. The wine of Kif- 
iamos is a claret, fpirituous, and of a tolerably good qua¬ 
lity: as it is not an article of commerce, the Greeks con¬ 
vert a part of it into brandy for their winter flock. O11 
the gulf of Kiffamos is a quarry of beautiful gypfum. 
The fort of Grabufa, fituated on a deep illet at the 
melt weftern and northern part of Crete, is comprifed in 
the dillrict of Kiffamos. The junction of thefe linall 
illands and an advanced cape form a natural harbour, in 
which the largeft (hips anchor in fafety. The population 
of the Turks of Kiffamos is eftimated at upwards of a 
third of the inhabitants. 
KIS'SEE, a town of Africa, in the country of Sierra 
Leone : twenty miles north-eaft of Portiogo. 
KIS'SEL (John), a painter of portraits and ftill-life. 
He was horn at Antwerp in 1626. Nature was his guide 
in the praCHce of the art he profeffed; and it was his 
conftant cuftom to make (ketches of all his various pro¬ 
ductions at the different feafons of the year; merely 
fketching fome, and colouring and even modelling, others ; 
by thefe means he poffeffed a large flock of things ready 
to his hand for compolition, and he executed them with 
great tafte and delicacy. He demanded Co high a price for 
bis productions, that few could purchafe them. Among 
thole who did was the king of Spain, who, after having 
obtained many of his works, at la It gained-, poffeffion of 
the painter alio. He was appointed painter to the queen of 
Spain, and was retained in her lervice as long as he lived, 
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His portraits are very highly efteerned, being executed 
with a light tree touch, and a tone of colour that very 
much refembles Vandyke’s. He died in 1708, at the age 
of eighty-two. 
KISSELPOU'R, a town of Bengal: thirty-five miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Doefa. Lat. 22. 32. N. Ion. 84. 41. E. 
KISS'ER,y. One that kiffes. 
KISS'ER, the ancient Colonia A/furas in Africa, as ap¬ 
pears from many infcriptions ftill to be met with in the 
place. Here is a triumphal arch done in a very good tafte : 
there is alfo a fmall temple of a fquare figure, having fe- 
veral inftruments of facrifice carved upon it; but the ex¬ 
ecution is much interior to the defign, which is very cu¬ 
rious. The town is lituated in the kingdom of Tunis, on 
the declivity of a hill, above a large fertile plain ; which 
is ftiU called the plain ox Surfa, probably from its ancient 
name AJfuras. 
KIS'SI, (St.) a.fmall illand in the Grecian Archipelago. 
Lat. 38. 43. N. Ion. 24. 10. E. 
KISSI'MA, a town of Japan : forty-five miles north of 
Nangalaki. 
KISS'ING,/". The aft of fainting with a kifs; a num¬ 
ber of-kiffes. Killing, by way of falutation, or as a to¬ 
ken of refpeCt, has been praftifed in all nations. The Ro¬ 
man emperors fainted their principal officers by a kifs. 
Kifling the mouth or the eyes was the ufual compliment 
upon any promotion or happj' event. Soldiers killed the 
general’s hand when he quitted his office. Fathers, 
amonglt the Romans, had fo much delicacy, that they ne¬ 
ver embraced their wives in the prefence of their daugh¬ 
ters. Near relations were allowed to kifs their female kin¬ 
dred on the mouth; hut this was done in order to know 
whether they fmelt of wine or not; becaufe the Roman 
ladies, in lpite of a prohibition to the contrary, were 
found fometimes to have made too free with the juice of 
the grape. Slaves kilfed their mailer’s hand, who ufed to 
hold it out to them for that purpofe. Killing was a cuf- 
tomary mode of falutation amonglt the Jews, as we may 
colleCl from the circumftance of Judas approaching his 
Mailer with a kifs. Relations ufed to kifs their kindred 
when dying, and when dead : when dying, out of a ftrange 
opinion that they ihould imbibe the departing foul; and 
when dead, by way of valediilory ceremony. They even 
killed the corpfe after it was conveyed to the pile, when 
it had been (even or eight days dead. 
KISS'ING-CRUST, f. Cruft formed where one loaf in 
the ov£n touches another : 
Thefe bak’d with kijjing-cnjls , and thofe 
Brought him fmall beer. King's Cookery. 
KISSIN'GEN, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg, on 
the Saal, in the environs of which are fome medicinal and 
fait fprings : twenty-four miles north of Wurzburg, and 
nine north-weft of Schweinfurt. Lat. 50. 14. N. Ion. 
10. 17. E. 
KISSOREGUN'GE, a town of Hindooftan, in Bundel- 
cund : eighteen miles fputh-eaft of Chatterpour. 
KISSUNPOU R, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: 
twelve miles north-well of Bahar. 
KIS'TI, an Afiatic nation, which extends from the 
higheft ridge of Caucafus, along the Sundlha rivulets. 
According to major Rennel, they are bounded to the welt 
by the Little Cabarda, to the eaft by the Tartars and Lef- 
guis, and to the-fouth by the Lefguis and Georgians. He 
imagines they may he the people whom Gaerber calls the 
Taulinzi, i.e. mountaneers, and to whom he attributes the 
following ftrange cuftom: “When a gueft or itranger 
comes to lodge with them, one of the hod’s daughters is 
obliged to receive him, to unfaddle and feed his horle, 
take care of his baggage, prepare his dinner, pals the 
night with him, and continue at his difpofal during his 
(lay. At his departure, (he (addles his horfe and packs 
up his baggage. It would be very uncourtly to refufe 
any of thele marks of hofpitality.” The different tribes 
of this reitlefs and turbulent nation are generally at vari¬ 
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