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_Wallace._

~Kirk the gussie~, a play in which a large ball, called the _gussie_, is beat with clubs into a hole, one party opposing another. When the ball is lodged, the _gussie_ is said to be _kirkit_, Ang.

~Kirkine~, _adj._ Belonging to the church.

_Houlate._

~Kirk-maister~, _s._ A deacon in the church.

_Acts Ja. VI._

Teut. _kerk-maester_, aedituus.

~Kirkman~, _s._ A churchman.

_Knox._

~Kirk-town~, _s._ A village or hamlet in which the parish-church is erected, S.

_To_ KIRN, _v. a._

1. To churn, S.

_Ferguson._

A. S. _cern-an_, id.; Teut. _kern-en_.

2. To throw any thing into a disorderly state, S.

~Kirn~, _s._

1. A churn, S.

_Kelly._

Teut. _kerne_, id.

2. Metaph. applied to a mire, S.

~Kirnen~, _s._ Familiarity, S. B.

_Journal Lond._

~Kirn-milk~, _s._ b.u.t.termilk, S.

Teut. _kern-melck_, id.

_Complaynt._

~Kirn-staff~, _s._ The instrument employed for agitating the cream in churning. S.

_Ferguson._

KIRN, _s._

1. The feast of harvest-home, S.

_Burns._

2. The last handful of grain cut down on the harvest-field S.

KIRNEL, KYRNEILL, _s._ An interstice in a battlement.

_Barbour._

L. B. _kernellae_, id.; Fr. _crenele_, embattled.

KISH, _s._ A s.h.i.+ning powdery matter, which separates from pig-iron long kept in a melted state.

KISSING-STRINGS, _s. pl._ Strings tied under the chin, S.

_Ross._

KIST, KYST, _s._

1. A chest. S.

_Wallace._

2. A coffin, S., sometimes _dead-kist_.

_Spalding._

A. S. _cest_, Germ. _kist_, Su. G. _kist-a_, Lat. _cist-a_, a chest, in general. A. S. _cyste_, a coffin, Belg. _doodkist_, id.

_To_ ~Kist~, _v. a._ To inclose in a coffin, S.

_Spalding._

~Kisting~, _s._ The act of putting a corpse into a coffin, with the entertainment given on this melancholy occasion, S.

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