English Dictionary: Kleine Sonnenblume | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swamp \Swamp\, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D. zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv[94]ppr, Dan. & Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.] Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore. Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern. --Tennyson. A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. --Farming Encyc. (E. Edwards, Words). {Swamp blackbird}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Redwing} (b) . {Swamp cabbage} (Bot.), skunk cabbage. {Swamp deer} (Zo[94]l.), an Asiatic deer ({Rucervus Duvaucelli}) of India. {Swamp hen}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird ({Porphyrio bellus}); -- called also {goollema}. (b) An Australian water crake, or rail ({Porzana Tabuensis}); -- called also {little swamp hen}. (c) The European purple gallinule. {Swamp honeysuckle} (Bot.), an American shrub ({Azalea, [or] Rhododendron, viscosa}) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called also {swamp pink}. {Swamp hook}, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. {Cant hook}. {Swamp itch}. (Med.) See {Prairie itch}, under {Prairie}. {Swamp laurel} (Bot.), a shrub ({Kalmia glauca}) having small leaves with the lower surface glaucous. {Swamp maple} (Bot.), red maple. See {Maple}. {Swamp oak} (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak ({Quercus palustris}), swamp white oak ({Q. bicolor}), swamp post oak ({Q. lyrata}). {Swamp ore} (Min.), bog ore; limonite. {Swamp partridge} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several Australian game birds of the genera {Synoicus} and {Excalfatoria}, allied to the European partridges. {Swamp robin} (Zo[94]l.), the chewink. {Swamp sassafras} (Bot.), a small North American tree of the genus {Magnolia} ({M. glauca}) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also {sweet bay}. {Swamp sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American sparrow ({Melospiza Georgiana}, or {M. palustris}), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places. {Swamp willow}. (Bot.) See {Pussy willow}, under {Pussy}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Kalmuck \Kal"muck\, n. 1. pl. (Ethnol.) See {Calmucks}. 2. A kind of shaggy cloth, resembling bearskin. 3. A coarse, dyed, cotton cloth, made in Prussia. | |
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Calmucks \Cal"mucks\, n. pl.; sing. {Calmuck}. A branch of the Mongolian race inhabiting parts of the Russian and Chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the Calmucks. [Written also {Kalmucks}.] | |
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Kalong \Ka*long"\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat ({Pteropus edulis}). | |
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Kaolinization \Ka`o*lin`i*za"tion\, n. The process by which feldspar is changed into kaolin. | |
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Kaolinize \Ka"o*lin*ize\, v. t. To convert into kaolin. | |
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Keeling \Kee"ling\, n. [Cf. Icel. keila, Sw. kolja, Dan. kulle.] (Zo[94]l.) A cod. | |
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Keel \Keel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Keeled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Keeling}.] 1. To traverse with a keel; to navigate. 2. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom. {To keel over}, to upset; to capsize. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Kill \Kill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Killed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Killing}.] [OE. killen, kellen, cullen, to kill, strike; perh. the same word as cwellen, quellen, to kill (cf. {Quell}), or perh. rather akin to Icel. kolla to hit in the head, harm, kollr top, summit, head, Sw. kulle, D. kollen to kill with the ax.] 1. To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay. Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words ! --Shak. 2. To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book. [bd]To kill thine honor.[b8] --Shak. Her lively color kill'd with deadly cares. --Shak. 3. To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind. Be comforted, good madam; the great rage, You see, is killed in him. --Shak. 4. To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid. {To kill time}, to busy one's self with something which occupies the attention, or makes the time pass without tediousness. Syn: To murder; assassinate; slay; butcher; destroy. -- To {Kill}, {Murder}, {Assassinate}. To kill does not necessarily mean any more than to deprive of life. A man may kill another by accident or in self-defense, without the imputation of guilt. To murder is to kill with malicious forethought and intention. To assassinate is tomurder suddenly and by stealth. The sheriff may kill without murdering; the duelist murders, but does not assassinate his antagonist; the assassin kills and murders. | |
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Killing \Kill"ing\, a. Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible. -- {Kill"ing*ly}, adv. Those eyes are made so killing. --Pope. Nothing could be more killingly spoken. --Milton. | |
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Killing \Kill"ing\, a. Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible. -- {Kill"ing*ly}, adv. Those eyes are made so killing. --Pope. Nothing could be more killingly spoken. --Milton. | |
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Klicket \Klick"et\, n. [Cf. {Clicket}.] (Mil.) A small postern or gate in a palisade, for the passage of sallying parties. [Written also {klinket}.] | |
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Klinkstone \Klink"stone`\, n. See {Clinkstone}. | |
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Kolinsky \Ko*lin"sky\, n. [Russ. kolinski of Kola, a district in northeasten Russia where the finest minks abound.] Among furriers, any of several Asiatic minks; esp., {Putorius sibiricus}, the yellowish brown pelt of which is valued, esp. for the tail, used for making artists' brushes. Trade names for the fur are {red sable} and {Tatar sable}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Kalamazoo, MI (city, FIPS 42160) Location: 42.27470 N, 85.58829 W Population (1990): 80277 (31488 housing units) Area: 63.6 sq km (land), 1.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 49001, 49002, 49007, 49008, 49009 | |
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Kalamazoo County, MI (county, FIPS 77) Location: 42.24488 N, 85.52987 W Population (1990): 223411 (88955 housing units) Area: 1455.3 sq km (land), 47.5 sq km (water) | |
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Keeling, VA Zip code(s): 24566 | |
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Killington, VT Zip code(s): 05751 | |
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Killingworth, CT Zip code(s): 06419 | |
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Kilmichael, MS (town, FIPS 37560) Location: 33.43903 N, 89.56695 W Population (1990): 826 (348 housing units) Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 39747 | |
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Klingerstown, PA Zip code(s): 17941 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Kleene closure {Kleene star} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Kleene star {postfix} "*" operator used in {regular expressions}, {Extended Backus-Naur Form}, and similar formalisms to specify a match for zero or more occurrences of the preceding expression. For example, the regular expression "be*t" would match the string "bt", "bet", "beet", "beeeeet", and so on. (2000-07-26) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Kleene, Stephen Cole {Stephen Kleene} |