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   ketembilla
         n 1: a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple
               fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri
               Lanka and India [syn: {ketembilla}, {kitembilla},
               {kitambilla}, {ketembilla tree}, {Ceylon gooseberry},
               {Dovyalis hebecarpa}]
         2: maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-
            sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves [syn:
            {ketembilla}, {kitembilla}, {kitambilla}]

English Dictionary: kidney fern by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ketembilla tree
n
  1. a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
    Synonym(s): ketembilla, kitembilla, kitambilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ketone body
n
  1. a ketone that is an intermediate product of the breakdown of fats in the body; any of three compounds (acetoacetic acid, acetone, and/or beta-hydroxybutyric acid) found in excess in blood and urine of persons with metabolic disorders
    Synonym(s): ketone body, acetone body
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kidnap
v
  1. take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"
    Synonym(s): kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatch
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kidnaper
n
  1. someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
    Synonym(s): kidnapper, kidnaper, abductor, snatcher
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kidnapper
n
  1. someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
    Synonym(s): kidnapper, kidnaper, abductor, snatcher
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kidnapping
n
  1. (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
    Synonym(s): kidnapping, snatch
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kidney bean
n
  1. the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans)
    Synonym(s): kidney bean, frijol, frijole
  2. large dark red bean; usually dried
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kidney begonia
n
  1. rhizomatous begonia with roundish fleshy leaves reddish colored beneath
    Synonym(s): beefsteak begonia, kidney begonia, Begonia erythrophylla, Begonia feastii
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kidney failure
n
  1. inability of the kidneys to excrete wastes and to help maintain the electrolyte balance
    Synonym(s): renal failure, kidney failure
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kidney fern
n
  1. large fern of New Zealand having kidney-shaped fronds [syn: kidney fern, Trichomanes reniforme]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kidney pie
n
  1. like steak and kidney pie but without steak
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kidney vetch
n
  1. perennial Eurasian herb having heads of red or yellow flowers and common in meadows and pastures; formerly used medicinally for kidney disorders
    Synonym(s): kidney vetch, Anthyllis vulneraria
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kitambilla
n
  1. a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
    Synonym(s): ketembilla, kitembilla, kitambilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa
  2. maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart- sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves
    Synonym(s): ketembilla, kitembilla, kitambilla
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kitembilla
n
  1. a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
    Synonym(s): ketembilla, kitembilla, kitambilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa
  2. maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart- sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves
    Synonym(s): ketembilla, kitembilla, kitambilla
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kidnap \Kid"nap`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kidnaped}or {Kidnapped};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Kidnaping} or {Kidnapping}.] [Kid a child +
      Prov. E. nap to seize, to grasp. Cf. {Knab}, {Knap}, {Nab}.]
      To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will,
      with intent to carry to another place. --Abbott.
  
               You may reason or expostulate with the parents, but
               never attempt to kidnap their children, and to make
               proselytes of them.                                 --Whately.
  
      Note: Originally used only of stealing children, but now
               extended in application to any human being,
               involuntarily abducted.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kidnap \Kid"nap`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kidnaped}or {Kidnapped};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Kidnaping} or {Kidnapping}.] [Kid a child +
      Prov. E. nap to seize, to grasp. Cf. {Knab}, {Knap}, {Nab}.]
      To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will,
      with intent to carry to another place. --Abbott.
  
               You may reason or expostulate with the parents, but
               never attempt to kidnap their children, and to make
               proselytes of them.                                 --Whately.
  
      Note: Originally used only of stealing children, but now
               extended in application to any human being,
               involuntarily abducted.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kidnaper \Kid"nap`er\, [or] Kidnapper \Kid"nap`per\, n.
      One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a
      manstealer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kidnap \Kid"nap`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kidnaped}or {Kidnapped};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Kidnaping} or {Kidnapping}.] [Kid a child +
      Prov. E. nap to seize, to grasp. Cf. {Knab}, {Knap}, {Nab}.]
      To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will,
      with intent to carry to another place. --Abbott.
  
               You may reason or expostulate with the parents, but
               never attempt to kidnap their children, and to make
               proselytes of them.                                 --Whately.
  
      Note: Originally used only of stealing children, but now
               extended in application to any human being,
               involuntarily abducted.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kidnap \Kid"nap`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kidnaped}or {Kidnapped};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Kidnaping} or {Kidnapping}.] [Kid a child +
      Prov. E. nap to seize, to grasp. Cf. {Knab}, {Knap}, {Nab}.]
      To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will,
      with intent to carry to another place. --Abbott.
  
               You may reason or expostulate with the parents, but
               never attempt to kidnap their children, and to make
               proselytes of them.                                 --Whately.
  
      Note: Originally used only of stealing children, but now
               extended in application to any human being,
               involuntarily abducted.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kidnaper \Kid"nap`er\, [or] Kidnapper \Kid"nap`per\, n.
      One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a
      manstealer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kidnap \Kid"nap`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kidnaped}or {Kidnapped};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Kidnaping} or {Kidnapping}.] [Kid a child +
      Prov. E. nap to seize, to grasp. Cf. {Knab}, {Knap}, {Nab}.]
      To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will,
      with intent to carry to another place. --Abbott.
  
               You may reason or expostulate with the parents, but
               never attempt to kidnap their children, and to make
               proselytes of them.                                 --Whately.
  
      Note: Originally used only of stealing children, but now
               extended in application to any human being,
               involuntarily abducted.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
      1. (Anat.) A glandular organ which excretes urea and other
            waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.
  
      Note: In man and in other mammals there are two kidneys, one
               each side of vertebral column in the back part of the
               abdomen, each kidney being connected with the bladder
               by a long tube, the ureter, through which the urine is
               constantly excreted into the bladder to be periodically
               discharged.
  
      2. Habit; disposition; sort; kind. --Shak.
  
                     There are in later other decrees, made by popes of
                     another kidney.                                 --Barrow.
  
                     Millions in the world of this man's kidney.
                                                                              --L'Estrange.
  
                     Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that
                     kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on
                     prudence.                                          --Burns.
  
      Note: This use of the word perhaps arose from the fact that
               the kidneys and the fat about them are an easy test of
               the condition of an animal as to fatness. [bd]Think of
               that, -- a man of my kidney; -- . . . as subject to
               heat as butter.[b8] --Shak.
  
      3. A waiter. [Old Cant] --Tatler.
  
      {Floating kidney}. See {Wandering kidney}, under {Wandering}.
           
  
      {Kidney bean} (Bot.), a sort of bean; -- so named from its
            shape. It is of the genus {Phaseolus} ({P. vulgaris}). See
            under {Bean}.
  
      {Kidney ore} (Min.), a variety of hematite or iron
            sesquioxide, occurring in compact kidney-shaped masses.
  
      {Kidney stone}. (Min.) See {Nephrite}, and {Jade}.
  
      {Kidney vetch} (Bot.), a leguminous herb of Europe and Asia
            ({Anthyllis vulneraria}), with cloverlike heads of red or
            yellow flowers, once used as a remedy for renal disorders,
            and also to stop the flow of blood from wounds;
            lady's-fingers.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
      1. (Anat.) A glandular organ which excretes urea and other
            waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.
  
      Note: In man and in other mammals there are two kidneys, one
               each side of vertebral column in the back part of the
               abdomen, each kidney being connected with the bladder
               by a long tube, the ureter, through which the urine is
               constantly excreted into the bladder to be periodically
               discharged.
  
      2. Habit; disposition; sort; kind. --Shak.
  
                     There are in later other decrees, made by popes of
                     another kidney.                                 --Barrow.
  
                     Millions in the world of this man's kidney.
                                                                              --L'Estrange.
  
                     Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that
                     kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on
                     prudence.                                          --Burns.
  
      Note: This use of the word perhaps arose from the fact that
               the kidneys and the fat about them are an easy test of
               the condition of an animal as to fatness. [bd]Think of
               that, -- a man of my kidney; -- . . . as subject to
               heat as butter.[b8] --Shak.
  
      3. A waiter. [Old Cant] --Tatler.
  
      {Floating kidney}. See {Wandering kidney}, under {Wandering}.
           
  
      {Kidney bean} (Bot.), a sort of bean; -- so named from its
            shape. It is of the genus {Phaseolus} ({P. vulgaris}). See
            under {Bean}.
  
      {Kidney ore} (Min.), a variety of hematite or iron
            sesquioxide, occurring in compact kidney-shaped masses.
  
      {Kidney stone}. (Min.) See {Nephrite}, and {Jade}.
  
      {Kidney vetch} (Bot.), a leguminous herb of Europe and Asia
            ({Anthyllis vulneraria}), with cloverlike heads of red or
            yellow flowers, once used as a remedy for renal disorders,
            and also to stop the flow of blood from wounds;
            lady's-fingers.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kidney-form \Kid"ney-form`\, Kidney-shaped \Kid"ney-shaped`\, a.
      Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a
      kidney-shaped leaf. --Gray.
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