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   Kobus leche
         n 1: tawny-colored African antelope inhabiting wet grassy
               plains; a threatened species [syn: {lechwe}, {Kobus leche}]

English Dictionary: Kobus leche by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Keffe-kil \Kef"fe-kil\, n. (Min.)
      See {Kiefekil}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kiefekil \Kie"fe*kil\, n. [Per. keff foam, scum + gil clay,
      mud.] (Min.)
      A species of clay; meerschaum. [Also written {keffekil}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Keffe-kil \Kef"fe-kil\, n. (Min.)
      See {Kiefekil}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kiefekil \Kie"fe*kil\, n. [Per. keff foam, scum + gil clay,
      mud.] (Min.)
      A species of clay; meerschaum. [Also written {keffekil}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Key \Key\ (k[emac]), n. [OE. keye, key, kay, AS. c[ae]g.]
      1. An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot
            or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to
            the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning
            in its place.
  
      2. An instrument which is turned like a key in fastening or
            adjusting any mechanism; as, a watch key; a bed key, etc.
  
      3. That part of an instrument or machine which serves as the
            means of operating it; as, a telegraph key; the keys of a
            pianoforte, or of a typewriter.
  
      4. A position or condition which affords entrance, control,
            pr possession, etc.; as, the key of a line of defense; the
            key of a country; the key of a political situation. Hence,
            that which serves to unlock, open, discover, or solve
            something unknown or difficult; as, the key to a riddle;
            the key to a problem.
  
                     Those who are accustomed to reason have got the true
                     key of books.                                    --Locke.
  
                     Who keeps the keys of all the creeds. --Tennyson.
  
      5. That part of a mechanism which serves to lock up, make
            fast, or adjust to position.
  
      6. (Arch.)
            (a) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
            (b) The last board of a floor when laid down.
  
      7. (Masonry)
            (a) A keystone.
            (b) That part of the plastering which is forced through
                  between the laths and holds the rest in place.
  
      8. (Mach.)
            (a) A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their
                  relative position; a cotter; a forelock. See Illusts.
                  of {Cotter}, and {Gib}.
            (b) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley,
                  coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative
                  turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more
                  frequently by its resistance to shearing, being
                  usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the
                  crank, pulley, etc.
  
      9. (Bot.) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a
            wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; --
            called also {key fruit}.
  
      10. (Mus.)
            (a) A family of tones whose regular members are called
                  diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one
                  (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five,
                  subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or
                  two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are
                  temporary members of a key, under such names as [bd]
                  sharp four,[b8] [bd]flat seven,[b8] etc. Scales and
                  tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a
                  key.
            (b) The fundamental tone of a movement to which its
                  modulations are referred, and with which it generally
                  begins and ends; keynote.
  
                           Both warbling of one song, both in one key.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      11. Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or
            utterance.
  
                     You fall at once into a lower key.   --Cowper.
  
      {Key bed}. Same as {Key seat}.
  
      {Key bolt}, a bolt which has a mortise near the end, and is
            secured by a cotter or wedge instead of a nut.
  
      {Key bugle}. See {Kent bugle}.
  
      {Key of a position} [or] {country.} (Mil.) See {Key}, 4.
  
      {Key seat} (Mach.), a bed or groove to receive a key which
            prevents one part from turning on the other.
  
      {Key way}, a channel for a key, in the hole of a piece which
            is keyed to a shaft; an internal key seat; -- called also
            {key seat}.
  
      {Key wrench} (Mach.), an adjustable wrench in which the
            movable jaw is made fast by a key.
  
      {Power of the keys} (Eccl.), the authority claimed by the
            ministry in some Christian churches to administer the
            discipline of the church, and to grant or withhold its
            privileges; -- so called from the declaration of Christ,
            [bd]I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of
            heaven.[b8] --Matt. xvi. 19.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kiefekil \Kie"fe*kil\, n. [Per. keff foam, scum + gil clay,
      mud.] (Min.)
      A species of clay; meerschaum. [Also written {keffekil}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Water buck \Wa"ter buck`\ (Zo[94]l.)
      A large, heavy antelope ({Kobus ellipsiprymnus}) native of
      Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a
      good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called
      also {photomok}, {water antelope}, and {waterbok}.
  
      Note: The name is also applied to other related species, as
               the leche ({Kobus leche}), which has similar habits.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Buck \Buck\, n. [OE. buk, bucke, AS. bucca, bua, he-goat; akin
      to D. bok, OHG. pocch, G. bock, Ir. boc, W. bwch, Corn. byk;
      cf. Zend b[?]za, Skr. bukka. [fb]256. Cf. {Butcher}, n.]
      1. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or
            of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
  
      Note: A male fallow deer is called a fawn in his first year;
               a pricket in his second; a sorel in his third; a sore
               in his fourth; a buck of the first head in his fifth;
               and a great buck in his sixth. The female of the fallow
               deer is termed a doe. The male of the red deer is
               termed a stag or hart and not a buck, and the female is
               called a hind. --Brande & C.
  
      2. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
  
                     The leading bucks of the day.            --Thackeray.
  
      3. A male Indian or negro. [Colloq. U.S.]
  
      Note: The word buck is much used in composition for the names
               of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck.
  
      {Blue buck}. See under {Blue}.
  
      {Water buck}, a South African variety of antelope ({Kobus
            ellipsiprymnus}). See Illust. of {Antelope}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Water buck \Wa"ter buck`\ (Zo[94]l.)
      A large, heavy antelope ({Kobus ellipsiprymnus}) native of
      Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a
      good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called
      also {photomok}, {water antelope}, and {waterbok}.
  
      Note: The name is also applied to other related species, as
               the leche ({Kobus leche}), which has similar habits.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Kvikkalkul
  
      /kveek`kahl-kool'/ A deliberately cryptic
      programming language said to have been devised by the Swedish
      Navy in the 1950s as part of their abortive attempt at a
      nuclear weapons program.   What little is known about it comes
      from a series of an anonymous posts to {Usenet} in 1994.   The
      poster described the language, saying that he had programmed
      in Kvikkalkul when he worked for the Swedish Navy in the
      1950s.   It is an open question whether the posts were a
      {troll}, a subtle parody or truth stranger than fiction could
      ever be.
  
      Assuming it existed, Kvikkalkul is so much a
      {bondage-and-discipline language} that it is, in its own ways,
      even more bizarre than the deliberate parody language
      {INTERCAL}.   Among its notable "features", all symbols in
      Kvikkalkul, including variable names and program labels, can
      consist only of digits.   Operators consist entirely of the
      punctuation symbols (, ), -, and :.   Kvikkalkul allows no
      {comments} - they might not correspond with the code.
      Kvikkalkul's only data type is the signed fixed-point
      fractional number, i.e. a number between (but not including)
      -1 and 1.   Dealings with the {Real World} that require numbers
      outside that range are done with functions that notionally map
      that range to a larger range (e.g., -16383 to -16383) and
      back.   Kvikkalkul had a probabilistic jump operator which, if
      given a negative probability, would act like a {COME FROM}.
      This was, sadly, deleted in later versions of the language.
  
      {Home (http://prefect.com/home24/kvikkalkul/)}.
  
      (1998-11-14)
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Kabzeel
      gathering of God, a city in the extreme south of Judah, near to
      Idumaea (Josh. 15:21), the birthplace of Benaiah, one of David's
      chief warriors (2 Sam. 23:20; 1 Chr. 11:22). It was called also
      Jekabzeel (Neh. 11:25), after the Captivity.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Kabzeel, the congregation of God
  
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