Kranging hook
(Krang"ing hook`) (Whaling) A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away. [Written
also cranging hook.]
Kreatic
(Kre*at"ic) a. See Creatic.
Kreatin
(Kre"a*tin) n. (Chem.) See Creatin.
Kreatinin
(Kre*at"i*nin) n. (Chem.) See Creatinin.
Kreel
(Kreel) n. See Creel.
Kremlin
(Krem"lin) n. [Russ. kremle.] The citadel of a town or city; especially, the citadel of Moscow,
a large inclosure which contains imperial palaces, cathedrals, churches, an arsenal, etc. [Russia]
Krems
(Krems) n. A variety of white lead. See Krems lead, under Lead, n.
Kreng
(Kreng) n. See Krang.
Kreosote
(Kre"o*sote) n. See Creosote.
Kreutzer
(Kreut"zer) n. [G. kreuzer.] A small copper coin formerly used in South Germany; also, a
small Austrian copper coin. [Written also kreuzer.]
Kriegsspiel
(||Kriegs"spiel`) n. [G., fr. krieg war + spiel play.] A game of war, played for practice, on
maps. Farrow.
Kris
(Kris) n. A Malay dagger. See Creese.
Krishna
(||Krish"na) n. [Skr. k&rsdotsh&nsdota.] (Hindoo Myth.) The most popular of the Hindoo divinities,
usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu.
Kritarchy
(Kri"tarch*y) n. [Gr. krith`s judge + 'archh` beginning, government.] The rule of the judges
over Israel.
Samson, Jephthah, Gideon, and other heroes of the kritarchy.
Southey. Krokidolite
(Kro*kid"o*lite) n. (Min.) See Crocidolite.
Krone
(||Kro"ne) n. [Dan.] A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of the value of about twenty-eight
cents. See Crown, n., 9.
Krooman
(Kroo"man) n.; pl. Kroomen One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose
members are much employed on shipboard.
Kruller
(Krul"ler) n. See Cruller.
Krummhorn
(Krumm"horn`, Krum"horn`) n. [G. krummhorn cornet; krumm crooked + horn horn.]
(Mus.) (a) A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now obsolete (see Cornet, 1, a.). (b) A
reed stop in the organ; — sometimes called cremona.
Krupp gun
(Krupp" gun") A breech-loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp,
at Essen in Prussia. Guns of over eight-inch bore are made up of several concentric cylinders; those of
a smaller size are forged solid. Knight.
Kryolite
(Kry"o*lite) n. (Min.) See Cryolite.
Ksar
(Ksar) n. See Czar.
