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esh” attempted to dishonour Kailyal, he was slain by Ladurlad; but he t hen continued his attacks “out of the flesh.” Thus, when Kailyal was taken to the Bower of Bliss by a benevolent spirit, Arvalan borrowed the dragon-car of the witch Lorrimite, to drag him thence; the dragons, however, unable to mount to paradise, landed him in a region of thick-ribbed ice. Again, Kailyal, being obliged to quit the Bower, was made the bride of Jaga-naut, and when Arvalan presented himself before her again, she set fire to the pagoda, and was carried from the flames by her father, who was charmed from fire as well as water. Lastly, while waiting for her father’s return from the submerged city, whither he had gone to release Ereenia, Arvalan once more appeared, but was seized by Baly, the governor of hell, and cast into the bottomless pit. Having deseended to hell, Kailyal quaffed the water of immortality, and was taken by Ereenia to his Bower of Bliss, to dwell with him for ever in endless joy.—Southey: Curse of Kehama (1809).

Kaimes (Lord), one of the two judges in Peter Peebles’s lawsuit.—Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet (time, George III.).

Kalasrade, the virtuous wife of Sadak, persecuted by the sultan Amurath. (See Sadak.)—Ridley: Tales of the Genii, xi. (1751).

Kaled. Gulnare disguised as a page, in the service of Lara. After Lara is shot, she haunts the spot of his death as a crazed woman, and dies at length of a broken heart.

Light was his form, and darkly delicate
That brow whereon his native sun had sate…
And the wild sparkle of his eye seemed caught
From high, and lightened with electric thought;
Tho’ its black orb those long low lashes fringe
Had tempered with a melancholy tinge.
   —Byron: Lara (1814).

Kalemberg (The curé of), a recueil of facetiæ. The escapades of a young student made a chaplain in the Austrian court. He sets at defiance and torments every one he encounters, and ends in being court fool to Otho the Gay, grandson of Rudolf of Hapsburg.—German Poem (fifteenth century).

Kalyb, “the Lady of the Woods,” who stole St. George from his nurse, brought him up as her own child, and endowed him with gifts. St. George enclosed her in a rock, where she was torn to pieces by spirits.—Johnson: Seven Champions of Christendom, i. (1617).

Kâma, the Hundû god of love. He rides on a sparrow, the symbol of lust; holds in his hand a bow of sugar- cane strung with bees; and has five arrows, one for each of the five senses.

Her ebony brows have the form of the bow of Kama, the god of love, and she seems to have been modelled by the hand of Vicvarcarna, the immortal sculptor.—Ocaf Uddaul: Description of queen Ahmehmagara.

Karma, the necessary effect of a cause, when not interfered with by anything. It is, therefore, natural justice: “As you sow so you must reap.” (See Nirvana.)

Karûn, son of Yeshar or Izhar, uncle of Moses, the most beautiful and wealthy of all the Israelites.

Riches of Karûn, an Arabic and Jewish proverb. The Jews say that Karûn had a large palace, the doors of which were of solid gold.—Sale: Al Korân, xxviii.

(This Karûn is the Korah of the Pentateuch.)

Kashan (Scorpions of). Kashan, in Persia, is noted for its scorpions, which are both large and venomous. A common curse in Persia is, May you be slung by a scorpion of Kashan!

Kate [Plowden], niece of colonel Howard of New York, in love with lieutenant Barnstable of the British navy, but promised by the colonel in marriage to captain Boroughcliff, a vulgar, conceited Yankee. Ultimately, it is discovered that Barnstable is the colonel’s son, and the marriage is arranged amicably between Barnstable and Kate.—Fitzball: The Pilot.

Kate Kearney [Kar-ney], an Irish song, by lady Morgan of Dublin (1797).

Oh! did you ne’er hear of Kate Kearney?
She lives on the banks of Killarney;
From the glance of her eye, shun danger and fly,
For fatal’s the glance of Kate Kearney.
   —Stanza i.

Katerfelto, a celebrated quack; a generic name for a quack.—Cowper: The Task, bk. iv. (“Winter Evening,” ver. 86).