Flying kites. (Naut.) See under Flying.Kite falcon(Zoöl.), an African falcon of the genus Avicida, having some resemblance to a kite.

Kite
(Kite), v. i. To raise money by "kites;" as, kiting transactions. See Kite, 6. [Cant]

Kite
(Kite), n. The belly. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Kiteflying
(Kite"fly`ing) n. A mode of raising money, or sustaining one's credit, by the use of paper which is merely nominal; — called also kiting. Kiteflier
(Kite"fli`er), n. See Kite, n., 6. [Cant] McElrath. Thackeray.

Kith
(Kith) n. [OE. kith, cuð, AS. cyððe, cyð, native land, fr. cuð known. &radic45. See Uncouth, Can, and cf. Kythe.] Acquaintance; kindred.

And my near kith for that will sore me shend.
W. Browne.

The sage of his kith and the hamlet.
Longfellow.

Kith and kin, kindred more or less remote.

Kithara
(||Kith"a*ra) n. See Cithara.

Kithe
(Kithe) v. t. [Obs.] See Kythe. Chaucer.

Kitish
(Kit"ish) a. (Zoöl.) Like or relating to a kite.

is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians.

Kitchen-ry
(Kitch"en-ry) n. The body of servants employed in the kitchen. [Obs.] Holland.

Kite
(Kite) n. [OE. kyte, AS. cyta; cf. W. cud, cut.]

1. (Zoöl.) Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinæ, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.

The European species are Milvus ictinus and M. migrans; the pariah kite of India is M. govinda; the sacred or Brahmany kite of India is Haliastur Indus; the American fork-tailed kite is the Nauclerus furcatus.

2. Fig. : One who is rapacious.

Detested kite, thou liest.
Shak.

3. A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.

4. (Naut.) A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.

5. (Geom.) A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry. Henrici.

6. Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill. [Cant]

7. (Zoöl.) The brill. [Prov. Eng.]


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