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.


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