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_Complaynt._

~Kirn-staff~, _s._ The instrument employed for agitating the cream in churning. S.

_Ferguson._

KIRN, _s._

1. The feast of harvest-home, S.

_Burns._

2. The last handful of grain cut down on the harvest-field S.

KIRNEL, KYRNEILL, _s._ An interstice in a battlement.

_Barbour._

L. B. _kernellae_, id.; Fr. _crenele_, embattled.

KISH, _s._ A s.h.i.+ning powdery matter, which separates from pig-iron long kept in a melted state.

KISSING-STRINGS, _s. pl._ Strings tied under the chin, S.

_Ross._

KIST, KYST, _s._

1. A chest. S.

_Wallace._

2. A coffin, S., sometimes _dead-kist_.

_Spalding._

A. S. _cest_, Germ. _kist_, Su. G. _kist-a_, Lat. _cist-a_, a chest, in general. A. S. _cyste_, a coffin, Belg. _doodkist_, id.

_To_ ~Kist~, _v. a._ To inclose in a coffin, S.

_Spalding._

~Kisting~, _s._ The act of putting a corpse into a coffin, with the entertainment given on this melancholy occasion, S.

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