8 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kite \Kite\, v. i.
To raise money by ``kites;'' as kiting transactions. See
{Kite}, 6. [Cant]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kite \Kite\, n.
The belly. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kite \Kite\, n. [OE. kyte, AS c?ta; cf W. cud, cut.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) Any raptorial bird of the subfamily
{Milvin[ae]}, of which many species are known They have
long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked
tail.
Note: The European species are {Milvus ictinus} and {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. (Zo["o]l.) The brill. [Prov. Eng. ]
{Flying kites}. (Naut.) See under {Flying}.
{Kite falcon} (Zo["o]l.), an African falcon of the genus
{Avicida}, having some resemblance to a kite.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
wheels, and for other purposes.
{White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
{White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
{White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
concolor}.
{White flesher} (Zo["o]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
{Ruffed}. [Canada]
{White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
{White game} (Zo["o]l.), the white ptarmigan.
{White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
{White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
with greenish-white pale[ae].
{White grouse}. (Zo["o]l.)
a The white ptarmigan.
b The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
{White grub} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
other plants, and often do much damage.
{White hake} (Zo["o]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
{Squirrel}.
{White hawk}, or {kite} (Zo["o]l.), the hen harrier.
{White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
they emit.
{White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
{White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked herring, as
distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
{White hoolet} (Zo["o]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
{White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
{The White House}. See under {House}.
{White ibis} (Zo["o]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
{White iron}.
a Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
b A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
proportion of combined carbon.
{White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
{White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
{White lark} (Zo["o]l.), the snow bunting.
{White lead}.
a A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
other purposes; ceruse.
b (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
{White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
salt.
{White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
{White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
{Rattlesnake}.
{White lie}. See under {Lie}.
{White light}.
a (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
same proportion as in the light coming directly from
the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
b A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
illumination for signals, etc
{White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
whitewashing; whitewash.
{White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line
on a printed page; a blank line
{White meat}.
a Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
b Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc
Driving their cattle continually with them and
feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
--Spenser.
{White merganser} (Zo["o]l.), the smew.
{White metal}.
a Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
etc
b (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
certain stage in copper smelting.
{White miller}. (Zo["o]l.)
a The common clothes moth.
b A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
{White money}, silver money.
{White mouse} (Zo["o]l.), the albino variety of the common
mouse.
{White mullet} (Zo["o]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
{White nun} (Zo["o]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
head, which give the appearance of a hood.
{White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
{White owl}. (Zo["o]l.)
a The snowy owl.
b The barn owl.
{White partridge} (Zo["o]l.), the white ptarmigan.
{White perch}. (Zo["o]l.)
a A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
valued as a food fish.
b The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
c Any California surf fish.
{White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
{White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
{White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
{White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
[Obs.]
A pistol charged with white powder. --Beau. & Fl
{White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
{White rabbit}. (Zo["o]l.)
a The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
b An albino rabbit.
{White rent},
a (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
b A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
{White rhinoceros}. (Zo["o]l.)
a The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
b The umhofo.
{White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
purity; as the White-ribbon Army.
{White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
{White rot}. (Bot.)
a Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
called rot in sheep.
b A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
{White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
fat}.
{White salmon} (Zo["o]l.), the silver salmon.
{White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
{White scale} (Zo["o]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
{Orange}.
{White shark} (Zo["o]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
under {Shark}.
{White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
{Softening}.
{White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
{White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
the surface of the sea.
{White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
England. --Macaulay.
{White stork} (Zo["o]l.), the common European stork.
{White sturgeon}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Shovelnose}
d .
{White sucker}. (Zo["o]l.)
a The common sucker.
b The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
{White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind
{White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
{White trout} (Zo["o]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
States.
{White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
{White wagtail} (Zo["o]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
{White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
{White whale} (Zo["o]l.), the beluga.
{White widgeon} (Zo["o]l.), the smew.
{White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
Burgundy. ``White wine of Lepe.'' --Chaucer.
{White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
{White wolf}. (Zo["o]l.)
a A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
{Thibetan wolf}.
b The albino variety of the gray wolf.
{White wren} (Zo["o]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
from the color of the under parts
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kite \Kite\, n. (Naut.)
A form of drag to be towed under water at any depth up to
about forty fathoms, which on striking bottom is upset and
rises to the surface; -- called also {sentry}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
kite
n 1: light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end
of a string
2: any of several small graceful hawks of the family
Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on
insects and small animals
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Kite, GA (town, FIPS 43892)
Location: 32.69131 N, 82.51553 W
Population (1990): 297 (147 housing units)
Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 31049
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Kite
an unclean and keen-sighted bird of prey (Lev. 11:14; Deut.
14:13). The Hebrew word used _'ayet_, is rendered vulture" in
Job 28:7 in Authorized Version, falcon" in Revised Version. It
is probably the red kite (Milvus regalis), a bird of piercing
sight and of soaring habits found all over Palestine.
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