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List of English words starting with letter KA total of 1106 words starting with the letter "K" were found in the database and displayed on 47 pages.
A letter borrowed by the English from the Greek alphabet. keen, ken, kill; but is not much in use ...
An account of time. Let this pernicious hour Stand as accursed in the kalendar. Shakespeare’s Ma ...
Sea-weed, of the ashes of which glass was made, whence the word alkali. The ashes of the weed kal ...
Crooked. Kam , in Erse , is squint-eyes, and applied to any thing awry: clean kam signifies ...
The cry of a raven or crow. The dastard crow that to the wood made wing, With her loud kaws her c ...
1. Ninepin; kettlepins, of which skittles seems a corruption. And now at keels they try a harmle ...
To heave the stomach; to reach at vomiting. All those diets do dry up humours and rheums, which the ...
To defend a cable round with rope. Ainsworth.
Skinner seems to think kecksy or kex the same as hemlock. It is used in Staffordshire both f ...
Resembling a kex. An Indian sceptre, made of a sort of cane, without any joint, and perfectly round ...
In bringing a ship up or down a narrow river, when the wind is contrary to the tide, they set the f ...
A small anchor used in a river. K edge .
A weed that grows among corn; charnock. Tusser.
The bottom of the ship. Portunus Heav’d up his lighten’d keel, and sunk the sand, And steer’d t ...
Cooler; tub in which liquor is let to cool.
To punish in the seamens way, by dragging the criminal under water on one side of the ship and up a ...
The next piece of timber in a ship to her keel, lying right over it next above the floor timber. Ha ...
1. Sharp; well edged; not blunt. Come thick night That my keen knife see not the wound it makes. ...
Sharply; vehemently; eagerly; bitterly.
1. Sharpness; edge. No, not the hangman’s ax bears half the keenness Of thy sharp envy. Shakesp ...
1. Custody; guard. Pan , thou god of shepherds all, Which of our lambkins takest keep; And whe ...
Is a lord by his office, and called lord keeper of the great seal of England , &c. and is ...
1. One who holds any thing for the use of another. The good old man having neither reason to dissu ...
