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noun
- A Central Asian breed of sheep.
- A lake in Tajikistan.
- A lake in Xinjiang province, China.
- A kind of hat.
noun
- A treated animal-skin cloak with the hair still left on.
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1996, E Hausen, Human History at the Crossroads: Where Do We Go from Here?, Bergin Garvey/Greenwood, ISBN 0897894839:
- :"For the first two years, of life a baby was carried in a carrier, lined with absorbent grass, inside her , (a treated animal skin made into a cape")"
- A blanket of treated animal-skin with the hair left on.
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1992, Mark Owens, Delia Cwens, Mark Cwens, Cordelia Dykes Owens, Cry of the Kalahari, Houghton Mifflin Books, ISBN 0395647800:
- :"Our bedroom had a sweeping view of the water and clean sheets and towels had been laid out for us on a of jackal pelts."
noun
- The cloth worn on the head and about the neck by certain Arab males, indoors and out.
proper noun
- An Irish surname, Anglicized from the Gaelic í“ Ceallaigh
- (given name, female) derived from the surname, popular from the 1960s to the 1980s.
noun
- (old-fashioned:) a piece of cloth used to cover the head
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1823: Clement Clark Moore, The Night Before Christmas - And mamma in her , and I in my cap, / Had just settled down for a long winter's nap...
noun
- A young goat.
- Of a goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid
- kidskin, Kidskin.
- A young antelope.
- (colloquial) A child or young person.
noun
- The skin or hide of a kid, i.e., a young goat; the leather made from such skins.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to kidskin.
noun ( kilts) ( wikipedia, Kilt)
- Traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern.
- (historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg and the great kilt or belted plaid;
- a plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference;
- a variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.
adjective
- Having on a kilt.
- Plaited after the manner of kilting.
- Tucked or fastened up; -- said of petticoats, etc.
noun ( Plural or kimonos)
- A form of traditional Japanese clothing that is worn in formal occasions.
noun
- A knee length tunic.
noun
- In humans, the joint in the middle part of the leg.
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Jessica was wearing shorts, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell.
- (skeleton) The joint, or region of the joint, between the thigh and leg.
- (anatomy) In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
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Quotations
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1980: Deck beams were supported by hanging knees, triangular pieces of wood typically found underneath the timbers they are designed to support, but in this case found above them. — Richard W. Unger, The Ship in the Medieval Economy 600-1600, page 41.
- An act of kneel, kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy.
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Give them title, knee, and approbation. Shak.
- Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line, "the knee of a graph", an inflection point
noun
- (usually, in plural) A sock or stocking that reaches to the knees.
adjective
- Something that reaches to the height of one's knees.
- The corn is .
noun
- (plurale tantum) (british) woman, Women's panties.
- (obsolete) knickerbockers
noun
- A type of sharply pressed pleating, esp. in a skirt or kilt, in which all of the folds are turned in one direction, with each pleat being three (3) layers of fabric thick.
verb ( knit, t, ed)
- To combine a piece of thread with two needles into a piece of fabric.
- To make fabric by knitting.
- (figurative) To join bones together.
noun
- The action of the verb to knit; the process of producing knitted material.
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I find very relaxing.
- Material that has been, or is being knitted.
- She put down her and went to answer the phone.
noun
- A long, thin, pointed rod, used in pairs to knit yarn
noun
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
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When climbing, it is important to make sure that your knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
- (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
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The young mother was brushing knots from her protesting child's hair.
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A closed curve that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- A difficult situation.
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I got into a when I inadvertently insulted the policeman.
- A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
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Cedric claimed his beat-up old yacht could make 20 knots, if he would just make a few repairs, but we figured he was pulling our leg.
- Either of two species of small wading birds, the red knot (Calidris canutus) and the great knot (Calidris tenuirostris).
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
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When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
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Jeremy had a on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
- (nautical) One nautical mile per hour.
verb ( knot, t, ing)
- To form into a knot.
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She knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
- To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- She knotted her brow in concentration as she attempted to unravel the tangled strands.
noun
- A dark powder (stibnite) used as eye makeup, especially in Eastern countries.
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