kitchen-midden

(kich’en-mid/’n),n. [ + midden, after the equiv. Dan. kjokkenmddding.) A shell-mound: the literal translation of the Danish kjékkenméddding, kitchen refuse. This refuse forms extensive heaps or mounds, which consist chiefly of the shells of edible mollusks mixed with fragments of bones of various animals, and implements of kite stone, bone, and horn. Mounds of this kind are found in large numbers on the eastern coast of Denmark, in various parts of Scotland along the shores of the firths, as well as in Ireland and elsewhere. They are the refuse heaps which accumulated around the dwellings of former inhabitants, and in the case of Denmark are believed by the best authorities to be referable to the early part of the Neolithic age, when the art of polishing flint implements was known, but before it had reached its greatest development” (Sir J. Lubbock, Prehistoric Times, 2d ed., p. 240). See midden and shell-mound. During the past summer the museum at Copenhagen has explored a large kitchen-midden in Jutland, situated in a forest a couple of miles from the sea. Amer. Naturalist, XXIII. 80. kitchen-mort (kich’en-mért),». A corruption of kinchin-mort. [Old slang. ] Times are sair altered since I was a kitchen-mort. Men were men then, and fought each other in the open field. Scott, Guy Manner ing, xxviii. kitchen-physic (kich’ en-fiz”ik),. Nourishing diet for an invalid; substantial fare; good living. [Humorous.] For my selfe, if I be ill at ease, I take kitehyn physicke; I Ayres my wife my doctor, and my garden my a poticaries shop. Greene, Quip for Upstart Courtier (Harl. Misc., V. 406). Nothing will cure this mans understanding but some familiar and Kitchen physick; which, with pardon, must for plainnes sake be administer’d unto him. Call hither your cook. Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst., § 2. kitchenry}+ (kich’en-ri), n. [« kitchen + -ry.] 1. Utensils used in the kitchen; utensils for cooking.— 2. The body of servants employed in a kitchen. Close unto the front of the chariot marcheth all the sort of weavers and embroderers; next unto whom goeth the black-guard and /itchenry. Holland, tr. of Ammianus, p. 12.