kidder minster

[See def.] A carpet so called from being made somewhat extensively at the town of that name in England. The carpet is also known as Scotch for a similar reason. Another of its names, ingrain, signifies that it is made of wool or worsted dyed in the grain; that is, before manufacture. Its names two-ply or three-ply indicate the number of webs which go to the making of the fabric. It is composed of two webs, each consisting of a separate warped woof; the two are interwoven at intervals to produce the figure, one part being above and the other below. When different colors are used, the pattern will be the same on both sides, but the colors reversed. kid-di-er, s . [Supposed etym. Old Sw. kyta =to traffic, to truck.] A huckster, or vender; an it in erant small merchant. kid'-dle, s. [Arm. kidel a net at the mouth of a stream.] A weir or fish-trap formed of wicker or basketwork. kid-dōw, subst. [Corn. kiddaw.] The common Guillemot, Uria troile. [GUILLEMOT.] chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; *(2) A waiter. "It is our custom upon the first coming of the news, to order a youth, who officiates as the kidney of the coffeehouse, to get into the pulpit, and read every paper with a loud and distinct voice."- Tatler , No. 268. II. Technically : 1. Anat.: The secreting organs of the urine, two in number, situated in the lumbar region on each side of the spine, which they approach on their upper extremities. The kidney is from four to five inches long, about two and a half broad, somewhat more than one in thickne , and from three to five ounces in weight. Covered by a layer of fat, they rest on the diaphragm, the right, on account of the liver, being somewhat lower than the left. The anterior surfaces are convex, the posterior flat. Above the superior extremity is the supra-renal capsule. The concave border turns outward to the abdomen, and the convex inward to the spine, and is excavated by the hilus renal is , a fi ure containing the bloodve éls and pelvis of the kidney. It is dense and fragile in structure, and invested by a capsular membrane which is easily torn from its surface. When divided longitudinally it contains two structures, an external and vascular, the cortical, and an internal and tubular, the medullary substance. The cones or pyramids of the tubular portions are formed by the tubuli uriniferi , and in the cortical substance are found the corpora Mal pighiana , a ma of minute, red, globular bodies. The ureter is the excretory duct of the kidney. In the interior of the kidney are three cavities, forming together the infundibula. The embryonic and fœtal kidney is composed of lobules. 2. Pathol .: Many diseases may affect the kidneys, as inflammation, cancer, dropsy, gout, tubercle, amyloid or other degeneration, the presence of entozoa, hydatids, . IMG:content-0235.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0236.png:[blocks in formation] bling a kidney in shape. kidney-vetch, s. Bot.: The genus Anthyllis (q. v.).