koninckinidæ

pl. [Mod. Lat. koninckin(a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idæ.] Zool.: A family of Brachiopod a. [KONINCKINA.] kō-nīte, s. [CONITE.] *kon-ning, s. [CUNNING.] kôo-đôo', s. [Its South African name.] Zool.: Streps i ceros kudu , a beautiful antelope, slate-gray, with transverse white markings. The males with spirally-twisted horns, about four feet long; the females hornle ; height about five feet at the shoulders. Extends from South Africa to Aby in i a. suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min.: A mineral occurring in ma es, sometimes very large, or as imperfect crystals in albite, a ociated with gadolinite, hjelmite, beryl, .; known in Sweden under the name Monazite. According to Des Cloizeaux, it is doubly refracting. Specific gravity, 403; color, yellowish-brown; fracture, vitreous; streak, grayish-yellow. Stated to be a phosphate of cerium containing fluorine. kör-ân', *cör-ân', kûr-ân', al-kör-ân', al-corân', al-kur-ân', s . [Arab. kuran , or, with the article al =the, Alkuran that which is read, from kará to read.] Religions: The Mohammedan scriptures, which profe edly consist of revelations made by Allah (God) to Mohammed, the medium of communication being the angel Gabriel. When a Mu ulman quotes from them, the formula he uses is not Mohammed says," but "God says." He calls the book the Book of God, and the Word of God, or the Book. [BIBLE.] Mohammed, who gloried in being the "illiterate prophet," wrote nothing himself, yet his followers noted down his utterances on leather, kourbash palm-leaves, stones, and even the shoulder-blades of sheep. His companions also preserved much by oral recitation. The Koran is smaller than the Bible. It is divided into 114 suras, or chapters, arranged a chronically. For instance, chapter i. was "given at Mecca; ii., at Medina; iii., at Medina; lxvi., at Medina; lxvii.-cxiv.at Mecca. Indeed, there seems to be no arrangement of any kind in the book; its chapters are as inconsecutive as if they had been a series of sibylline leaves blown into their places by the wind. The chapters are named as well as numbered; thus, ch. ii. is denominated "the Cow;" ch v., "the Table;" lxxxvi., "the Night-star." The work consists of moral, religious, civil and political teachings, commingled with promises, threatenings. ., to be fulfilled in the future world; with Biblical narratives, Arabic and Christian traditions, . Later revelations sometimes revoked or e entially modified those which had gone before. The Caliph Abu Beker, or Bacr, directed Zeid ibn Thorbit to collect the scattered utterances of the Koran. Afterward there was a revision by the Caliph Othman, various readings having already arisen. He left it in the form in which we find it now. It has been translated into most European languages. An English version of it appeared in 1734. [МОНАМMEDANISM.] kō-rē, s. [Gr.] The pupil of the eye. kõr-I-gạn, kõr-ri-gan, s. [Armoric.] Celt. Myth. ( pl .): Nine fays with long flowing hair and deadly breath, haunting fountains in Britt any.