kava, kawa, ava

[A South Sea Island word.] Botany , Manufactures , & c .: 1. An intoxicating liquor made in the South Sea Islands from a species of pepper, Macro piper methysticum. 2. That plant itself. ka-vă ', s. [Turk. kawwas.] An armed constable; a government servant or courier. kâw, v. i. [From the sound.] To cry as a raven, crow, or rook; to caw. kâw, s. [KAW, v.] The cry of a raven, crow, or rook; a caw. kâwn, s. [KHAN.j *kāy, s. [CAY.] kāy-e-a, s . [Named after Dr. R. Kaye Greville, of Edinburgh.] Bot.: A genus of Clusiaceae (Guttifers), tribe Calophyllese. It has a one-celled ovary, with four ovules. Kayea floribunda and K. stylos a are large timber-trees, the former from the Eastern Himalaya and the latter from Ceylon. kāyleş, kāilş, keels, keyles, s . pl . [Dutch kegel a pin, a kail: mid kegels spelen to play at ninepins; cogn. with Dan. kegle a cone, kegler = ninepins; Sw. kegla =a pin, a cone; Ger. kegel =a cone, a bobbin; Fr. quille a peg, a kail.] 1. Ninepins. 2. A game in which nine holes, in threes, are made in the ground, and an iron ball rolled in among them. *kāy'-nard, s. [O. Fr. caynard=idle, slothful.] A lazy, cowardly fellow. ( Chaucer .)