king1a

[Named after Captain Philip King, R. N., often employed on the coast of Australia.) Bot. The typical genus of the obsolete order Kingiacese (q. v.). It consists of arborescent rushes from South Australia. †king-i-ā-çe-sæ, s. pl . [Mod. Latin king i (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceӕ .] Bot.: Endlicher's name for an endogenous order now merged in Juncacese (Rushes). king'-le , a. [Eng. king (2), s.; -le .] Without a king; having no king. "A kingle people for a nervele state." Byron: Childe Harold, L. 86. king'-lět, s . [Eng. king ; dim in. suff. -let .] 1. Ord. Lang.: A little king, a petty king. "No one will regret that the kinglets , or most of them, have been dismi ed to clear the way."-London Standard. 2. Zool.: The Golden-crested Wren, Regulus cris tatus . chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. kinglihood