ka jak (jas y), ka yak, kyak

[Esquimaux. The boat of the Esquimaux, used by the men only. About eighteen feet in length, it is eighteen inches broad in the middle, and, tapering marine; gō, pot, kajugaru at both ends, is about a foot deep. Without outriggers, it is covered with skins, and closed at the top. with the exception of a hole in the middle, filled by the boatman, who, sitting on the floor of the boat, propels it with a paddle. kaju-garu, s. [Malayan.) The fragrant wood of Go no stylus miquelianus. ka-ka, s. [Maori.] (See the compound.) kaka-parrot, s. rot. Ornith.: Nestor meridional is -a New Zealand parkak-a-pā-ō, kă-ka-pō', s . [From Maori=night parrot.] Ornith .: A bird of the parrot family (Psittacida) although it is in many respects of a unique type. It is indigenous to New Zealand, and called by the English there the Ground Parrot, or Owl Parrot. It became first known to foreign ornithologists in 1843, and is now represented in most European museums. Its scientific name is Strigops habroptilus . Its habits are wholly nocturnal, hiding in rocks and under the roots of trees by day, seeking food only by night. In size it resembles a raven; its feathers are a green or brownish-green color, striped longitudinally with yellow; it has a very powerful beak, with hairs and elongated feathers about its face, as in the case of the owl. Its wings are too short to 2421 just torn to pieces and devoured. She is exceedingly pleased when her altars are inundated with human blood. The Thugs selected her as their tutelary deity. The swinging festival was in her honor. [SWINGING-FESTIVAL.] She symbolizes time, and the destruction she effects is the personification of the ravages of time. Her worship seems to have been of Turanian origin, though it is now firmly rooted in modern Brahmanism. ka-lei-đồ phōne, s . [Gr. kalos =beautiful; eidos form, and phone = sound.] An instrument invented by Prof. Wheat stone, to illustrate the phenomena of waves of sound. A thin elastic bar is fixed by one extremity, and at its free end carries a silvered or polished ball; a ray of light is reflected from vibrations.