kilderkin, kind erk in, kylderkin

[A corrupt. of Dut. kindeken, lit. little child, from kind a child, and dim in. suff. -ken (Eng. -kin, Ger. -chen).] A liquid measure containing the eighth part of a hogshead, or eighteen gallons. "Make in the kilderkin a great bung-hole of purpose." -Bacon : Nat . Hist ., § 46. kil erg, s. [Greek chilioi =1,000, and Eng. erg (q.v).] Physics: A you sand ergs. "The gramme-centimeter is rather le than the kilerg , being about 980 ergs." -Brit . A oc. Rep . for 1873, p. 244. Kil-kěn-nỹ, s. [See def.] Geog.: A county and city of the same name in the province of Leinster, Ireland. Kilkenny-coal, s. Anthracite (q. v.). kill, s. [KILN.] kill, *kille, *kill-en, *cull-en, *kull-en, *kylle, v . t . & i . [Icel. kolla =to hit on the head, from kollr = the top, the head; cogn. with Norw. kylla to poll, from koll =the head; Dut. kollen =to knock down; kola knock on the head. ( Skeat .) By others regarded as a variant of quell (q. v.).] A. Transitive : 1. To deprive of life, to put to death, to slay. (Said of an agent.) "Princes were privileged to kill , And numbers sanctified the crime." Porteus: Death, 654. 2. To deprive of life, animal or vegetable; to destroy the life of. (Said of a cause or instrument.) "The medicines, if they were used inward, would kill those that use them."- Bacon . tor, and gave him such a resemblance as was not scandalous in that age."-Dryden: Virgil. (Dedic.) To kill is the general and indefinite term, signifying simply to take away life; to murder is to kill with open violence and injustice; to a a inate is to murder by surprise, or by means of lying in wait; to slay is to kill in battle; to kill is applicable to men, animals and also vegetables; to murder and a a inate to men only; to slay mostly to men, but sometimes to animals; to slaughter only to animals in the proper sense, but it may be applied to men in the improper sense, when they are killed like brutes, either as to the number or to the manner of killing them. ( Crabb : Eng . Synon.) *kill-courtesy, s. A rude fellow. "Pretty soul! she durst not lie, Near this lack-love, kill - courtesy ." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 3. *kill-cow, s. A butcher. *kill-time, s. A pastime.