kamsin

[Arab. khamsin fifty, because it blows about fifty days.] A hot southerly wind in Egypt, where it blows from the end of April to June; the simoom. kăn, kâun, khăn, s. [KHAN.] kăn-a-rỹ, s. [Javanese (?).] Sir Joseph) Banks landed, and after a time a specimen was shot. (For its dentition, see Macropus and Macropod ide.) The Great Kangaroo has large hind legs, with a huge tail, short fore limbs, and is about the height of a man. It is a vegetable feeder, and is destructive to the crops of the settlers in the le inhabited parts of Australia; in the long-settled districts it is much rarer. Its chief foes are man and a native dog called the dingo. Its ordinary method of progre ion is by a series of great leaps, ten to fifteen feet or more. re. If when infuriated it can overcome an adversary it will seize him by its fore feet, hug him like a bear, and rip him with the claws of its hind feet, or (according to Gould, quoted by Duncan, Nat . Hist . , iii. 191), taking him to a water-hole, hold him under water till he is drowned. Many other species exist. The Hare Kangaroo or Turatt is M. lep oroides ; the Great Rock Kangaroo, M. robust us ; the Red Kangaroo, M. rufus ; the Agile Kangaroo, M. agilis ; the Brush tailed Rock Kangaroo, M. penicil lat us ; and the Tree Kangaroo, Dendrolagus ursinus . 2. Pl.: The family Macropodidæ (q. v.). kangaroo-apple, s. kaolinite Kăns-Australis, s . Astron.: A fixed star of the third magnitude called also Epsilon Sagittarii. kăn'-těn, tsantjan, s. [Chinese tsantjan.] Bot., .: Fucus cart i lag i nos us , an algal, used in China as a substitute for the edible bird's nest. Kănt-i-an, a. . [ Kant ; -ian.] A. As adj .: Pertaining to or in any way connected with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. B. As subst. A follower of the Kantian philosophy (q. v.). Kantian philosophy, s . Hist . & Philos .: Critical philosophy. The name is applied to the writings of Immanuel Kant, probably the greatest metaphysician that ever lived, and to the various systems which have been developed from those writings. Kant, the son of a saddler of Scotch descent, was born at Königsberg, April 22, 1724; in 1770 he was appointed profe or of logic and metaphysic at the University of Königsberg; and in Königsberg he died on Feb. 12, 1804, after a singularly uneventful life. Kant, following the skepticism of Hume, as to the Idea of Causality, laid it down as a cardinal proposition that the faculty of Cognition and the sources of knowledge therein contained, must be critically examined before anything can be determined concerning the objects of cognition. His aim was, therefore-(1) To separate the nece ary and universal in cognition from what is merely empirical; and (2) To define the limits of cognition. Kant attributed to the faculties of Sense, Understanding, Judgment and Reason, certain innate a prior i forms, po e ing subjective validity on account of their subjective nece ity-in the Sense, the ideas of Time and Space; in the Understanding the Categories Quantity-Unity, Multeity, Totality. Quality-Reality, Negation, Limitation. Relation -Substance and Accident, Cause and Effect, Action and Reaction. Modality-Po ibility, Existence, Nece ity. -in the Judgment the concept of Design; in the Reason the ideas of the Unconditioned and the Absolute; and in the Will, or Reason, from an ethical point of view, the Categorical Imperative. [IMPERATIVE, 1.] In determining the limits of theoretical knowl mon food among the Tasmanians. kangaroo-bear, s. Zool.: Phascalarctos cinereus , a bear-like marsupial found in Australia. kangaroo-beetle, s. IMG:content-0200.png:[blocks in formation] Australian fodder-gra . kangaroo-rat, s. Zool .: Hypsiprymnus, a marsupial genus, family Macropod ide. The Rufous Kangaroo-rat, Hypsi . prymnus rufescens , is very common in New South Wales, feeding on roots and gra es. The Rattailed Kangaroo-rat is H. murinus , and the Tufted tailed Kangaroo-rat, H. penicil lat us . All are from New South Wales. Called also Potoroos.