kail stock, calstocke

I. Literally : 1. Stalk of colewort. 2. A plant of colewort. (Scotch.) II. Fig .: Any worthle article. (From the signification given in 1.) kail-wife, 8. 1. Lit .: A woman who sells kail, or green vege Gruide (Cranes). ka-ha, s. [Dyak.] Zool .: The name given by the Dyaks of Borneo to the Long or Proboscis-nosed Monkey (Semnopithecus nasal is ). It has a nose of prodigious size and length, a wide mouth, and a receding chin; arms and legs long; color of the back and shoulders a reddish or dark-red brown, the rest of a lighter color. The Dyaks think them descended from men who took to the woods to avoid paying taxes.