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K.G.
(=Knight of the Order of the Garter)
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KC
- •UK law King's Counsel
- see Queen's Counsel
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keel-bully
- •Brit one of the crew of a keel
(=metaphorically, a ship);
a Tyneside lighterman
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keeler
- •naut. a bargeman
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-keeper
- •one who keeps or looks after something or someone,
e.g. (e.g. game~), (e.g. goal~), (e.g. gate~)
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Keeper of the Great Wardrobe
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Keeper of the Privy Purse
- •dom in the Royal Household,
the person who carried all the the sovereign's money,
paid for all expenses and received monies payable to the sovereign.
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kempster
- •a wool comber
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kern
- •hist a lightly-armed Irish foot-soldier
- •a peasant; a boor
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khan
- •a title given to rulers and officials in Central Asian, Afghanistan, etc.
- •hist the supreme ruler of Turkish, Tatar, and Mongol tribes.
- •the emperor of China in the Middle Ages.
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khedive
- •hist the title of the Viceroy of Egypt under Turkish rule [1867-1914].
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kiddier
kidder
- •one who buys provisions from the producers and takes them to market to sell; a badger.
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killer
- •one who or that which kills;
a slayer, butcher.
- cf -cide
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kin
- •one's relatives; family; kinfolk.
See the tables kin (blood) and kin (marriage).
cf kith and kin.
- cf kindred
- cf kinfolk
- cf kinsman
| Kin: Relations by Blood |
- ancestor
- •any (esp. remote) person from whom one is descended;
reciprocal of descendant.
e.g.
(e.g. parents)=one's father and mother,
(e.g. grandparents)=the parents of ones parents,
(e.g. great-grandchild)=the children of ones grandchildren, etc.
- aunt
- •a sister of one's mother or father.
- •see also the table at kin (marriage)
- blood
- •indicating a consanguinous relationship.
- blood brother
- •a brother by birth
- •one of two persons who vow mutual fidelity and trust by a ceremony
involving the mingling of each other's blood.
- brother
- •a male sibling.
- child, pl. children
- •a son or daughter; reciprocal of parent.
- •a person between birth and puberty or the age of legal majority or adulthood.
- cognate relative
- •a consanguinous relative.
- consanguinous
- •indicating a blood relationship;
descended from the same ancestor.
- cousin
- •a collateral relative more distant than a sibling.
- •formerly often applied to a nephew or niece.
- daughter
- •a female child.
- descendant
- •any (esp. remote) person descended from one's self;
reciprocal of ancestor
- father
- •one's male parent.
- grand-
- •a prefix indicating a removal by one generation, either up or down,
e.g.
(e.g. grandfather)=father of a parent,
(e.g. grandson)=son of a child,
(e.g. grandparent)=parent of a parent.
- great-
- •a hyphenated prefix indicating a further removal by an additional generation upward or downward,
e.g.
(e.g. great-aunt)=sister of one's grandparent, a/k/a grandaunt,
(e.g. great-great-grandmother).
Distant removal sometimes indicated by a multiplier, e.g.
(e.g. great×4-grandson)=great-great-great-great-grandson.
- half
- •indicating a half-blood relation, e.g.
(e.g. half sister)=a female with whom a mother or father (but not both) is shared.
- half-blood
- •The relationship existing between persons having only one parent in common.
- •Offensive a half-breed; someone with parents of different ethnic types; half-caste.
- mother
- •one's female parent.
- nephew
- •a son of one's sibling.
- •see also the table at kin (marriage)
- niece
- •a daughter of one's sibling
- •see also the table at kin (marriage)
- offspring
- •=child or children.
- parent
- •one's father or mother; reciprocal of child
- sibling
- •an offspring of one's parents (other than oneself).
- sister
- •a female sibling.
- son
- •a male child.
- uncle
- •a brother of one's mother or father.
- •see also the table at kin (marriage)
- uterine
- •of the same mother, but not the same father;
(e.g. sister uterine)=a half sister with whom a mother (but not a father) is shared,
(e.g. uterine cousin)=a half cousin with whom a grandmother (but not a grandfather) is shared.
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| Kin: Relations by Marriage |
- aunt
- •the wife of one's blood uncle
- •cf the table at kin (blood)
- husband
- •a man joined to a woman in marriage; a male spouse.
- •see also husband in main list
- -in-law
- •a suffix indicating a relation by marriage,
as
(e.g. brother-in-law)=the brother of one's spouse,
(e.g. daughter-in-law)=the spouse of one's son.
- mistress
- •a woman who has continuing sexual relations with a man not her husband,
esp one married to another woman.
[AHD]
- •see also mistress in the main list.
- nephew
- •the nephew of one's spouse.
- •cf the table at kin (blood)
- niece
- •the niece of one's spouse.
- •cf the table at kin (blood)
- spouse
- •a marriage partner; a husband or wife.
- step-
- •a prefix indicating a relationship like the one specified,
but resulting from a parent's remarriage or a spouse's previous marriage;
e.g. (e.g. stepparent)=a mother's (father's) later husband (wife),
(e.g. stepfather)=a male stepparent,
(e.g. stepchild)=a child of one's spouse by a previous marriage,
(e.g. stepsibling)=a child of a stepparent by a marriage other than with one's own parent.
- wife
- •a woman joined to a man in marriage; a female spouse.
- uncle
- •the husband of one's blood aunt
- •cf the table at kin (blood)
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kindred
- •a group of related persons, as a clan or tribe.
- •a person's relatives: kinfolk
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kinfolk
- •relatives, kindred.
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King's Counsel
- see Queen's Counsel
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kingsman
King's man
- •a partisan of the king; a royalist.
- •a customs-house officer.
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kinsman
(
 ~woman)
- •a blood relation.
- •disp a relation by marriage.
- •a member of one's own tribe or people.
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kith and kin
- •one's acquaintances and relatives
- •one's relatives
See kin.
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klutz
- •sl a clumsy awkward person; a fool.
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knacker
- •Brit A buyer of useless horses for slaughter;
a horse-slaughterer.
- •A buyer of old houses, ships, etc for the materials.
- •obs one who sings in a lively manner.
- •obs a trickster, deceiver.
- •rare a maker of harnesses and rope
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knapper
- •obs rare a boor, a menial.
- •one who breaks stones, flints and the like,
esp. one whose occupation is to shape flints by strokes of a hammer or striker.
[OED]
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knave
- •a rogue; a scoundrel.
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knight
- •mil. a medieval tenant giving military service as a mounted man-at-arms
to a feudal landholder;
- •A noble (usu.), raised to honorable military rank after service
as a page and a squire;
- •a gentleman-soldier;
- •Brit Hist a military retainer, usually a heavily armed and trained cavalryman; [DOME]
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knight bachelor
- •Eng. a knight of the lowest order
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knight errant
- •a medieval knight wandering in search of chivalrous adventure
(=errant: traveling in search of adventure);
- •a paladin
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Knight of the Order of the Garter, KG
- •Eng. a knight of the highest order, outranking a baronet
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knocker
- •a spirit or goblin imagined to dwell in mines,
and indicate the presence of ore by knocking.
- •slang a person of 'striking' appearance; a stunner.
[OED]
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knocker-up
- •someone paid to knock on clients' bedroom windows in the morning - usually with a long rod or pole - to wake them for work
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Kron-
- •G Distinguishing heirs apparent from other royalty,
(e.g. ~prinz).
- cf Erb-
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kulak
- •hist a peasant working for personal profit in the former Soviet Union.
(=Russ. fist, denoting a tight-fisted person)
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